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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

As part of the current renovation, Berlin’s Museum Island is gaining several highlights, such as the “Fourth Wing“ and the “Archaeological Promenade. “ The colonnades at the Alte Nationalgalerie will also be a visitor attraction

Black Brazilian quartzite Infinity Brown for a unique Sauna in St. Moritz

The project is designed to bring the guests into a new dimension of luxury and sensory experience

Germany is planning a learning center for stonemasons that will demonstrate solid construction with natural stone in practice

There is now a design for the “Campus Stone Center Wunsiedel” made by students from the Technical University (TU) Dortmund

International symposium “New Construction with Stones” in May 2025 in Portugal

Especially women playing important roles in companies or in science appear in a panel discussion and as speakers

The Natural Stone Awards 2024 of the British Stone Federation have been distributed

Prizes were given for outstanding uses of natural stone in architecture around the world

An online exhibition on the third anniversary of the Russian war against Ukraine makes the systematic destruction of built heritage by Putin’s army visible

The return of the well-known rubble stones in the form of modern stone bricks

With the increased attention to the ecological footprint, natural stone is also gaining new friends in walls and supports of all kinds

Flooring Sustainability Summit Returns to Washington, D.C. with Natural Stone Institute as one of the Hosts

The program‘s focus is on sustainability in the flooring industry

“Da Vinci’s Bridge“ by Professor Giuseppe Fallacara, Politecnico di Bari: 3D-printed stone powder pedestrian bridge

The inspiration was the idea for a self-supporting structure over the Golden Horn near present-day Istanbul

Swedish Natural Stone Prize 2024: Crust slabs from the quarry for a façade in Stockholm

The cladding on the ground floor contrasts with the colorfully plastered floors above

Sustainability was the big topic in the lectures at the BAU trade fair in Munich, but natural stone was hardly mentioned

The trends of the future are building materials with a low carbon footprint, building with modules and continuing to build

Restored: “Madre Terra,“ a section of the magnificent inlaid floor of the Baptistery in the Florence Cathedral

The spectacular “stone carpet” depicts fantastic animals in white and green marble