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The Natural Stone Institute’s Grande Pinnacle Award 2022 goes to ”Utopia” by sculptor Jaume Plensa with ethnic faces of women from around the world, created in marble by Canadian Picco Group

BAU trade fair in Munich, Germany, April 17 – 22, 2023: digital processes are changing the construction industry

BIM will be one of the key topics in Hall C5, how to build more cheaply and quickly will be another

Miscellaneous: news all around natural stone and rock

Wireless lamps is a new product category from United Alabaster company, specialized in everyday products made of Alabaster stone. The photo shows the “Moon“ lamps for indor and outdoor usage, available also as pendant

The Turkish natural stone sector set help in motion immediately after the earthquake and is offering its heavy equipment to clear away rubble or to repair traffic routes

AGI architects build a residential tower in Kuwait that uses the thermals to cool the building

The courtyard inside and the facades create a flow and heat dissipation upwards and across the building, respectively

ICEBERG BLUE, a white Brazilian quartzite with blue veins on a crystal clear background, from Vitoria Stone company

“La femme e(s)t l’avenir des métiers de la pierre” (Women are/and the future of the jobs in the stone sector), is the title of the editorial in French magazin Pierre Actual #1023, February 2023

French jewelry designer Marion Batigne dubbs her natural stone collection “Sassolina”

“Authenticity, ethics, originality, and love of nature and the human“ are the central values of her products

Jeff Erickson from Cutting Edge Countertops Company Joins Natural Stone Institute Executive Committee

The Aztec kept track of the sunrise against the peaks of the Sierra Nevada mountains to precisely know when it was time to start planting

The calendar was a long causeway structure at a temple at Mount Tlaloc’s summit

Brazil held above the US$1 billion mark in natural stone exports in 2022, but suffered losses of -4%, Centrorochas says

The current marketing initiative is about additional target countries and more value-added products

Good news about the Protected Geographical Indications (GI) also for natural stone: the procedure has taken the next hurdle

The Council of Ministers has approved the bill and wants only minor changes, e.g. that the award procedure be less expensive for applicants

CHEYENNE, a black granite marvel with bright veins quarried in Brazil, a highlight in Spanish Levantina Group‘s Naturamia Collection®

An oversized necklace made of stone and stainless steel at the main bus station in Broby, Schweden, makes us wonder whether the giants from ancient times are still active in Scandinavia and roam the country

Miscellaneous: news all around natural stone and rock

“There’s NO business like SNOW Business!“ was the motto of the 2023 World Snow Sculpture Championship held in Stillwater, Minnesota in January. Twelve teams from around the world took part