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Architecture: Distinction for „outstanding design“

(July 2011) German Natural Stone Award presented at Stone+tec 2011

Architecture: Cowering before the forces of nature

(July 2011) Portuguese architects plan a science and research centre on the Azorean archipelago

Architecture: Invitation to linger indoors and outdoors

Local travertine implemented in Kodály Centre in Pécs in Hungary

Architecture: Grooves for more adhesion

(June 2011) German company develops pavement for major traffic exposure

Architecture: „Experimental Buildings“, Paving and Design Ideas

(May 2011) French architecture award for building with natural stone

Architecture: Top Marks for Energy Balance

Massive stone housing is being developed in France promising low CO₂ emission during construction and later use as a dwelling. Facts and figures to one project and its surprisingly low building costs are now available

Architecture: Stadium in abandoned quarry

(May 2011) This year’s Pritzker-Prize award winner Eduardo Souto de Moura built the football Arena in the Portuguese city of Braga

Architecture: Ventilation with the help of stone

At the All India Stone Architectural Awards excellence and innovation in design and technology were recognised and honoured

Architecture: Joining slate

(April 2011) German company introduces symmetrical tiles without overlap

Restoration of the Vildmannen 7 building in Stockholm (2): the facade is characterized by the new interpretations of the Tudor style from England fashionable in the late 19th century

Vildmannen 7 building in Stockholm: after the 2017 fire disaster, the facade shines again in its colorful elegance (1)

We describe the restoration steps of the sandstone ashlars, which stem from boulders, not quarries

Architecture: Flying carpets

(March 2011) French company develops aluminium honeycombs with stone which can be flexed

Architecture: … and they lived happily ever after

Croatian examples of modern architecture using local material in endemic forms

Architecture: Ideas for walls, facades and ground surfaces (3)

(March 2011) Building with natural stone: a former farmhouse in Switzerland, a document centre in Berlin, a luxury hotel in London and a university institute in the Netherlands

Architecture: stone in motion

(February 2011) German company develops pivoting lamellae for facades or room dividers