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Marmomacc 2016: More about architecture with stone, again innovation and design as focus and 2000 sqm more
Hall 1 at the Verona fair (September 28 – October 01, 2016) will give a look into the future of stone and also into design history
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Turning carbon from CO2 into solid material at an unbelievable rate
Scientists from Iceland and others make the climate gas precipitate into basalt within only two years, not over geological timescales
A ship made of marble prisms commemorating slave trade across the Atlantic
The sculpture at the entrance to the UN Headquarters bears the inscription „Ark of Return“, and won one of MIA’s 2015 Pinnacle Awards
Everyday products made of stone bear in themselves an immense chance to promote marble, granite etc
At the 1st Sustainable Stone Conference during the Carrara Marmotec trade fair, Peter Becker from Stone-Ideas.com lectured about Ecodesign
City festival in Strzegom, Poland: stonework on the market place and a run along granite quarries
Lower Silesia’s heart of granite production will have its central local event from June 17 – 19, 2016
Marsotto Edizioni, studio nendo: „surprise, irony and delight“ in natural stone product design
The household product forerunner in marble showed his „Light & Shadow“ collection at the Milan Design Week
Another long-forgotten civilization lost: underwater remains of an ancient Greek city are of natural origin
Alleged paved floors, courtyards and colonnades were created by geological phenomenon up to five million years ago
„Made in Italy“ will again be in the focus of Marmomacc’s special events
The trade fair in Verona from September 28 – October 01, 2016 will have as highlights the Italian Stone Theatre, an incoming operators’ program and the Stone Summit
Learning the ropes of laying a stone floor or cladding walls in stone
The EU has financed learning modules for aspiring stonemasons / Invitation to download and translate also for other countries
News from inner earth: enormous amounts of liquid oxygen must be there
In experiments with extreme conditions like in the lower earth mantle scientists find new forms of iron oxide setting oxygen free
Rites and processions from ancient Athens: a story of love, longing, violence, death and reconciliation
Exhibiton in Frankfurt/Main, Germany focuses on the city goddess Athena and the Golden Age of Pericles
Milan as World Capital of Design
During the Salone del Mobile creative spirits from all over the world show their best products
Advanced Self-Balancing Architecture: Lithic Dragonfly
Students’ and Stonemasons’ workshop in Straßbourg, France fom June 27 – July 01, 2016
Briefly noted
„We Speak Stone“ was the first stage of a new promotion initiative by Veronafiere-Marmomacc taking 10 companies from the Veronese Stone District to New York City
Stairwell in natural stone with a 320° twist
The Stonemasonry Company, based in Great Britain, deploys taught steel ropes for the construction of its spiral stairwell