Architecture news / Archive»
- Building quickly and cost-effectively: edifices made entirely of small blocks of natural stone are popular in France
- Lucien Arkas Art Gallery not far from Izmir: despite natural stone not a monolith, but an open building
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»
- Paul Cocksedge’s “Slump“ tables at the Carpenters Workshop Gallery in London until December 18, 2020
- Mosaics of marble and glass that take the emptiness out of potholes in city streets and maybe even give them a sense of purpose
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
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
Micellaneous: ideas with natural stone
Ring Grips with super-thin stone “so you don’t drop your phone” is how Mikol Marmi describes its newest product
U.S. Geological Survey releases first-ever comprehensive geologic map of the moon
Researchers merged new and old data from Apollo and recent satellite missions to develop a unified description of the stratigraphy, or rock layers, of our nearest neighbor in space
Redefine the existing cemeteries or alternative sites of burial as „spaces for mourning”
Scientific studies in Germany have shown the importance of saying goodbye and the role of individual rituals in this context
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