Architecture news / Archive»
- Vivienda CM in Buenos Aires: travertine for the exterior walls and roof of a residential building
- The lobby of Arizona State University’s Washington Center is adorned with desert sandstone worked with CNC-cuts and sandblasting
Design news / Archive»
- Marmomac’s research journey: marble and natural stone in alliance with other materials
- Until June 30, 2020: Submissions open for the Goldreed Industrial Design Award (GIDA)
Markets: Selling Stone»
- Italian Biesse Group has published the 3. edition of its Sustainability Report
- In the BioProMarL project, researchers hope to give the stone surfaces new properties, modelled on the lotus effect
Reports from Stone Trade Fairs»
- Message from Xiamen Stone Fair as the Covid-19 virus is spreading in some regions in the Americas, Africa, and India: “We care much about you”
- Marmomac’s research journey: marble and natural stone in alliance with other materials
Stone Stories»
Art news / Archive»
- Is Barbara Liotta’s art “AirArt”, where stone LandArt is hung on threads?
- The winners of the “Talents” competition for young craftsmen were determined online this time
Briefly noted»
Natural Stone Institute: online discussion „How the Stone Industry Is Responding to COVID-19“ on April, 30 (1:00-2:00pm EST, 18:00 GMT)
Participation is free and open also for non-NSI-members / More specified webinars for fabricators
Female artists from all over the world may apply for residencies of 2 until 10 months on the idyllic Berlin peninsula of Schwanenwerder
Entries for 2021 open for artists from all fields (except graphics and applied arts) until November 30, 2020
The Digital Stone Project (DSP) teaches artists the basics of creating new types of stone sculptures with the help of CNC machines
For the seventh time the initiative around sculptor Jon Isherwood together with Garfagnana Innovazione has organized a four-week „Digital Stone Carving Residency”
It was a rapid climate extreme that brought down Niniveh, once the biggest city in the world
An abrupt 60-year megadrought weakened the Assyrian state so much that its capital could be overrun by Babylonians and Medes who could rely on irrigation
With „Collapse” Moreno Ratti creates marble vases with a „touch of humor”
The weight of the stone is indicated by the shape of the glass, the stone itself imitates brass weights from old merchant’s shops
Italian Tato company has among its new products Ignazio Gardella’s coffee table „Stand” from the the 50s with marble base
The brand combines contemporary design and authored re-editions of classics
Freedonia market research: the US market for „Outdoor Living Products” will grow 4% to $9.9 billion in 2020
Above all equipment for cooking, barbequeing, lighting etc. was examined, but great opportunities for the natural stone industry can also be identified
Using the immaterial cultural property (stonemasonry know-how) to preserve the material cultural assets (stone ruins)
The German Archaeological Institute runs two projects not far from the Sea of Galilee in Umm Qays in Jordan
