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Planning and innovation boost mammoth project

Village of Yorkville Park: the rock

Waterjet fabricator learns large-scale coordination

Il Municipio di Rezé le Nantes: un'architettura di ardesia

Marbled atrium unifies corporate complex

cream, ose and green marbles, installed on the atrium floor of the new AAA Headquarters, provide an eye-pleasing entry for visitators and employees

Exterior limestone is just a taste of interior intricacies

buff and white limestones decorate the outside of Plaza Park Tower, but inside, limestone walls surround Persian carpet floors of eight stones

Tower of granite, harmony and contrasts

black, white and grey granite pavers complement the pink granite facade and pink marble walls that unify Sanwa Bank Plaza in Los Angeles

Brazilian granites dignify California recostruction

faced with total rebuilding, owners of one retail store created an entirely new image using two Brazilian granites

Building a golden Apple in the Golden State

Apple Computer Co. is at work on an R&D campus in Cupertino, CA, clad with accent strips of golden Brazilian Juparana granite

Sierra White granite lends distinction to San Joaquin County

granite from foothills of the Sierras clads this new public building's facade to relate to its historic neighbors

French limestone replaces concrete, resists graffiti

the architect first considered GFRC, but the owner preferred limestone, at the base, a limestone as hard as granite withstands the city's vandalism

Marble and granite salute domestic soldiers in the United States

stone serves as a poetic homage to heroes of the war against crime, while architecturally enhancing a public space in the nation's capital

Special exhibits surrounded by stone

across North America, architects have called upon stone to lend prestige and personality to a diverse group of museum buildings

Knoxville museum exhibits native stone

utilizing Tennessee marble, the Knoxville Museum of Art celebrates its local identity while providing a world-class home for international art

Using stone where it counts

although different in setting, two new British corporate headquarters designed by Arup Associates utilize stone to its best advantage

At world's oldest golf course, the greens are stone

the greens are not only on the course at the birthplace of golf; they are in the marble guestroom vanities and slate floors throughout the Old Courese Hotel

Mexican marble: eye-catching entry in a U.S. office building

the design team of the Willis Corroon Plaza looked south of the border to find stone that would accent an interior adorned with international granites

An elegant reception in green marble from Taiwan

marble replaces brick and stucco to let visitors know they've arrived in the lobby of the renovated Hyatt regency in Houston

Kahlil Gibran remembered in granite

the immensely popular Labanese-American poet now draws visitors to a quiet memorial garden on Embassy Row in Washington, DC

Reinterpreting a mall interior with Mexican marble

several trips across the border inspired this architect to combine Mexican marbles with white Greek marble in the renovation of a Lone Star mall