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Upgrade your kitchen with a stylish Grey Granite Worktop from DialAWorkTop. Durable, elegant, and low-maintenance, our granite worktops offer a perfect blend of strength and beauty. Ideal for modern and classic spaces, they provide excellent resistance to scratches and stains. Choose DialAWorkTop for premium-quality grey granite worktops and expert installation services.
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Transform your kitchen with elegant grey quartz worktops from DialAWorktop. Offering durability and style, our options in London perfectly complement any kitchen design. Experience the seamless blend of sophistication and functionality with our premium grey quartz surfaces. Contact us today for professional installation and outstanding quality!
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New product range of ceramic and Steel Grey Granite Worktop by Worktop Library
Worktop Library is the best place in West London if you are looking for appealing worktops for your kitchen. Visit the website, and you will get to see so many choices for your bathroom and kitchen interiors. The company has come up with some fresh options in both ranges. In the blog, we will discuss in detail those newly launched products.
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Granite worktop in London
Human ability to take out granite from earth’ s crust and to be able to make it into a worktop is possible due to amazing ‘marriage’ of technology and human endeavor. Granite worktops are Strong , Sturdy, Suave and Solid.
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Your Guide To Finding The Perfect Worktop For Your Kitchen
Kitchen! The busiest room in the house. Since you build a home that defines your sense of style, you can’t afford to compromise on your kitchen too. A kitchen is a place where all the cooked or uncooked food is stored; cabinets cover the area for that task. The real deal is to choose the perfect worktop for your cooking area. A worktop that you will use for chopping, cutting, baking, cooking, and placing the kitchen ware after cooking.
There are certain factors you need to consider before choosing the best suitable worktop for your kitchen. You can start by deciding your budget, then move on to the design you want for your kitchen. After that comes the part of detail study, i.e., choosing the right material for your kitchen worktop.
There are plenty of materials available in the market for worktops, varies from natural stones to man-made materials. Choosing the worktops that best suit your kitchen design, bearing in mind the functionality and price of the material.
Have a look at the types of materials you can choose from, based on its features, pros, and cons, and price:
1.Granite
Granite is the most popularly used natural stone. People generally incline towards granite when it comes to worktops because of its durability and appeal. It is not very expensive for its features. Granite being the natural stone comes in varied colors and patterns, you will have plenty of options to choose from that goes with your kitchen design.
Pros:
Granite needs occasional releasing, in order to maintain non-porous surface.
It is highly resistant to heat and stain which makes it ideal for kitchen worktops.
Highly durable and robust.
Good for its price and doesn’t depreciate in value.
Easy to clean and maintain.
Cons:
Has to be sealed appropriately, reason being its porosity.
Because it is so heavy, it needs proper support underneath.
They can not be repaired after getting damaged.
2.Marble
Marble is the sure shot a sign of ultimate luxury. They are the most gorgeous looking worktops to have. The best thing about marbles is there are no two slabs that are exactly the same. They are highly expensive and once stained, it doesn’t go back to its original form.
Pros:
They are timeless and elegant.
Each slab has a unique pattern.
It’s a naturally cool stone.
Cons:
It stains quite easily.
The scratches are formed easily.
It is very expensive.
3.Quartz
Although being a man-made stone, it has the durability of natural stone. Quartz is popular for its quality of being scratch-proof. It can even withstand chipping, which makes it low maintenance. Because of its consistency in a pattern, it gives the finished look to your worktop.
Pros:
Can be intricately cut down to any shape and size.
Highly scratch and stain resistant.
Comes in various color range and consistency.
Cons:
Not much heat resistance.
They are very expensive.
4.Corian
Corian is a brand of solid surface material. It is composed of alumina trihydrate (material derived from bauxite ore) and acrylic polymer. What sets corian apart from other materials is that it can be seamlessly molded to form a sink with the worktop. We can't deny that it can give you the most classy look with its finished polish appeal, but you pay a good price for it.
Pros:
It gives your kitchen the most finished look.
Since it is plastic and not stone it doesn’t make those noises when you place your utensils on the surface.
It is hygienic as it is non-porous.
Cons:
It is less heat resistant than quartz or granite, so there’s a possibility of it getting damaged with time.
It is way too expensive.
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These were some of the types of worktops that we found to be the most popular. Take these points into consideration while you make your decision. Worktops are coming to stay in your kitchen for the more longer period, make sure you choose the best of them. You can go and check out marble and granite London companies for the expert's guidance and find what works best for you.
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The Dezeen guide to stone in architecture, interiors and design
Thinking of using stone in your project? Our latest Dezeen guide includes 15 popular types of natural rock used in architecture, interiors and design with links to hundreds of examples to inspire your own work.
Alabaster
Alabaster is a soft, fine-grained stone that has been used for centuries to carve elaborate forms and ornaments. However, its solubility in water means that it is best suited for indoor use.
In its pure form, alabaster is white and translucent, which makes it ideally suited to lighting design.
Studio Tack used tubular light shades made from alabaster to softly illuminate a cosy Japanese restaurant in New York (above), while lighting studio Allied Maker used the stone to create ornate totemic floor lamps.
Amarist Studio showcased the sculptural possibilities of the stone in its Aqua Fossil collection, which includes a coffee table with swooping, curved legs.
See projects featuring alabaster ›
Basalt
Basalt is a dark-coloured igneous rock that is formed when lava cools rapidly. It is most frequently used as an aggregate for concrete as it is low-cost and high-strength, but it is also a popular cladding and flooring material, especially when polished.
Examples of this include the facade of a small gallery in Amsterdam by Barend Koolhaas and a Hawaiian holiday home by Walker Warner Architects in which slender basalt cladding tiles are contrasted with cedar detailing (above).
Icelandic studio Innriinnri used two sculpted slabs of basalt stone to create a sculptural table that doubles as a stool or a piece of art, while South Korean artist Byung Hoon Choi polished the stone to create oversized outdoor furniture.
See projects featuring basalt ›
Flint
Flint is a highly durable stone found in abundance as irregular-shaped nodules in sedimentary rocks such as chalk. It has been used as a construction material since the Roman era, though it is not often seen in contemporary architecture.
Flint varies in colour, but it is commonly glassy black with a white crust. In architecture, it is usually knapped – split to expose its glossy inner face – before being laid in mortar.
Skene Catling de la Peña used a combination of knapped and unknapped flint to cover a wedge-shaped house in Buckinghamshire (above), which creates a subtle colour gradient across its facade.
See projects featuring flint ›
Gneiss
Gneiss, a robust metamorphic stone composed of alternating layers of different coloured minerals, is popular to use for flooring and worktops. Hues can range from pinks and golds to greens and dark greys.
Peter Pichler sourced grey gneiss with black-and-white bands from Passeier Valley in South Tyrol to create a large counter in the bar of an Italian Alpine hotel (above).
It can also be used as a cladding material, such as in Bernardo Bader Architekten's ski resort office in Austria and a radio broadcasting station in Nepal by Archium.
Granite
Granite is one of the most widely used stones in architecture and design. It forms from the slow crystallisation of magma beneath the Earth's crust. It is used for everything from load-bearing structures to cladding, worktops and furniture.
Its popularity is down to its high compressive strength, durability and low porosity. Granite is also found in an array of colours, making it suitable for a range of spaces and styles.
Heatherwick Studio recently used green granite to make a trio of its sculptural Spun chairs (above), while Snøhetta has used a grey variety to cover almost every surface of an Aesop store to emulate a rocky coastline.
Architecture studio NOARQ tested the material's strength by elevating a cabin on thick blocks of granite over the entrance to a stone villa in Portugal.
See projects featuring granite ›
Laterite
Rusty-red laterite stone is formed from the leaching of rocks and soil during alternating periods of high temperature and heavy rainfall in tropical areas. This process leaves behind a high concentration of insoluble iron oxides, which gives the rock its colour.
Laterite is typically used in construction in Africa and Asia in the form of bricks, which have excellent thermal mass and a low embodied energy. These bricks are made by cutting the rock out from below the water table when it is moist and leaving it to harden in the air.
Architect Francis Kéré used locally sourced laterite to build the walls of a school in Burkina Faso and Studio Lotus has used it to create the pedestal of a government building in India (above).
Limestone
There are many different types of limestone, a sedimentary rock composed mainly of calcium carbonate. It is considered a good all-round building material as it is easy to cut and carve and usually has a uniform texture and colour.
Popular limestone varieties include travertine (see below) and Portland stone, which is used on notable buildings in London such as St Paul's Cathedral and Buckingham Palace.
David Chipperfield Architects recently used limestone to clad the Kunsthaus Zurich museum extension in Switzerland and John Pawson used it to line the surfaces of a minimalist flagship store in Japan for fashion label Jil Sander.
Design projects that utilise limestone include a blocky furniture collection called Dig Where You Stand by students from the Estonian Academy of Arts (above).
See projects featuring limestone ›
Marble
Marble is a metamorphic rock with veins of calcite crystal. It forms from limestone that has been exposed to heat and pressure and is found in many colours. Marble is strong but easily carved and polishes well, making it suitable for numerous applications.
It is most popularly used in kitchen and bathroom designs, but it is often used as cladding too, such as in Alexander Owen Architecture's garden room in London (above).
See projects featuring marble ›
Onyx
Onyx is a translucent gemstone composed of parallel bands of quartz, found in almost every colour. It has a long history of use in sculpture and jewellery but is less commonly found in architecture and design. However, onyx is sometimes used as a facing or lighting.
Projects that use onyx include a mausoleum in Minneapolis by HGA and an office by Anne Claus Interiors where it has been used to clad a multi-coloured bar (above).
See projects featuring onyx ›
Porphyry
Porphyry is a strong and hard-wearing igneous stone that comes in reddish-brown to purple hues. It is composed of large-grained crystals embedded in a fine-grained groundmass.
It has been used in architecture and design since antiquity, though it is rarely seen in contemporary architecture and design. Today it is mostly used as aggregate in the construction of roads in places where cars require studded winter tires.
Pedevilla Architects used a block of porphyry as a kitchen island for a cookery school in South Tyrol, while architect Claudio Silvestrin used it to line the walls of a Milanese fashion boutique.
Quartzite
Formed from sandstone exposed to high heat and pressure, quartzite is a very hard and durable metamorphic rock. It is usually found in white and grey shades.
Quartzite is a popular material for kitchen countertops as it is resistant to staining, but is most commonly used as a decorative cladding or flooring.
Examples of this include a dwelling in Utah by Klima Architecture, Peter Zumthor's Therme Vals spa (above) and a monolithic Parisian library by Agence Pascale Guédot.
See projects featuring quartzite ›
Sandstone
Sandstone is composed of fine silicate grains that have eroded from other rocks, giving it either a warm red, yellow or orange colouration.
Used for construction since prehistoric times, sandstone continues to be a popular choice in architecture and design as it is abundant, durable and easy to handle.
Recent architectural projects that use the material include a cathedral extension by Feilden Fowles, a museum by Álvaro Siza, and an oval-shaped all-girls school in India (above) that is designed to blend into its desert surroundings.
See projects featuring sandstone ›
Shale
This grey fine-grained stone is one of the most common sedimentary rocks on earth. It is formed from the compaction of silt and mud into thin, fissile layers. In architecture and design, shale is usually crushed and processed into bricks, tiles and pottery, or heated with limestone to make cement.
Aketuri Architektai used shale tiles to clad a pointy woodland house in Lithuania (above), while Spaceworkers wrapped the stone around the basement of a Portuguese house to provide it with a raw, rugged aesthetic.
See projects featuring shale ›
Slate
Slate is a dark fine-grained stone that is formed when a sedimentary rock, such as shale, is subjected to high pressure. It is a foliated rock, meaning it is made up of thin sedimentary layers, which allows it to be split – or riven – into thin slabs.
Slate is durable and weather- and frost-resistant, making it a popular material choice for cladding, roofing and paving.
In interior projects, the material is often also used as floor tiles, hearths and kitchen worktops. Natalie Weinmann sanded and polished the stone to create a blocky furniture collection.
TRIAS used it to clad a small writer's retreat in a Welsh valley while Austin Maynard Architects diamond, scalloped and brick-shaped slate shingles to cover a Melbourne house (above).
See projects featuring slate ›
Travertine
One of the most commonly used forms of limestone is travertine, which has been sourced from mineral springs for use as a building material for centuries. The largest building in the world made from this stone is the Colosseum in Rome.
Today, travertine is mostly processed into tiles for internal and external surface coverings, but it is also a popular material for bathroom fit-outs. As it is found with troughs on its surface, processing travertine usually involves polishing its surface.
Projects that use travertine include an extension to a German museum by Bez + Kock Architekten (above), an apartment renovation in Lithuania by 2XJ, and a furniture collection by David/Nicolas.
See projects featuring travertine ›
Recent popular stone projects on Dezeen include an inconspicuous house on the island of Serifos, a monolithic spa by Smartvoll, a collection of luxury lodges on England's Jurassic Coast and a coffee table by Studio Twenty Seven.
The main image is of Rajkumari Ratnavati Girls' School by Diana Kellogg Architects taken by Vinay Panjwani.
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Here's a project from Muswell Hill in North London. A calm and inviting kitchen in Dove Grey matte lacquer. The model is Liberamente by Scavolini. Worktops are Carrara quartz from Compac courtesy of Granite Direct. #scavolini #scavolinilondon #scavoliniuk #mattelacquer #kitcheninspo #kitchendesign #loverenovate #granitedirectlimited #muswellhill (at Muswell Hill) https://www.instagram.com/p/B3pYUzQBZCx/?igshid=178axzincdokh
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London builders: Marble is a glittering stone. Part one.
London builders: Marble is a glittering stone. Part one.
Marble’s name speaks for itself (marmaros, Gr. – glittering stone). During several thousand years it has preserved the right to be considered a decoration material, shiny in every way. Artists noticed that it is a unique material for sculpture as long ago as ancient times. The Venus of Milo, Parthenon, Zeus of Olympus temple, columns of Artemis temple in Ephesus, one of the Seven Wonders of the World, were created of soft white marble.
Owing to moderate hardness, this stone is polished perfectly well, and gives soft glitter coming from the inside. Under the rays of light penetrating into the stone, marble comes to life – light shinning aureole appears around it. It glitters with pink, yellow, grey, blue, greenish, reddish, brown, black tones and amazes with their various combinations. Colored marble usually has many “stone veins”, which are splits filled with natural admixtures. On the shears of Verona, Fossile Marrone, Jura, Rosso marble, an attentive eye will distinguish shapes of ancient shellfish, corals, petrified algae, shells. Some types of marble having quartz and pyrite admixtures glitter with crystal and golden tinges.
Variety in texture and color (from deep black to milkwhite, which, by the way, was worshipped by Michelangelo) allows to make the brightest ideas come true. Subject to chosen colors, the “stone” interior can be warm or cold, massive or airy, luxurious or simple, dark or light.
Marble processing. Most of the stone working companies produce marble flag of standard size: 300 x 300, 305 x 305, 400 x 400, 600 x 300 mm. Thickness varies from 10-20mm and more, subject to purpose. Considering tile texture, there are not too many ways of marble surface treatment: polishing, grinding, bush-hammering, artificial ageing.
Polishing and grinding emphasize the natural beauty of the stone. Bush-hammering adds useful antiskid lines to the material. “Antique” becomes more and more popular being preferred by lovers of the antique in general and interior antique stylization. It is believed, that the natural ageing imitation (artificial weathering) creates a special atmosphere of softness and warmness. Weathered marble is widely used for floor tiling in modern restaurants and saloons: with its help the designers try to add an air of authenticity to the interior. Artificially imitating this natural phenomenon one can get different degrees of ageing. This effect is achieved through special surface treatment technology, which may include mechanical (including manual) and chemical influence. For example, for producing tabletops, wall and floor decoration, stone mosaics is often used. It is put into a special barrel where stones rub themselves against one another acquiring rounded shapes.
Marble application. This decoration material is applied for inner and outer decoration. Floors, walls, staircases, fireplaces, columns, tabletops, kitchen worktops, lamps, decorated with marble always look wonderful.
Marble properties. Marble is lasting, firm, weather-resistant. Nevertheless, with all its firmness it remains a soft absorbing material. As is known, marble and shale are carbonate sediments that are vulnerable to acid, coloring agents, thermal impact. Marble surface should be protected from thermal impact – a cup of hot tee or coffee may turn out fatal for a tabletop. It is possible to make stairs or floor surface of marble, but one should prevent a possibility of dropping of such abrasive particles as sand on a marble surface, as they will scratch the stone.
Choosing a marble for wet premises one should remember that a long-during contact with water changes marble’s color. The reason of it is oxidation of ferruginous mineral admixtures. Nevertheless this material is more preferable for bathrooms than granite, as its structure is more porous, which provides better binding.
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London building contractors: How to choose an all-natural rock. Part Two.
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Marble on the wall surfaces looks stunning, however as a result of its permeable framework the stone will certainly require permanent protection with the help of water-repellent liquids. The scenario with granite in this case is much simpler - this material is stronger and also firmer. The only point which stays is to on a regular basis wipe the wall surfaces, getting rid of water declines. All-natural floor ceramic tiles, as it has actually already been stated, must have non-slip surface, otherwise, you take a risk of slipping and dropping while leaving the bath. Treatment the flooring surface area with a protective carpet makes no sense thinking about an idea of having a smooth "mirror" floor in the washroom.
Given that moisture is the vital characteristic of such areas, you shouldn't ignore the option of unique adhesive for the shower room floor tiles. To start with, the adhesive has to not be wrecked by water and also, secondly, it should provide added waterproofing for a flooring and also walls.
Kitchen area decor. Quite often natural stone is used in a kitchen area design not only for floor, but also for kitchen area worktops, wall ceramic tiles, all-natural rock splashbacks, windowsills etc. All these could be constructed from identical or various products - as you like it. Nonetheless, in the kitchen, the like in the shower room, it is not suggested to have brightened floor ceramic tiles without anti-slip protection: it threatens as well as not very practical. Matte marble finish completely fulfills this demand, however it has its disadvantages: spilt vinegar or lemon juice will spoil the ceramic tile as well as it's not a very easy task to get rid of red vine from the light rugged floor. Dark, red or grey granite is a more suitable option, however mud defense will not be unnecessary for it too.
Marble counter tops will make your cooking area appearance elegant, but routine home cooking is gotten in touch with acidulous components, which spoil marble in instance of long-term direct exposure. Nevertheless, there are protective sealers for cooking area rock, however they vacuum cleaner shark need to be used consistently.
So, the most appropriate choice for kitchen worktops turns out to be granite once more: it is beautiful, safe, safe and secure as well as needs very little care.
Typically, windowsills have a decorative function that is why they are less subjected to chemical representatives. Just remember to wipe splashed water at the same time after watering as well as feeding blossoms. While every little thing is so simple with windowsills, you can select any decorative rock you like and be led just with your own preference and economic capabilities.
Areas design. All-natural stone in areas is made use of for fire places, balusters and stairways, banisters, coffee tables and also numerous decorations. Since they are subjected just to little mechanical effect, they are made from mostly all kinds of all-natural rock. Statuettes as well as flower holders made of marble and onyx will make your home look much more advanced as well as bring your indoor closer to the classic style. Their maintenance is very simple - such things must be regularly cleaned with a completely dry and also soft duster. Floorings in the spaces could be smooth; they look particularly excellent in spacious halls.
Understanding all these fine points currently you can choose natural rock for your residence or level design with no difficulties. If you have any type of doubts regarding the correctness of this or that concept for the interior design, describe specialists of all-natural rock firm supplier. They will certainly offer you much more comprehensive information, advise you ideal methods for security as well as upkeep as well as will appropriately perform all the works for house design.
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Composite stone worktops London have diverse makes use of specially for the web site layout of a residence
Cimstone Quartz worktops characteristic a composition of 93% quartz and 7% polyester resin binder and pigments, offering unparalled strength and durability. Accessible in a assorted range of styles and finishes, from bold statement colours. Cimstone has been accredited and qualified as an effortless to clean, microbiologically hygienic surface perfectly risk-free for fast make contact with with all kinds of food by a number of worldwide health and safety institutions. All of this, of training course, tends to make it the best remedy for worktops in any kitchen area. With a high scratch and abrasion resistance (seven Mohs, virtually as tough as diamond), cimstone worktops are incredibly difficult donning. An really reduced h2o absorption coefficient and high heat resistance indicates Cimstone quartz is nearly impervious to staining and warmth. 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The Dezeen guide to stone in architecture, interiors and design
Thinking of using stone in your project? Our latest Dezeen guide includes 15 popular types of natural rock used in architecture, interiors and design with links to hundreds of examples to inspire your own work.
Alabaster
Alabaster is a soft, fine-grained stone that has been used for centuries to carve elaborate forms and ornaments. However, its solubility in water means that it is best suited for indoor use.
In its pure form, alabaster is white and translucent, which makes it ideally suited to lighting design.
Studio Tack used tubular light shades made from alabaster to softly illuminate a cosy Japanese restaurant in New York (above), while lighting studio Allied Maker used the stone to create ornate totemic floor lamps.
Amarist Studio showcased the sculptural possibilities of the stone in its Aqua Fossil collection, which includes a coffee table with swooping, curved legs.
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Basalt
Basalt is a dark-coloured igneous rock that is formed when lava cools rapidly. It is most frequently used as an aggregate for concrete as it is low-cost and high-strength, but it is also a popular cladding and flooring material, especially when polished.
Examples of this include the facade of a small gallery in Amsterdam by Barend Koolhaas and a Hawaiian holiday home by Walker Warner Architects in which slender basalt cladding tiles are contrasted with cedar detailing (above).
Icelandic studio Innriinnri used two sculpted slabs of basalt stone to create a sculptural table that doubles as a stool or a piece of art, while South Korean artist Byung Hoon Choi polished the stone to create oversized outdoor furniture.
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Flint
Flint is a highly durable stone found in abundance as irregular-shaped nodules in sedimentary rocks such as chalk. It has been used as a construction material since the Roman era, though it is not often seen in contemporary architecture.
Flint varies in colour, but it is commonly glassy black with a white crust. In architecture, it is usually knapped – split to expose its glossy inner face – before being laid in mortar.
Skene Catling de la Peña used a combination of knapped and unknapped flint to cover a wedge-shaped house in Buckinghamshire (above), which creates a subtle colour gradient across its facade.
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Gneiss
Gneiss, a robust metamorphic stone composed of alternating layers of different coloured minerals, is popular to use for flooring and worktops. Hues can range from pinks and golds to greens and dark greys.
Peter Pichler sourced grey gneiss with black-and-white bands from Passeier Valley in South Tyrol to create a large counter in the bar of an Italian Alpine hotel (above).
It can also be used as a cladding material, such as in Bernardo Bader Architekten's ski resort office in Austria and a radio broadcasting station in Nepal by Archium.
Granite
Granite is one of the most widely used stones in architecture and design. It forms from the slow crystallisation of magma beneath the Earth's crust. It is used for everything from load-bearing structures to cladding, worktops and furniture.
Its popularity is down to its high compressive strength, durability and low porosity. Granite is also found in an array of colours, making it suitable for a range of spaces and styles.
Heatherwick Studio recently used green granite to make a trio of its sculptural Spun chairs (above), while Snøhetta has used a grey variety to cover almost every surface of an Aesop store to emulate a rocky coastline.
Architecture studio NOARQ tested the material's strength by elevating a cabin on thick blocks of granite over the entrance to a stone villa in Portugal.
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Laterite
Rusty-red laterite stone is formed from the leaching of rocks and soil during alternating periods of high temperature and heavy rainfall in tropical areas. This process leaves behind a high concentration of insoluble iron oxides, which gives the rock its colour.
Laterite is typically used in construction in Africa and Asia in the form of bricks, which have excellent thermal mass and a low embodied energy. These bricks are made by cutting the rock out from below the water table when it is moist and leaving it to harden in the air.
Architect Francis Kéré used locally sourced laterite to build the walls of a school in Burkina Faso and Studio Lotus has used it to create the pedestal of a government building in India (above).
Limestone
There are many different types of limestone, a sedimentary rock composed mainly of calcium carbonate. It is considered a good all-round building material as it is easy to cut and carve and usually has a uniform texture and colour.
Popular limestone varieties include travertine (see below) and Portland stone, which is used on notable buildings in London such as St Paul's Cathedral and Buckingham Palace.
David Chipperfield Architects recently used limestone to clad the Kunsthaus Zurich museum extension in Switzerland and John Pawson used it to line the surfaces of a minimalist flagship store in Japan for fashion label Jil Sander.
Design projects that utilise limestone include a blocky furniture collection called Dig Where You Stand by students from the Estonian Academy of Arts (above).
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Marble
Marble is a metamorphic rock with veins of calcite crystal. It forms from limestone that has been exposed to heat and pressure and is found in many colours. Marble is strong but easily carved and polishes well, making it suitable for numerous applications.
It is most popularly used in kitchen and bathroom designs, but it is often used as cladding too, such as in Alexander Owen Architecture's garden room in London (above).
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Onyx
Onyx is a translucent gemstone composed of parallel bands of quartz, found in almost every colour. It has a long history of use in sculpture and jewellery but is less commonly found in architecture and design. However, onyx is sometimes used as a facing or lighting.
Projects that use onyx include a mausoleum in Minneapolis by HGA and an office by Anne Claus Interiors where it has been used to clad a multi-coloured bar (above).
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Porphyry
Porphyry is a strong and hard-wearing igneous stone that comes in reddish-brown to purple hues. It is composed of large-grained crystals embedded in a fine-grained groundmass.
It has been used in architecture and design since antiquity, though it is rarely seen in contemporary architecture and design. Today it is mostly used as aggregate in the construction of roads in places where cars require studded winter tires.
Pedevilla Architects used a block of porphyry as a kitchen island for a cookery school in South Tyrol, while architect Claudio Silvestrin used it to line the walls of a Milanese fashion boutique.
Quartzite
Formed from sandstone exposed to high heat and pressure, quartzite is a very hard and durable metamorphic rock. It is usually found in white and grey shades.
Quartzite is a popular material for kitchen countertops as it is resistant to staining, but is most commonly used as a decorative cladding or flooring.
Examples of this include a dwelling in Utah by Klima Architecture, Peter Zumthor's Therme Vals spa (above) and a monolithic Parisian library by Agence Pascale Guédot.
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Sandstone
Sandstone is composed of fine silicate grains that have eroded from other rocks, giving it either a warm red, yellow or orange colouration.
Used for construction since prehistoric times, sandstone continues to be a popular choice in architecture and design as it is abundant, durable and easy to handle.
Recent architectural projects that use the material include a cathedral extension by Feilden Fowles, a museum by Álvaro Siza, and an oval-shaped all-girls school in India (above) that is designed to blend into its desert surroundings.
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Shale
This grey fine-grained stone is one of the most common sedimentary rocks on earth. It is formed from the compaction of silt and mud into thin, fissile layers. In architecture and design, shale is usually crushed and processed into bricks, tiles and pottery, or heated with limestone to make cement.
Aketuri Architektai used shale tiles to clad a pointy woodland house in Lithuania (above), while Spaceworkers wrapped the stone around the basement of a Portuguese house to provide it with a raw, rugged aesthetic.
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Slate
Slate is a dark fine-grained stone that is formed when a sedimentary rock, such as shale, is subjected to high pressure. It is a foliated rock, meaning it is made up of thin sedimentary layers, which allows it to be split – or riven – into thin slabs.
Slate is durable and weather- and frost-resistant, making it a popular material choice for cladding, roofing and paving.
In interior projects, the material is often also used as floor tiles, hearths and kitchen worktops. Natalie Weinmann sanded and polished the stone to create a blocky furniture collection.
TRIAS used it to clad a small writer's retreat in a Welsh valley while Austin Maynard Architects diamond, scalloped and brick-shaped slate shingles to cover a Melbourne house (above).
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Travertine
One of the most commonly used forms of limestone is travertine, which has been sourced from mineral springs for use as a building material for centuries. The largest building in the world made from this stone is the Colosseum in Rome.
Today, travertine is mostly processed into tiles for internal and external surface coverings, but it is also a popular material for bathroom fit-outs. As it is found with troughs on its surface, processing travertine usually involves polishing its surface.
Projects that use travertine include an extension to a German museum by Bez + Kock Architekten (above), an apartment renovation in Lithuania by 2XJ, and a furniture collection by David/Nicolas.
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Recent popular stone projects on Dezeen include an inconspicuous house on the island of Serifos, a monolithic spa by Smartvoll, a collection of luxury lodges on England's Jurassic Coast and a coffee table by Studio Twenty Seven.
The main image is of Rajkumari Ratnavati Girls' School by Diana Kellogg Architects taken by Vinay Panjwani.
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