May 12, 2023 FRONT Products Featured in Materials Library: Mæ on Architecture Today “We are starting to use brick products from FRONT (formerly StoneCycling), which combine clay with aggregates from crushed construction waste, such as discarded sanitaryware. The result is a beautiful textured brick that comes in a wide range of colours.” – Alex Ely, Mæ architects. We’ve worked with Mæ on the Sands End Arts & Community Centre and love how their guiding design principles revolve around social inclusivity, spatial inventiveness, and sustainability. In a recent article on Architecture Today you can find a great discussion on how and why environmental issues have come to underpin the practice’s approach to design, materiality and construction. READ THE FULL FEATURE > "The practice used this product at the Sands End Arts & Community Centre in Fulham, where it saved 28 tonnes of waste that would otherwise have gone to landfill. We are trying to make brick specification choices that reduce carbon, and fortunately more manufacturers are helping to support this." - Alex Ely, Mæ. "We would love to use StoneCycling’s new BioBased Tile, which employs bacteria in the form of a binding agent to make the product three times stronger and 20 per cent lighter than concrete. It also has lower CO₂ emissions than traditional cement." - Alex Ely, Mæ. Media Request? Interested in featuring our story, products, or projects? Contact us at media@front-materials.com or explore our media kit for info, images, and videos. Get access to our media kit
"The practice used this product at the Sands End Arts & Community Centre in Fulham, where it saved 28 tonnes of waste that would otherwise have gone to landfill. We are trying to make brick specification choices that reduce carbon, and fortunately more manufacturers are helping to support this." - Alex Ely, Mæ. "We would love to use StoneCycling’s new BioBased Tile, which employs bacteria in the form of a binding agent to make the product three times stronger and 20 per cent lighter than concrete. It also has lower CO₂ emissions than traditional cement." - Alex Ely, Mæ. Media Request? Interested in featuring our story, products, or projects? Contact us at media@front-materials.com or explore our media kit for info, images, and videos. Get access to our media kit
