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Stone Insight: Sliding walls let the coolness into the house in the morning and seal it off from the heat in the afternoon

DK House by Rab architects: a monolith with travertine cladding as a “critical tribute“ to traditional building methods in Lebanon

At the listed site of Deir el Qamar, the planners have placed a modern building with distant views and openness to the landscape

Science news: meteorite flux to our planet, is Earth’s core lopsided?, Chamoli disaster could happen again, dinosaur giant Australotitan

Recent discoveries about our planet, its rocks, and other “stone” topics

Stoneupdate has published the data of the United States stone imports and exports in April 2021

Budri and Belgian designer Maarten De Ceulaer: “Pantheon“ collection of 4 tables inspired by the flooring in the ancient basilica in Rome

The way the inlays are inserted into the tabletops is an homage to the mastery of Italian marble craftsmen

“Tactile experience as a very important aesthetic dimension in sculpture“

In the exhibition “This Living Hand“ in the Henry Moore Studios & Gardens curated by Edmund de Waal, visitors are invited to touch the works in stone and bronze

Portugal’s stone exports also declined by double digits in 2020, but there was a significant improvement in yields per ton (+5.47%)

Of particular interest is that there were significant increases in shipments of processed products to both China and Italy

At one spot in the Charyn Canyon, Kazakhstan, five million years of climate change are preserved

An 80-meter-thick sedimentary helps scientists to understand the feedback mechanisms between land, atmosphere and ocean

Pierre De Valck: Cabinets and more with lapis lazuli, jasper as well as petrified wood as special accents

The Belgian designer combines the ancient gemstones with the modern material aluminum

On show in London’s Natural History Museum: a fragment of the Winchcombe meteorite, a new mineral discovered in the collections, and several temporary offers about the wonders of our planet Earth

Natural Stone Institute Completes 36th Home with Gary Sinise Foundation

OON-Architecture: “Marble House“ with futuristic design language on the edge of a golf course in Buenos Aires

The planners use slopes and angles to make the simple volumes appear to hover

Apuo Versilia Produce (#123): art with stone is the main topic (in Italian language)

Table lamp “Leina“ by designer Matteo Nunziati and Italian company Tato

Miscellaneous: ideas around natural stone

Darwin’s Arch, a famous natural rock structure in the Galápagos Archipelago in the Pacific Ocean, has collapsed due to natural erosion