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8th Edition of the French Awards for Architecture with Natural Stone (2025)

The focus is on projects that realize unusual ideas for solid construction with natural stone

Carrara goes dinosaur: the life-sized marble skull of a juvenile Triceratops on show on London city‘s Berkeley Square, for two years

The piece was created in a collaboration between the David Aaron Gallery, focused on natural history and antiquities, and the British artist Paul Vanstone

SELAS, a precious marble available in grey, pink and white-gold, translucent, resistant to frost and sunlight, mined by Marble Sachanas from Greece

4th Desert X Al-Ula (through February 28, 2026) invites visitors to experience the imagination created by monumental artworks placed in the unique landscape in Northern Saudi-Arabia

Peter’s Corner: The megatrends for the stone sector in 2026 are all “green”: They include solid construction with small blocks, poststressing, interlocking elements, and stone bricks, as well as, in the longer term, the circular economy

Stone+tec Nuremberg (June 17th to 20th, 2026) will have “Building with Natural Stone,” “Equipment for Professionals,” and “Place of Remembrance” as main topics

In addition, Tile+tec offers a dedicated exhibition area for “Design with Tiles”

Stone Insight: For the “StoneSticks”, the French company Mineral Expertise created the columns from limestone half-shells surrounding fiberglass tube

“StoneSticks” as a new idea for building with natural stone

At the new University of Chicago building in Paris, the architects at Studio Gang bring the theme of innovation and redesigning our world to the façade

TUPELO HONEY, a sandstone with unique hues of gold, quarried by Las Vegas Rock company in Nevada near the glittering gambling city

The Australian designers of Lo & Co have dedicated themselves entirely to the little things in the home and have as goal “to make ordinary accessories a little less ordinary“

For their handles, knobs, and hooks for doors, cabinets, drawers, and walls, they now also use marble and travertine