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Visitor center for the city of Dunhuang in northern China, amidst deserts and sky-high dunes

With stone cladding for the roofs of the buildings, the team at ZXD Architects reflects the surrounding landscape

PORTLAND FANCY BEACH WHITBED, a variety of the famous limestone from England, quarried by Albion Stone

Meeting at Marmomac 2025: the new Natural Stone Strategic Alliance (NSSA) will create a platform for comparable EPDs as its first official project

Brazil introduced the software with which it aims to conquer an innovative and promising market

Looking back on summer 2025: Vienna’s COOLing Guide presents a range of best-practice strategies for tackling urban heat islands

Its core themes are water, cool surfaces, and shade, with natural stone playing a central role across many examples

The exhibition “Quarries: Muse and Material“ in Monson, Maine, through November 02, 2025, is also a good opportunity to walk the Sculpture Trail of Maine before winter

Stone+tec 2026 (June 17 – 20) in Nuremberg is continuing to grow and will include new areas

Main themes will be “Building with natural stone,“ “Equipment for professionals“, and “Place of remembrance“

BRECCIA MEDICEA, a unique natural stone formed during 200 million years of sedimentation, with color tones ranging from pink and violet to deep red and walnut, from the Apuan Alps in Tuscany

Bathroom vanities: new US tariffs against the global furniture industry complete Trump’s economic madness

The new rules now also apply to natural quartzites from Brazil, but only if they have been cut to size there

Marmomac 2025: at the Museo Lapidario Maffeiano, right on Piazza Bra, Raffaello Galiotto presents the exhibition “Axis Mundi” with forms inspired by nature and created using CNC machines

Lecture at Marmomac (Wednesday, September 24, 12.15 pm, Hall 10): How a massive pinnacle in lofty heights at Washington National Cathedral was repaired after the 2011 earthquake

In the STONE FINDER and at Marmomac 2025

We have compiled entries from our worldwide database that are on show at company booths at the stone fair in Verona

We have compiled a list of “Green Pluses for Natural Stone” and made it available online for free download and use by all members of the industry

GALA MS white marble, a fine-grained stone with grey and brownish veins, quarried by Marble Sachanas company in Northern Greece

“Visions for Europe” is the motto of the 2nd International Sculpture Symposium in Walhorn in eastern Belgium, not far from the German border, from September 22 to October 4, 2025

Solid construction with natural stone: For (private) buildings with a long lifespan, facade protection, cleaning, and maintenance will become an important issue

Interview with the siblings Alessandra Pettenon (Presidente Esecutivo) and Francesco Pettenon (CEO) at Fila Surface Solutions, Italy