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Drystone façades for a new building in the Cotswolds in England, where architects must respect the landscape and villages

Labradorite BLUE EYES, a stone from Ukraine with spectacular iridescent metallic-blue spots on a dark gray to black background, quarried by BMBC-Granit company

Is “origin” (identification with home) really a trend of the coming years?

Cosentino has conducted an extensive study on consumer preferences for the marketing of its engineered stone products Silestone and Dekton

Designer Christophe Pillet for the Kreoo brand: Stylish natural stone furniture for everyday use indoors and outdoors

In times of climate change, cultural heritage is particularly at risk, but at the same time, it also holds the keys to how humanity can adapt to the ongoing changes in the environment

The architects at ZXD Architects + BIAD have given the visitor center of the Maijishan Grottoes in northwest China a mystical atmosphere

Light beige or cream limestone SEMI-RIJO DO CODAÇAL, one of Portugal’s best-known stones, also marketed under the names Codaçal or Codaçal Real

We leave no stone unturned

“Palm“ is the name of a new collection by the Portuguese Maeve furniture company; magazine “Mármol. Architecture and Design“ (No 18, June 2025); Booth reservation for the 26th China Xiamen International Stone Fair (March 16-19, 2026); the “World Stress Map” of the earth’s crust; Video of the month: Pufferfish’s “sandcastles”

Always a destination for a journey: Bernini’s Fountain of Four Streams in Rome

This work of art in Piazza Navona symbolizes the known world of the time and is great cinema in many ways

Natural stone worldwide: Bollards are not usually the objects that designers are interested in as boundaries or barriers – we show creative examples from all over the world

How swiping across the screen opens up the whole world to everyone on the globe

Exhibition “Cellphone: Unseen Connections“ at the Natural History Museum in Washington, DC, as well as – of course – online and with a podcast

Sandstone RUSTIC, a fine-grained calcarenite with grey-brown tones, evoking a sense of power and tradition, quarried by Rubio Stone in Northern Spain

Expo 2025 in Osaka, Japan: Wood is presented as a modern and ecological building material, natural stone only appears in one art project

New options for natural stone are the theme of “Epiphanies” in Hall 10 at Marmomac 2025

As curator, Raffaello Galiotto has invited international designers and architects to the show as part of the fair’s Plus Theatre

The sculpture symposium in Wunsiedel, not far from Nuremberg, took place for the 30th time in July 2025 and had as its motto “The Five Senses” by the poet Jean Paul