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Cobblestone plastering with level surfaces is becoming ever more popular

Cobblestone plastering with level surfaces is becoming ever more popular

Urban design in natural stone is adopting a modern look in keeping with today’s comfort requirements

Best of 2016: Architecture with natural stone

Best of 2016: Architecture with natural stone

The editors of Stone-Ideas.com have compiled articles and reports with the most clicks in 2016

MIA+BSI Pinnacle Awards: projects with stone that stand above the rest

MIA+BSI Pinnacle Awards: projects with stone that stand above the rest

Grande Pinnacle Award for The Minnesota State Capitol exterior stone restoration which may be the largest and most complex restoration project the US has ever seen

Hydraulically driven shutters with a natural stone cladding

Hydraulically driven shutters with a natural stone cladding

Backraum Studio came up with a unique idea for a private dwelling on the banks of Austria’s Attersee

Prototype for a natural stone dome using state of the art technology

Prototype for a natural stone dome using state of the art technology

Scientists working with Giuseppe Fallacara in the „New Fundamentals Research Group“ tie in traditional building with modern building machinery

Spanish Macael-Marble-Prize awarded for the 30th time

Spanish Macael-Marble-Prize awarded for the 30th time

The Spanish Award aims to expound quality of the material and productivity of the branch in Andalusia

Natural stone: no spectacle in its own right, but rather subservient to the over-all impression which a building project should convey

Natural stone: no spectacle in its own right, but rather subservient to the over-all impression which a building project should convey

The Austrian „Pilgram – Award for Architecture with natural stone“ was bestowed once again this year

New community center in the Czech city of Liberec in basic black slate

New community center in the Czech city of Liberec in basic black slate

The building is meant to set an accent in a neglected district and generate impetus

30 years Musée d’Orsay: a limestone façade with all the Parisian splendor of the penultimate turn of the century

30 years Musée d’Orsay: a limestone façade with all the Parisian splendor of the penultimate turn of the century

A train station of the year 1900, the building once showed inside the newest techniques like ramps and lifts for luggage

Luxury „Roomers“ design hotel chooses natural stone for the bathroom

Luxury „Roomers“ design hotel chooses natural stone for the bathroom

The interior design for the new 5-star auberge in Baden-Baden spa, Germany came from Piero Lissoni

Refurbishment of Milan’s Excelsior Gallia Hotel: pure luxury with marble spanning 8,000 m²

Refurbishment of Milan’s Excelsior Gallia Hotel: pure luxury with marble spanning 8,000 m²

Marco Piva undertook a total makeover of the hotel „in modern design without giving up the timeless elegance and character of the 1930s Art Deco style“

Modern construction in natural stone: an elegant saddle-shaped roofed entrance

Modern construction in natural stone: an elegant saddle-shaped roofed entrance

Bari Politecnico’s Giuseppe Fallacara used tensioned steel bars to fasten the hovering hypar structure

The Armadillo Vault at this year’s Venice Biennale: hovering stone puzzle comprising 399 elements and a mass of 24 t

The Armadillo Vault at this year’s Venice Biennale: hovering stone puzzle comprising 399 elements and a mass of 24 t

The vault is self-supporting weighed down by its own mass constructed using ancient building methods / calculation and realization according to state-of-the-art methods

Landed: Sweden’s flying carpet settles down on a bed of slate

Landed: Sweden’s flying carpet settles down on a bed of slate

In Sweden’s port-city Helsingborg, the central train station has a new south entrance worth a visit

Travertine and marble on the façade of Gallipoli’s Vinero Wine manufacture at the Sea of Marmara

Travertine and marble on the façade of Gallipoli’s Vinero Wine manufacture at the Sea of Marmara

Architects of Tekeli Sisa want to show off the standard of Turkey’s industrial production exemplified by their buildings