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The Natural Stone Institute’s 2021 Stone Industry Education Returns to In-Person Events

The mega project Berlin Palace was a special opportunity and challenge for the German natural stone sector

It offered the opportunity not only to present the material exclusively, but also the possibilities of modern machines from 3D scanners to CNC wire saws

In the course of the current trend to upgrade homes, there are also many opportunities for natural stone in the outdoor sector

Fields of action are kitchen, barbecue, patio and porch or mashrabiyas for natural temperature regulation

Spanish Rosal Stones had a life cycle assessment drawn up for its Albamiel limestone and thus landed a hefty order in Paris, 1000 km away

The example shows that investments in product data are worthwhile and that natural stone does not lose its sustainability even when transported over medium distances

Villa in Tuscany: for each of the 6 bathrooms a different stone with a different finish

The architects who carried out the natural stonework are from Studio Zeno Pucci, Laperla Marmi

Stone Insight: Sliding walls let the coolness into the house in the morning and seal it off from the heat in the afternoon

DK House by Rab architects: a monolith with travertine cladding as a “critical tribute“ to traditional building methods in Lebanon

At the listed site of Deir el Qamar, the planners have placed a modern building with distant views and openness to the landscape

OON-Architecture: “Marble House“ with futuristic design language on the edge of a golf course in Buenos Aires

The planners use slopes and angles to make the simple volumes appear to hover

Mies van der Rohe’s idea of a “universal space“ almost in its pure form: in Berlin, the Neue Nationalgalerie has been thoroughly renovated and inconspicuously modernized

The building from the 1960s uses glass and steel as well as a lot of natural stone

Stone Insight: The Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin shows the Mies’ Corner in many variations

The Thai company Stone & Roses received one of the Natural Stone Institute’s Pinnacle Awards for its new “Texture D“

The exclusive Tenko Omakase restaurant in Bangkok’s Pullman Hotel has it as fassade cladding

Stone Insight: “Texture D“, a new stone surface expressing the ambivalent character of the material and playing with the light like a sculpture

For the conversion of the Manhattan Center in Brussels, the traces of the plans for a car-friendly city had to be removed from the high-rise building

jaspers-eyers Architects redesigned the 100 m high building in contemporary style

Stone Insight: the travertine handrails in the renovated Manhattan Center in Brussels

Special requirements arose because the staircase is an important escape route / Haptic pleasure of stone

Natural Stone Institute Introduces New CEU Course entitled “Natural Stone Principles”