Institutional Projects

2007 Golden Trowel Award

Texas Heart Hospital

Architect: RTKL Architects
Mason: Dee Brown, Inc.
Suppliers: Mezger Enterprises, Headwaters Construction Materials, Featherlite Building Products

The 50,000 square foot hospital is finished in honed, antique Lueders limestone. This one-of-a-kind blend of antique Lueders was specially quarried and fabricated for this project. The design incorporates 135 degree corners with alternating head joints that were honed to match the veneer.

Austin City Hall

Austin City Hall is an Antoine Predock design that features more than 58,000 square feet of Lueders roughback and copper and more than 1,450 tons of veneer limestone. In addition, the landscape surrounding the building includes more than 1,100 tons of Lueders quarry blocks used to promote Austin’s goal to keep the building a casual, welcoming and friendly gathering place. The 450 ton water terraces that spill out of the building into the plaza are made of Lueders quarry ledge.

Boy Scouts of America Headquarters

The 1,500 cubic feet Boy Scouts of America corporate headquarters features a frieze with a fluted design carved into the face of the stone surrounding top of building in Buff limestone. The headquarter building is a unique design in its style including it’s two foot wide framed, offset corners which are custom designed.

Allen City Hall

More than 7,000 cubic feet, Allen City Hall features four feet in course height roughback panels along with 2x1 foot panels in West Texas Cream. The roughback on the rotunda is segmented and faceted with splayed joints to match the radius in order to achieve the round appearance. Unlike cut stone, roughback can not be machined into a true radius and therefore has to be segmented to maintain the roughback texture and color.

Flint River Center

The Flint River Center in Georgia is a 15,000 square foot naturally landscaped facility designed by world renowned architect Antoine Predock. The unique cubic design utilizes 12” solid limestone walls incorporated into the aquarium and botanical gardens.