2010 Pinnacle Awards: Intercontinental Excellence
Award of Merit | Commercial Interior
Sotus International Head Office
Bangkok, Thailand
Click photo to enlargeStone Supplier, Stone Fabricator, Stone Installer: Stones and Roses International Co. Ltd., Bangpla Bangplee, Samutprakam, Thailand (honoree, MIA member)
Client: Sotus International Co. Ltd.
Architect: Architect BNA (Thailand)
General Contractor: B-Nine Construction Co. Ltd.
Stone: Sandstone
For the central lift-cage cladding, combining textures and recesses, Stones & Roses proposed random-size textured beige sandstone slabs. The direction of the texture changes from one piece to the other to create changing contrast depending on the direction and intensity of the light.
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Every piece needed to be CAD-drawn and prepared in the factory; the blocks were produced by assembling 2cm slabs, with smoothed edges and corners to conceal the joints. Anchoring points for dry-fixing were drilled at the factory for assembly onsite.
Award of Merit | Renovation/Restoration
Dominican House – Saint Thomas Chapel
Washington
Click photo to enlargeStone Supplier, Stone Fabricator, Stone Installer: Rugo Stone, Lorton, Va. (honoree, MIA member)
Client: Dominican House of Study
Architect: James McCrery Architects
General Contractor: Whalen Construction Co.
Stone: Bianco Perlino marble, Olympian White Danby marble, Rosso Nembro marble
For the renovation of the 60-year-old chapel, Rugo Stone carefully dismantled the existing rear altar, which was fused to the rear wall, and taken to the company’s marble-restoration factory for modifications to become a freestanding front altar. This involved fabricating a new rear face of the altar to match the Bianco Perlino marble quarried 60 years ago.
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The project also involved installing a new Olympian White Danby marble platform, and fabricating a new fused rear altar out of Bianco Perlino marble with Rosso Nembro as the accent color. The final phase of the project was the restoration of various round stone statues of Catholic saints by repairing many chips, carving a new hand for the St. Dominic statue and fabricating various radial Bianco Perlino shelves and raised plinths for the sculptures.