“A stone creates a landscape, and a landscape usually sits outside of a building. I wanted to create this landscape that exists outside, inside the building itself.” – Junya Ishigami T... Read more
Natural stone is one mother nature’s most fundamental of elements that slowly evolves over hundreds of years. Above that, advanced technology has paved the way to allowing natural stone to g... Read more
“WE ARE IN FACT THE MOUNT QAF”
According to Arab and Persian cosmology, Mount Qaf is a mountain that surrounds the living world as a belt and can not be crossed in any way. Behind Mount Qaf, carries the observer to a jour... Read more
TEARS OF ANATOLIA
Architect Yaşar Yılmaz has visited more than 50 museums in more than 10 countries by spending a lot of effort and adopting the passion of an amateur researcher. During these travels which he... Read more
Organized by IMIB for the sixth edition this year adopting the “Give Life to Stone” motto, the natural stone design competition is concluded. Edizalp Akın from Kadir Has University ranked fi... Read more
KONTRA ARCHITECTURE VISITS THE MAISON & OBJET FAIR IN PARIS
SHINING OUT AS THE CREATOR OF INTERIOR SPACES SUCH AS KOLEKTIF HOUSE, THE ST. REGIS ISTANBUL, MORINI ISTANBUL AND DEAN & DELUCA, THE ISTANBUL-BASED KONTRA ARCHITECTURE VISITS MAISON... Read more
A MINIMALIST DESIGN BY LAURA BILDE: THE MAMMUT TABLE
Laura Bilde’s style of design can be characterized by a Scandinavian simplicity where aesthetics meet with function, where clean and geometric lines unearth creativity. Inspired by art histo... Read more
A DAZZLING PRODUCT FROM THE COLLABORATION OF BUDRI AND PATRICIA URQUILA: ZIG ZAG COFFEE TABLE
In the scope of collaboration with the Italian marble brand Budri and the designer Patricia Urquiola, the concepts of cohesion and fusion featuring different materials, have been used to cha... Read more
Could you evaluate the usage and preservation of natural stones regarding the projects in Turkey? Natural stone use is highly popular in both indoor and outdoor projects. They are paying gre... Read more
“For millions of years… stone objects were the main tools used by our humanoid ancestors… The Acheulean hand axe was used without much change for 1,5 million years, an absurdly long period o... Read more











