Nofa Events: call for artists from GCC countries, Iraq, Lebanon, Palestine, Jordan, Yemen, and from Africa to enter with ideas for sculptures or installations to be placed in Saudi Arabian resorts

The competition has 14 prizes between US-$ 6600 and US-$ 500 / Works will be produced on-site

On show in London’s Natural History Museum: a fragment of the Winchcombe meteorite, a new mineral discovered in the collections, and several temporary offers about the wonders of our planet Earth

Natural Stone Institute Completes 36th Home with Gary Sinise Foundation

OON-Architecture: “Marble House“ with futuristic design language on the edge of a golf course in Buenos Aires

The planners use slopes and angles to make the simple volumes appear to hover

Table lamp “Leina“ by designer Matteo Nunziati and Italian company Tato

Miscellaneous: ideas around natural stone

Darwin’s Arch, a famous natural rock structure in the Galápagos Archipelago in the Pacific Ocean, has collapsed due to natural erosion

Sensation in Dresden: a skull in white marble has been attributed to the famous Italian sculptor Gian Lorenzo Bernini

Friedrich August I of Saxony, better known as Augustus the Strong, had purchased the masterpiece in 1728, but later it got forgotten

Mies van der Rohe’s idea of a “universal space“ almost in its pure form: in Berlin, the Neue Nationalgalerie has been thoroughly renovated and inconspicuously modernized

The building from the 1960s uses glass and steel as well as a lot of natural stone

Stone detail: The Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin shows the Mies’ Corner in many variations

NSI Takes Ownership of Natural Stone Sustainability Standard

Ownership of the ANSI/NSC 373 rules für stone production has officially transferred from the Natural Stone Council to the Natural Stone Institute