Material world

By and Amanda Birch Amanda Birch Amanda Birch2005-03-18T00:00:00

Litracon concrete

Amanda Birch uncovers four cutting-edge materials set to revolutionise buildings of the future and, opposite, investigates how practices discover and apply scientific innovations

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