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Natural Stone Institute: Virtual Stone Summit about “How Safe Is Your Business? Creating a Plan to Help Your Company Succeed“
The new education format will be held online on July 29 and 30, 2020 from 11:00 AM to 12:30 PM (ET)
Archive: all the stone news
Dellostudio: dancing vases for dried plants
The designers Oscar Piccolo and Charlotte Taylor have created decorative everyday objects for the Italian company Mondo Marmo Design
New high resolution images by ESA/NASA’s solar orbiter show “campfires” all over the sun
They may be the little “nephews” of solar flares helping to heat up the Corona to 1 million degrees
The interior design in the Kiki Noodle Bar in Shanghai suggests a wide landscape with rocks and forest
The planners of Golucci Interior Architects want to offer guests a place to escape from the hustle and bustle of the big city for the time of a bowl of pasta
The height of mountains is controlled rather by tectonic force than by erosion und weathering
Scientists used information derived from heat flow measurements in the subsurface or the frictional energy at the interfaces of the continental plates
“Spirit” by Schullin Company is a lunar crescent made of onyx which carries a secret message
The Austrian jewellery manufacturer has taken up the sentence “Protect me from what I want” by the artist Jenny Holz
Natural Stone Institute Announces 2020 Tucker Design Award Winners
Honored in the biennial competition are members of the architecture and design community who exhibit innovation and excellence in the use of natural stone / Bybee Prize
Germany’s largest ever stony meteorite identified in Blaubeuren in the South of the country
A stonemason from Swabia with his diamond saw was needed to cut the celestial body
Miscellaneous: ideas with natural stone
US-company Grasshopper Geography edits maps in color and produces great murals, like our picture showing the big rivers of Brazil
Enhanced weathering of milled rocks could indeed remove CO2 from the atmosphere – but there are limits to the feasibility
Research shows that the procedure could only be a small contribution and would require strong pricing of greenhouse gas emissions
“Stone House” on the island of Menorca: façade with a charming contrast of external plaster and limestone
The architects of Nomo Studio wanted to integrate the building into the landscape but at the same time show that it is new
Finally: GaLaBau in Nuremberg only again in 2022, September 14 to 17
In 2020 there will also be no alternative format with virtual parts / Only the Landscape Gardeners Cup will be held on September 17 and 18
Groundbreaking ideas for architecture with natural stone: exhibition „The New Stone Age” in London re-opened until August 28, 2020
Shown are concepts from all over Europe that show the versatility and modernity of the “‘great forgotten material of our time”
At the stone fair in Vitoria the exhibition “Brazilian Stones Original Design” was shown once again
The aim of the presentation of artistic objects was to demonstrate the beauty and diversity of the country’s stones and to find new uses for the material