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At the Emotheo Heritage Hotel in the small Croatian town of Imotski, the new building with its limestone façade blends in perfectly with the old house next door

The design came from Studio Ante Murales, based in Zagreb

In the context of climate protection, old solid (massive) construction with ornamental stone is being rediscovered from a modern perspective

It will establish itself alongside the currently common cladding with panels for facades or tiles for floors and walls, not replace it

How do you incorporate a café serving food and drink in a nearly 1,000-year-old cathedral?

The architects at Feilden Fowles gave the new building a bit of an open-and-close drawer feel to the historic setting

In the Swiss canton of Uri historically and ecologically significant stone walls have been restored

Most of them are type dry stone, where the stones are merely stacked one on top of the other

Italian Antolini company: “exclusive natural stones transform an ordinary bedroom into a unique and exclusive environment”

The company has a long tradition in marketing its stones by showing them in application

10th All India Stone Architecture Awards (2): in the Commendations there were exceptional ideas for the use of natural stone or the conversion of former quarries as well

10th All India Stone Architecture Awards (1): Natural stone as a sustainable and decorative building material was a central theme in many award-winning projects

The winners are presented biannually at the India Stonemart trade fair in Jaipur

The archived issues of the Building Stone Magazine are available for download from the Natural Stone Intitute‘s webpage

Swiss award for pedestrian traffic “Flâneur d’Or“: ideas that make pedestrians’ journeys pleasant, easy, and even beautiful

The Association for Pedestrian Traffic awards prizes to projects that focus on getting around without a car

The corporate architecture on the new buildings of the IESE Business School in Madrid picks up on classic construction forms such as the round bridge and vaults, while at the same time emphasizing the school’s orientation towards the future

Peter’s Corner: at Marmomac, the newfound old solid (massive) construction was on display, namely with native stone as the load-bearing material

Prototypes were presented within the framework of “Marmomac Meets Academies“

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