An elegant villa in Belgium with Italian company Grassi Pietre‘s limestone Grigio Alpi in several finishes

Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies: annual growth in home renovation and repair expenditures will reach +8.6 % by the second quarter of 2022

Budget of £200,000: call for ideas for a free-standing artwork in Wokingham, England, to symbolize the newly regenerated borough and act as a significant and exciting landmark (deadline: August 31, 2021)

The Natural Stone Institute’s 2021 Stone Industry Education Returns to In-Person Events

Miscellaneous: ideas around natural stone

“Marmointarsia“ is a wall mosaic by Endre Nemes at Högsboer Medborgarhuset in Gothenburg, Sweden

Important for the natural stone sector in the EU: the Commission in Brussels asks interested parties to submit their assessments on the planned Geographical Indication Protection

Such protection would prohibit the import of stone products under false names / Deadline is July 22, 2021

The mega project Berlin Palace was a special opportunity and challenge for the German natural stone sector

It offered the opportunity not only to present the material exclusively, but also the possibilities of modern machines from 3D scanners to CNC wire saws

Science news: Continental plates dancing “pirouettes“, revised date of the Laacher See eruption, grain size of sand and the slope of the beach, Mercury’s big iron core

Recent discoveries about our planet, its rocks, and other “stone” topics

Citizen solidarity in response to Covid-19: eight sculptures of applauding hands made of Macael Marble were installed in Andalusia

The works of art are a reminder of the applause that people gave professionals in hospitals, among others, in the fight against the pandemic

SHAPL design contest for “everyone who thinks differently, to create products that work better“ (submission of ideas open until August 07, 2021 open until August 07, 2021)