material improvements in design

An interesting website called materia reports on innovations in the development and use of materials, in order to stimulate and inspire architects, designers and producers to apply these materials to their designs. One example is the discovery that concrete in which sand and gravel have been replaced with the mineral olivine, seems capable of absorbing, in the course of its life, ten times more CO2 from the air than the amount of CO2 that is emitted in concrete production. Another example is the construction of structures by reusing materials that are capable of being recycled or reused again at the end of the structures' usefulness.