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The 45th edition of WorldSkills will take place from August 22nd to 27th 2019 in the Russian city of Kazan
Some 1400 young craftspeople including stonemasons will submit to challenges revolving around their work and will compete against one another
Helaine Blumenfeld: „marble as a means to show our spiritual side“
Works of the American sculptress are on show at Huygens’ Hofwijck in The Netherlands during summer 2019
Miscellaneous: ideas with natural stone
An ancient Athenean neighborhood from the 4th century BC until the 12th century AD was opened as part of the Acropolis Museum in Athens
Application open for the 2020 European Heritage Awards until October 31, 2019
Out of 30 winners, 4 Grand Prizes worth 10,000 € each are given to outstanding projects of conservation and restoration
Red Älvdals-Quartzite for Mora’s pedestrian mall in Sweden
Landscape architects from Sweco set out to give the city center a feeling of home for the citizens
Japanese Nikkei Asian Review: deliveries to the US relabeled in Vietnam
US-President Donald Trump’s tariffs cause complex chain reactions in the world economy and are not his „easy to win trade war“
Tiberius Claudius, married to Messalina and Agrippina, was not so bad a Roman emperor as Seneca wrote
The exhibition at the Ara Pacis Museum in Rome reveals his care for the people, his economic and legislative reforms and great public works
Budri’s showroom in downtown Milan: worth a visit
The Italian company has always been all about unusual ideas in natural stone – exclusive but functional
Peter Randall-Page’s „Envelope of Pulsation (For Leo)“ on show at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park (YSP) until 2020
The sculpture was carved from a large granite block of Blackenstone Quarry in Dartmoor, Devon
Antoniolupi and designer Paolo Ulian: „Plissè“ washbasin inspired by marble surfaces but made of artificial stone
Flumood is a new material composed of aluminum hydroxide and synthetic resins with low styrene content