BBCNEWS BBC News October 6, 2021 08:44:00
As we were visiting the quarries to decide what tone of limestone we might choose, the quarry master erected a column for us as an example of what this might look like. next to that was what's called a master block, which is extracted from the quarry. it had fossils, ammonite shells, fossilised coral, all over the surface. that is the expression not only of the material itself, but also the process, the skill of the quarry master and the stonemason, expressed in the material and therefore the architecture. the advantages of an exoskeleton are the internal structure. that flexibility at the mom...