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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
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
Sensation in Dresden: a skull in white marble has been attributed to the famous Italian sculptor Gian Lorenzo Bernini
Friedrich August I of Saxony, better known as Augustus the Strong, had purchased the masterpiece in 1728, but later it got forgotten
Mies van der Rohe’s idea of a “universal space“ almost in its pure form: in Berlin, the Neue Nationalgalerie has been thoroughly renovated and inconspicuously modernized
The building from the 1960s uses glass and steel as well as a lot of natural stone
NSI Takes Ownership of Natural Stone Sustainability Standard
Ownership of the ANSI/NSC 373 rules für stone production has officially transferred from the Natural Stone Council to the Natural Stone Institute
Product design with natural stone (1): what is actually meant by this and how can objects for everyday use be created from marble, granite & Co?
“Form Follows Function“ is the guideline, in the case of a competition supplemented by intelligent project management on the part of the curators and clients
Tate Modern’s „EY Exhibition: The Making of Rodin“ gives a unique insight into the artist‘s ways of thinking and making
Auguste Rodin, who personally only worked as a modeller with materials such as clay, broke the rules of classical sculpture to create a dramatically different image of the human body
As Notre Dame is being rebuilt, replacement stones that may be suitable are now going through laboratory testing
One of the challenges is finding new quarries or bringing decommissioned ones back into service to provide the large quantities needed
In 2022, Xiamen Stone Fair will return to March and is scheduled from 16 – 19 of the month
The post-show report of the 2021 event summarizes the new features held at the first hybrid stone fair
From a stone that was discovered in Utah only in 1995 (Honeycomb Calcite) and an artist (Jonna Ramey), who masters the challenge of the very special material
The structures and the colors in the stone make some representation impossible