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Stone Detail: vertical lines in the granite cladding give the façade of the Argenta Bank in Brussels a loosening up devoid of frills

SILVESTRE GT, a grey granite with a feeling of warmth thanks to the yellow pigments intermingled with browns, from Spanish Levantina group

Magneto-inductive wire rope control is one of the topics in Marmomacchine magazine (#286)

Peace for Ukraine (2) – images of works sent to us by (stone) sculptors and artists worldwide on the theme of peace and the war in Ukraine

Peace for Ukraine (1) – images of works sent to us by (stone) sculptors and artists worldwide on the theme of peace and the war in Ukraine

Miscellaneous: ideas all around natural stone

Graphic journalist Sam Learner has created an interactive map where you can let a raindrop fall to earth anywhere in the U.S. and track its path to an ocean

Mystery solved: the material of the 30,000-year-old Venus from Willendorf came along a long path from Lake Garda in today’s Northern Italy to the Danube River in Lower Austria

Stone Wall Trees are an ecological feature in the subtropical metropolises of Asia

Mostly the Chinese Banyan (Ficus microcarpa), which can develop magnificently in the extreme locations in the inner city

IRINA BLUE a black labradorite with blue spots from Ukraine

The exhibition “The Stonehenge World“ explains the new worldview 4000 years ago and people‘s interconnection over great distances

Highlights of the show in the British Museum in London are Seahenge, a circle of wooden posts from the Norfolk coast, and the Nebra Sky Disk from Saxony-Anhalt in Germany

Paolo Ulian has now developed his concept called “Drap“ further for containers such as vases

For the design, he uses the – actually undesirable – fluttering of the water jet that occurs when thicker materials are to be cut

Kitchen countertops are the main topic in „Sten“ (1/2022), the Swedish stone association’s magazine (Swedish)

Pibamarmi supplied the stone parquet for the Al Thani Collection at the Hôtel de la Marine in Paris

5 mm thin stone strips on PET foam and aluminum honeycomb give the floor resilience to abrasion and vibration from visitor traffic

The restoration of Michelangelo’s unfinished masterpiece Pietà Bandini confirmed old sources that problems with the marble caused the work to be abandoned

The 2.7-ton block from the Seravezza quarries had microcracks and “impurities“ so that even the chisels “sparked“

ASTRA WHITE dolomite, a carbonate rock from Turkish Silkarstone company