MIA Pinnacle Awards 2008
Award of Excellence / Commercial Exterior
Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts
Miami
Stone Contractor: Titan Stone LLC, Fort Lauderdale, Fla. (honoree, MIA member)
Architect: Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects, New Haven, Conn.
Exterior Plaza Designer: Balmori Associates, New York; EDAW, San Francisco
Exterior Wall Consultant: Curtain Wall Design & Consulting, Dallas (MIA member)
General Contracting: Performing Arts Center Builders JV of Odebrecht, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; The Haskell Company, Jacksonville, Fla; EllisDon Construction, Mississauga, Ontario.
Stone Fabricators: Savema s.p.a., Pietrasanta, Italy (MIA member); GMT S.p.a.
The nation's largest performing arts center constructed in the last thirty-five years, project plans initially called for a plain stucco façade. Instead, flamed Italian Sardo Beige granite made up most of the cladding, along with flamed Topaz Gold and honed Verde Maritaca. Titan Stone’s masons erected close to 31,000 pieces and more than 230,000 ft² of granite on the exterior skins of the center's two enormous buildings.
