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Unesco has inscribed Iceland’s swimming pool culture, based on the country’s geothermal energy, on its list of Intangible Cultural Heritage

XISTO NEGRO DE FOZ CÔA, a dark gray stone from Portugal, with decorative lighter parts, quarried by Silaco company

Italy‘s stone sector pays tribute to the Winter Games: rings of colorful stones in Verona, a marble “Olympic heart” in Milan, an old farmhouse in Cortina d’Ampezzo modernized with luxurious stone

8th Edition of the French Awards for Architecture with Natural Stone (2025)

The focus is on projects that realize unusual ideas for solid construction with natural stone

Carrara goes dinosaur: the life-sized marble skull of a juvenile Triceratops on show on London city‘s Berkeley Square, for two years

The piece was created in a collaboration between the David Aaron Gallery, focused on natural history and antiquities, and the British artist Paul Vanstone

SELAS, a precious marble available in grey, pink and white-gold, translucent, resistant to frost and sunlight, mined by Marble Sachanas from Greece

4th Desert X Al-Ula (through February 28, 2026) invites visitors to experience the imagination created by monumental artworks placed in the unique landscape in Northern Saudi-Arabia

Peter’s Corner: The megatrends for the stone sector in 2026 are all “green”: They include solid construction with small blocks, poststressing, interlocking elements, and stonebricks, as well as, in the longer term, the circular economy

Stone+tec Nuremberg (June 17th to 20th, 2026) will have “Building with Natural Stone,” “Equipment for Professionals,” and “Place of Remembrance” as main topics

In addition, Tile+tec offers a dedicated exhibition area for “Design with Tiles”

Stone Insight: For the “StoneSticks”, the French company Mineral Expertise created the columns from limestone half-shells surrounding fiberglass tube