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“Marmomac Meets Academies“ 2023 (September 26 – 29): Innovative ideas for stone application in architecture and product design

Professor Giuseppe Fallacara (Polytecnico di Bari) has curated the exhibition of prototypes designed by international students and research groups

Adapting to climate change: The town of Stein near Nuremberg designs new development areas according to the “Sponge City“ concept

In essence, it is all about infills (infiltration trenches or tree swales) in the subsoil with volcanic rock

Stone Insight: Volcanic rock, such as lava or tuff, with its many pores is very suitable infiltration trenches (tree swales), which have recently been used in cities to store rainwater

General Meeting 2023 of the German Ornamental Stone Association (DNV): Natural stone as “building material of the future“

The New Constructing with Stone will play an important role at the Architecture Congress during the Stone+tec (June 19 – 22, 2024) in Nuremberg)

Tripun Bokanić Awards for natural stone 2023 awarded in Croatia

The initiator is the stonemasonry school Klesarska Škola on the limestone island of Brač together with the Oris House of Architecture in Zagreb

Gemeg’s redesigned showroom in Carrara: white marble only behind the windows of the container-like building

The facade by architect Victor Vasilev is reminiscent of modernism and bears artificial materials

SuperHink Natural Stone Award 2023 of the Swiss Association Pro Naturstein: Photo gallery

The prize was awarded for the 2nd time and honors the outstanding use of stone in architecture and landscaping by Swiss companies

Large-format crust slabs of Rorschach sandstone as privacy screens

At the Swiss SuperHink Prize 2023, a work by Stefan Marti Garten AG was awarded 1st prize in the category of garden and landscape architecture

“There’s a lot of gray energy in old materials, and a lot of history besides,“ says architect Martin Bruhin about his modernization of the barn at Wildegg Castle in Switzerland

The Spanish Premios Macael were bestowed for the 35th time

The award recognizes buildings from all over the world that have used natural and engineered stone from companies in Andalusia

The Centro de Cultura Ambiental Chapultepec (Chapultepec Center for Environmental Culture) in Mexico City recreates the rim of a volcanic crater

The goal of the architects of Erre Q Erre was to integrate the new facility into the existing natural landscape

Rugby training center in the south of France (Pôle de Rugby du Grand Pic Saint Loup) made of solid (massive) natural stone: an expression of “strength, durability, timelessness and noblesse“

The architects of Karavan Landskapsarkitekter have transformed the pedestrian zone in Uppsala, Sweden, into a place to linger lined with a stone pavement

The pattern of granite ashlars creates an air of turbulence so pedestrians will notice without walking past

Antolini’s Exclusive Collection: “Natural stone has the power to profoundly transform the kitchen space by adding character to a worktop or transforming it into an architectural surface“

David Chipperfield is Pritzker Prize winner 2023

His works are characterized by sensitivity to the site and the environment and show mastery of formal language