Client: David and Felicia Wright, Clifton, Va.
Designer: Kohler Associates Architects, Burke, Va.
Contractor: Kohler Homes, Burke, Va.
Masonry Subcontractor: United Masonry Inc., Alexandria, Va.
By K. Schipper
CLIFTON, Va. – Is a job truly a do-it-yourself project if you know what you’re doing?
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.
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 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.
By K. Schipper
UNION CITY, Calif. – It’s human nature to want to see some good come from the worst of situations. Certainly the Flight 93 Memorial, scheduled to be dedicated here this summer, goes a long way toward duplicating the determined spirit exemplified by the passengers who refused to let their aircraft be used as a weapon on Sept. 11, 2001.
By K. Schipper
Client: The Willow School, Gladstone, N.J.
Architect: Farewell Mills Gatsch Architects, Princeton, N.J.
Contractor: Solid Wood Construction, Gladstone, N.J.
Stone Supplier: Wood Natural Restoration, Orefield, Pa.
By K. Schipper
Most commercial stone jobs are like banquets: the fabricator needs to cook up a large order, often of the same design, but may have weeks before the final product is needed.
By K. Schipper
Client/Designer/Contractor: Cold Climate Housing Research Center. Fairbanks, Alaska
Masonry Heater Designer: Solutions to Healthy Breathing, Fairbanks, Alaska
Masonry Heater Installer: Stone Castle Masonry, Fairbanks, Alaska
Stone Fabricator/Installer: Alaskan Granite, Fairbanks, Alaska
FAIRBANKS, Alaska – Most of the time when a building client talks about serving as designer and contractor, people in the trades shake their heads and walk away.
The Cold Climate Housing Research Center (CCHRC) and its Research and Testing Facility (RTF), though, is anything but a normal project.
By K. Schipper
Client: Air Force Memorial Foundation, Arlington, Va.
Architect: Pei Cobb Freed & Partners, New York
Contractor: Centex Construction LLC, Dallas
Stone Contractor: Lorton Contracting Company Inc., Springfield, Va.
Stone Fabricator: A. Lacroix et Fils Granit Itee, Saint Sebastien De Frontenac, Que.
Stone Carver: Marcel Machler Inc., Twin Peaks, Calif.
Stone Suppliers: Granites of America, Esmond, R.I.; M+Q Italia S.p.A., Marina di Massa, Italy
ARLINGTON, Va. – Befitting the service it honors, the Air Force Memorial sweeps up to the skies … but its foundation is solidly in stone.
By K. Schipper
Client: State of Indiana Department of Administration, Indianapolis
Architect: Schmidt Associates, Indianapolis
Masonry Contractor: Broady Campbell Inc., Indianapolis
Stone Supplier: Stone Clad Inc., Carmel, Ind.
Stone Fabricator: Evans Limestone, Bedford, Ind.
INDIANAPOLIS – When most people think of here, they think of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, but any race broadcast invariably focuses early and often on another of the city’s icons: the Indiana Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Monument.