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Marble POLISH CREMA (Crema Polska), a beige limestone with orange and blue hues quarried near the village of Gołuchów in Western Poland, from Marmur-Plytki company

Natural Stone Institute’s Building Stone Magazine, Fall 2022: Bybee Prize for Tod Williams and Billie Tsien (TWBTA Architects)

Stonemason couple Orianne Pieragnolo and Louis Dutrieux have started their “Route de la Pierre“ (Stone Tour)

The two want to ride their bicycles all the way to China and get to know the stone architectures and cultures along the way

Natural Stone Institute Completes 44th Home with Gary Sinise Foundation

Miscellaneous: news all around natural stone and rock

“The Planets!“ is a 2000-piece puzzle set featuring 8 celestial bodies of our solar system. They range in size from Mercury at 7“ up to Saturn with rings of 39“

Bulgarian sculptor Georgi Minchev is in search of the “universal language“ that connects all people and, moreover, of “the philosophy that is in the matter“

RED GRIOTTE and RED ROYAL marbles from Belgium, once worldwide used and nowadays still extracted at one quarry in Wallonia by Merbres-Sprimont company

Cosmave association‘s magazine Apuo Versilia Produce has sustainability as a central topic in its issue of October 2022

Art history worldwide: the labyrinth as a predetermined path to a destination with numerous twists and turns, and the maze as a deliberate misdirection

Stone slabs or pavement, respectively green hedges or grass are the preferred materials

The Xiamen Stone Fair recorded more than 1000 exhibitors at its 2022 edition

The new focal points introduced in the middle of the pandemic, such as the “Habitat Design & Life Festival,“ are established in the profile of the show

Italy’s natural stone sector has also coped well with the Covid-19 pandemic

The companies there and around the world were able to adapt spontaneously to the fact that natural stone is regarded by the public as a crisis-proof value investment

BELGIAN BLACK MARBLE OF GOLZINNE with a velvet appearance in perfect color uniformity, from an underground quarry in Wallonia, extracted by Merbres-Sprimont company

EuroShop Fair in Düsseldorf, Germany, in February/March 2023, has an e-magazine with discussions about shopfitting

The Austrian railroad company ÖBB uses the natural stone Dorfergrün from the nearby surroundings as a defining material in its new mobility center in the tourist town of Lienz

It’s actually microbes that move mountains

Chinese scientists outline how humanity cann harness the interaction between minerals and microbes