2014 MIA Pinnacle Awards (Part 2 of 2)
Continued from SRG March 2015 issue
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The MIA announced the winners of the 2014 Pinnacle Awards competition during its annual Awards Luncheon, held during StonExpo/Marmomacc Americas 2015 in Las Vegas, NV.
The Pinnacle Awards recognize excellence in commercial, residential and renovation/restoration of natural stone projects worldwide. Projects selected as winners must demonstrate exceptional beauty, creativity, ingenuity, and craftsmanship in the use of granite, marble, travertine, limestone, and other natural stones.
Sponsors of the Pinnacle Awards are: MAPEI for the Commercial Awards; Blanco for the Residential Awards; and Coldspring for the Renovation/Restoration Awards. The competition is open to MIA members around the world.
During the Awards Luncheon, the MIA also presented the 7th annual Grande Pinnacle Award, sponsored by Marmomacc. A Grande Pinnacle Award was also presented to the architect involved with the winning project. The 2014 Grande Pinnacle Award winner is:
Stones and Roses International Company Ltd. of Samutprakarn, Thailand for the amazing Residential Interior/Exterior work on the Navathani Residence in Bangkok, Thailand. Traditional Thai homes are usually built as a cluster of physically separated rooms arranged around a large central terrace.
Interpreting the traditional typology of the Thai houses, the Navathani Residence consists in 2 parallel wings, separated by a large garden and a swimming pool. The objective of the stone architecture is to give a sense of unity and blend the building with trees, plants and other natural landscape.
The choice of Thai travertine was selected for the main stone for the interior space and the stone featured on the façade changed to a minimalist grey basalt.
The judges commented that the project excels with a large variety of stone finishes and combines well the travertine color with the sleek design. They also praised the project for its gorgeous, juxtaposition of materials and inventive use of stone.
The architectural firm of Architects49 House Design Limited of Bangkok, Thailand, architect for this project, was also presented with a Grande Pinnacle Award.
The 2014 Pinnacle Award winners featured in the March issue of Slippery Rock Gazette are:
- Commercial Interior Award of Excellence to Las Vegas Rock Inc., Jean, NV for the Antero Resources Corporation in Denver, CO.
- Commercial Exterior Award of Excellence to Las Vegas Rock Inc., Jean, NV for the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation Headquarters in Agoura Hills, CA.
- Commercial Exterior Award of Excellence to Kenneth Castellucci & Associates Inc. of Lincoln, RI for the Massachusetts Maritime Academy in Bourne, MA.
- Commercial Exterior Award of Merit to Carnevale & Lohr, Inc., Bell Gardens, CA for the Film Archive and Preservation Center in Santa Clarita, CA.
- Commercial Exterior Award of Merit to Creative Edge Master Shop, Inc., Fairfield, IA for Spotlight on Broadway Map, Times Square in New York, NY.
- Residential Interior/Exterior Award of Merit to Stones and Roses International Co. Ltd., Samutprakarn, Thailand for the Residence Bangsen in Chonburi, Thailand.
- Residential Interior/Exterior Award of Merit to Picasso Tile & Stonework, Tempe, AZ for Hadstan in Paradise Valley, AZ.
Congratulations to all the winners.
2014 Pinnacle Awards Judges:
Mr. Daniel Lobitz, Partner
Robert A.M. Stern Architects, LLP
460 West 34th Street
New York, New York 10001
Hana Kassem, AIA, LEED, AP
Director
Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates PC
11 West 42nd Street
New York, NY 10036
Christian Pongratz
Pongratz Perbellini Architects
VRoooMSTUDIO
Via d.a. Tridentina 9
37057 s.g.l. Verona, Italy
Jonathan Zanger
Immediate Past President,
MIA
Walker Zanger
1050 Amboy Avenue
Perth Amboy, NJ 08861
Chuck Muehlbauer
Technical Director
MIA
Award of Merit: Commercial Interior
Center for Strategic Intelligent Studies (CSIS) Headquarters
Washington, D.C.
MIA Member Company:
Rugo Stone, LLC
Lorton, Virginia
Stone Supplier | Stone Fabricator | Stone Installer
Other Project Team Members:
Hickok Cole Architects
Architect
Hitt Contracting Inc.
General Contractor
Santucci Armando, Srl
(MIA Member Company)
Structural Stone LLC
(MIA Member Company)
Stone Fabricators
Tennessee Marble Company
(MIA Member Company)
Stone Supplier | Stone Fabricator
Stone:
Tennessee Pink Marble
Statuario Venato Marble
Fior Di Bosco Marble
The Center for Strategic Intelligent Studies (CSIS) is the new headquarters for one of the leading think tanks in Washington, D.C. This project has achieved LEED Platinum certification. The building was designed to be fully occupied by the owner.
The interior space is completely clad and paved in elegant marbles. The walls are clad in Tennessee Pink marble with a sand blasted finish. The design allowed for the same appearance of the exterior stone finish to pass through into the interior space at all the curtain wall intersections. This helped create the appearance of a floating glass wall. The interior public space is open from the garden basement level, through the 1st floor, and open to the ceiling of the 3rd floor. This open space is completely clad with Tennessee Pink marble, fabricated by the Tennessee Marble Company, which created a very warm and uniform background. The Tennessee Pink marble is used on all nine levels of the interior.
The interior floor was fabricated in Statuario Venato honed marble in large format parallelograms with accents of a soft warm grey Fior Di Bosco. The interior paving stone was fabricated in Carrara, Italy by Santucci Armondo.
The lobby desk and numerous fireplaces utilize sawn small strips, laid with tight joints, to create a very unique modern appearance. The interior space is considered one of the most elegant in the Washington, D.C. market.
Award of Merit: Commercial Interior
Petersburg Public Library Medallion
Petersburg, Virginia
MIA Member Company:
Appomattox Tile Art Co.
Lorton, Virginia
Stone Supplier | Stone Fabricator | Stone Installer
Other Project Team Members:
Petersburg Public Library
Client
Enteros Design, PC
Architect
EDC
General Contractor
Travis Cobb
Stone Installer
Stone:
Marble, Granite
Limestone, Onyx
The overall goal of the library medallion is to provide the city of Petersburg, VA with a long lasting decorative focal point that represents the city’s rich history and bright future. This project was designed by the architects at Enteros Design and handmade by mosaicists at Appomattox Tile Art.
Both companies are located just a few blocks from the Petersburg library. The image incorporates forty eight of the city’s landmark buildings, stylized books, trees and sky, railroad lines, the river, and historic scenes.
The design was produced using 100% Post- Industrial Bohemian Style marble, granite, limestone and onyx. All 138,000 pieces of organically shaped tesserae trimmings were sorted by color to provide a cost effective product. The twenty-one foot diameter medallion is located in the rotunda at the front entrance to the library, which opened in 2014.
Award of Merit: Commercial Interior
Celine
Beverly Hills, California
MIA Member Company:
Amalfi Stone & Masonry, Inc.
Sun Valley, California
Stone Supplier | Stone Fabricator
Other Project Team Members:
B+A
Architect
Alain Hirsch Construction
General Contractor
Owner Supplied
Stone Supplier
Stone:
Roman Travertine
Fire Red Onyx, Jade Onyx
Brown Wood Onyx
Celine, a high-end fashion company, opened its new 3,100 sq. ft. luxury boutique in April 2013. It is a showcase of stone work on the world-famous Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills, CA.
The materials for the project were chosen by lead Celine designer, Phoebe Philo. Samples were reviewed prior to selection by the design team in France and purchased by the owner.
Mechanically attached 5 ft. x 6 ft. panels of Turquoise Blue quartzite were chosen for the store’s exterior cladding, which wrap into the interior entryway. The store interior has 3 in. thick cross-cut Roman travertine walls and matching display shelves. Fire Red onyx is used as an accent material on the shelves, while Brown Wood onyx is used for the honeycomb door panels.
The store’s feature wall is beautifully book-matched Jade onyx, which continues around to clad the changing room door panels in a honeycomb system. The wall is 14 ft. tall, with piece sizes measuring 4 ft. 2 in. x 6 ft.
Throughout the process, the team from Amalfi Stone & Masonry faced and overcame several challenges. One obstacle was the City of Beverly Hill’s tough construction constraints. Delivery of the large pieces of Turquoise Blue quartzite and Green onyx was difficult as Amalfi Stone & Masonry had limited sidewalk space to mobilize and lift the pieces to the height of the store front for installation.
Also with no on-site storage, Amalfi Stone & Masonry had to make multiple trips for delivery of the stone. Lastly, the brand was eager to unveil the store, which called for a tight fabrication and installation schedule to meet the grand opening deadline.
Award of Merit: Renovation/Restoration
Capital One Plaza
Houston, Texas
MIA Member Company:
Wiss, Janney, Elstner Associates, Inc.
Houston, Texas
Designer
Other Project Team Members:
CBRE
Client
Western Waterproofing
General Contractor
Stone Installer
Mariotti, Carlo & Figli SpA.
Stone Supplier
Stone Fabricator
Stone:
Roman Classic Travertine
Capital One Plaza is a 22-story building built in 1982 and located in Houston, Texas. The building exterior wall consists of ribbon windows and 3 cm thick travertine panels connected to precast concrete spandrel panels.
The travertine panels are mechanically connected to the precast concrete panels with stainless steel wire loop anchors. The height of the travertine panels is approximately 4 ft. and the length of the panels vary between approximately 5 ft. and 7 ft.
The 30-year-old travertine exterior wall panels and plaza pavers at Capital One Plaza exhibited distresses such as cracking and spalling. A comprehensive evaluation was performed on the exterior wall and pavers at the building. It consisted of field observations, laboratory testing, structural calculations, and mockup repairs to understand the condition of the travertine exterior wall panels, design repairs, select replacement stone, and establish stone repair criteria required to maintain the building’s original appearance.
The repairs consisted of removing and replacing approximately 250 exterior wall panels and 90 pavers along with in-place repairs of approximately 1,000 additional exterior wall panels. Repair anchors were designed and tested per current ASTM standards to determine the capacity of the anchors under a tension load. A custom made mortar mix was designed and implemented to parge the travertine panels and pavers to limit dirt accumulation within the voids in the stone and provide the building owner the desired clean appearance.
Special Award of Merit: Commercial Interior
Nu Skin Innovation Center
Provo, Utah
MIA Member Company:
KEPCO+
Salt Lake City, Utah
Stone Installer
Other Project Team Members:
Nu Skin Enterprises
Client/Owner
Bohlin Cywinski Jackson
Architect
Okland Construction
General Contractor
Henraux Spa
(MIA Member Company)
Stone Supplier
Stone Fabricator
Stone:
Carrara White
“Pencil Vein” Marble
With its clean lines and modern décor, every aspect of the Nu Skin Innovation Center’s atrium is designed to exude excellence and sophistication. One of the center’s most impressive features is the massive, one-of-a-kind marble desk, which greets visitors upon their arrival.
Shaped like the hull of a boat, the unique desk is 26 ft. long and 5 ft. wide at the thickest point. A feat of modern design and innovation, the desk curves in such a manner that only a strip of stone 8 ft. long and 3 in. wide makes contact with the floor. The desk was fabricated from two very large blocks of Carrara “Pencil Vein” marble.
Because the shape of the desk was computer generated, the stone had to be shaped using a 5 axis CNC machine and then hand-cut to achieve the desired finish. The stones were dry set and only a small amount of hand finishing was necessary to fine-tune the shape of each stone to match the adjacent stone.
The blocks were carefully oriented so that the veining was random. Installation of this unique feature also took great care and planning. Three layers of plywood were used to protect the atrium floor from receiving any damage during the desk’s installation due to the significant weight of the stones (7,700 lbs. each) and the large forklift required to lift the stones into place. Special jigs were created out of steel to support the stone while it was being installed.
The two end stones were connected via a stainless steel frame hidden beneath the matching stone countertop in the center of the desk. Three-quarter inch stainless steel anchors were used to attach the stone to the frame. Once adjusted, the frames were removed and the desk was free standing.