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Miscellaneous: ideas all around natural stone
Graphic journalist Sam Learner has created an interactive map where you can let a raindrop fall to earth anywhere in the U.S. and track its path to an ocean
Stone Wall Trees are an ecological feature in the subtropical metropolises of Asia
Mostly the Chinese Banyan (Ficus microcarpa), which can develop magnificently in the extreme locations in the inner city
The exhibition “The Stonehenge World“ explains the new worldview 4000 years ago and people‘s interconnection over great distances
Highlights of the show in the British Museum in London are Seahenge, a circle of wooden posts from the Norfolk coast, and the Nebra Sky Disk from Saxony-Anhalt in Germany
Paolo Ulian has now developed his concept called “Drap“ further for containers such as vases
For the design, he uses the – actually undesirable – fluttering of the water jet that occurs when thicker materials are to be cut
Pibamarmi supplied the stone parquet for the Al Thani Collection at the Hôtel de la Marine in Paris
5 mm thin stone strips on PET foam and aluminum honeycomb give the floor resilience to abrasion and vibration from visitor traffic
The restoration of Michelangelo’s unfinished masterpiece Pietà Bandini confirmed old sources that problems with the marble caused the work to be abandoned
The 2.7-ton block from the Seravezza quarries had microcracks and “impurities“ so that even the chisels “sparked“
