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“Building with Stone Today“ (Construir en Pedra Hoy) is the title of a workshop in Spain in which stonemasons from there and from France will rebuild the famous vault of the Junterones Chapel in Murcia Cathedral

Solid construction with stone will be a key topic at the Stone+tec Congress in Nuremberg in June 2024

Another focus will be on how generations Y and Z rethink the cemetery

In 2023, Unesco has added 42 sites to its list of World Heritage Sites, among them many made of stone

This brings the total number to 1199 in 168 countries, many of which used stone as a building material

The 11th Wind Art Festival “bewegter wind” with the theme “beyond …darüber hinaus” took place from August 13 – 27, 2023, in Wolfhagen near Kassel, Germany

Ulrich Rückriem‘s major work “40 Bodenreliefs“ at the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin until January 14, 2024

The artist‘s cuboids make the square floor tiles by Mies von der Rohe seem to grow in height

In front of Antwerp Cathedral, Nello and his dog Patrasche lie tightly embraced under a paving slab

The Belgian sculptor Batist Vermeulen (“Tist“) created the sculpture based on a story by the author Ouida

White marble CLOUD ATLAS, evoking the ephemeral beauty of shifting clouds, quarried by Stonewhite company in China’s northeast

2023-slump in demand for ceramic tiles from Italy worldwide: -22.1% for exports compared to the previous year, -8.7% for sales within Italy

Main reasons are increased costs for energy and raw materials, high interest rates

Oddities from the world of stones: the best-known example of stone on stage is Mozart’s opera Don Giovanni with the statue of a murdered man made of white marble

“Perle“ (pearls) is the name of the new collection from fittings manufacturer Gessi with different types of marble and onyx

The motto of the design is “Haute Culture,“ but the design is simple and therefore effective