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European Capitals of Culture in 2020: Galway in Ireland and Rijeka in Croatia
As usual, the editorial staff of Stone-Ideas.com looked up what both have to offer in terms of natural stone
The Ambedkar Memorial Park in Uttar Pradesh, India, is a stone desert and an example of how the wrong use of natural stone can have an impact
In the summer months, the plant is an incandescent furnace, among other things because there is too much dark sandstone and greyish granite, which heat up in the sun / Counter example Taj Mahal
New COVID-19 webpage by the Natural Stone Institute with useful information also for non-American (stone) companies
Topics reach from checklists for worker protection, quarantine behavior to cyber criminals seeking to capitalize on the epidemic
Canceled: European Stone Festival scheduled for May 2020 in Freiburg, Germany
The next event will be held in 2021 in Salzburg, Austria
In Erik Olovsson’s new vase collection, the stone protects and stabilizes the glass
The Swedish designer uses remnants from the processing and makes color compositions
Miscellaneous: ideas with natural stone
A diadem made with the gemstone aquamarine and diamonds is now part of the Dorothy and Artie McFerrin Gallery in The Houston Museum of Natural Science (HMNS). The collection already boasts two other Fabergé tiaras
Gabion walls for the reception building of Parque Metropolitano Sur not far from Santiago de Chile
The building refers to a sanctuary from the time of the Incas on the nearby mountains
Deep sea sediments are full of unicellular organisms that utilize the „rain” of nutrients from above
In a thimble full of sea floor mud there are about 120 million cells of Woeseiales bacteria
Sibylle Pasche brings the viewer of her marble sculptures to intellectual games
With her works, the Swiss artist depicts „the primal symbols of nature and their processes of change”, as she herself says