Architects are specifying slate for more and more projects across the country

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People have welcomed the most iconic of natural materials slate used for roofing and flooring into both commercial developments and residential buildings across the UK country. People like slate, as it is a practical, natural material with durable, traditional association, not manufactured, but quarried in an extraction process that goes back centuries.

United Kingdom, Residential Buildings, Residential Building Construction, Commercial and Institutional Building Construction, Commercial Buildings, Nonresidential construction, not elsewhere classified, Usage, Residential construction, Commercial construction, Materials, House construction, Slate

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Steel rhythms

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The Afro-Caribbean Millennium Centre, existing in a disadvantaged area of Birmingham, houses the Afro-Caribbean Resource Centre (ACRC) that is designed by Birmingham based D5 architects, as a symbol of modernity and regeneration. Details of the building with its special design features and use of steel for the framework are outlined.

United States, Facilities & equipment, Buildings and facilities, Resource programs (Education)

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