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Natural Stone Institute (NSI) Announces Winners of 2019 Pinnacle Awards
Twenty-two projects honored with prizes for Excellence / Grande Pinnacle Award bestowed to Pei Cobb Freed & Partners for 7 Bryant Park
Archive: all the stone news
Lapicida: new collection with „vibrant mural-styled ceramics and dramatic marble-effect porcelains“
The British company famous for natural stone products extends its portfolio in stone emulations / Novelty „Rex Brown“ porcelain
Draenert and designer Alexia Mintsouli present groundbreaking innovations for design with natural stone
For the dining table „Kallisto”, a slab with a striking structure is cut and reassembled
Best of 2019: Architecture with natural stone
The editors of Stone-Ideas.com have compiled the 5 articles and reports with the most clicks in 2019
France’s natural stone fair Rocalia 2019: Quetzalcoatl as drystone wall
In its 2nd edition, the biennial event in Lyon offered a rich program of creative ideas and registered 13% more visitors
About climate change and how it influences the outflow of „green” versus „blue” water from the mountains
Researchers at ETH Zurich explain the phenomenon that in dry periods vegetation at high altitude grows better than normal / Far-reaching consequences
Miscellaneous: ideas with natural stone
Usenaturalstone.org is one of the Natural Stone Institute’s (NSI) initiatives to strengthen the stone sector worldwide
Shinto collection by Italian Jumbo Group: precious marble Damasco brown and brass casting profiles
The line meant for executive and presidential offices is characterized by dark and masculine colors
With the miniature installation „Iceberg”, Moreno Ratti implies that we use too much water
Mostly the designer from the Carrara area devotes himself to practical environmental issues such as the use of marble waste
Natural stone reused: Steps of a staircase on Lake Lugano
In the famous village of Gandria, architect Enrico Sassi has renewed a small detail with great effect
„Percorsi d’Arte“ shows how new technologies open doors for sculptors (3)
Four artists and industrial designer Raffaello Galiotto developed works previously impossible to accomplish
The „Stone” Trade Fair in Poznań in November 2019 registered almost 300 exhibitors and 5000 visitors
It has established itself as a small but distinguished show with a large supporting program
Deep diving scientists discover bubbling CO2 hotspot they call „Soda Springs“ next to thriving coral reefs
A nearby volcano in the Verde Island Passage between the Philippines’ islands vents out gases through cracks in the ocean floor
In German concentration camps quarries were used for annihilation
Under Nazi-rule the German SS entertained its own building supplies trade