FEATURES Outdoor Art: From the Ground Up When it comes to landscaping, natural stone isn't limited to surface applications. Its ease of use for more artistic endeavors opens up the landscape architect's ability to provide their clients with beautiful, one-of-a-kind gazebos, wall screens, garden sculptures, benches, fountains and much more.

Natural Stone: The Heart of Hardscaping
From large-scale public paving to small residential patio and pool oases, natural flagstone and stone pavers provide the crucial element for any hardscaping project. In this article, we'll highlight a broad array of public and residential hardscaping projects where natural stone lends its durable, creative and attractive presence to the architects' designs.

What's Old is New Again
Used for centuries across the globe, dry stack stone walling is making a comeback in a big way. Whether it's the classic mortarless wall stone fencing, made famous in Scotland, Ireland and the U.S. New England areas, or contemporary versions with twists, turns and even a double helix or two, natural stone provides the right material for the job.

Natural Stone Lite
Natural thin stone provides the beauty and strength of natural stone for environments where full-dimensional stone might be weight prohibitive. We'll review some case studies where natural thin stone came to the rescue for a variety of interior and exterior building applications.

Colorful Contributions
Bluestone provides an unusual and creative contribution to almost any exterior or interior application. We highlight a few projects were bluestone provided its diverse and whimsical spectrum of colors.

Century Roofing
Slate roofing is a wonderful way to top off any residential, public or private construction project. Slate roofing is known for its tremendous durability — lasting 100, 200, even 400 years — as well as for its unique capabilities to handle removal and interchanging of system parts for ease of maintenance. We'll discuss what designers need to know about this robust natural stone system.

BSI's Man of the Year: John Grubb
At the 2007 BSI annual convention, John Grubb was honored with the Institute's "Man of the Year" award. In this issue, we highlight his amazing accomplishments and how he has assisted in raising the building stone industry to a new level.

DEPARTMENTS

Introduction

Historical Feature:
San Francisco's Soul
At 5:12 a.m., April 16, 1906, San Francisco awoke to its infamous earthquake. By fire's end, five square miles of ash marked the destruction of 28,000 buildings. In the midst of hell, the San Francisco Mint stood tall, strong and ready. Today, San Francisco is in the midst of restoring and re-purposing this elegant and well-loved stone landmark.

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