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SilkarStone supplied 26,000 m² of its Laminated Stone Panels (LSP) for the new office tower of the Turkish Central Bank in Istanbul

At 325 m height, the building will be Turkey’s tallest skyscraper

SPARKLING WHITE, a white marble with glittering crystals quarried in Tanzania, exclusively by Chinese Guangdong Decina Holding

Turkish “Natura“ magazine, issued by IMIB association, presents in its issue May 2024 (#67) various product designers using travertine

Xiamen Stone Fair 2024 (1): photo gallery showing booths and product ideas with natural stone

The natural stone sector can contribute to sustainability in tourism with its building and decorative materials

Topics such as resource consumption and greenhouse gas emissions were discussed at the ITB tourism fair in Berlin

Natural stone worldwide: how stone and sport come together and what stonemasons and creatives have made of the subject

In our overview article, we have once again collected all kinds of curiosities

Portuguese LIOZ, a beige, ivory, also white, and rose limestone once dubbed the “The Royal Stone” and used even in the colonies

Miscellaneous: news all around ornamental stone and rock

In January 2024, there was excitement in Bosnia in the area around Zavidovici about a stone ball with a diameter of 3.3 m and an estimated weight of 30 tons that was unearthed. It was probably just a “concretion“, an accumulation of mineral substances

“The Seoul Stock Exchange goes green” is the title of a report in the CER Magazine (05/2024) of the Italian Ceramics Association

The Tomb Prize of the Swiss canton of Basel-Stadt aims to bring art and craft together

The aim is to focus citizens’ attention on “individual and high-quality grave markers”

Walls or piles of fieldstones (drystones) are being restored in many places

They provide habitats for animals and plants and are evidence of rural culture / Examples from Switzerland and the New England states

Chinese granite BLUE LEOPARD, with a light blue background giving a site a touch of solemnity, quarried exclusively by UMGG in Hebei province

The cemetery in the village of Saint-Antonin-sur-Bayon brings the drystone walls from the surrounding area into the burial site

It lies at the foot of the Sainte Victoire massif, to which Cézanne dedicated more than 80 paintings

“Holly“ by French designer Christophe Pillet and the Italian brand Kreoo: seating furniture that lets you enjoy the shape in every way

Turkey’s natural stone exports in 2023: -7.63 % by value compared to the previous year

Declines in shipments to Europe are catastrophic and perhaps herald a new lack of interest in foreign materials among consumers there