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Latest story · 13/08/2026

Everyone wants handmade buildings. Almost nobody wants to pay what they cost

Earth, lime, bamboo and stone did not disappear for lack of knowledge. Contracts, programmes and tendering made them exceptional. Recovering craft means changing the economics that organise a building site.

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12/08/2026 · 5 min

An archive does not store paper: it maintains a climate for decades

Sweden’s new National Archives separates concrete repositories from public timber spaces. Its form follows an invisible requirement: preserve temperature, humidity, security and access without asking the same thing of the whole building.

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