Steve Webb

As part of the New Stone Age exhibition at @uoftdaniels @groupwork @stonemasonry_comp_stonestair @webbyates designed another stone demonstrator. These are the construction sketches of the system currently being assembled in Toronto. Post tensioned stone beams making a 10m high frame incorporating log bracing and boulder counterweight as a nod to Canada! 🇨🇦

Midden Studio is a zinc-clad artist’s retreat on Scotland’s west coast, set on a historic midden wall, slowly becoming part of the landscape 🎨🏔️ Perched on the edge of Britain, Midden Studio is a surreal atavistic building that reveals its secrets slowly. Inspired by local vernacular and rugged granite forms, the studio quietly blends in while revealing subtle surreal details including a floating cantilever and twin gables, with an innovative embossed zinc system, developed in collaboration with VM. The simple structure was designed with Webb Yates for the logistical demands of its remote coastal location and to withstand a 1000 year storm. #scotland #zinc #studio #artiststudio #argyll @webbyates @vmzincuk

Trip to Taipei with @ranabegumstudio

Stone Demonstrator designed by @webbyates and @groupwork_arch huge thanks to the @designmuseum for supporting this demonstration of the feasibility of replacing high carbon fossil fuel era materials like fired clay brick steel and concrete with low carbon stone and timber. The frame is formed with reinforced stone beams and columns, and has a stone slab, composite stone and timber slab and a bretstaple slab. Photography Bas Princen. Client: Future Observatory at the Design Museum (@designmuseum ) Site partner: The Earls Court Development Company (@earlscourtdevco ) Funder: The UKRI Arts and Humanities Research Council (@weareukri ) Architect: Groupwork (@groupwork_arch ) Engineers: Webb Yates and Arup (@webbyates ) Principal contractor: Ernest Park Stone Structure: The Stonemasonry Company (@thestonemasonrycompany ) Hybrid stone and timber floorplate: Bamberger Natursteinwerk Hermann Graser (@bambergernatursteinwerk ) Dowel-laminated timber floorplate: IQ Wood (@iqwood_slovenija ) Structural Stone Suppliers: Brachot (@brachot_uk ), Carrière de Luget, Franken- Schotter, Lundhs (@lundhsrealstone ), SigmaRoc (@sigmaroc ) Stone brick facade: Hutton Stone (@huttonstonecoltd ) and Albion Stone (@albionstone ) Stone installation: Ryker Structures Facade Timber Supports: Rossmore Contracts Stone brick garden wall and seating: Germans Balague (@germansbalague ) with Bricklink (@bricklink ) and Brickability (@brickability ) Brick layers: Bishop Facades (@bishopfacadesltd ) Landscaping: Lyndon Osborn & Team Lighting: iGuzzini (@iguzzini ), Atrium (@atrium.lighting ) and Pritchard Themis (@pritchardthemis ) Electrical installation: Switch Technologies

Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript library, Paul Weidlinger Engineer and Gordon Bunshaft Architect both at SOM, typically structure as architecture fabulous composition on 4 feet, synthesis of structure and architecture in the stone grid. Vermont marble granite concrete.

This is our remade stone pylon from RA summer exhibition designed by @webbyates and remade by @thestonemasonrycompany at the “With every fibre” exhibition at @gracefarmsct New York. The exhibition, designed by @ninacookejohn , explores issues of labour conditions and child and forced labour embedded in building materials, as well as sustainability and embedded carbon. The stone truss is composed of post tensioned stone struts core drilled from waste stone and is part of a series of webb Yates projects developing new ways of creating low carbon alternatives to steel. This kind of structure might have 60% less carbon that the steel equivalent.

Just received these photos! loving the colours and crisp autumn light @verbier3dfoundation thank you @kikisculptures for sharing the photos. Enjoyed seeing this work in every season throughout the year! Collaboration with @steevieweevy

Sidney Lanier Bridge (thanks for the video @ranabegumstudio …and not dropping phone in river on a windy day!)

🔊Reich, Pylons and poles in savannah

The engineering that sets Niwa House apart. Niwa House might look calm and understated, but its structure is quietly radical. In our latest thought piece, Liam Bryant shares how the innovation behind the stone and timber composite structure helped Niwa House earn a place on the Stirling Prize shortlist. Link in bio to read the article. 📸 Felix Koch @takeroshimazakiarchitects @steevieweevy @newwave.london @xylotekltd #stirlingprize #engineering #architecture #sustainability

Niwa House has been shortlisted for the RIBA Stirling Prize 2025 ✨ an award recognising buildings that enrich everyday life. Set behind a terrace in Southwark, the house reveals calm, light-filled interiors shaped by oak glulam and stone. Stepping gently with the site, its design creates a series of Japanese-inspired spaces where home and garden flow together. Following success at the RIBA London Awards and RIBA National Awards, this shortlist place continues a year of well-deserved recognition. Congratulations to Takero Shimazaki Architects and everyone involved - and to all the projects named in this year’s Stirling Prize line-up. 📸 Anton Gorlenko // Felix Koch // Takero Shimazaki Architects @riba @ribajournal #StirlingPrize2025 #NiwaHouse #LondonArchitecture #TimberDesign

Displayed at clerkenwell design week these two arches are made with bricks cut from stone instead of fired clay. Clay bricks are fired with fossil fuel (often still coal) and have a high carbon footprint while stone already exists having around 70% less embodied CO2, simply needs cutting, a totally electrical process. The arch on the left is a Darney sandstone and on the right Portland. Stone has several other advantages over clay. Stronger (often 20 times stronger) and no moisture movement, so all those shelf angles and movement joints often not needed with stone brick. The arch form is a catenary curve y = cosh x, perfect in compression under gravity and very skinny as a result. The point here is that form is importsnt in structure and can promote efficiency. The arch is lightly reinforced with stainless steel bars so that it can be prefabricated and delivered on a truck. The sketches show how these approaches could be adopted in buildings. Curving facades means the brickwork needs no wind posts or SFS. It makes it stronger in compression allowing it to provide structural support for tall buildings. Designed in collaboration with @huttonstonecoltd @albionstone @hawkins_brown @webbyates Thanks to @clerkenwelldesignweek @friendsandcouk