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Architecture: Stadium in abandoned quarry

(May 2011) This year’s Pritzker-Prize award winner Eduardo Souto de Moura built the football Arena in the Portuguese city of Braga

Miscellaneous

(May 2011) Tra.Dis.Mar is the title of a program by the Italian province of Massa Carrara to hone tradesmen for competition

Architecture: Ventilation with the help of stone

At the All India Stone Architectural Awards excellence and innovation in design and technology were recognised and honoured

Architecture: Joining slate

(April 2011) German company introduces symmetrical tiles without overlap

Marble for miniature floors

Royal wedding in England: a glance in Queen Mary’s Dolls’ house and Westminster Abbey

Lithos Design at Stonetech 2011

(April 2011) Designer Raffaello Galiotto invites Lithos Design to represent Italian excellence in marble production at Stonetech Beijing 2011

Miscellaneous

(April 2011) Swiss construction industry is booming

Trade fairs: Xiamen expands

(April 2011) The Chinese city has new exhibition grounds and an international centre for the stone branch. The fair is seeing an increase in copyright infringement of designer products

Markets: „Our aim is not merely to produce raw material: we are interested in manufacturing the value-added product“

Interview with Zou Chuansheng, President of the China Stone Material Association, the country’s natural stone association

Design: News from the Nile

(April 2011) Techno Marble is an Egyptian company specializing in modern design

Stone symposia scheduled for the months ahead

(April 2011) High times for hammer and chisel

Miscellaneous

(April 2011) The earthquake in March shifted Japan’s coastline 5 m

Restoration of the Vildmannen 7 building in Stockholm (2): the facade is characterized by the new interpretations of the Tudor style from England fashionable in the late 19th century

Vildmannen 7 building in Stockholm: after the 2017 fire disaster, the facade shines again in its colorful elegance (1)

We describe the restoration steps of the sandstone ashlars, which stem from boulders, not quarries

Design: Nice things for outdoors (2)

(March 2011) Furniture for out of doors for streets, parks and gardens. Our focus this time is on a building-block system in natural stone