Stone detail: Sliding walls let the coolness into the house in the morning and seal it off from the heat in the afternoon

DK House by Rab architects: a monolith with travertine cladding as a “critical tribute“ to traditional building methods in Lebanon

At the listed site of Deir el Qamar, the planners have placed a modern building with distant views and openness to the landscape

Budri and Belgian designer Maarten De Ceulaer: “Pantheon“ collection of 4 tables inspired by the flooring in the ancient basilica in Rome

The way the inlays are inserted into the tabletops is an homage to the mastery of Italian marble craftsmen

Portugal’s stone exports also declined by double digits in 2020, but there was a significant improvement in yields per ton (+5.47%)

Of particular interest is that there were significant increases in shipments of processed products to both China and Italy

Pierre De Valck: Cabinets and more with lapis lazuli, jasper as well as petrified wood as special accents

The Belgian designer combines the ancient gemstones with the modern material aluminum

New in our Stone Finder: semi-white marble DANAE NUVO GREY with wavy and diagonal veins from Greek HMG (Hellenic Marble Group)

OON-Architecture: “Marble House“ with futuristic design language on the edge of a golf course in Buenos Aires

The planners use slopes and angles to make the simple volumes appear to hover

Miscellaneous: ideas around natural stone

Darwin’s Arch, a famous natural rock structure in the Galápagos Archipelago in the Pacific Ocean, has collapsed due to natural erosion