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Streets of London for tourists: Explore the stones on London’s pavements and façades with an app

The London Pavement Geology project provides geological information with guidance

Above Notre-Dame, La Flèche, the crossing tower, rises again into the sky over Paris

We report further successes the jargon of the craftsmen: “La Forêt” (The Forest) is also up again, and so are the “Grand Ducs” (Owls)

In search of the lost stone: Orianne Pieragnolo and Louis Dutrieux continue their expedition through Eurasia

The two stonemasons from France explore the culture of their craft in the distance by bicycle

Visiting stone sights in the Xiamen area and natural and artificial stone companies

The China Stone Material Association (CSMA) organized excursions for architects to the surroundings of the fair city

Miscellaneous: news all around ornamental stone and rock

Bologna’s leaning Garisenda Tower is showing “anomalous movements“ raising fear that it might collpase. The city has launched an additional program to secure the famous monument and ist neighboring tower

Vildmannen 7 building in Stockholm: after the 2017 fire disaster, the facade shines again in its colorful elegance (1)

We describe the restoration steps of the sandstone ashlars, which stem from boulders, not quarries

The natural stone sector can contribute to sustainability in tourism with its building and decorative materials

Topics such as resource consumption and greenhouse gas emissions were discussed at the ITB tourism fair in Berlin

Natural stone worldwide: how stone and sport come together and what stonemasons and creatives have made of the subject

In our overview article, we have once again collected all kinds of curiosities

Walls or piles of fieldstones (drystones) are being restored in many places

They provide habitats for animals and plants and are evidence of rural culture / Examples from Switzerland and the New England states

Stone people: “Courage and Progress immortalized in natural stone“ by the Italian immigrants who came to Brazil 150 years ago

On February 21, 1874, the sailing ship “La Sofia” arrived at the Port of Vitória in Brazil

Swedish Natural Stone Award 2023: a kitchen island with the house around it, a villa with a façade made of stone from the quarry next door, a square with slabs and cobblestones around, and a model of a natural park made of diabase

Oddities from the world of stones: the best-known example of stone on stage is Mozart’s opera Don Giovanni with the statue of a murdered man made of white marble

News about the rock eyes of the marine chiton Acanthopleura granulata

The small animals have lenses made of aragonite and can probably detect the appearance of predators through changes in brightness

Stone age artists carved detailed human and animal tracks in rock art in Namibia

Indigenous trackers could identify the prints’ species, sex and age for 90% of analyzed engravings

Anping Bridge, not far from Xiamen, dates back to the 12th century and is built entirely of granite

The roadway on thick piers was intended to facilitate the transport of goods to and from a port