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Natural Stone Institute Member Company
Coldspring
Cold Spring, Minnesota Stone Supplier/Fabricator
Other Project Team Members
Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects Architect
JK Masonry
Stone Installer
Stone
Echo Lake granite
Judges Comments:
The stock control was really, well executed. A pleasing looking installation. Great job of keeping it homogeneous yet still allowing the fairly, strong movement of the pattern to symbiotically move throughout the walls, and even the contrasting floor, creating a cohesive whole. Elegant. This is museum quality stonework. A celebration of stone and a nice backdrop to the art and sculpture.
During extraction, the stone manufacturer did an excellent job chasing the desirable black markings and not allowing unwanted markings in the product. In the fabrication phase, the manufacturer expertly han- dled the large pieces mov- ing through the plant.
Many of the panels for the Welcome Center were extremely large rectilinear pieces which required spe- cial detailing for anchors and relief angles for instal- lation, with type 31 anchors on the back. In addition, minimizing joints for the large piece sizes was a requirement in the stone detailing.
For the 70-foot-tall walls of the Welcome Center, the installation contractor used a series of cranes mounted to the wall and bolted on with trolleys. To set the granite along the roof, the instal- lation contractor followed advice from Coldspring on using clamps to set the stone since there was no scaffold or crane access.
Echo Lake granite proved to be a beautiful material to ground and define the land- scape at Meijer Gardens. The upgrades now allow Meijer Gardens to continue serving an expanding audi- ence with the vision of con- necting the community, land, and the arts.
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Commercial Exterior
Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park
Grand Rapids, Michigan
the Garden into a coherent and understandable whole and creating a Welcome Center that amazed every- one who entered. During the design team’s initial quarry visit, Coldspring provided a large-scale mockup to demonstrate the panels in various finishes. The archi- tects had very specific requirements for the allow- able color range, markings, and inclusions for the gran- ite, which the supplier was able to meet.
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IN2017, Frederick Meijer Gardens announced plans for a $115- million expansion, including a new 69,000-square-foot Welcome Center and upgrades to their amphi- theater. More than 71,000 square feet of Echo Lake granite played a key role in
meeting the design vision.
The core has been Design goals included tying together the many parts of