Source: Marble Trend Magazine (Turkey)

Project name: Cultural Village- Amphitheatre Project

Owner: State of Qatar

Contractor: Midmac Cont Co W.L.L.

Architect: Cansult Maunsell

Stone Type: Travertine

Stone producer: Haz Marble

Installation area: app. 25.0000,0 sqm

Type of fixing systems: Mechanical Fixing System (HDG Profiles and AISI 304 fixing elements)

Completion period: 13 months

Paul Daniel, paulantdaniel@arrakis.es

Dr Nicola Careddu, ncareddu@unica.it

One stone variety from Turkey is especially popular in the international markets: Travertine. Turkish travertine comes in different varieties and is similar to the travertine found in Tivoli, near Rome, Italy as well as the variety available in Iran .Turkey, as more and more people are discovering all the time, has vast resources and great variety in natural stone, with deposits spread all over the geographically big country.

Teresa González Díez (teresa.litosweb@gmail.com)

There are few people who would not like to have in their house some corner where natural stone is the main protagonist: a staircase, the floor of a living room, a chimney, the corner of the barbecue, or, more commonly, the counter-tops of a bathroom and the kitchen.

The main doubt that one often has, before installing stone in our house, is not, as many tend to think, its cost, but: how to clean it?

Miguel Fabregues
vime@vime.com

This article follows on from our first one about choosing a granite counter-top. Here we publish another opinion on this issue- there are obviously similarities in criteria, but there can also be different sensibilities. Read on.

Would you like to put a granite counter-top in the kitchen?
One assumes the answer is “Yes”.

Is the floor of the kitchen already installed?

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.