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Posts by Angie Bagg
Bluestone Porcelain Pavers
Traditional Pennsylvania Bluestone is now available as bluestone porcelain pavers. Choose from HDG Kaia Blue with cleft finish or HDG Penn Blue with flamed finish. Many sizes are available.
Porcelain Pavers Sizes Demystified
This article demystifies the meaning of tiles being metric and rectified. This makes it easier for architects, designers, and specifiers to navigate the many choices of porcelain pavers sizes.
Sloped Surfaces Design – Buzon Pedestals
Buzon pedestals are height-adjustable and slope-correcting. They can be used to create level surfaces and also intentionally sloped surfaces and ADA ramps.
Buzon BC Series Pedestals Support Rooftop Terrace
Buzon BC Series pedestals and concrete pavers in rooftop application with level surface, slope to drain design and services hidden below decking surface.
The Whale Project – Juneau, Alaska
“Tahku” Humpback Whale Statue in Juneau, Alaska is a life-scale, 6-ton, 25-foot-tall breaching humpback whale. HDG Butterfly Blue granite is used throughout the project in the wier surround, water-feature infinity pool, and cladding.
Green Roofs – Your City – Get Ready
Healthy cities are green cities. Increasingly, that means green roofs. There is a movement underway where cities are incentivizing and even mandating that building owners and property developers devote a portion of the rooftop to green space. Are you ready?
Sandstone Legacy – Art Nouveau Architecture
Creating a legacy can be an intentional act or a byproduct of using natural stone in architectural works. Who knows how long architect Edgar M. Lazarus envisioned his sandstone designed Vista House would endure. It has been 100 years and it is still standing atop a basalt cliff.