By Tom McNall
If you’re downtown and a man comes up to you in an overcoat offering to sell you a watch, are you really expecting to get a Rolex for the $10 he’s pitching? And if you actually do expect to get a Rolex for a sawbuck, then have I got a deal for you: Ever thought about owning some oceanfront property (post-earthquake) in Arizona?
By Donny Taylor
You’ve seen all the new gadgets and technologies in stoneworking. You drooled over the new robots and CNC routers. So … now what?
By K. Schipper
Client: Episcopal Diocese of Pittsburgh
Engineering/ Project Consultant: Atlantic Engineering Services, Pittsburgh
Client’s Representative: LLI/CMI Construction, Wexford, Pa.
Restoration Contractor: Young Restoration Company Inc., Carnegie, Pa.
PITTSBURGH – Steel built this city, but it also gave it a coat of soot that robbed the beautiful of its luster.
By K. Schipper
DUNDIS, Ont. – If you’ve never heard of NaturStone Corp., you’re not alone. However, company officials believe 2007 is changing all that, as they’re poised to make a series of big splashes in the block, cast polymer and engineered-stone markets.
PITTSBURGH – While Young Restoration Co. Inc. employees are spending their time on scaffolding high in the air cleaning and protecting the sandstone of Trinity Cathedral, a different kind of stone restoration is taking place at ground level.
by Cathie Beck
LARGO, Fla. – The reasons Larry Crowley – one of three partners in Cutting Edge Granite– got into the granite-fabrication and custom-kitchen business seem, at first blush, a bit strange.
NEW YORK – A new branch of the First Republic Bank opened during the city’s hot summer … sporting a cool look of native sandstone. The Upper East Side office of First Republic Bank...
By K. Schipper
Many of today’s stone fabricators are in the business because of the boom in granite kitchen countertops – so what happens when someone comes in and asks for marble tops?
Hollis, N.H. – Five architects with a focus on green building will assist the Natural Stone Council (NSC) on sustainability issues.
By K. Schipper
Client: Denver Art Museum, Denver
Designers: Studio Daniel Libeskind, New York, and Davis Partnership Architects, Denver
General Contractor: M.A. Mortenson Co., Minneapolis
Masonry Contractor: Ryan & Company Inc., Parker, Colo.
DENVER – Critics have called the new Frederic C. Hamilton Building at the Denver Art Museum a lightning bolt, a tour-de-force and the most-unusual building project in the last four decades. Inspired by the geology of the nearby Rocky Mountains and clad with 9,000 panels of titanium, it’s hard to dispute that this is a 21st-century building.