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International symposium “New Construction with Stones” in May 2025 in Portugal

Especially women playing important roles in companies or in science appear in a panel discussion and as speakers

6th Tuwaiq Symposium in the Saudi capital Riyadh: art as a way to make the city more livable

The meeting with 30 international stone sculptors goes far beyond comparable events elsewhere in every respect

The Olmec sculpture “Gateway to the Underworld“ has returned to Chalcatzingo in Mexico

It was probably one of the stone art works with which the former rulers wanted to demonstrate their closeness to the gods

The Natural Stone Awards 2024 of the British Stone Federation have been distributed

Prizes were given for outstanding uses of natural stone in architecture around the world

SESAME BLACK, a very hard granite, with low water absorption, resistant to wear and tear, quarried by Dalian Yusheng in Liaoning Province, China

Tuwaiq Sculpture Symposium 2025: once again unusual stone ideas were realised

23 international and seven Saudi artists were invited to the three weeks of open-air sculpture on the outskirts of the capital Riyadh

Melanie Seidl, master stonemason from Austria, has now also been awarded the Bawag Women‘s Award after having received one of the country‘s National Prizes

Colorful like the exotic local stones, Marmomac Brazil makes a good debut in São Paulo

Under the leadership of Veronafiere, Latin America’s most important stone fair showed a clear leap in design quality and attracted many young people

An online exhibition on the third anniversary of the Russian war against Ukraine makes the systematic destruction of built heritage by Putin’s army visible

From the 1950s to the 1970s, María Martner and Juan O’Connor created monumental stone wall mosaics in Latin America

A famous example is the façade for the central library of the UNAM University in Mexico City