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Northampton has redesigned its city center with fish in the pavement and references to the old shoemaker’s craft

The Kerdroya Labyrinth in Cornwall celebrates the ancient tradition of the “Cornish Hedges“

The stone layers are a cross between dry stone walls and earthworks

The Coverings Installation & Design (CID) Awards honor masterful work and superior skills in stone and ceramics

As a special marketing idea, the Tile Council of North America (TCNA) annually donates stylish doghouses to the Pet Alliance

We present the 2024 NSI Tucker Design Awards and the Bybee Prize

Submissions for the current call for entries are open until June 20, 2025, even for non-members, but at least one NSI member must have contributed to the project.

Stone Insight: Interview with Jan Knikker, architect and partner at MVRDV, about the use of stone waste for the facades of “Valley”

With “Valley,“ the architectural firm MVRDV has created a mountainous landscape in Amsterdam with three high-rise buildings, both for living and working, and as an attraction for visitors

The stonemasons of the company Davies Stone Creations were awarded a Scottish architecture prize for their “Long Barrow,“ which resembles a Stone Age megalithic tomb

Quarrying Stone Slabs with Heat

Examples are described in the scientific literature, and the process is still known e.g. in Southern India

Solid construction with natural stone: In the “Interlocking Stone House” by Play Architecture in the Indian state of Karnataka, stone slabs and pillars interlock to form walls

NSI webinar with Pierre Bidaud on “Structural Stone: An introduction to the Load Bearing Potential of Natural Dimension Stone” (April 17, 2025, free to attend)

On the “Rosa Torget” (Pink Square) in the Swedish city of Malmö there is a dance floor made of polished natural stone

The place invites citizens to meet and also wants to attract patients from the hospital next door

On show at ABC Stone in Brooklyn, NY: ideas from five leading landscape architecture firms for the use of stone in the design of terraces, in gardening, and in landscaping

Grande Pinnacle Award 2024: a massive Pinnacle about 20 stories high at Washington National Cathedral was dismantled, brought to the ground, reinforced and put in place again

Pinnacle Awards 2024 by the Natural Stone Institute (NSI): 16 projects honored showing exceptional creativity, beauty, originality, and craftsmanship in the use of natural stone

At the workshop “Building with Natural Stone Today“ (Construir en Piedra Hoy) in Spain, a shallow vault was created from simple individual stones, which could serve as a storey ceiling