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Peter’s Corner: The megatrends for the stone sector in 2026 are all “green”: They include solid construction with small blocks, poststressing, interlocking elements, and stone bricks, as well as, in the longer term, the circular economy

Stone+tec Nuremberg (June 17th to 20th, 2026) will have “Building with Natural Stone,” “Equipment for Professionals,” and “Place of Remembrance” as main topics

In addition, Tile+tec offers a dedicated exhibition area for “Design with Tiles”

Stone Insight: For the “StoneSticks”, the French company Mineral Expertise created the columns from limestone half-shells surrounding fiberglass tube

“StoneSticks” as a new idea for building with natural stone

At the new University of Chicago building in Paris, the architects at Studio Gang bring the theme of innovation and redesigning our world to the façade

TUPELO HONEY, a sandstone with unique hues of gold, quarried by Las Vegas Rock company in Nevada near the glittering gambling city

The Australian designers of Lo & Co have dedicated themselves entirely to the little things in the home and have as goal “to make ordinary accessories a little less ordinary“

For their handles, knobs, and hooks for doors, cabinets, drawers, and walls, they now also use marble and travertine

The Mexican Gallardo Tequila Dynasty is celebrating its family anniversary with a new, limited-edition tequila presented in a white Carrara marble bottle

”Volcan de mi Terra” (Volcano of My Land) is the name of the product, which was unveiled at an art fair in Miami

The Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden (Dresden State Art Collections, SKD) has the exhibition “Hercules – Hero and Anti-Hero” showing the demigod – with his perhuman strength and all his human flaws, until June 28, 2026

The restoration of Big Ben took one of the Royal Institute of British Architects’ RIBA London Awards 2025

The clock tower represents Great Britain as a political world power, a leading industrial nation, and a democracy

26th Xiamen Stone Fair 2026 (March 16–20): in eight country pavilions, numerous exhibitors, many of them for the first time, will present themselves and their stones to the buyers from all over the world