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The Swedish Natural Stone Award 2021 went to the copy of the medieval window rosette in Linköping Cathedral with 300 hours of work by a CNC machine
The prize is awarded for work that stands out for “aesthetics, sustainability and innovation“
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With the Gargash Mosque in Dubai, Saudi architect Sumaya Dabbagh has created a place of worship that breaks with many traditions
Not splendor and wealth characterize the premises for the conversation with God, but light and spirituality
Terminal T 4 at Madrid’s Barajas International Airport is one of the best-known works by Richard Rogers
Rogers, who died in December 2021, became famous for high-tech architecture, but in Madrid, he used bamboo for the ceiling and Mistral marble for the flooring
Now also for students and furthermore for projects from all over Europe: submission open for the German Natural Stone Award 2022
The entry fee has been reduced to 200 €, fee for students / Submissions in German language only
Blue agate and stainless steel give the Iris Bar in the new Hyatt Regency at Zurich Airport a “luminous and memorable“ image
The counter was designed by Prisma, an Italian company for professional kitchens
The village of Kaisten on the Swiss Upper Rhine has a branch of the Raiffeisenbank in which natural stone is used effectively and yet modestly
In the customer foyer, a counter stands succinctly in the room like a kitchen island, giving it the expression of intrinsic value and down-to-earthness
“SuperHink“: a new Swiss architectural award for natural stonework (2)
For the first time, the award was presented in the categories of landscape design and architecture by the Pro Naturstein consortium
A granite paving like an “Albanian carpet“ for the redesign of the shore in the village of Shiroka
The architects of the firm Casanova+Hernandez have made the area tangible as a unit with a mosaic in the style of local textile art
Architect Andrea Laudini and Antolini stone company: an interior design for a villa in Treviso where every room becomes a habitat magnificus
Architect Andrea Laudini and Antolini stone company: an interior design for a villa in Treviso where every room becomes a habitat magnificus
A magnificent mosaic in the Lateran Basilica in Rome was the model for the floor in a villa in Ukraine
The Italian company Athena Marmi, located not far from Verona, made the puzzle with different types of marble in many colors and shapes
A complex of 3 trulli in southern Italy has been rebuilt as a modern vacation home with stylish additions
An example of trulli restoration and modernization is “La Cipressa“ in Apulia, southern Italy
Roman stonemasonry at its finest: a villa in the ancient cosmopolitan city of Ephesos displayed marble on its walls up to a height of 6 m
Geoarchaeology Professor Cees Passchier of the University of Mainz, Germany, together with colleagues, has reconstructed the decoration and made some surprising discoveries
Why the Roman stonemasons changed the order of the slabs in the marble bookmatch in a villa in Ephesus
Research by geoarchaeology Professor Cees Passchier of the University of Mainz, Germany, together with colleagues
