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This mosaic pavement adorns the port of the Swedish city of Sundsvall. The designer was landscape architect Bibbie Leine

“Fusion 2” gets together sculptors from around the world plus marble and wood as materials

10 young artists have been working in a project by Italian Arkad Foundation from Seravezza and the Hong Kong Visual Arts Centre (vA!)

Polycor Earns First Natural Stone Sustainability Standard Certification Outside of North America

Notre-Dame de Paris detaches step by step from the supporting structures 4 years after the inferno

In the months since December 2022, the first vault and the substructure for the crossing tower La Flèche have been restored

The story how the brown Mahogany granite was created in what is now Milbank, South Dakota, is told by the webpage UseNaturalStone

Natural stone room dividers: design ideas that provide a limited passage through the wall for light and air

We show examples from our archive, which also include movable walls

Antolini’s Exclusive Collection: “Natural stone has the power to profoundly transform the kitchen space by adding character to a worktop or transforming it into an architectural surface“

David Chipperfield is Pritzker Prize winner 2023

His works are characterized by sensitivity to the site and the environment and show mastery of formal language

Previously unknown chamber in the Cheops pyramid detected with endoscopic cameras

Previous measurements had only given an indication of the existence of a hidden cavity in the area of the so-called chevron

At the StonExpo trade fair in Las Vegas, an international joint stand named “Stone Pavilion” was initiated as the first action of the new “Natural Stone Strategic Alliance“

The national associations of the USA, Brazil, Italy, Greece, and Portugal were involved

Marble BOLECHOWICE, a brown/reddish limestone with strong veins quarried in Western Poland, from Marmur-Plytki company

Design and furniture fair Salone del Mobile in Milan (April 18 – 21, 2023) has complied its reports, previews, people’s stories etc on a webpage

The MET Museum‘s exhibition “Lives of the Gods: Divinity in Maya Art“ brings together nearly 100 rarely seen masterpieces providing models of regeneration and resilience (on show until April 02, 2023)

Natural Stone Insitute: Stone Panels International LLC Named 2022 CEU Educator of the Year

Miscellaneous: news all around natural stone and rock

A fossil of a liana gives evidence that modern-type rainforests may have been around as early as 80 million years ago