Architecture news / Archive»
- Lucien Arkas Art Gallery not far from Izmir: despite natural stone not a monolith, but an open building
- Penthouse on Spain’s Costa del Sol: The stairs and a wall as “sculptural elements” to divide the space
Design news / Archive»
- Side table “Admeto” by Visionnaire: Marco Piva creates something completely new with a natural stone cladding
- The company Lundhs from Norway can be an example of how a natural stone company can successfully market its own materials with product design
Markets: Selling Stone»
- Ceramic tiles: joint video campaign by Italian and Spanish associations
- The USA continues to be the richest country in the world and its citizens hold almost one third of the world’s wealth
Reports from Stone Trade Fairs»
- Registration for digital “Marmomac Restart” from September 30 to October 02, 2020, is open
- Registration for “Marmomac Restart Digital Edition” will start on September 10, 2020
Stone Stories»
- Over 100,000 years ago, fertile loess from the Negev helped the early humans on their way from Africa to Eurasia with the “land of milk and honey” in the Levant
- The peaks of the so-called stone forests were formed by natural dissolution of the rocks in the water and related currents
Art news / Archive»
- Mosaics of marble and glass that take the emptiness out of potholes in city streets and maybe even give them a sense of purpose
- “Break for Art” by the The Dallas Museum of Art: 10 minutes for a deep and unexited look at masterpieces
Briefly noted»
- Science: Sahara dust for the Amazon region, deep-sea coral reefs endangered by climate change, minerals‘ self-healing of irradiation damage, new findings about the Muqarnas vaults at the Alhambra
- TU Delft researchers develop the “living coffin” made from mushroom mycelium to accelerate dead human bodies to become one with nature again and to enrich the soil
Briefly noted
Scientists provide an explanation for the strange asymmetry between the moon’s near and far side
The clues are linked to an important property of KREEP, a type of rock signature known on Earth only from moon-meteorites
First comprehensive map of rockfalls on the moon
Also on our cosmic neighbor boulders or blocks of stone travel downslope, but mostly as a result of impacts of asteroids
NASA observes large Saharan dust plume over Atlantic ocean
Each year, hundreds of millions of tons of sand particles are blown across the Atlantic Ocean and help build beaches in the Caribbean and fertilize soils in the Amazon
Miscellaneous: ideas with natural stone
It was an explosive release of gas, mostly methane, from the permafrost that formed a 20 m wide and 20 m deep crater in northern Russia, researchers from Skoltech have found
Eclipse data illuminate mysteries of Sun’s corona
Scientists at the University of Hawaii Institute for Astronomy analyze our star’s outermost atmosphere to quantify the structure of its magnetic field and its 11-year cycles
The renovation of the Arkadenhof of the Vienna City Hall was awarded one of the Austrian stonemasons’ monument prizes
The play of colours of the natural stones on the facades was made visible again and a variety of ornaments and figures were renovated
Tropical thunderstorm again causes damage to the Taj Mahal
A part of the marble railing on the roof and 2 sandstone minarets were torn away by winds with over 120 kilometers per hour
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
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