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8th Edition of the French Awards for Architecture with Natural Stone (2025)

The focus is on projects that realize unusual ideas for solid construction with natural stone

Carrara goes dinosaur: the life-sized marble skull of a juvenile Triceratops on show on London city‘s Berkeley Square, for two years

The piece was created in a collaboration between the David Aaron Gallery, focused on natural history and antiquities, and the British artist Paul Vanstone

SELAS, a precious marble available in grey, pink and white-gold, translucent, resistant to frost and sunlight, mined by Marble Sachanas from Greece

4th Desert X Al-Ula (through February 28, 2026) invites visitors to experience the imagination created by monumental artworks placed in the unique landscape in Northern Saudi-Arabia

Peter’s Corner: The megatrends for the stone sector in 2026 are all “green”: They include solid construction with small blocks, poststressing, interlocking elements, and stone bricks, as well as, in the longer term, the circular economy

Stone+tec Nuremberg (June 17th to 20th, 2026) will have “Building with Natural Stone,” “Equipment for Professionals,” and “Place of Remembrance” as main topics

In addition, Tile+tec offers a dedicated exhibition area for “Design with Tiles”

Stone Insight: For the “StoneSticks”, the French company Mineral Expertise created the columns from limestone half-shells surrounding fiberglass tube

TUPELO HONEY, a sandstone with unique hues of gold, quarried by Las Vegas Rock company in Nevada near the glittering gambling city

The Australian designers of Lo & Co have dedicated themselves entirely to the little things in the home and have as goal “to make ordinary accessories a little less ordinary“

For their handles, knobs, and hooks for doors, cabinets, drawers, and walls, they now also use marble and travertine

The Mexican Gallardo Tequila Dynasty is celebrating its family anniversary with a new, limited-edition tequila presented in a white Carrara marble bottle

”Volcan de mi Terra” (Volcano of My Land) is the name of the product, which was unveiled at an art fair in Miami

The Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden (Dresden State Art Collections, SKD) has the exhibition “Hercules – Hero and Anti-Hero” showing the demigod – with his perhuman strength and all his human flaws, until June 28, 2026

The restoration of Big Ben took one of the Royal Institute of British Architects’ RIBA London Awards 2025

The clock tower represents Great Britain as a political world power, a leading industrial nation, and a democracy

26th Xiamen Stone Fair 2026 (March 16–20): in eight country pavilions, numerous exhibitors, many of them for the first time, will present themselves and their stones to the buyers from all over the world

We leave no stone unturned

“Cuore Olimpico” (Olympic Heart) made of marble in Milan for the Winter Games in Italy; Brazil’s stone sector had 2025 as the best year ever in terms of exports; Unesco: December 11 will be celebrated as International Mountain Day (IMD); Video of the month: the Canadian parliament building in Ottawa has been undergoing restoration

Live Stream on January 14, 2026: Jim Hieb from NSI to Testify in Washington DC on Silica Related Lawsuits

Live Stream on January 14, 2026: Jim Hieb from NSI to Testify in Washington DC on Silica Related Lawsuits