Stone is enjoying a renaissance. Everywhere architects are reconnecting to old traditions by using stone: Gilles Perraudin in France with the wine store at La Galine; Herzog & de Meuron with the Dominus Winery in California; Renzo Piano’s fantasy in porphyry in Basel; and Rafael Moneo’s use of natural stone on the city hall in Murcia. Belgium is for many the first country that springs to mind as a source of natural stone, yet only very few contemporary stone buildings rise up above its flat plains. Stone is of course present in architecture in Belgium, almost omnipresent in fact, but it is used extremely sparingly. Which is a curious anomaly in a country famous for its quarried stone. The Belgian architect Jos Delbroek remarked ironically, “Belgium is a country dominated by the colour grey, as you can see from the two typically Belgian building materials, natural stone and zinc.