Stone/Masonry

With the city reconfiguring, the long-neglected Westside is undergoing a massive overhaul as its 400-ft. deep Bellwood Quarry is repurposed into Atlanta’s largest water reserve container. The reservoir’s surrounding grounds are being developed into Westside Park, a 280-acre multi-use recreational space. This ambitious multi-phased effort addresses several issues associated with the city’s exploding population—water shortages and surpluses, an aging infrastructure and initiatives to balance development with environmentally responsible practices.This 2.5-billion-gallon capacity gorge will soon hold a large portion of Atlanta’s potable water surplus, increasing res

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Stone/Masonry

Renovation and Rehab: That's a Wrap

Winner in the architecture category of the Tile of Spain’s annual awards, announced recently at Coverings Connect, the new home for the Research Institute of the Santa Creu i Sant Pau Hospital in Barcelona, concentrates the research activity of this foundation, previously scattered throughout the complex. Designed by PICHarchitects/Pich-Aguilera and 2BMFG Arquitectes to meet demanding bioclimatic criteria, and achieve energy efficiency, the enclosure is a permeable latticework of ceramic elements that control sunlight. Judges were impressed by the use of ceramics to mimic the buildings in the historic environment. Ceramic tile enveloped the façade of the existing building in a transpar

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Street Savvy

Winner of a Bronze award in BIA’s residential category, the Unhistoric Townhouse in the Tribeca neighborhood of Manhattan is a five-story townhouse, built for a family of four. System Architects embraced the street as a central theme of the project, to create a façade that engaged with the rhythms of the neighborhood.

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Solar Synchronicity

Winner in the Brick in Architecture’s Best in Class category for higher education, McCord Hall, at the W.P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University in Tempe, was designed by Kohn Pedersen Fox. Its curving façade features a highly textured surface of projecting “corduroy” brick and deep vertical windows with projecting metal fins. The curved form of the building also increases the natural dynamism of the projecting brick shadows and operates like a sundial as the sun moves.

University of Southern Indiana Arena and Kinesiology Building

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Stone/Masonry

Iconic Athletic Facility Features Innovative Thin Stone

New University of Southern Indiana facility features unique 'clipped' thin stone solution to meet design and budget demands. The University of Southern Indiana chose Arriscraft’s innovative ARRIS-clip (thin-clad) Rainscreen Stone as they envisioned a modern facility that acknowledged and honored the older stone buildings on campus and also set a new course for the school moving into the future. The challenge for the designers and the client was to find a premium stone cladding that met the unique design challenges of this building concept and also the budget and schedule requirements. The need was clearly for a versatile stone cladding that could still provide i

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Full-Depth Veneers

Available in five luxurious colors and four brilliant finishes, Aria Slim Stone full-depth veneers deliver a distinctive, modern aesthetic, increased durability and reduced installation time. Suitable for both interior and exterior installation, the units feature a linear profile that enables the application of the same veneer on both façades and in corners. The 36-in.-long veneer design reduces installation time and the 3.625-in. bed depth enhances durability.

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Dusky Gray

With a greenguard Gold stamp of approval, Cast Fit is a large-format manufactured stone veneer. Cultured Stone’s latest offering, Carbon, is described as a weather-worn array of grays. A darker gray hue is ideal for subdued lighting and/or more modern, monochromatic surfaces.

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Knee Walls and Accents

Quick and easy to install, TandoStone with TruGrit Technology is perfect for hospitality, retail and multifamily knee walls and accents. Impervious to moisture, it is ideal for ground contact and roofline applications. Creek Ledgestone features the look of individually stacked pieces of stone where the horizontal ledge is more defined than the vertical joints, while Stacked Stone features stones with low heights and random lengths for the appearance of a hand-laid, mortarless dry-stack set.

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Stone/Masonry

Museum Design Uses Limestone to Tell Story

As was the case with Edmonton’s Royal Alberta Museum, the choices of artwork and historical material featured represent and reflect the energy and culture of the communities they serve. The Royal Alberta Museum (RAM), which celebrates the natural history and the human heritage of the province, embarked on a multi-year journey to thoughtfully reshape every facet of the museum, from the inside out.Architectural firm DIALOG, as part of a design build team with Ledcor and Lundholm Assocs., brought this new vision of RAM to life. An integrated team of award-winning architects, interior designers, landscape architects and structural, mechanical and electrical engineers were tasked

University of the District of Columbia Student Center Entrance

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A Sense of Place

The new student center at the University of the District of Columbia was designed to create a sense of welcome to an urban campus that has long been seen as something of an afterthought. The four-year college has undertaken a major redesign to reposition itself in the dense, Van Ness neighborhood, and the student center’s entrance plaza certainly sets a stage for the upgrades that have taken place.Landscape architects with D.C.-based Lee and Assocs. took the lead on the plaza design—the student center was the work of CannonDesign, in collaboration with Marshall Moya Design. The entire project is one of only two student unions in the U.S. to earn leed Platinum.The university has t

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Versatile and Durable Thin-clad Stone

ARRIS-tile thin-clad stone is versatile, surprisingly afforadable and easy to install. These 3/4" thick units come in three heights and simply adhere (like tile) to a solid substrate. ARRIS-tile colors are co-ordinated with Arriscraft's popular Renaissance Masonry Units, come in 12 standard colors and in Rocked, Smooth and Satin textures, with return corner units available. This high-performance stone is suitable for face-sealed, drainage plane, insulated drainage plane and Energy Code compliant adhered veneers.All Arriscraft stone products are calcium silicate stone—made using only natural materials, sand and lime (plus color pigments) and deliver the aest

University of Rochester Goergen Institute for Data Sciences

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Driven by Data

The University of Rochester, in Rochester, N.Y., began accepting students to its new Goergen Institute of Data Science program in fall 2015, and two years later the school opened the doors to an ambitious new facility to house the effort.The building features a creative façade design by Kennedy & Violich Architects (KVA) that plays with the theme of a data-centric mission, offering a “coded” indicator of the work going on within its walls. At the same time, it also ties this very modern building to the larger campus, with its roots back to the 1930s.The campus is the university’s third home and was originally built as its College for Men in 1930. Its oldest buildings fe

Architectural Products

Stone/Masonry

Sustainable Materials Integral to Atlanta's Westside Park and Reservoir Megaproject

Renovation and Rehab: That's a Wrap

Street Savvy

Solar Synchronicity

Iconic Athletic Facility Features Innovative Thin Stone

Full-Depth Veneers

Dusky Gray

Knee Walls and Accents

Museum Design Uses Limestone to Tell Story

A Sense of Place

Versatile and Durable Thin-clad Stone

Driven by Data