Porphyry Bends At Monza
At the time of their installation, curves using porphyry pavers were the most technically appropriate materials known for this race course.
Patagonia Porphyry
From the Atlantic Patagonia in the Southern Hemisphere comes a beautiful variety of porphyry, easily brought to the United States.
Placemaking With Porphyry
Porphyry stone pavings place in landscape competitions like Manhattans East River Esplanade is a natural.
Porphyry – Natural Stone Surfacing of Streets
Stone Streets First published in 2000, by the Society of Chief Officers of Transportation in Scotland (SCOTS), Natural Stone Surfacing – Good Practice Guide, was responding to the following regarding their city center streets. “The techniques used in installing stone surfaces which perform well, vary throughout Europe. They are based on semi empirical, traditional, guidance borne […]
Porphyry Cubes For Crosswalks
Porphyry Cubes are an ideal material to use where heavy traffic loads will be present and the beauty of stone is part of the design requirements.
Porphyry History
Article about porphyry’s historic use, discovery, and use as paving by the Romans
Laying Specification – "Porphyry Pavers for Vehicular Traffic"
Porphyry Driveways, Porphyry Streets, Porphyry Plazas all can benefit from this installation specification. The Sustainability, Beauty, and Life Cycle Cost of natural stone pavers is an ever increasing choice for hardscape designers. The techniques and skills for laying these stones has more roots in Europe than in North America and even there, the word of […]
Porphyry on the Champs-Elysees
Photo Credit Vigal Veia If you watched with millions of others, the final stage of the Tour De France, you saw the peloton on the Champs-Elysees. You saw the riders on the Belgian Porphyry that is laid here in an overlapping arc pattern. The Avenue des Champs-Elysees is one of the most famous streets […]
Porphyry Projects – Large or Small…We Love Them All
We love large driveway projects and the equally large public plazas that Porphyry is being specified for. At the same time, we get the same feeling when we see Porphyry used in any context and here are a few small, beautiful porphyry stone projects that caught our eye. In both of these projects, Copper Mountain Porphyry […]
The Porphyry Blog Stone Pavers Designers Choice
Porphyry pavers have been part of extraordinary public spaces for centuries. A new design by winning studio a+I has stone pavers.
