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The Natural Stone Institute announces the Pinnacle Award Winners 2021
Submissions must show the “beauty, creativity, ingenuity, and professional mastery in the use of natural stone“ / Entries for the next issue open until May 20, 2022
At the Rocalia fair in Lyon, France, dry stone walling experts and artists once again showed what can be done with stone without any mortar at all
The artwork “De Rebus Naturae“ plays with geometry, references to Ancient Egypt and the ancient philosophers Epicurus and Lucretius
Michelle Byrne transfers maps of cities or contour lines of landscapes onto large stones
The Irish artist recreates moments from the past to give an idea of how we have changed the world
Italian Salvatori company’s “Stone Parquet” adapts the well-known wooden flooring to marbles, limestones and travertines
The tiles can have a staggered pattern or a herringbone effect
EU taxonomy: in the future, all (construction) projects, products and services are to have precise descriptions of their sustainability
The Commission in Brussels is starting with the financial sector to get the transformation of the European economy to climate neutrality on track
Winter Olympics 2022 in Beijing: unlike in the summer of 2008, no jade in the winners‘ medals
This time there is only a symbolic reference to the history and culture of the country through the neolithic “yu bi“ discs