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The Thai company Stone & Roses received one of the Natural Stone Institute’s Pinnacle Awards for its new “Texture D“
The exclusive Tenko Omakase restaurant in Bangkok’s Pullman Hotel has it as fassade cladding
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Africa Wealth Report 2021 – the wealthiest countries and cities in Africa
The study by AfrAsia Bank and New World Wealth market researchers examines the continent for trends by the rich, in luxury and management of assets
The 2020 figures for Italy’s exports of natural stone are dire (-17,3 %) and continue the trend of recent years
Decline also in exports of technology, but this is solely due to the Covid 19 pandemic
Natural stone art for the Covid-19 pandemic: Salvatori has internationally renowned designers and architects create miniature homes for a global village
Creatives are asked to represent what “home“ means to them / This time: Patricia Urquiola and Yabu Pushelberg
“By the Way“ by Ann Lane features more than 1000 works of art along the roads and in the villages of Ireland
They are big and small, those that tell a funny story or those that also tell of great misfortune
Latest news: Marble fair in Izmir 2021 is to be held from August 25 to 28, as usual at the exhibition center of Gaziemir
The organizer announces a broad program and has used the time with Covid-19 to clean up the homepage and make it user-friendly
Science news: Energy unleashed by submarine volcanoes, Red Sea no longer a baby ocean, deep earthquake mystery solved, ‘super-highways’ travelled by first Australians
Recent discoveries about our planet, its rocks, and other “stone” topics
Miscellaneous: ideas around natural stone
The Empire State Building has turned 90 years old. Perhaps still the most spectacular of New York City’s many icons it was opened on May 1, 1931
For the conversion of the Manhattan Center in Brussels, the traces of the plans for a car-friendly city had to be removed from the high-rise building
jaspers-eyers Architects redesigned the 100 m high building in contemporary style
Stone Insight: the travertine handrails in the renovated Manhattan Center in Brussels
Special requirements arose because the staircase is an important escape route / Haptic pleasure of stone
Art installation on Stanford University’s Science and Engineering Quad: like a playground for thoughts with 12 oversized marbles made of colored stones
Artist Alicja Kwade created the spheres for the campus between the School of Engineering’s buildings
China’s natural stone exports grew by +14.7% to US$6.53 billion in 2020 despite the Covid-19 pandemic
The most important buyers came from Asia / The country has overcome the Trump shock / Probably due to the container chaos: -8% in shipments to Europe