Facades of natural stone show remarkable energetic advantages in comparison with glass facades. This is the result of an extensive study that compares facades of natural stone and glass.

The execution of the pedestal of the Llotja of Mare de Deu, Sagrada Familia , Barcelona (Spain)

Project:

PEDESTAL DE LA LLOTJA DE LA MARE DE DÉU. Temple Sagrada Familia, Barcelona (Spain)

Company:

MARBRES CASTELL, Ulldecona (Tarragona), Spain

Material:

Floresta Stone honed / bush hammered

The realisation of this piece, the pedestal of the Llotja of Mare de Deu, forms part of the prolonged construction of the the Sagrada Familia Temple, in Barcelona, one of the most emblematic works of Gaudí.

It is so easy for us to think that the machinery used for cutting stone in the industry are all modern inventions, and as for how stone was cut and processed in the distant past, ah, well, who cares ?... Some simple contraption, of course, would be a generalised assumption.

Today's homeowner has so many choices for their kitchen tops that it makes it so hard to choose.

As part of the Carrara Marmotec fair held from 19 to 22 May, 2010 held in the Italian city of Carrara, the exposition "Pezzi al Forte" was held. Nine young designers from Liguria (Italy) presented new prototypes of urban furniture in stone. The sample tries to make visible the perfect union between design, innovation and its practical usage.

“This is not Chopin who needs us, we are the ones that need to warm up with the splendor of his fame and genius” – said Hanna Gronkiewicz-Waltz, capital’s president, during the official opening  of the Fryderyk Chopin Museum in Warsaw. The building that honors the memory of the great composer is situated in the seventeenth-century Ostrogski Castle at Tamka Street. The works lasted several years.

The legal obstacles to be overcome before opening a natural stone quarry in Russia are explained. Investments will not be forthcoming without a resolution to these problems. Meanwhile the country´s stone processing factories have to rely to an increasing extent on imports. In this report*, I.O. Sinelnikov & O.B. Sinelnikov propose some practical solutions. (*This article was translated from the Russian original in Gorny Zhurnal 2009, No.3, and appears here by kind permission of the publishers and authors.)

Trade statistics of Turkey´s natural stone industry, being highly exported oriented, help to understand the dynamism of the markets for stone all over the world. We publish the exports figures for 2009.

The Brazilian exports of ornamental rocks ended 2009 with a sales figure of US$ 724.1 million, corresponding to the commercialisation of 1,672,624 tons of diverse products. Compared to 2008, these exports figures meant a fall of 24.15% in sales and of 15.94% in total physical volume, numbers that were less than that of 2005.