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
Stone Stories
Scientists find why eternal Nile has kept its path since humans remember
It is the Earth’s mantle movement that keeps the river on course / The river is 6 times older than previously thought
The fall of the Berlin Wall 30 years ago: mere concrete and thus of limited durability
In the closing months of 1989 just about all the citizens of the GDR gathered to march in protest and brought down the socialist regime
Tremendous fire at the Shuri Castle in Japan
The World Heritage site going back to the Ryuku kingdom has walls with stones composed in the Incan style known from ancient Latin America
In the past, pyrite (fool’s gold) may have triggered the increase in carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and climate change
Marum-scientist: During ice ages with lower sea-levels, the mineral was exposed to oxygen from the air which caused chemical weathering and CO2 release
Group behavior occurred already among the first animals as it helped them to survive environmental stress
An international team of researchers analyzed fossils of trilobites which lived about 480 million years ago
Early warning signals heralded fatal collapse of Krakatau volcano on December 22, 2018
GFZ Potsdam researchers reconstruct the flank collapse event that triggered a tsunami which killed 430 people
Menhirs and a burial cairn site excavated at the Massif Central in France
A long time ago, the stones had been knocked down maybe to make them invisible in the landscape
Capital of Islamic Culture 2019: Al-Quds (Jerusalem), Tunis, Badar Seri Begawan and Bissau
Islamic Conference of Culture Ministers is bestowing the title for the Arab Region, Asia and Africa
Castleton Tower: Utah’s red rock metronome
Seismic readings by University of Utah scientists reveal Castleton Tower’s unseen vibrations
Painted pebbles: taking a stone home, painting it and then leaving it again for others as a friendly greeting
„Rocking“ is a new attitude on its way across the world
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