Stone skyscrapers on the horizon?

[BradStevens]

Great substack here:

Will Stone Replace Steel and Concrete?

A recent viral tweet by Micah Springut, founder of stone-carving startup Monumental Labs, argued that it will be cheaper to build buildings with stone than with steel or concrete within the next 10 years. Stone has of course been used for thousands of years as a construction material, and is...

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[Mark Milton]

Already started designing and building 25 story plus buildings from wood. Why not stone?

 

[BradStevens]

Already started designing and building 25 story plus buildings from wood. Why not stone?

The robotic statues are cool. It’d be great if we could get back to a place of designing buildings with friezes and sculptures on them.

 

[IU_Hickory]

Gargoyles making a comeback?

 

[CO. Hoosier]

Great substack here:

Will Stone Replace Steel and Concrete?

A recent viral tweet by Micah Springut, founder of stone-carving startup Monumental Labs, argued that it will be cheaper to build buildings with stone than with steel or concrete within the next 10 years. Stone has of course been used for thousands of years as a construction material, and is...

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What goes around comes around.

Chaco Canyon:

Then in roughly AD 850, a great change took place. The people began building in a radically different manner, constructing massive stone buildings unlike any that had been built before. These structures soared to four or five stories and contained up to seven hundred rooms and dozens of kivas . Connected to one another by lines of sight that would have enabled rapid communication, thesegreat houses were feats of engineering. Often built along celestial alignments , they included water-collection systems and were linked to outlying communities by an extensive network of roads. These elaborate buildings evidence a sophisticated and highly organized culture, with Chaco Canyon at its center.​

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A very interesting place to visit.

Ancient Observatories: Chaco Canyon

 

[mcmurtry66]

Great substack here:

Will Stone Replace Steel and Concrete?

A recent viral tweet by Micah Springut, founder of stone-carving startup Monumental Labs, argued that it will be cheaper to build buildings with stone than with steel or concrete within the next 10 years. Stone has of course been used for thousands of years as a construction material, and is...

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Would be amazing. My little downtown is undergoing a transformation like I’ve never seen before. Entire blocks of characterless glass buildings. One after another. This all glass design is so bland