Seven magnificent foreign stone mines, do you want to visit them?

Marble is very common in daily life. The windowsill, TV background and kitchen bar in your home may be collected from a mountain. Don't underestimate such a piece of natural marble. It's at least millions of years old.  These rock materials generated in the earth's crust were originally sleeping in the depths of the ocean, but they collided with each other, squeezed and pushed up during the years of crustal plate movement, forming many mountains. It was only after such a long process that the marble on the mountain appeared before our eyes.

Italian photographer Luca Localelli often takes pictures of stone mines. He said, "This is an independent and isolated world. It is beautiful, strange and full of austere atmosphere. In this self-contained stone world, you will find that industry and nature are perfectly integrated. In the photo, those workers the size of nail caps stand between the mountains and guide the operation of tractors like a symphony orchestra."

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MARMOR III

HANNES PEERARCHITECTURE·Italy

Marmor III suggests strategic reuse of these abandoned Marmor quarries. Each quarry is transformed to create a sculptural and unique architectural combination. The architectural method is between architecture and nature. It is the expression of living in primitive and modern diversified architecture.

The picture shows that HANNESPEER ARCHITECTURE carried out creative design for the abandoned Marmo quarry in 2020. The designer designed a series of houses in the middle to the top of the quarry.

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Lost Landscape

Luiz Eduardo Lupatini· Italy

Designer Luiz Eduardo Lupatini planned a hot spring in the gap of the quarry with the theme of "lost scenery" in the competition of Karala Hot Spring Bathing Beach, and made a dialogue between human and nature through the minimalist design language.

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Anthropophagic Territory

Adrian Yiu ·Brazil

This special quarry is located in the slum of Rio de Janeiro. The designer is a graduating student. He hopes to build a community cooperative for the residents of the slum through this project and raise the attention of the city to the slum.

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Ca'nTerra House

ENSAMBLE STUDIO· Spain

Ca'n Terra was originally a local quarry, and later used as the ammunition depot of the Spanish army during the civil war. It was only rediscovered after decades of war. This cavernous building is full of charm because of its revolving history. It has also been redesigned to compose a new story.

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Carrières de Lumières

France

Carri è res de Lumi è res is located on the blue coast of Provence. As a quarry with a long history, many white marble used in French castles and Cit é des Baux are derived from it. In 1935, the economic competition of modern materials led to the closure of this generation of quarries.

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Open Space Office

Tito Mouraz· Portugal

Portuguese photographer Tito Mouraz spent two years visiting the quarries in Portugal, and finally recorded these spectacular and magnificent semi-natural landscapes through photos.

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QUARRIES

Edward Burtynsky·America

At the quarry in Vermont, artist Edward Burtynsky shot this quarry, which is called the deepest in the world.