I don't think it is fair to lump all cast stone as bad. It is a "tool" that
is sometimes appropriate such as when you need to replace a stone lintel in
NYCity you need to use a reinforced unit, the code does not permit replacing
in kind. I have also used it to replicate other materials when the original
was not successful. However, we found limestone to cost about the same as
cast stone on the Empire State Building so we definitely went with
limestone.
Thanks,
Eric Hammarberg
Vice President
Thornton Tomasetti
51 Madison Avenue
New York, NY 10010
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Sent: Saturday, May 05, 2007 09:35 AM Eastern Standard Time
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Subject: [BP] Question about cast stone. (Was "lime mortar in
helicopter construction")
I will be doing a radio segment in a few weeks about the worst buildings in
New York.
Is it possible to describe exactly just why cast stone looks so crappy?
Take some perfectly good limestone - even one without bedding, or shells, or
whatever - crumble it back to its original sand grains and reconstitute it
into the same block and it will look like trash, will it not?
So what is so good about the "original" limestone? Or, what is so bad about
cast stone?
Christopher
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