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Alfredo Polti: Open-air-showroom on the facade

Swiss-based stone manufacturer shows raw and processed gneiss outside and inside a new building

Markets: „Thriving demand“ in Sambalândia

(February 2012) Brazil’s natural stone market is currently experiencing a bull market

Architecture as a stonemason’s theme

Sculptor Ekkehard Altenburger of German dependences has dedicated himself and his work to the balance between buildings and their surrounding environment

Miscellaneous

(February 2012) „Hispano-Moslem Architecture in 3D“ – new ideas for the Spanish stone branch

Architecture: Mysticism in houses of worship

A marble plateau under a French altar, an open mausoleum in Portugal, and a House of Faith in Israel

Architecture: Trapezoids and rectangles on glass

Architects of Prague’s Amazon Court played with geometric shapes defining the façade structure in various stone claddings

Natural stone for starfish and sea snails

Greenpeace reconstructs a stone reef on the German North Sea coast with boulders

In-house elephant-relief

English stonemason works stone to an enormous animal figure

Miscellaneous

(January 2012) Not the effect of a giant asteroid caused extinction of dinosaurs but massive volcanic eruptions

Architecture: meeting places for citizens (2)

(January 2012) Designing of public spaces in natural stone in Norway and Great Britain. A look back at times when stone served as ballast in seafaring ships is Australia

Markets: „Good news also for the stone branch“

(January 2012) With Russia’s joining the World Trade Organization WTO an enormous market is about to open

Design: Shining eyes in Marble

(January 2012) Italian developers light up natural stone with LEDs

Trade fairs: „Trend and sample bank“

(January 2012) The Stone Expo in the Belgian city of Ghent offers exhibitors a novel form of presenting their products

Miscellaneous

(January 2012) 396 wheels on 44 axes are needed to transport the giant 340 t stone block

Architecture: Caucasian towers, a house of worship in India, a Spanish tannery and more

(December 2011) Once again Marmomacc was host to the International Award Architecture in Stone, presenting contemporary and historic projects from around the world