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“Global Wealth Migration Review“: New Zealand could become a preferred destination for the rich and super-rich in the next 10 years
As a result of Corona, market researchers from South Africa and Afrasia Bank expect less international tourism and fewer foreign guests in luxury hotels
Science news: a Middle East neolithic tsunami, solar panels and desert soils, volcanoes in Australia, a “crazy beast“ from Gondwana
Recent discoveries about our planet, its rocks, and other “stone” topics
Using the natural oscillation of the 2592-meter-high Hochvogel peak in Austria to “hear“ how the rock becomes unstable
Similar to a more or less taut violin string, the pitch of the mountain also changes depending on the tension in the rock
Showroom for watches with echoes of the film worlds of Stanley Kubrick
The studio for interior design atelier tao+c designed a store for the young brand “Momic” in the megacity Hangzhou in China
Olivia Louvel: total abstraction of image, sound, and stone
The French-British artist uses the software AudioSculpt to transform acoustic quotations by sculptor Barbara Hepworth
Boxbay provides enormous acceleration for stacking and handling containers in the port
The joint venture of the German SMS group and DP World from Dubai has a high-bay warehouse at its core, with direct access to each individual transport box
The Gendarmenmarkt square in the heart of Berlin is to be renovated
The EU-wide tender is open until January 21, 2021 / The listed natural stone paving shall be renewed
The Swedish Stone Association (Sveriges Stenindustriförbund) holds a competition in product design with students from Malmö University
The aim is to discover new markets and to “show that really everything can be made of stone,” says the chairman of the organization
The new PetroPhysical Property Database (P3) is a register that provides information about the properties of rock strata
The new tool may help locate the right sites for hydrogen storage or thermal water deposits, for example
The Bauhüttenwesen, which is the ancient craftspeople’s tradition of cooperation and know-how sharing in construction projects, is added to the Unesco List of Intangible Cultural Heritage
Still today, e.g., stonemasons working on the maintenance of cathedrals built supra-regional networks to preserve, transmit and develop techniques and knowledge
China’s robotic spacecraft Chang’e 5 returned from the moon with 2 kg of lunar dust and soil
The basaltic lunar mare material is about 1,21 billion years old, much younger than the probes from the Apollo missions with between 3.1 and 4.4 billion years
Proceedings of the congress “Monument Future – Decay and Conservation of Stone”: when the outside world harms the stone’s inner life and destroys its durability
The more than 200 lectures in short version reflect the current state of research on the preservation of important testimonies from ancient cultures worldwide