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At one spot in the Charyn Canyon, Kazakhstan, five million years of climate change are preserved

An 80-meter-thick sedimentary helps scientists to understand the feedback mechanisms between land, atmosphere and ocean

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

On show in London’s Natural History Museum: a fragment of the Winchcombe meteorite, a new mineral discovered in the collections, and several temporary offers about the wonders of our planet Earth

Natural Stone Institute Completes 36th Home with Gary Sinise Foundation

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

Apuo Versilia Produce (#123): art with stone is the main topic (in Italian language)

Table lamp “Leina“ by designer Matteo Nunziati and Italian company Tato

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

Sensation in Dresden: a skull in white marble has been attributed to the famous Italian sculptor Gian Lorenzo Bernini

Friedrich August I of Saxony, better known as Augustus the Strong, had purchased the masterpiece in 1728, but later it got forgotten

Mies van der Rohe’s idea of a “universal space“ almost in its pure form: in Berlin, the Neue Nationalgalerie has been thoroughly renovated and inconspicuously modernized

The building from the 1960s uses glass and steel as well as a lot of natural stone