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Three offices and it is made of limestone, load—bearing limestone. correct. limestone. that is what this building is all about. rediscovering a way of building that doesnt involve the energy—hungry furnaces and kilns needed for steel, concrete and bricks. whats keeping this upright are giant blocks of rock, the only energy required is cutting and moving them into place. it is a means of construction that has rather fallen out of fashion. sedimentary rock and, depending on how old it is, you ...

Its a four hour wait, six way, an eight hourwait its a four hour wait, six way, an eight hour waitjust to get you in actual person who hopefully can find you a seat on a flight home. we hopefully can find you a seat on a flight home.— hopefully can find you a seat on a flight home. we knew that omicron was — on a flight home. we knew that omicron was coming, _ on a flight home. we knew that omicron was coming, we - on a flight home. we knew that omicron was coming, we knewl 0micron was comin...

Is equally elemental, a study in stone with all the attendant stresses, strains and personal trauma. was there a moment when you thought youd wished youd never started this? of course, yeah. somebodys decided to press a button, it could all be - demolished. we are looking at an apartment building of eight flats and office space underneath the three offices and it is made of limestone, load—bearing limestone. limestone, correct. limestone... thats what this building is all about. rediscovering ...

Youd never started this? of course, yeah. somebodys decided to press a button, . it could all be demolished. we are looking at an apartment building of eight flats, and office space underneath for three offices and it is made of limestone, load—bearing limestone. limestone, correct. limestone... thats what this building is all about. rediscovering a way of building that doesnt involve the energy—hungry furnaces and kilns needed for steel, concrete and bricks. whats keeping this upright are g...

Is you can still do it. it is actually cheaper, faster, far greener still to just simply put stone buildings up. so we found here that we save 92% of the embodied carbon had this been a steel—framed building or clad in stone. so very simplyjust cut the stone out of the body, transport and erect on site and that is it. so, essentially, you have created a very high—tech building that has the appearance of a ruin. i guess so, yes. and inside, its equally natural. so this is your flat were comin...

And office space underneath for three offices and it is made of limestone — load—bearing limestone. limestone, correct. limestone — thats what this building is all about. rediscovering a way of building that doesnt involve the energy—hungry furnaces and kilns needed for steel, concrete and bricks. whats keeping this up — giant blocks of rock. the only energy required is cutting and moving them into place. its a means of construction that has rather fallen out of fashion. sedimentary. s...

The ogof nynnon ddu cave system in trapped: 5a hours underground. did you think that you might not survive? honestly, yes, at times. i sort of flipped between two macro states. there was the i am going to fight this thing and im going to survive state, which then became i really dont care and i wish you would stop talking to me so i canjust kind of let whatever is going to happen happen kind of state. and i would catch that and start fighting again. i flipped between the two so it was kind of da...

Dozens of times before. there is some amazing stuff down there. there is a beautiful black... my personal favourite part of the cave is the main streamway, which is beautiful black limestone, clean washed, active stream passage so it is the actual underground river. and i love being in that river. looking back at it now, what strikes you about that day as you were about to set off? what strikes me now is... it is strange that as i approached that hatch on the day and set off on what was a perfec...

My personal favourite part of the cave is the mainstream way, which is beautiful black limestone, clean washed, active stream passage so it is the actual underground river. and i love being in that river. looking back at it now, what strikes you about that day as you were about to set off? what strikes me now is... it is strange that as i approached that hatch on the day and set off on what was a perfectly normal routine caving trip not knowing what was about to ensue. it was meant to be a five ...

Years, the teeth and bones of a jurassic reptile. after racing the tide to cut out the limestone that entombed their discovery, the team had a rockyjourney to bring it back to their lab. here theyve revealed the secrets of this isle of skye pterosaur that theyve named �*dearc sgiathanach — gaelic for "winged reptile". i think its a lot clearer if we put the head back on, so we removed the head to cat scan it, but we can put it right back there, join it up with the neck, and you can see the n...