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
NSI Takes Ownership of Natural Stone Sustainability Standard
Ownership of the ANSI/NSC 373 rules für stone production has officially transferred from the Natural Stone Council to the Natural Stone Institute
Product design with natural stone (1): what is actually meant by this and how can objects for everyday use be created from marble, granite & Co?
“Form Follows Function“ is the guideline, in the case of a competition supplemented by intelligent project management on the part of the curators and clients
Tate Modern’s „EY Exhibition: The Making of Rodin“ gives a unique insight into the artist‘s ways of thinking and making
Auguste Rodin, who personally only worked as a modeller with materials such as clay, broke the rules of classical sculpture to create a dramatically different image of the human body