Architecture news / Archive»
- Vivienda CM in Buenos Aires: travertine for the exterior walls and roof of a residential building
- The lobby of Arizona State University’s Washington Center is adorned with desert sandstone worked with CNC-cuts and sandblasting
Design news / Archive»
- Luxury design for the elevator cabin: various features against Coronavirus contagion of passengers, light shapes the box, natural stone or full-size monitors for the walls
- Salvatori shows its novelties 2020 only in the media – even without the furniture fair in Milan and Design Week
Markets: Selling Stone»
- Italian Biesse Group has published the 3. edition of its Sustainability Report
- In the BioProMarL project, researchers hope to give the stone surfaces new properties, modelled on the lotus effect
Reports from Stone Trade Fairs»
- Middle East Stone and The Big 5 in Dubai postponed to next year (2021) September 12 – 15
- Message from Xiamen Stone Fair as the Covid-19 virus is spreading in some regions in the Americas, Africa, and India: “We care much about you”
Stone Stories»
Art news / Archive»
- Application open until October 01, 2020: 10 to 15 grants for artists from or living in the Arab world, and/or engaged with the Arab world
- For young emerging Tunesian artists: the Rambourg Foundation Prize for Contemporary Art (submissions postponed to July 15, 2020)
Briefly noted»
Briefly noted
Miscellaneous: ideas with natural stone
South African Designer Ronel Jordaan’s objects echo organic forms and textures like her pebbles made of Merino Wool
Machu Picchu: ancient Incan sanctuary intentionally built on an underlying network of tectonic faults and fractures
In these zones, building stone was easily available and water was chanelled through them, Brazilian geologist says
Stone slurry gives flexibility to a polymer matrix composite, researchers from University of British Columbia discovered
Adding the stone waste not only increased the material’s strength, but but also its conductivity
NSI reacts to reports about the threat of silicosis resulting from working Engineered Stone
For natural stone companies, the institute’s Safety Committee has released a comprehensive set of information and training for self-protection
Complex movement of tectonic plates decoded at the submarine Havre Trough north of New Zealand
Scientists from New Zealand and Germany gather insights into the southwest Pacific submarine volcanism which is part of the ocean’s Ring of Fire
Miscellaneous: ideas with natural stone
Toscana Endurance Lifestyle 2019 will be adorned by stone sculptures provided by Italian Henraux company
What drives plate tectonics and thus controls phaenomena from volconoes to ocean and atmospheric circulations?
Chinese scientists found „switches“ between continental rupture, continental collision, and oceanic subduction initiation in the Tethyan evolution
The Natural Stone Sustainability Standard (ANSI/NSC 373) has been updated
The changes address issues such as water, site management, land reclamation, as well as corporate governance, among others
Geochemists measure new composition of Earth’s mantle
Researchers suspect greater dynamics than previously assumed between the Earth’s surface and its mantle / Study published in „Nature Geoscience“
WorldSkills 2019 in Kazan, Russia: Quan Zheng is the winner of the gold medal in the stonemasons’ category
Silver went to Sebastian Rudolf Wienerroither, Austria, Bronze to Allan Bontemps, France
