Architecture news / Archive»
- Call for the creation of a dry stone landscape work in the territory of the Gorges du Gardon Biosphere Reserve in Southern France
- Designer Raffaello Galiotto and the Margraf company give a marble facade the appearance of a curtain
Design news / Archive»
- Pure Talents Contest at imm Cologne 2021: chances for young talents working in the field of furniture to show their ideas to the world
- New from Promemoria: lamps by designer Romeo Sozzi from 2013
Markets: Selling Stone»
- Covid-19: SapienStone sees changes in living and praises its porcelain stoneware (with natural stone appearance) for it
- Peter’s Corner: the new start after Covid-19, which Marmomac wants to give companies with its “Re-Start” Project, could be more than just back to business as usual
Reports from Stone Trade Fairs»
- New dates announced for next Stone+tec in Nuremberg, Germany: 2021, May 12 – 15
- Next Cersaie will take place in 2021 from September 27 to October 01
Stone Stories»
- After the assassination of Caesar, a volcanic eruption in Alaska caused a worldwide weather anomaly which contributed to the end of the Roman Republic
- Archaeologists discover a massive circle of prehistoric shafts near Stonehenge
Art news / Archive»
- Prince Claus Fund and Goethe-Institut: call for art-projects which lead to sustainability and better societies
- The Atlantic magazine interviewed 3 artists in the USA about the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on their work: “That is what we train for,” says one
Briefly noted»
Briefly noted
The recently discovered impact crater in Greenland under the Hiawatha glacier was created less than 3 million years ago and thus is the youngest such structure on Earth
An international team of scientists could roughly date the impact by analyzing organic matter like cellular structures of the charred wood recovered in outwash from the ice
Miscellaneous: ideas with natural stone
“Artemis Déjà vu” is the name the Chinese company Xiamen Black White Stone has given its collection of consumer items made of or with natural stone
Austria’s stonemasons award their prize for modern gravestones with “individual and personal design”
The craftsmen want to get away from being only dealers and installers for stone products prefabricated in Asia
A tool for Covid-19 times: “Isola” can help to control access and sanitize people and objects that pass through it
Italian Faram 1957 company comes out with a box to facilitate business life / After the crisis, it may be transformed into a telephone booth
Miscellaneous: ideas with natural stone
The Big Stone River in Taganai Park in the southern Urals in Russia is a long field of large boulders that runs through the dense forest
Does the subduction of tectonic plates accelerate before major earthquakes?
Before the event followed by the Fukushima tsunami, the direction of the Earth crust’s movement had even been reversed for a short time
International Congress “Monument Future – Decay and Conservation of Stone” in September 2020 at the University of Göttingen in Germany
Experts from all over the world will discuss the current state of research and practical examples from damage analysis and stone restoration
