How do you incorporate a café serving food and drink in a nearly 1,000-year-old cathedral?

The architects at Feilden Fowles gave the new building a bit of an open-and-close drawer feel to the historic setting

Researchers at ETH Zurich teach a computer-controlled excavator the basic steps required to erect a simple drystone wall from thick boulders

Forscher der ETH Zürich bringen einem computergesteuerten Bagger die grundlegenden Schritte bei, um eine einfache Trockenmauer aus dicken Steinbrocken aufzuschichten

New in our Stone Finder: world-renowned marble NORWEGIAN ROSE, used in luxury resorts and residences worldwide, quarried north of the polar circle by Fauske marble by Moser company

On our own behalf: Every Saturday, we invite our readers to have a look into our archive. See the Left Column of the webpage

In eigener Sache: Jeden Samstag laden wir unsere Leser ein zu einem Blick in unser Archiv, dies in der Linken Spalte der Webseite

In the Swiss canton of Uri historically and ecologically significant stone walls have been restored

Most of them are type dry stone, where the stones are merely stacked one on top of the other

Im Schweizer Kanton Uri wurden historisch und ökologisch bedeutsame Steinmauern wieder hergestellt

Meist handelt es sich um Trockenmauern, wo die Steine nur aufeinander gestapelt sind

Italian Antolini company: “exclusive natural stones transform an ordinary bedroom into a unique and exclusive environment”

The company has a long tradition in marketing its stones by showing them in application