Archinect

JANUARY 20, 2022

Mallorca is an island full of beautiful natural landscapes together with picturesque stone towns full of history and tradition. Our design reflects it by using traditional techniques and materials as stones from a local quarry. First of all, the windows are pushed inside of the structure i.

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Archinect

DECEMBER 31, 2021

The Texas Limestone found throughout the majority of the exterior and interior of the home was sourced from a local quarry. Natural cedar siding, aged to a beautiful silver-gray patina, was used on secondary facades as a contrasting material to the stone and metal roof.

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Deezen

OCTOBER 12, 2024

Find out more about Wasatch House › Photo by Doublespace Photography Smith Residence, Canada, by MacKay-Lyons Sweetapple Symmetrical openings in a colossal stone hearth house an open fireplace and log store, which serve to warm the living room of this coastal Nova Scotian home.

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Deezen

APRIL 24, 2022

Chinese studio DnA_Design and Architecture has transformed a series of former stone quarries in Zhejiang Province into cultural spaces, making sensitive insertions into their grand hand-carved interiors. DnA_Design and Architecture has transformed a series of stone quarries into cultural spaces.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Stone has the potential to become a go-to, low-carbon structural material, but barriers around quarrying and a lack of awareness must be overcome to make this a reality, experts tell Dezeen in this Stone Age 2.0 The structural use of stone is not new," said Blasi.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

The sustainability of structural stone is dependent on how and where it is quarried and its reputation as an infinite material is misleading, warns Slovak-British architect Natalia Petkova in this Stone Age 2.0 Dezeen spoke to her as part of its Stone Age 2.0 interview. "I

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designboom

DECEMBER 5, 2024

the project is built from materials sourced from a local landfill, including clay and stones deposited by ancient glaciers. The post natural forces sculpt rammed earth columns in sustainable norwegian quarry installation appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

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Architizer

DECEMBER 5, 2024

In modern design, landscape architecture should not be an afterthought; it should be an integral component of the overall project that creates harmony between the built spaces and the natural environment. Every element of the landscape was intentional, amplifying the building’s story and immersing visitors in the region’s culture and craft.

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Architizer

MARCH 13, 2025

For centuries, ghost materials, which are produced inadvertently through industry, have been just as much a part of construction as any consciously selected stone or metal. While in Britain, bomb-damaged buildings were pulverized and re-formed into new bricks, recycling history into the next iteration of the city.

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Deezen

MAY 20, 2024

Local architecture studio DF Arquitectos has wrapped an expansive clubhouse for a football team in volcanic stone in the shadow of a rocky cliff in Mexico City. Nearly 75 per cent of the four-storey facade is xitle, a volcanic stone quarried from the excavation site that allows the building to fit naturally into its immediate context.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

The built environment must hark back to its low-carbon past and embrace stone as a structural material if it is to effectively tackle its environmental footprint, writes Steve Webb as part of our Stone Age 2.0 When we look back, ignoring stone will seem like a great missed opportunity. What about quarrying I hear you ask?

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Deezen

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Swedish studio Johan Sundberg Arkitektur has completed a holiday home on the island of Gotland, using a natural palette of materials to allow its owners to feel "grounded" in the site's natural landscape. The bathrooms are finished in stone Swedish architect Sundberg founded Johan Sundberg Arkitektur in 2006.

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Deezen

MAY 11, 2023

HW Studio Arquitectos has completed a cruciform house with open-air corridors and courtyards tucked between locally quarried stone walls in San Miguel de Allende , Mexico. Arranged in a cross, the walls form four quadrants, framing the spaces and shield stone alleys for circulation.

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Deezen

MAY 19, 2024

Designer Werner Aisslinger has renovated a lakeside hotel in Germany 's Sauerland region, adding hydroponics and locally sourced materials including wood and terrazzo to craft interiors informed by the surrounding nature. The post Studio Aisslinger completes "nature-loving" renovation of Hotel Seegarten appeared first on Dezeen.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Harnessing stone as a structural material can make architecture more enjoyable to both build and inhabit argues Tristram Carfrae, an Arup engineer working on the Sagrada Familia , in this Stone Age 2.0 Stone has become a luxury cladding material, whether used as a rainscreen, or as floor tiling," Carfrae told Dezeen. "We

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The Spaces

MARCH 14, 2025

The log cabin is the ultimate rural idyll, a structure built by hand to withstand the elements, imbued with natural rustic charm and texture. The two-storey home nestles into Quarry Wood, a picturesque spot on the outskirts of the town of Marlow that is known for its biodiversity. How much does this rural idyll cost?

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Deezen

MAY 15, 2022

Architecture for London has used a palette of stone , concrete and wood to create this monolithic rear extension to a house in Islington, which features a small arched entrance for the owner's cat. The London house extension uses a palette of stone, concrete and wood. The bathrooms combine limestone, concrete and dark natural plaster.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 13, 2024

Dezeen Showroom: Italian brand Antolini has listed a range of its stone products on Dezeen Showroom, from tableware to surfaces made from natural quarried stone. Antolini's Azerocare Plus stone treatment serves to protect the company's natural stone surfaces while they are in use.

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Deezen

OCTOBER 27, 2023

New Orleans-based architecture studio Eskew Dumez Ripple has clad a Connecticut museum with a stone facade reminiscent of local quarries and "monolithic massing". Located in Greenwich, Connecticut , the Bruce Museum holds a multidisciplinary collection of art, science and natural history exhibits.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Among the highlights is Terrazzo Quarry, an interactive installation designed especially for the exhibition in collaboration with Italian design brand Poltronova. Photo by Ellis Scott The Hyperreality section examines how Wood layers materials and patterns to blur the line between what is natural versus what is man-made.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

As Dezeen completes its editorial series on the role of stone in architecture , we've rounded up eight pieces listed on Dezeen Showroom that demonstrate how the material is used in interior design. Seating and plant pots informed by the appearance of stone also feature. Dezeen Showroom is an example of partnership content on Dezeen.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

To conclude our Stone Age 2.0 series, we've collected 10 recently completed and upcoming buildings that show the potential of structural stone as a modern construction material. This week, Stone Age 2.0 Swapping traditional materials – or materials that are traditional now – for stone can be done."

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Deezen

OCTOBER 12, 2024

The design duo of Prince Carl Philip of Sweden and Oscar Kylberg have designed landscape-like interiors for a hotel in a Swedish nature reserve, featuring their first own-label furniture collection. It is an experience totally on nature's own terms," said Carl Philip Bernadotte. "It

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Deezen

AUGUST 13, 2022

Accessed via a stone pathway that winds through the grasses and crops, guests enter A?ng ng through a glass door, where the stone flooring continues inside. The entrance takes guests past an open kitchen with a stone counter and bespoke artworks of organic forms. A series of stone sculptures from a quarry in Va?xjo?,

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Deezen

MAY 23, 2024

Architecture studio Artefact has created an installation at Clerkenwell Design Week using bricks made of stone , which the manufacturer claims emit 75 per cent fewer greenhouse gases than fired bricks in production. It's a modified bespoke machine originally designed to make paving stones," Paine told Dezeen.

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Landscape Architecture Magazine

MARCH 7, 2024

A soapstone quarry with Indigenous roots is set to become an archaeological park. Four thousand years ago, if you were working with a stone mallet, it would be steady but relatively quick work to carve a soapstone boulder into a medium-sized bowl. The quarry is thought to have drawn people from significant distances, she says.

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Deezen

JULY 26, 2023

Completed in 2018, the project by David Chipperfield Architects transformed the cave from its former use as a Vicenza stone quarry. The romantic and tectonic qualities of the quarry with the carved stone and the filtered water were already so strong that minimal interventions were required."

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Deezen

MARCH 26, 2024

Construction is progressing on a mass-timber academic building with a stone facade designed by architecture firm Studio Gang for the University of Chicago campus in Paris. It will be built from at least 50 per cent natural materials in line with the French sustainability law.

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aasarchitecture

MARCH 31, 2022

Scars left by time With sun rising, mists clearing, mountains growing and water dropping, every interaction between man and nature would leave marks, some of which have become the evidence of great civilization while others may become “scars” on the land that cannot be ignored. Life originates from nature.

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The Spaces

JANUARY 25, 2022

Lamb and Holt have used natural material for the converted warehouse , installing Cornish granite worktops and splashbacks – sourced from a quarry Lamb had worked with – pink marble, and a prototype of his engineered Marmoreal stone. Photography: The Modern House.

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Deezen

MARCH 27, 2023

Dezeen Showroom: a wall light with a back panel made from angular offcuts of naturally quarried stone is among 13 new products featured on Dezeen Showroom. The Avon Collection references natural waterways in Cornwall and comes in several earthy colourways.

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Deezen

MAY 20, 2023

Our latest lookbook shines a light on homes where marble and similar natural stones have been used as the primary material in the bathrooms. Read on to see 10 different examples, featuring a range of marbles that include Carrera and Verde Aver, as well as similar natural stones such as travertine and quartzite.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

ACAN Natural Materials Group co-ordinator Aurore Baulier calls on architects to embrace stone 's natural qualities and reintroduce the material into their toolkits in this Stone Age 2.0 Stone can be used for foundations, but also as a superstructure," she continued.

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Deezen

JANUARY 23, 2023

The building rises out of a small pool of water next to the Qasr Al Hosn Fort – Abu Dhabi's oldest stone structure. He raised the bulbous pavilion off the ground on a series of rough quarry stones. "I The symphony of nature is what we really wanted people to experience here."

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The Spaces

JANUARY 9, 2023

Period features such as the staircase and coffered wooden ceilings, steel girders and quarry-stone fireplaces are celebrated alongside more contemporary interventions like resin floors and pristine white walls and tiling, which give the building a gallery feel. Villa Becker-Benze is asking for €3.93m via Fantastic Frank Berlin.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Occupying a long narrow site in Herblay sur Seine, L'échappée – meaning "escapade" in English – faces a road to the north with a stone and glass facade and opens up to a field to the south with a large wooden colonnade. At L'échappée, the material is complemented with stone in reference to a historic nearby quarry. "We

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Mexican studio Taller Héctor Barroso has used concrete, wood and brick to create a series of holiday homes that merge with the wooded landscape and "allow nature to act in the intimacy of the home". The architecture studio designed the homes to integrate with the tree-studded landscape and to enable nature to flow indoors.

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