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Best of 2020: Architecture with natural stone
The editors of Stone-Ideas.com have compiled the 5 articles and reports with the most clicks during the last year
Architecture news (Archive)
News from solid construction with natural stone: not erecting thick walls, but “using the precious resource with moderation and purpose“
Studiolada architects use only thin natural stone ashlar and a timber framework for a health care building in eastern France
The limestone floor tiles bring the Mediterranean lifestyle to a terrace
The Spanish company Rosalstones offers its limestone Abadía Rosal with a hand-aged surface
Showroom for watches with echoes of the film worlds of Stanley Kubrick
The studio for interior design atelier tao+c designed a store for the young brand “Momic” in the megacity Hangzhou in China
Kitchen in a residential house in Australia: the cooking area can be separated with a movable wall door
Arclinea’s Italian designers divide the kitchen into separable areas that remain recognizably coherent
Berlin’s Humboldt Forum in the new palace in the city center is completed and can be visited virtually until its final opening
During the past years, the new building was probably the largest natural stone construction site in Europe with 9000 m³ of sandstone and limestone from Germany and Poland
“Piscina Monolitica”: a bath fountain in steep terrain in Niederuzwil in Switzerland
The company Alfredo Polti made the massive object from a piece of rock of Calanca gneiss
Italian Studio Marco Priva has designed the Huzhou Club Center in the ancient Chinese province of Zhejiang
The concept is inspired by the place, its tradition, and also its nature namely the sinuous shape of the Gingko tree leaves
In the new building “110 Rooms”, situated in the old Eixample district of Barcelona, the architects have implemented the pioneering ideas of 19th century planning in a modern way
The team of Estudio Maio Architects designed apartments with variable number of rooms and an entrance hall with large natural stone bodies
Kitchen with brushed larvikite from the Lundhs Real Stone collection
Shades of black surround the cooking area in the extremely open room, the stone with its mysterious mica softens the dark tone
Floors and stairs in a retirement home in Switzerland with Pietra Piasentina from natural stone company Bärlocher AG
The surfaces of the stone slabs are blasted and brushed in the inerior rooms and only blasted outside to ensure optimal slip resistance for the residents
In the Fürst & Friedrich office and commercial building in Düsseldorf in Germany, the new building embraces the old one
The property has thus been given a “unique selling proposition”, with a façade designed with many details in natural stone
Pool on the terrace with limestone slabs and view of the limestone Alps on the horizon
In the small village Steinhaus not far from Wels in Austria a young family fulfilled their dream of owning their own home
More than 120,000 m² of Jura limestone were used for the flooring in the new international airport Berlin-Brandenburg
The architecture of Gerkan, Marg and Partner is not spectacular but functional and conveys a little homeliness