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You'd never started this? of course, yeah. somebody's 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... that's what this building is all about. rediscovering a way of building that doesn't involve the energy—hungry furnaces and kilns needed for steel, concrete and bricks. what's keeping this upright are giant blocks of rock. the only energy required is cutting and moving them into place. it is a me...

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There was no cell phone service, no wi-fi obviously, and i witnessed a lot of civilian deaths and just makeshift graves by the sides of the roads. >> i mean just listening to you describe what you went through is so upsetting, alina, and i'm so sorry you went through this. what was it like in that shelter, in that basement? what was going through your mind? how were you able to withstand this anguish psychologically? you were with your mother, i understand. >> yes. i was with my mother, and i was with my three cats that i just could not leave behind. you have to understand that it wasn't a pro...

Load—bearing limestone. correct. limestone. that is what this building is all about. rediscovering a way of building that doesn't involve the energy—hungry furnaces and kilns needed for steel, concrete and bricks. what's 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 will still find fossils within it. and here you can see... this has come straight out of the ground, hasn't it? precisely. so here is an ammo...

If somebody 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. that is what this building is all about. rediscovering a way of building that doesn't involve the energy—hungry furnaces and kilns needed for steel, concrete and bricks. what's 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