Devine Comedy Dante

 

Io non piangea, si’ dentro impetrai“ (I wept not, so to stone within I grew), is one of the famous quotations of Dante Alighieri’s Devine Comedy (Canto 33, 49). The reference is to the dread and horror of Hell and its hardship...

Stone Ideas: http://www.stone-ideas.com/2015/10/27/dantes-devine-comedy-stone-as-a-symbol-for-hardship-and-damnation/
 

MIA has compiled important information on Natural Stone

 

The Marble Institute of America aims to supply professionals, architects and designers with basic knowledge by means of its Online Resource Library
The Online Resource Library has been made available and can be downloaded free of charge by the Marble Institute of America (MIA). Users can download, e.g.: the Dimension Stone Manual in which useful information and a glossary of terms, descriptions of stone types or solutions to frequent problems are compiled.
http://www.stone-ideas.com/2015/10/24/mia-has-compiled-important-information-on-natural-stone-ready-to-be-downloaded/

Tower of Refuge

 

Because of facing threat from alternation of the natural growth pattern, deterioration of the global environment and excessive harvesting of the living creatures, more and more species of animals and plants are now endangered on the Earth. How to maintain species diversity has become a crucial issue.

Source: http://www.evolo.us/competition/tower-of-refuge/

Stone Age

 

The Museum of Natural History in Boulder, Colorado shows an exhibit of over 80 stone age items found in 2008 in a backyard in the city
The discovery of stone tools from the late Pleistocene (13,000 years ago) within the city limits of Boulder in 2008 was a rare event in archaeology. A new exhibit in the University of Colorado’s Museum of Natural History in Boulder features the collection of more than 80 of these stone tools known as The Mahaffy Cache found in a backyard.

http://www.stone-ideas.com/2015/10/18/stone-tools-about-13000-years-old-tell-stories-of-late-pleistocene/

an exhibition halls like petals

The architects von Gerkan, Marg and Partners were able to prevail against the competition in the project for Vietnam’s National Exhibition and Trade Fair Center. From nine designs by international architects such as SAMOO Architects & Engineers (Korea), Atkins (Hong Kong) and NIKKEN SEKKEI (Japan), the client, Vingroup, selected the master plan and architectural concept of the Hamburg architects, and announced the result on the 3rd of October.
http://www.evolo.us/architecture/vietnam%e2%80%99s-new-national-exhibition-and-trade-fair-center/