How a chance discovery in 1891 created an entirely new market for Cork today
Main image: Smoke rises from cork being boiled at the factory. (Jose Sarmento Matos for The Washington Post). Cork is a natural material known since Antiquity (Phoenicians and Greeks), mainly as a floating material as well as a sealant for bottles and jars. However,...
Cork House is architectural prize winner in 2025
This Cork clad house is winner of the Environmental Prize 2025 at ‘Don’t Move, Improve!’ * and shortlisted for this year’s RIBA London Awards. Designed by Nina Woodcroft at London-based company Nina+Co in association with ROAR Architects. The project...
How the study of cork started a new era in life sciences
Left: Robert Hooke invented the compound microscope and illumination system shown above and used it in his demonstrations at the Royal Society’s meetings. Photo credit: © Science Museum. Right: A page from Hooke’s ‘Micrographia’ illustrating the tiny cells of cork...
Champagne tastes better with cork
Picture: by kind permission of Comité Champagne – France Champagne is justly revered for many reasons. One is the time and effort it takes to produce. All Champagne undergoes a secondary fermentation on its lees in the bottle before the yeast sediment is...ZAKRA PRO
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