Porphyry Pavers used in Park on Malta
Porphyry pavers, both cut tiles and 8/10cm cubes, were used in this park on the island of Malta. This was a new project designed be Architect Anne Casha working with the Malta Environment & Public Authority who decided to provide its people with a new park, creating it out of a rocky area along the […]
Porphyry and Living Streets
Porphyry stone surfaces on sidewalks, streets and plazas create memorable and enchanting environments. Stone is prominent in our most cherished streets worldwide. They were developed before the age of the automobile. These historic and human scaled streets invite people to spend time there. Today, society is moving toward a more sustainable way of life, with […]
Porphyry and Curbless Streets – Part 3
Porphyry paving can be a functional stormwater amenity as well as an aesthetic enhancement, when designed as permeable porphyry paving. This is accomplished with a high performance jointing mortar that is also permeable, vdw 800 by GftK. In the examples of curbless streets in recent blogs, the main stormwater design depends on sheet flow to […]
Porphyry and Curbless Streets – Part 2
Porphyry stone pavers can be used on pedestrian surfaces, vehicle surfaces, as well as transition areas. This beautiful and sturdy stone will make any of these memorable. Special paving treatments can enhance the aesthetics of public spaces in a city, give circulation areas a stronger sense of place, and enhance the hierarchy of public spaces. […]
Porphyry Pavers and Buchanan Street
Porphyry stone has all of the unique beauty and all of the physical properties to create a great commercial street in a challenging climate. To fulfill the design and functional needs of this great street,Scotland’s principal shopping street, and the heart of Glasgow, stone was the easy choice. Gillespies won an international design competition for […]
Queens Quay remake begins
Porphyry like natural stone cobbles and setts are front and center in several of Waterfront Toronto’s projects, adding permanence, beauty and creating a fundamental sense of place. The role of natural stone is evident throughout many of the projects. Granite is used in these, but porphyry could be substituted for the same durable and attractive […]
Porphyry and New City Spaces
Porphyry and other stone pavers are throughout this book about important examples of urban public spaces worldwide. The upsurge in interest in public spaces and public life over the past twenty five years has generated an impressive array of city plans, public space strategies, and designs. This book presents an overview of this development and […]
Porphyry salutes award winning Sugar Beach
The use of traditional stone similar to Porphyry pavers are part of the award winning design of this urban park. Canada’s Sugar Beach is a whimsical new park that transformed a surface parking lot in a former industrial area into Toronto’s second urban beach at the water’s edge. Part of the multi-faceted Waterfront Toronto project […]
Porphyry Pavers and the iPhone
For all porphyry paver lovers, there is a great wallpaper for your iPhone. Go to Settings>Brightness and Wallpaper>Wallpaper and select the grey porphyry fan pattern. If you prefer the Copper Mountain Porphyry, just save this picture and select it from your camera roll for wallpaper. We got excited about the subject and found […]
Porphyry and the Terminated Vista
Porphyry pavers are used to enhance the experience in many examples of places with a terminated vista. While there are many other elements present, which lead to the special experience of these views, the stone paving lends permanence and visual memory to these elements. An alley in Portland, Maine; a street in Paris; or a […]
