Architecture news / Archive»
- Call for the creation of a dry stone landscape work in the territory of the Gorges du Gardon Biosphere Reserve in Southern France
- Designer Raffaello Galiotto and the Margraf company give a marble facade the appearance of a curtain
Design news / Archive»
- Pure Talents Contest at imm Cologne 2021: chances for young talents working in the field of furniture to show their ideas to the world
- New from Promemoria: lamps by designer Romeo Sozzi from 2013
Markets: Selling Stone»
- Covid-19: SapienStone sees changes in living and praises its porcelain stoneware (with natural stone appearance) for it
- Peter’s Corner: the new start after Covid-19, which Marmomac wants to give companies with its “Re-Start” Project, could be more than just back to business as usual
Reports from Stone Trade Fairs»
- New dates announced for next Stone+tec in Nuremberg, Germany: 2021, May 12 – 15
- Next Cersaie will take place in 2021 from September 27 to October 01
Stone Stories»
- Archaeologists discover a massive circle of prehistoric shafts near Stonehenge
- Tectonic plates started 3.2 billion years ago
Art news / Archive»
- Prince Claus Fund and Goethe-Institut: call for art-projects which lead to sustainability and better societies
- The Atlantic magazine interviewed 3 artists in the USA about the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on their work: “That is what we train for,” says one
Briefly noted»
Briefly noted
50 million € loan for Biesse Group from BNL BNP Paribas
The Bank is supporting the Italian company in carrying out investments to reduce CO2 emissions, increase the use of renewable energy and to protect the health and safety of workers
Apprentice prizes awarded by the Federal Association of Austrian Stonemasons
The competition offers young people the opportunity to try out design tools and present their creative work to the public
Miscellaneous: ideas with natural stone
“Cloud Xiamen Stone Fair”, i.e. the virtual edition of the stone fair, was launched on June 06, 2020 and had 193,666 page views in the first week
Scientists provide an explanation for the strange asymmetry between the moon’s near and far side
The clues are linked to an important property of KREEP, a type of rock signature known on Earth only from moon-meteorites
First comprehensive map of rockfalls on the moon
Also on our cosmic neighbor boulders or blocks of stone travel downslope, but mostly as a result of impacts of asteroids
NASA observes large Saharan dust plume over Atlantic ocean
Each year, hundreds of millions of tons of sand particles are blown across the Atlantic Ocean and help build beaches in the Caribbean and fertilize soils in the Amazon
Miscellaneous: ideas with natural stone
It was an explosive release of gas, mostly methane, from the permafrost that formed a 20 m wide and 20 m deep crater in northern Russia, researchers from Skoltech have found
Eclipse data illuminate mysteries of Sun’s corona
Scientists at the University of Hawaii Institute for Astronomy analyze our star’s outermost atmosphere to quantify the structure of its magnetic field and its 11-year cycles
The renovation of the Arkadenhof of the Vienna City Hall was awarded one of the Austrian stonemasons’ monument prizes
The play of colours of the natural stones on the facades was made visible again and a variety of ornaments and figures were renovated
Tropical thunderstorm again causes damage to the Taj Mahal
A part of the marble railing on the roof and 2 sandstone minarets were torn away by winds with over 120 kilometers per hour
