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Stony Creek Granite will be used for the new Statue of Liberty Museum
The stone from Connecticut had been selected for the plinth of the statue as it had already born extreme conditions at the pillars of Brooklyn Bridge
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The Armadillo Vault at this year’s Venice Biennale: hovering stone puzzle comprising 399 elements and a mass of 24 t
The vault is self-supporting weighed down by its own mass constructed using ancient building methods / calculation and realization according to state-of-the-art methods
Sustainable Stone Certification now recognized in both LEED v4 and LBC
ANSI/NSC 373 standards give a clear path for architects to ensure the stone they specify helps projects reach highest sustainability goals
Greek Stone Group International (SGI) gets 15 million € from Black Sea Development Bank (BSTDB)
Seven-year loan is meant to support economic development and job creation in Northern Greece around Thessaloniki
In Switzerland Chinese tourists are clearing out jewelers and watchmakers stocking expensive watches
In the humble opinion of Stone-Ideas: the time is ripe to flood Chinas markets with more than raw stone blocks
Made of marble and brass: „Star Gazer“ candle holders and „Constellation“ bowls
New objects for Lara Bohinc’s „Lunar“ collection in cooperation with British Lapicida stone design company
Natural stone design: basalt tiles with colored glass coating
„Multiplem“ and „Buki“ are two new products by Nero Sicilia of Italy
A great success: the Natural Stone Resource Library by MIA and BSI
Online since 2015, the database for technical documents has had nearly 23,000 downloads in 12 months
Continuously accumulating eruption-threat in the South American Altiplano-Puna which never came to an outburst
Geoscientists discover magma volumes of supervolcanic proportions in the Andes
Travertine island in the middle of a sea of blue resin
French designers originating from the Antillean Island of St.-Martin have created a dream of a coffee table
Fir Italia: DuPont Corian design tap collections available in the three variants „Stone“, „Cover“ and „Open“
Combination between a design mixer with handle made with Engineered Stone and a wash basin made with the same material
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In Iceland a temple for the mythological Nordic Deities is being erected for the first time. Stone is involved inasmuch as the holy place is set in a cliff with a view on the capital Reykjavik
„Italian Stone Theatre“ featuring Smart Stone at Marmomacc 2016
Hall 1 shows Italian designers and architects what marble, granite and their cousins can render thanks to modern machines
Landed: Sweden’s flying carpet settles down on a bed of slate
In Sweden’s port-city Helsingborg, the central train station has a new south entrance worth a visit