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Foster + Partners’ win competition for a new luxury hotel in Makkah looking at the Holy Kaaba
The design follows a philosophy of ‚luxury with humility’ with an understated elegance throughout the development, says one of the architects
Best of 2016: Design with natural stone
The editors of Stone-Ideas.com have compiled articles and reports with the most clicks in 2016
Ancient fabrics from the Mediterranean for the walls in a fancy restaurant in London
Lithea company from Sicily produced the wall tiles designed by Pierluigi Piu
Planet Earth has one more continent: Zealandia
The plate around New Zealand and New Caledonia once broke away from Gondwana / Its mountains are nowadays covered by water except NZ and NC
Showing the emotional side of Marble in the quarry and the factory
Banu Bekişoğlu is CEO of the SU Marble Company and was now elected to the regional natural stone trade organization EIB’s board of directors
Drilling core with a length of 1,6 km coming from a depth of nearly 5 km under sea level
An international team of scientists is making steps to understand the process of subduction of one continental plate under another
Briefly noted
„Blue Hole“ is the name marine scientists have given to giant craters in the ocean near the water’s surface, e.g. in the limestone structure of a coral reef
Natural-stone-concrete-sandwich provides maximum structural integrity at minimum costs
Swiss-based Futurafrosch in cooperation with sandstone company Bärlocher and other partners has developed new technology
Another new stone fair in Turkey: Project Marble Eurasia
The event will be held in Istanbul August 23 – 26, 2017 and will be the 6th such sectoral show
Latest news: Vitória Stone Fair CANCELLED due to concerns about safety for exhibitors and visitors
The city of Vitória has seen riots in the streets and the deployment of soldiers from special forces