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RIVERDANCE, an exotic marble with chocolate and white veins, very suitable for luxury design, quarried by Stonewhite company in China’s northeast

Stoneupdate magazine reports about the U.S. imports of natural stone and other hard-surfaces in November 2023 compared to previous periods

Miscellaneous: news all around ornamental stone and rock

VISA-free entries to China are possible for citizens from France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, and Malaysia, Xiamen Stone Fair informs

How do you incorporate a café serving food and drink in a nearly 1,000-year-old cathedral?

The architects at Feilden Fowles gave the new building a bit of an open-and-close drawer feel to the historic setting

Researchers at ETH Zurich teach a computer-controlled excavator the basic steps required to erect a simple drystone wall from thick boulders

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