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Stylized cranes in the paving in front of Sankta Helena church in Skövde, Sweden

Landscape architect Thorbjörn Andersson wanted to bring the region’s famous bird migration into the town in an abstract way and give the townspeople a place that makes a statement

Peter’s Corner: for 2024 and the coming years, there will be a whole new diversity in the stone sector, with new uses for the material and many new product ideas

Video from the 29th Intl Sculpture Symposium (Stone) in Sprimont, Belgium, 2023

The uniqueness of Brazilian quartzite RADICA, quarried by Pettrus company, is a result of a continental collision millions of years ago

TARTARUGA (“turtle“) is a volcanic rock with a unique design created by nature, quarried by Vermont Mineração in the Brazilian state of Ceará

ANTIQUE VERDATRE, an extremely strong and durable marble from Norway, quarried north of the polar circle by Fauske marble by Moser company

Italian Ceramic Industry’s magazine “Cer“ (#67) reports about “cost and energy savings with ceramic ventilated façades“

Miscellaneous: news all around ornamental stone and rock

“Building with Stone Today“ (Construir en Pedra Hoy) is the title of a workshop in Spain in which stonemasons from there and from France will rebuild the famous vault of the Junterones Chapel in Murcia Cathedral

Solid construction with stone will be a key topic at the Stone+tec Congress in Nuremberg in June 2024

Another focus will be on how generations Y and Z rethink the cemetery

In 2023, Unesco has added 42 sites to its list of World Heritage Sites, among them many made of stone

This brings the total number to 1199 in 168 countries, many of which used stone as a building material

The 11th Wind Art Festival “bewegter wind” with the theme “beyond …darüber hinaus” took place from August 13 – 27, 2023, in Wolfhagen near Kassel, Germany

Ulrich Rückriem‘s major work “40 Bodenreliefs“ at the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin until January 14, 2024

The artist‘s cuboids make the square floor tiles by Mies von der Rohe seem to grow in height

White marble CLOUD ATLAS, evoking the ephemeral beauty of shifting clouds, quarried by Stonewhite company in China’s northeast

2023-slump in demand for ceramic tiles from Italy worldwide: -22.1% for exports compared to the previous year, -8.7% for sales within Italy

Main reasons are increased costs for energy and raw materials, high interest rates

Oddities from the world of stones: the best-known example of stone on stage is Mozart’s opera Don Giovanni with the statue of a murdered man made of white marble