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Slippery Rock Gazette
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Natural Stone Institute Member Company
Lorton Stone, LLC
Springfield, Virginia
Stone Installer
Project Team Members
Hartman-Cox Architects Architect
Coldspring Stone Supplier/Fabricator
Stone
Academy Black® granite
Natural Stone Institute Member Company
Murphy Marble Company Chicago, Illinios Stone Installer
Project Team Members
Hoerr Schaudt Landscape Architects
A. LaCriox Granit Stone Supplier/Fabricator
Stone
Crystal Black granite
Public Landscapes/Parks/ Memorials
Korean War Veteran’s Memorial Wall of Remembrance, Washington, DC
Public Landscapes/Parks/ Memorials
The Korean War Veterans Memorial Wall of Remembrance Act was passed in 2016, authorizing the Korean War Veterans Memorial Foundation to con- struct a Wall of Remembrance at the exist- ing memorial to honor the 36,634 members of the U.S. Armed Forces who died in the war and the 7,174 Koreans who died sup- porting the U.S forces.
The design of the Wall of Remembrance focused on minimizing the visual impact to the existing memorial by adding a cir- cular, low angled granite wall around the perimeter of the original memorial. The wall is made up of one hundred individ- ual granite blocks weighing between 4.5 and 8.5 tons, engraved with the names of the fallen. The large, wedge-shaped blocks with their sloped, conical surfaces and rela- tively tight 1⁄4-inch joints required precision in both layout and installation to maintain the proper wall geometry and alignments with other memorial elements.
Our Lady of the Lakes World Peace Plaza, Notre Dame, Indiana
Along with the addition of the Wall of Remembrance, the project included refur- bishing some of the existing memorial elements: an expansion of the original memorial plaza to provide a circulation area for viewing the Wall of Remembrance, the salvage and re-installation of the plaza cobblestone paving, new sealant joints at the existing Field of Service granite pav- ing, new granite benches and tree grates at the expanded plaza, modifications to exist- ing granite paving to accommodate a new lighting design at the Mural Wall, and a new granite United Nations curb with stain- less steel inlays. The sandblasted engrav- ings at the granite Casualty Curb were also replaced with new inlays of stainless-steel lettering.
The new Wall of Remembrance success- fully honors the 43,808 soldiers who sacri- ficed their lives during the Korean War and serves as a reminder to all that Freedom Is Not Free.
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fountain cap had to be installed within 1/16 of an inch in all directions to allow the bub- bler to trickle water over the side.
Once Murphy Marble located a suitable monolithic black granite, they worked with the design team on the desired number of joints and piece sizes. The granite base installation was simplified by increasing the size of the pieces and transferring the weight load since there was such a large overhang on the conical- shaped base from the cap to fountain base.
Lettering of the six granite caps involved a meticulous layout of each prayer with proper spacing. Full size templates of the lettering in each of the six languages were fabricated. The lettering and words are radial as they had to follow the same radius as the granite cap. With these pieces weighing around 1.5 tons each there was no room for errors..
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Plaza project involved furnishing and installing polished black granite for an infinity edge fountain on the University of Notre Dame Campus. The design called for an 18-foot diameter by 2-foot high fountain with an inverted conical shaped fountain base supporting large granite caps. The base and caps were fabricated in six large cubic pieces. Each cap measured 9 feet 5 inches long by 3 feet 5 inches deep and 6.5 inches high, with the base at 8 feet 8 inches long by 1 foot, 4 inches deep and 1 foot, 5 inches high. The six granite caps each have the same prayer engraved on their surface, translated in six different languages.
The granite cap has a weir edge that lines up with 25 radial pavers. The outer 12 pav- ers are sloped 4 inches to allow water to build up on the interior of fountain before flowing over the bullnosed edge. The