Architecture news / Archive»
- Vivienda CM in Buenos Aires: travertine for the exterior walls and roof of a residential building
- The lobby of Arizona State University’s Washington Center is adorned with desert sandstone worked with CNC-cuts and sandblasting
Design news / Archive»
- Salvatori shows its novelties 2020 only in the media – even without the furniture fair in Milan and Design Week
- “Fractile” from ceramic-company Casalgrande Padana and architect Daniel Libeskind: playing with geometry and glazed surfaces
Markets: Selling Stone»
- Italian Biesse Group has published the 3. edition of its Sustainability Report
- In the BioProMarL project, researchers hope to give the stone surfaces new properties, modelled on the lotus effect
Reports from Stone Trade Fairs»
- Middle East Stone and The Big 5 in Dubai postponed to next year (2021) September 12 – 15
- Message from Xiamen Stone Fair as the Covid-19 virus is spreading in some regions in the Americas, Africa, and India: “We care much about you”
Stone Stories»
Art news / Archive»
- Application open until October 01, 2020: 10 to 15 grants for artists from or living in the Arab world, and/or engaged with the Arab world
- For young emerging Tunesian artists: the Rambourg Foundation Prize for Contemporary Art (submissions postponed to July 15, 2020)
Briefly noted»
Architecture news / Archive
The lobby of Arizona State University’s Washington Center is adorned with desert sandstone worked with CNC-cuts and sandblasting
The cladding of 2 walls emulates the spectacular slot canyons of the US State
Capitals of Islamic Culture 2020: Cairo, Bukhara (Uzbekistan) and Bamako (Mali)
The Islamic Conference of Culture Ministers has again awarded the title for the regions of Arabia, Asia and Africa
A „Lithic Fabric” in ivy keeps heat out but lets light in
Professor Giuseppe Fallacara from the Polytechnic University of Bari uses natural stone for an innovative façade cladding
Corporate Architecture with natural stone for the winery Maison Delas Frères
The architects of the office Carl Fredrik Svenstedt have placed a striking building facade like a theatre curtain in a small Rhône town
The Ambedkar Memorial Park in Uttar Pradesh, India, is a stone desert and an example of how the wrong use of natural stone can have an impact
In the summer months, the plant is an incandescent furnace, among other things because there is too much dark sandstone and greyish granite, which heat up in the sun / Counter example Taj Mahal
Miscellaneous: ideas with natural stone
The 2020 Pritzker Prize goes to Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara who founded Grafton Architects in Dublin
Natural stone walls connect the interior of a new building with the surroundings in a village not far from Prague
Architect Martin Čeněk wanted to integrate the building on the slope inconspicuously into the landscape and optimize it energetically
France’s Natural Stone Award „Building with natural stone in the 21st century” again showed numerous innovative ideas
There is no prize money to be won, which probably is why the number of entries is low (but the quality high), this time 22
Professor Giuseppe Fallacara designs and builds an acoustic shell made of hexagonal natural stone elements
„Stereotomy” is the name given to the age-old direction of architecture, which uses the weight of the stone for construction
