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Anping Bridge, not far from Xiamen, dates back to the 12th century and is built entirely of granite

The roadway on thick piers was intended to facilitate the transport of goods to and from a port

The marble façades of the new Perelman Performing Arts Center in Manhattan recreate the theater in many aspects

The building completes the redevelopment of Ground Zero after 9/11

“Marmomac Meets Academies“ 2023 (September 26 – 29): Innovative ideas for stone application in architecture and product design

Professor Giuseppe Fallacara (Polytecnico di Bari) has curated the exhibition of prototypes designed by international students and research groups

Adapting to climate change: The town of Stein near Nuremberg designs new development areas according to the “Sponge City“ concept

In essence, it is all about infills (infiltration trenches or tree swales) in the subsoil with volcanic rock

Stone Insight: Volcanic rock, such as lava or tuff, with its many pores is very suitable infiltration trenches (tree swales), which have recently been used in cities to store rainwater

Coat of arms cartouche installed on the façade: work on the new Berlin Palace / Humboldt Fum is nearing completion

The balustrade figures, which are new creations, are still missing

General Meeting 2023 of the German Ornamental Stone Association (DNV): Natural stone as “building material of the future“

The New Constructing with Stone will play an important role at the Architecture Congress during the Stone+tec (June 19 – 22, 2024) in Nuremberg)

Tripun Bokanić Awards for natural stone 2023 awarded in Croatia

The initiator is the stonemasonry school Klesarska Škola on the limestone island of Brač together with the Oris House of Architecture in Zagreb

Gemeg’s redesigned showroom in Carrara: white marble only behind the windows of the container-like building

The facade by architect Victor Vasilev is reminiscent of modernism and bears artificial materials

SuperHink Natural Stone Award 2023 of the Swiss Association Pro Naturstein: Photo gallery

The prize was awarded for the 2nd time and honors the outstanding use of stone in architecture and landscaping by Swiss companies

Large-format crust slabs of Rorschach sandstone as privacy screens

At the Swiss SuperHink Prize 2023, a work by Stefan Marti Garten AG was awarded 1st prize in the category of garden and landscape architecture

The High Museum of Art in Atlanta, GA, shows objects from the rich and powerful kingdom that once was a superpower in the Nubian desert of modern-day Sudan and had long been misunderstood

“There’s a lot of gray energy in old materials, and a lot of history besides,“ says architect Martin Bruhin about his modernization of the barn at Wildegg Castle in Switzerland

Ana Maria Negară takes up the ancient symbols of humanity in her sculptures

The Romanian sculptor uses the labyrinth, the spiral, the hexagon and more, showing the questions of meaning, time, transcendence…

The Spanish Premios Macael were bestowed for the 35th time

The award recognizes buildings from all over the world that have used natural and engineered stone from companies in Andalusia