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»

• The company Lundhs from Norway can be an example of how a natural stone company can successfully market its own materials with product design
• A reception counter like a massive stone block that can be extended to form a long table

Markets: Selling Stone»

• The USA continues to be the richest country in the world and its citizens hold almost one third of the world’s wealth
• Peter’s Corner: Italy’s natural stone exports declined by (-)5.3% in 2019 after value for the 4th year in succession and that is also the repercussion of persistent marketing failures

Reports from Stone Trade Fairs»

• Registration for “Marmomac Restart Digital Edition” will start on September 10, 2020
• September topic of the Cloud Xiamen Stone Fair’s Product Focus: “Quarry Planet, Journey around the NEW Quarries”

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