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Architecture: Weather and time help fashion façade

Architecture: Weather and time help fashion façade

(September 2012) US-College uses reclaimed marble to clad new buildings. Architects dispense with cosmetic polishing of surfaces

Markets: Marble for the miniature battlefield

Markets: Marble for the miniature battlefield

(September 2012) France‘s Bibracte Museum uses natural stone for miniature models of battle sites dating back to the Caesarian war against the Gauls

Design: Bringing the outside in

Design: Bringing the outside in

(September 2012) Chinese designers emulate a natural landscape in stone and synthetic material in a high-rise apartment complex

Art: The financial crisis and the shock of Fukushima

Art: The financial crisis and the shock of Fukushima

Japanese artist Hirotoshi Ito presents contemporary themes in a tongue-in-cheek combination of materials

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Briefly noted

(September 2012) Reopening of a quarry near Carcassonne is the theme of a Pierre Actual Magazine article

Architecture: Keeping positive energy flowing

Architecture: Keeping positive energy flowing

(August 2012) The price of building with natural stone: a Feng-Shui-restaurant in Miami, a shop-house in Bangkok and company headquarters in India

Design: Let there be light… or power

Design: Let there be light… or power

(August 2012) Italian company developed synthetic stones that double as lights or solar cells

„We’re alive and that’s what counts!“

„We’re alive and that’s what counts!“

Budri Company took up production again merely one month after the Emilia-Romagna-earthquake, May 29th

Markets: Traction for extreme-sport athletes

Markets: Traction for extreme-sport athletes

(August 2012) French-based company supports bicycle and motorbike competitions in the mountains with granite trophies

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Briefly noted

(August 2012) Carrara’s Marmotech has mutated to a show of different types of regional marble

Design: „Marble’s symbolic and spiritual power“

Design: „Marble’s symbolic and spiritual power“

(August 2012) „Thus Spoke the Marble“ is the motto of the Turkish trade associations present their design ideas

Markets: Recycling must be the prominent topic

Markets: Recycling must be the prominent topic

(August 2012) What consumers want to know about sustainability / British Natural Stone Sustainability Award as a role-model for PR-strategies

Architecture: Marble-look glass in Origami-Folds

Architecture: Marble-look glass in Origami-Folds

(August 2012) A Paris office building was clad in an innovative natural stone imitation

Art: lifeless stone and human flesh

Art: lifeless stone and human flesh

(August 2012) Paris’ Musée Rodin is currently showing the exhibit „Rodin, flesh and marble“

Briefly noted

Briefly noted

(August 2012) Moscow’s Expostone 13th Trade Fair had 363 companies from 22 countries