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Sweet Terrain Turns Old Oak Common Excavation Clay into Civic Ceramic Tiles

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Sweet Terrain Turns Old Oak Common Excavation Clay into Civic Ceramic Tiles

The project is a compelling circular-construction case study: site excavation waste is being engineered into durable architectural finishes while using local food traditions to give a major infrastructure project a culturally specific identity.

Location
Old Oak Common station, West London, United Kingdom
Organizations
Rafael El Baz — Co-designer; Bahbak Hashemi-Nezhad — Co-designer; Craven Dunnill Jackfield — Ceramic manufacturing and technical-development partner; HS2 Ltd — Infrastructure client and source of excavated clay
Petra Heights completes a ten-storey load-bearing stone housing structure in London

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Petra Heights completes a ten-storey load-bearing stone housing structure in London

The completed project is a rare contemporary test of structural stone at high-rise scale, replacing conventional reinforced structural framing with an exposed volcanic-stone exoskeleton.

Location
317 Finchley Road, London, United Kingdom
Organizations
Groupwork — Architect; Webb Yates Engineers — Structural engineer; Petra Heights — Development; Mortimer Surveyors — Development enquiry agent
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