Architecture news / Archive»
- Call for architects to develop ideas about “Living Upon the Play”
- Swedish textile patterns as mosaic pavement on the Hagatorget in Karlstad
Design news / Archive»
- Cattelan Italia: glass with the appearance of onyx or marble for table tops or furniture
- Call for ideas for luxury products using glass and glass fiber together with tiny artificial diamonds
Markets: Selling Stone»
- Consumption by US citizens fell significantly in the second quarter of 2020
- China’s foreign trade seems to be recovering from the Covid 19 pandemic
Reports from Stone Trade Fairs»
- Initiators from Italy are planning a new fair called “Stone America” co-located with the KBIS in Orlando and simultaneously from February 09 to 11, 2021
- Xiamen Stone Fair postponed to 2021
Stone Stories»
- Plato’s cubes, California coast’s surface sinking, the Faroe Bank Channel Overflow in the deep North Atlantic, and the last ice age
- New construction of the Albula Tunnel in the Swiss Alps: at 1192 m driving, the rock is like a “paste and floating” for 21 m
Art news / Archive»
- James Brunt: Land-Art with wonderful geometries from small elements of nature such as leaves, sticks and stones
- Exhibition „En Passant“ about the influence of impressionism on the art of sculpting
Briefly noted»
Archive: all the stone news
Scientists provide an explanation for the strange asymmetry between the moon’s near and far side
The clues are linked to an important property of KREEP, a type of rock signature known on Earth only from moon-meteorites
New from Promemoria: lamps by designer Romeo Sozzi from 2013
In Corona-times, the Italian company with the motto “Beyond Luxury” has relaunched an ancient collection
Designer Raffaello Galiotto and the Margraf company give a marble facade the appearance of a curtain
The 350 individual elements can be produced and mounted on the wall in natural stone more cost-effectively than in other materials
Two Union Square high-rise in Seattle: the stone wall shows the elemental forces of nature
The architects of NBBJ have decorated the lobby with a fantastic work of art / Picco Engineering provided the planning for the cutting and installation of the elements
Archaeologists discover a massive circle of prehistoric shafts near Stonehenge
It is believed that the entire arrangement was meant to guide people towards the religious sites and to warn others not to cross the boundary
First comprehensive map of rockfalls on the moon
Also on our cosmic neighbor boulders or blocks of stone travel downslope, but mostly as a result of impacts of asteroids
Marmomac 2020 will take place as planned (30 September – 03 October) but only with 5 instead of 12 halls and with a new entrance
Under the motto “Re-Start 2020 Project” Veronafiere wants to get the natural stone industry going again in times of Corona
NASA observes large Saharan dust plume over Atlantic ocean
Each year, hundreds of millions of tons of sand particles are blown across the Atlantic Ocean and help build beaches in the Caribbean and fertilize soils in the Amazon
