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World-renowned marble NORWEGIAN ROSE, used in luxury resorts and residences worldwide, quarried north of the polar circle by Fauske marble by Moser company

In the GKE House, Turkish architect Ali Can Helvacioglu designs a modern house with a tradional stone shell, as described in IMIB association’s magazine Natura (#64)

In the Swiss canton of Uri historically and ecologically significant stone walls have been restored

Most of them are type dry stone, where the stones are merely stacked one on top of the other

Italian Antolini company: “exclusive natural stones transform an ordinary bedroom into a unique and exclusive environment”

The company has a long tradition in marketing its stones by showing them in application

10th All India Stone Architecture Awards (2): in the Commendations there were exceptional ideas for the use of natural stone or the conversion of former quarries as well

10th All India Stone Architecture Awards (1): Natural stone as a sustainable and decorative building material was a central theme in many award-winning projects

The winners are presented biannually at the India Stonemart trade fair in Jaipur

Calcitic marble HERMELIN, dark blue-grey with white veins, quarried north of the polar circle by Norwegian Fauske marble by Moser company

The archived issues of the Building Stone Magazine are available for download from the Natural Stone Intitute‘s webpage

Beautiful little things made of natural stone as (Christmas)gifts

Some companies have discovered the market niche with items for everyday use and decoration

Miscellaneous: news all around ornamental stone and rock

A web page tells the story: “Farmers had painstakingly picked rocks out of the soil to clear space to grow olive trees and grapevines

The European Geosciences Union (EGU) invites artists-scientists to apply for a one-week residency in April in Vienna to create a week during the organization’s General Assembly

Swiss award for pedestrian traffic “Flâneur d’Or“: ideas that make pedestrians’ journeys pleasant, easy, and even beautiful

The Association for Pedestrian Traffic awards prizes to projects that focus on getting around without a car

In its December 2023 issue (#138), Cosmave association’s magazine Apuo Versilia Produce reports about famous stone buildings in Pietrasanta (Ospedale) and Genoa (Palazzo Lauro)

Trade fair Rocalia in Lyon from December 05 – 07, 2023: central themes are recycling of leftover pieces of natural stone and natural walls as habitats for animals and plants

French startup Malàkio uses stone powder and aggregates to make an artificial stone from shells that hardens without heat or pressure