Archive: all the stone news
“The New Lives of Old Quarries“ is the title of a brochure from the Australian state of Victoria
The compilation shows what is known from elsewhere, but also gives food for thought for innovative ideas
Miscellaneous: ideas around natural stone
Carn Brea Castle in Cornwall deserves admiration for the way the builders made use of local circumstances
Using mining or quarry residues to counter the global shortage of sand
Researchers from Switzerland and Australia have published a study on “ore-sand”
Zeil 111 in Frankfurt Main: the striking façade with natural stone portal and prismatic windows gives the narrow building a distinct accent
The Else-Kröner-Fresenius Foundation, as the client, wanted the design by the architects of Tek To Nik to recall the history of the Fresenius Medical Group
The city of Angoulème has now erected a menhir for Albert Uderzo on the forecourt of its train station, in addition to the obelisk for René Goscinny
In five weeks the two sculptors Morgane Cabusa and François Desforges created the menhir from a rough block of about 14 tons
The monoliths in southern Ethiopia are 1000 years older than previously thought
The sometimes phallus-shaped more then 10,000 standing stones nevertheless do not date from the Stone Age but were erected in the first century A.D.
Gerard Kuijpers’ art objects focus on the materials rather than the shapes of the objects
The Belgian artist gives stone, steel, glass, and wood functions that are not normally known from them
The new Elephant Springs water playground in London’s Southwark district brings outdoor romping into the city center for kids
The facility was designed with porphyry from northern Italy