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...co-director Barnett Howland....
...Mycelium’s fungal root structure can break down and detoxify waste such as asphalt shingles, rubber and gypsum, creating new composite materials that can be used for insulation and acoustic tiles....
...The project, whose site is visited by kudus, springboks and buffaloes, is close to completing a feasibility study on the economics of extracting minerals from gypsum waste generated by old phosphate mines...
...“Still Life”, Tristan Hoare Gallery, London, November 10-December 15, tristanhoaregallery.co.uk...
...A similar effect was felt in China, now home to the biggest domestic reactor building programme in the world, with 17 under construction as of July 2022....
..., the corresponding decisions belong to TNPJVC [Taishan Nuclear Power Joint Venture Co].”...
...The other complication is that many standard builder’s materials — cement, gypsum render, plasterboard and off-the-shelf petrochemical insulation boards — are resolutely non-breathable....
...He co-founded Chiang Mai Social Installation, an artist-run festival series that took place in temples and other public spaces across Thailand’s second-largest city in the 1990s....
...Tianqi started building the refinery six years ago when Sino-Australian tensions — which have become elevated since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic — were much lower....
...“Materials and methods that people have refined and passed down for generations. We want that to last.”...
...It’s an unlikely combination of materials....
...Features include the building’s original painted company sign....
...There are two key considerations: to what extent might a drink’s raw materials carry an imprint of place? And how comprehensively transformed are those raw materials in the finished product?...
...“He’s a master of plaster, with such free and purely artistic vision for the material,” says Isabelle Dubern-Mallevays, co-founder of bespoke design platform The Invisible Collection....
...As a construction material it is ubiquitous, found in bridges and buildings to sewage pipes and sculptures. Perhaps less conspicuous is cement’s destructive impact on our planet....
...“It’s had very bad effects,” concurs Marie Helene Pereira of the Dakar-based RAW Material Company....
...CGN and EDF have jointly completed the only working nuclear power plant in the world — in Taishan, China — that uses the same technology as Hinkley....
...A blown-up model of a desert rose, made of sandy-coloured gypsum discs the size of flying saucers rather than pennies, it is as literal as it could possibly be....
...BioMarble by Hannah Elisabeth Design, from £800 per sq m BioMarble is developed from waste paper and natural fibres to create a marble-like surface. hannahelisabethdesign.co.uk Neon Milky Way by Mirrl,...
...The shade of the Raise floor lamp is cast in Jesmonite, a gypsum and resin amalgam that can mimic concrete or stone....
...I want to create for every single project different shapes; I want to experiment with different materials; I want the quality to be as high as possible,” he says....
...To solve the problem, the carts were then stored in purpose-built cucumber houses, glazed with sheets of silicate mica, selenite (a crystalline form of gypsum) or with a translucent oiled cloth known as...
...“While building communism, they had different tasks. There was a race for output, production; always more more more,” says Mr Utkin....
...Made like many of her sculptures from Jesmonite, a gypsum-based material in an acrylic resin, the forms are cast in silicone moulds. “They’re kind of like a family,” she continues, stroking one fondly....
...There is a printing business, a plastic recycling company and another specialising in construction materials....
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