By K. Schipper
BALTIMORE – When officials at Morgan State University (MSU) set out to build a new library, they wanted a structure that relates to the school’s past while still looking forward. They got it with natural stone.
By K. Schipper
CHICAGO – Like just about every other septuagenarian, the Chicago Board of Trade building began showing its age.
By K. Schipper
CROW, Ore. – Using one natural product to complement another sounds like a great idea – but when it came to putting natural stone in the new facilities of Sweet Cheeks Winery, the process ended up as anything but simple.
By M.W. Penn
NEW HAVEN, Conn. – Renovating old stone buildings is fairly common today, but how do you restore and upgrade seven-decades-old structures already designed to look a bit old and worn?
By Claire Santry
OXFORD, England – Have British prison reformers gone completely mad? At Oxford Prison, the stone-and -brick cells feature soft double beds, luscious fabrics over the barred windows, and freestanding tubs in limestone clad en-suite bathrooms.
Sentenced to luxury and privacy, the inmates even get a key to their iron-clad door.
By Todd Messelt
MINNEAPOLIS – When the new Minneapolis Central Library opened to the public in May 20, it came more than 20 years after the first grumbling about the need for an upgraded. Like most larger public projects, the campaign to build a new library was a decades-long, on-again off-again affair that crested and waned with the crisscrossing tides of public opinion, political wrangling and economic reality.
By K. Schipper
BUFORD, Ga. – In the future, more buildings will look like the Gwinnett Environmental and Heritage Center (GEHC). And that could be good news for stone suppliers – even those with spoiled stones on their hands.
By M.W. Penn
AMARILLO, Texas – When this community conceived the idea for the Globe News Center for the Performing Arts, they wanted to construct one auditorium to house both musical and theatrical performances and to accommodate each with appropriate staging and acoustics.
By K. Schipper
SAVANNAH, Ga. – There’s certainly nothing ordinary about this community or its arts heritage – the city is this country’s largest National Historic Landmark District, and the Telfair Museum of Art is the oldest such public art institution in the South.
By K. Schipper
ALISO VIEJO, Calif. – What do you do when you want to cross the Spanish Mission style common to Southern California with the needs of a new four-year international liberal-arts college?