Special Pinnacle Award of Merit | Craftsmanship
Millard Sheets Mural Restoration Chase Bank, Rolling Hills, CA
MIA Member Company:
Carnevale & Lohr, Inc., Bell Gardens, CA
- Dimension Stone Contractor - Engineer - Mosaic Restoration
Other Project Team Members:
JP Morgan Chase - Owner
David Carnevale - Project Manager
Jeffrey Matthews Trade International, Inc. (MIA Member) - Consultant
Jeannie Denholm of SCAPE - Art Consultant
Stone:
Emerald Pearl Granite
Travertine
Byzantine Mosaics
This is an historic restoration job combining stone and Byzantine mosaics originally made in 1974 by a renowned artist specializing in scenic art works for Millard Sheets who, in the 1900's, made works of art for the exterior claddings of past Home Savings of America Banks (now the Chase Bank).
Rolling Hills, California depicts horses with riders and dogs following them with sea in the background. It is made from 36 panels of stone and mosaic totaling 12 x 37 feet. It required repairing the Emerald Pearl granite panels with travertine liners and removing and re-installing all the mosaics. The project took about six months.
A very intricate and detailed system was designed to protect the panels prior to removal, during transit and during restoration. This required photographs, a numbering system for each panel, taping panels to stop the continuing loss of mosaics, repairing the granite, cleaning, and basically starting the mosaic installation from scratch to re-install. Carnevale added expansion joints, new anchors and engineering for re-installation.
The work shows how stone and mosaics can come together to the artists design and last for many more years to come.
Special Pinnacle Award of Merit | Sustainability
Pioneer Courage Park, Omaha, NE
MIA Member Company:
Architectural Granite & Marble, Austin, TX
- Stone Subcontractor
Other Project Team Members:
First National Bank of Omaha - Client
JVR and Associates - Landscape Designer
HDR Inc. and Brown Sardina Inc. - Landscape Architects
RDG Planning & Design, Leo A. Daly Architects - Architects
Boody Fine Arts - Art Consultant
Kent Ullberg, Blair Buswell and Ed Fraughton - Artists
Hawkins Construction Co., Kiewit Construction Co. - Contractors
Stone:
"Hayton White"
Pioneer Courage Park in Omaha anchors a five city block array of street sculpture, green space, and water features. The site, previously used for surface parking, has been revitalized as a civic resource for educational, recreational and aesthetic experiences.
Limestone, a white stone from nearby Hayton, WI, was used to achieve many project objectives from unifying the project, to forming the contours required by the narrative, to the steps and paving that allow hands-on access to the sculpture.
The flagstone pavers, park furniture, interpretive diorama, and creek and waterfall features complete the parks. The stone was also chosen to address sustainability goals including durability, low maintenance, and controlling storm water runoff as the walls, paving, and statue bases were installed over permeable base. This approach also allows flexibility for rearrangement of new pieces, or reuse if the program changes.
The highly reflective stone allows "moonlit" lighting that saves energy and light pollution at night and, in combination with native plantings, minimizes the heat island effect during the day.
Additionally, fabrication waste from each product was used for other parts of the project. Attention to the details of processing resulted in water and energy savings, and no waste.
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