New Stone Age at London's Building Centre shows the potential of stone as a modern construction material. Curator Steve Webb picks five projects from the exhibition that use it in innovative, practical and sustainable ways.

The exhibition demonstrates how stone can be used as a structural material to create contemporary buildings.
"We want to show people that modern methods of fabrication and design can unlock the huge potential of one of our most abundant natural resources," Webb told Dezeen.
"This exhibition sheds light on a number of recent international projects from around the world in an attempt to show that there is a nascent if disparate movement towards stone and postulates what a dawning new Stone Age might bring." "Stone is beautiful, strong and abundant," he continued. "Its extraction does't require huge amounts of energy, while modern improvements in design and analysis techniques mean that it can be used in ways not thought possible before; playing a major role in building structures."
"We are advocating its use as structure"
Structural engineer Webb, who co-founded Webb Yates, curated the exhibition alongside architect Amin Taha, founder of studio Groupwork, and Pierre Bidaud from The Stonemasonry Company.
The three previous worked together to build 15 Clerkenwell Close, a six-storey housing block in London that has a stone structure. The exhibition aims to widen the discussion about stone as a structural a...