Architecture news / Archive»
- Building quickly and cost-effectively: edifices made entirely of small blocks of natural stone are popular in France
- Lucien Arkas Art Gallery not far from Izmir: despite natural stone not a monolith, but an open building
Design news / Archive»
- Side table “Admeto” by Visionnaire: Marco Piva creates something completely new with a natural stone cladding
- The company Lundhs from Norway can be an example of how a natural stone company can successfully market its own materials with product design
Markets: Selling Stone»
- Ceramic tiles: joint video campaign by Italian and Spanish associations
- The USA continues to be the richest country in the world and its citizens hold almost one third of the world’s wealth
Reports from Stone Trade Fairs»
- Registration for digital “Marmomac Restart” from September 30 to October 02, 2020, is open
- Registration for “Marmomac Restart Digital Edition” will start on September 10, 2020
Stone Stories»
- Over 100,000 years ago, fertile loess from the Negev helped the early humans on their way from Africa to Eurasia with the “land of milk and honey” in the Levant
- The peaks of the so-called stone forests were formed by natural dissolution of the rocks in the water and related currents
Art news / Archive»
- Mosaics of marble and glass that take the emptiness out of potholes in city streets and maybe even give them a sense of purpose
- “Break for Art” by the The Dallas Museum of Art: 10 minutes for a deep and unexited look at masterpieces
Briefly noted»
- Science: Sahara dust for the Amazon region, deep-sea coral reefs endangered by climate change, minerals‘ self-healing of irradiation damage, new findings about the Muqarnas vaults at the Alhambra
- TU Delft researchers develop the “living coffin” made from mushroom mycelium to accelerate dead human bodies to become one with nature again and to enrich the soil
Briefly noted
Science: Sahara dust for the Amazon region, deep-sea coral reefs endangered by climate change, minerals‘ self-healing of irradiation damage, new findings about the Muqarnas vaults at the Alhambra
Recent discoveries about our planet in general, its rocks, and other “stone” topics
Measuring the oceans’ water temperatures by sound waves of earthquakes underneath the seafloor
Caltech researchers found a way to correlate the speed of such noise with climate change
Miscellaneous: ideas with natural stone
The famous World Ocean Floor Panorama, published in 1977, was based on Marie Tharp’s (1920-2006) work in global seabed mapping
Science: bubbles of molten rock rising to the surface in the earth’s mantle, a dinosaur with another fossil in its stomach, the age of our planet’s solid inner core, water on the Earth
Recent discoveries about our planet, its rocks and other “stone” topics
Miscellaneous: ideas with natural stone
Italian Salvatori Company has a large collection of so-called „Home Accessoires”, items made of stone which have a household function and also serve for decoration
In Turkey, the Mineral Exporters’ Associations offer scholarships to encourage young people to study their subjects
The industry has a shortage of qualified professionals and does not have the very best reputation / IMIB design competition again
Science: the role of trouts in sediment transport in rivers, rivers shifting their beds due to climate change, monitoring the eruptions of a Guadeloupe volcano, and cremation since 7000 BC
Recent discoveries about our planet, its rocks and other “stone” topics
Miscellaneous: ideas with natural stone
The Hungarian city of Egerszalók is famous for its sinter terraces, which were created by drilling for oil. In 1961, a reservoir of warm water was found in the depth, and it could not be resealed
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