Stone detail: 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 detail: 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 Detail: “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 detail: 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”