This week on Dezeen, we launched our editorial series Stone Age 2.0, exploring the potential of stone to be a viable, low-carbon, modern structural material.
We kicked off the series with an introduction by Dezeen editor Tom Ravenscroft stating that "architects and engineers are aiming to reignite the stone age".
Other popular articles in the series included an interview with Slovak-British architect Natalia Petkova, in which she cautioned "against claims of stone being a revolutionary sustainable material" and an opinion piece by engineer Steve Webb that said stone "isn't a silver bullet."
Freedom Plaza will feature a cantilevered skybridge
Multiple sculptural skyscrapers by Danish studio BIG were in the news this week. The studio revealed its design for the Freedom Plaza in New York (above), two Manhattan skyscrapers that will contain a hotel and be connected by a cantilevered twisting skybridge. They will be joined by two residential skyscrapers and sit near the United Nations headquarters.
In Houston, BIG completed a staggered "bundle of towers" that marks its first skyscraper in the state of Texas. The building comprises six towers that curve slightly as they rise, with the tallest reaching a height of 137 metres.
Herzog & de Meuron has designed a sculptural concrete museum in Qatar
In other architecture news, Swiss architecture studio Herzog & de Meuron unveiled its design for the Lusail Museum, a robust, drum-shaped ga...