Stone/Masonry

Chicago’s Printers Row, located in the South Loop neighborhood of the city, is home to a large collection of former warehouses and factory lofts built at the turn of the century. Mostly built of steel-frame construction and wrapped in richly detailed brick, terracotta and stone, the area is one of many protected historic districts in the city. So when Filoramo Taslma Architecture was commissioned to create a mixed-use infill project, a blended, but distinct, design was at the core. The residence portion of the structure pays homage to its neighbors with playful massing clad in dark-gray brick and a hanging terracotta brise-soleil. In keeping with the historic district, the prevail

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Landscape Products

Rock the Block: Masonry Goes Heavy Metal

Landscape designer Rocio Gertler, principal of LdG, and the team, found a creative way to re-imagined a former utilities building and parking lot in San Diego into a stylish campus amenity for office tenant employees using McNichols' ECO-ROCK.The gabion-style wire containers created a partition and divider system that is custom-filled with angled rocks harvested from a local quarry. This Wire Mesh and frame grid system can be integrated into seating, partitions, and decorative features. Assembled in container-style arrangements along the slope outside the fitness center, the system became the basis of LdG’s plan for amphitheater-style seating that also became an outdoor e

Marriott Springhill Suites, Fort Worth, Texas

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Stone/Masonry

Hotel’s High-Performance Wall System Perfect Match for Historic Fort Worth Stockyards

The Marriott’s Springhill Suites now stands as a Western-themed gateway to the district and all the activities that have made the area a favorite destination for visitors and locals seeking an authentic Texas experience. The Fort Worth Stockyards National Historic District is imbued with the true history of Texas’ famous livestock industry. The Marriott’s Springhill Suites now stands as a Western-themed gateway to the district and all the activities that have made the area a favorite destination for visitors and locals seeking an authentic Texas experience. Every component of the customized build was carefully selected for authenticity and quality. Andres Rubio, architect a

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Stone/Masonry

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

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

Creative Stone Façade Reflects Eclectic History

Architect uses creative thin stone installation to capture downtown Baltimore’s eclectic history and deliver a chic affordable housing building. As cities throughout North America move to rejuvenate neglected cores through intensification, planning affordable housing poses a unique challenge: how to redevelop economically and with an aesthetic that jives with the eclectic nature of historic cores. Having completed a successful and award-winning development in downtown Baltimore already, Fillat+ Architecture and their client, Housing Trust of America, eyed a vacant property for a new affordable apartment complex. Situated at an historic intersection, architect Peter Fillat an

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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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Stone/Masonry

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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Stone/Masonry

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.

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Stone/Masonry

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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Stone/Masonry

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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Stone/Masonry

Elegant & Weathered, Super-Long Brick

Previously available only from Europe, Arriscraft offers a new super-long brick with a distressed finish in North America. Architectural Linear Series Brick is very long and slender at 23-5/8" long x 2-3/8" high for a modern, sleek look but in a weathered finish. This incredibly popular brick series is manufactured in the U.S. and Canada and comes in a range of stunning designer colors.Arriscraft brick and stone products are unique in the world. These calcium silicate products are made using only natural materials—sand and lime, plus color pigments—and offer the natural aesthetics and durability of quarried stone, plus the convenience of standard ins

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Stone/Masonry

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.

Architectural Products

Stone/Masonry

When Shading and Architecture Marry

Rock the Block: Masonry Goes Heavy Metal

Hotel’s High-Performance Wall System Perfect Match for Historic Fort Worth Stockyards

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

Creative Stone Façade Reflects Eclectic History

Renovation and Rehab: That's a Wrap

Street Savvy

Solar Synchronicity

Full-Depth Veneers

Dusky Gray

Elegant & Weathered, Super-Long Brick

Knee Walls and Accents