Architecture news / Archive»
- Call for architects to develop ideas about “Living Upon the Play”
- Swedish textile patterns as mosaic pavement on the Hagatorget in Karlstad
Design news / Archive»
- Cattelan Italia: glass with the appearance of onyx or marble for table tops or furniture
- Call for ideas for luxury products using glass and glass fiber together with tiny artificial diamonds
Markets: Selling Stone»
- Consumption by US citizens fell significantly in the second quarter of 2020
- China’s foreign trade seems to be recovering from the Covid 19 pandemic
Reports from Stone Trade Fairs»
- Initiators from Italy are planning a new fair called “Stone America” co-located with the KBIS in Orlando and simultaneously from February 09 to 11, 2021
- Xiamen Stone Fair postponed to 2021
Stone Stories»
- Plato’s cubes, California coast’s surface sinking, the Faroe Bank Channel Overflow in the deep North Atlantic, and the last ice age
- New construction of the Albula Tunnel in the Swiss Alps: at 1192 m driving, the rock is like a “paste and floating” for 21 m
Art news / Archive»
- James Brunt: Land-Art with wonderful geometries from small elements of nature such as leaves, sticks and stones
- Exhibition „En Passant“ about the influence of impressionism on the art of sculpting
Briefly noted»
Architecture news / Archive
Two Union Square high-rise in Seattle: the stone wall shows the elemental forces of nature
The architects of NBBJ have decorated the lobby with a fantastic work of art / Picco Engineering provided the planning for the cutting and installation of the elements
The toilet cottage at Skjervet waterfall in Norway – one of the places to visit, even without inner urge
The architects of Fortunen Arkitektur AS have placed a building like a sculpture with a great view on the riverbank
Vivienda CM in Buenos Aires: travertine for the exterior walls and roof of a residential building
The architects of Además Arquitectura played with classical geometric bodies and put them together in a modern arrangement
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
