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Architecture: Grooves for more adhesion

(June 2011) German company develops pavement for major traffic exposure

Architecture: „Experimental Buildings“, Paving and Design Ideas

(May 2011) French architecture award for building with natural stone

Architecture: Top Marks for Energy Balance

Massive stone housing is being developed in France promising low CO₂ emission during construction and later use as a dwelling. Facts and figures to one project and its surprisingly low building costs are now available

Architecture: Stadium in abandoned quarry

(May 2011) This year’s Pritzker-Prize award winner Eduardo Souto de Moura built the football Arena in the Portuguese city of Braga

Architecture: Ventilation with the help of stone

At the All India Stone Architectural Awards excellence and innovation in design and technology were recognised and honoured

Architecture: Joining slate

(April 2011) German company introduces symmetrical tiles without overlap

Restoration of the Vildmannen 7 building in Stockholm (2): the facade is characterized by the new interpretations of the Tudor style from England fashionable in the late 19th century

Vildmannen 7 building in Stockholm: after the 2017 fire disaster, the facade shines again in its colorful elegance (1)

We describe the restoration steps of the sandstone ashlars, which stem from boulders, not quarries

Architecture: Flying carpets

(March 2011) French company develops aluminium honeycombs with stone which can be flexed

Architecture: … and they lived happily ever after

Croatian examples of modern architecture using local material in endemic forms

Architecture: Ideas for walls, facades and ground surfaces (3)

(March 2011) Building with natural stone: a former farmhouse in Switzerland, a document centre in Berlin, a luxury hotel in London and a university institute in the Netherlands

Architecture: stone in motion

(February 2011) German company develops pivoting lamellae for facades or room dividers

Architecture: Award-winning design formations from around the world

(February 2011) An overview of 2010 awards for building with natural stone. Our focus this time is on the U.S.A. Tucker Design Awards

Architecture: Nooks and crannies in slate

Luxury dwellings in Estonia’s capital Tallinn

Touch-stones for hands and feet

Every stone trade fair experiences it time and again: A stone that is aesthetically pleasing almost magnetically attracts beholders to touch it. Could the stone branch make use of this property?