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500 Lakeshore Blvd West
“West Block”
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West Block Est. 1928, The Lakeshore and the Lakefront is a historical restoration. PICCO’s main focus is on cataloguing each stone after surveying the building and providing shop drawings. Anchor systems and design is another component of our scope. Our stone engineering expertise is vital to the historical preservation guidelines and will help ensure that the new facade maintains the characteristics of the original building.
Location: Toronto, ON
Architect: ERA Architects, Architects Alliance
Completion: 2020
Category: Restoration
Project Type: Stone Engineering
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Atlantis Hotel Resort & Casino
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This five-star resort required a stone detailing service to match its exquisite architecture. PICCO created intricate stone patterns using the rare stone materials sourced by our client Limen Group—all within an accelerated schedule and extensive coordination between trades.
Location: Paradise Island, Bahamas
Architect: WATG
Client: Limen Group
Completion: 2007
Category: Hospitality
Project Type: Stone Engineering
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Awards
1999—Marble Institute of America
Award of Merit, Commercial Interior
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Chanel Store
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PICCO Engineering provided the anchor system and design for this luxury brand retail storefront improvement—mechanically fastened stone panels. We provided options for the supply of anchors, ultimately helping to source the stone material selected. Additional services included site inspections and consultation.
Location: Chicago, IL
Architect: Myefski Architects, Inc.
Client: ECLAD USA Inc.
Completion: 2018
Category: Commercial
Project Type: Stone Engineering
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First Presbyterian Church
of Oklahoma
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This 50-year-old large church was decaying. Very large stones had shifted, fractured and worn down. The weather in OK can be quite brutal. Large ornate stained glass windows were showing the changes with cracks and decay. PICCO worked with masons to design, detail and provide drawings for fabrication of new stone pieces that did not just replace what was there but overcome expected failure points due to visual damage. PICCO employed modern joinery to a historically built building—no mean feat.
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PICCO inspected, recorded, identified failure points and re-engineered the structure. For example, arches over stain glass windows needed to be re-engineered and redesigned. Installation was done in situ.
Location: Tulsa, OK
Architect: Lippert Bros
Client: Al Slattery Masonry Inc.
Completion: 2020
Category: Religious
Project Type: Stone Engineering
STONE
Four Seasons Hotel
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Highly exclusive hotel/private residences–clad with black slate, glass and steel bring a contemporary and sophisticated presence to the Bloor–Yorkville neighbourhood.
STONE
Niagara Fallsview
Casino & Resort
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Waterjet stone and custom mosaic patterns adorn the halls of this signature Ontario Casino, allowing millions of visitors an enjoyable distraction.
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PICCO's scope included: full service shop drawings for interior stone applications. Highly ornate inlayed floors, profiled base, pilasters, and columns throughout the common areas were painstakingly detailed with precision. Installation drawings proved vital to the quality execution performed by the stone craftsmen.
Location: Niagara Fall, ON
Architect: B&H Architects
Client: York Marble
Category: Hospitality
Project Type: Stone Engineering
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One St. Thomas
Condominium
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Our work for this exclusive hi-end condominium was specifically focused on the sales centre structure. Limestone tiles and black granite slab material were custom fabricated and installed to produce a traditional solid look to the stone coursing.
Location: Toronto, ON
Architect: Robert A.M. Stern Architect, Young + Wright Architects Inc. (now IBI Group)
Client: York Marble
Completion: 2008
Category: Residential
Project Type: Stone Engineering
STONE
Private Residence - Toronto
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This PICCO Engineering stone engineering project was a very high-end residential custom contemporary home. The owners were very particular on the material colour, texture, and grain size. Our scope included a quarry visit to Branco Do Mar. The slabs reviewed demonstrated a grain size too coarse, and a colour range that appeared to vary quite extensively from slab to slab and within a
single slab. The slabs also included some inclusions.
The architectural samples had a fine grain size and they were very consistent. We visited Our Lady of Fatima church to review the extent of the colour range of the Branco material and found it to be unacceptable. We visited alternate quarries in the area and found Rosal limestone that matched much closer to the control samples we had in our possession. The owner was very particular on the quality, colour, and technical properties of the stone.
PICCO Engineering was hired to provide full service consulting which included stone selection, design assist, quality control program, visits to the quarry and fabrication facility, shop drawings, shop tickets, engineering, and field inspections.
Location: Toronto, ON
Architect: Drawing Room Architects
Completion: 2014
Category: Private Residence
Project Type: Stone Engineering
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Southcore Financial Centre
Delta Hotel
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The new Southcore Financial Centre Delta Hotel rises 160 meters, or 46 floors, into the Toronto skyline. Located in downtown Toronto at the Southcore Financial Centre, the new hotel has 567 rooms along with full banquet and conference facilities.
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PICCO Engineering was hired to provide full service consulting which included stone selection, design-assist, quality control program, stone shop drawings, shop tickets, stone engineering, and field inspections. PICCO's scope included stone engineering for all of the granite cladding on the exterior facade. We were also contracted to design and detail all of the substructure required to support the stone.
Location: Toronto, ON
Architect: Page + Steele Architects (IBI Group)
Client: Marble Terrazzo and Marble Inc.
Completion: 2015
Category: Hospitality
Project Type: Stone Engineering
STONE
TELUS Centre for Performance
and Learning/Koerner Hall
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Located on Bloor St. West, Toronto’s center for luxury shopping and adjacent to the Royal Ontario Museum, the new Royal Conservatory Telus Centre for Performance and Learning, Koerner Hall compliments its surroundings. The new additions to the Royal Conservatory of Music act as a backdrop against the existing heritage buildings. The space between the old and the new buildings is enclosed to create a sky-lit pedestrian court. Contemporary glazing systems for the new additions provide a dynamic counterpoint to the poly-chromatic facades of the heritage buildings. This project demonstrated PICCO Engineering's ability to seamlessly integrate modern techniques with past accomplishments.
Location: Toronto, ON
Architect/Client: KPMB
Owner: Toronto Royal Conservatory of Music
Completion: 2009
Category: Cultural
Project Type: Stone Engineering
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Award
2010—Ontario Masonry Design Awards
2009—Toronto Construction Association Given to Michael Picco for Outstanding contributions as a member of the Project Management team in making the Telus Centre for Performance and Learning
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The Vue
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Floor-to-ceiling glass, unencumbered views, and distinct architecture make this luxury condominium a visual experience. This 50-storey apartment tower is the tallest residential building in the state of North Carolina. Crystal Marble’s craftsmanship with PICCO Engineering’s professional shop drawings resulted in a successful stone cladding project.
Location: Charlotte, NC
Architect: Forum Studios
Client: Crystal Marble
Completion: 2010
Category: Residential
Project Type: Stone Engineering
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University of Alabama:
Shelby Interdisciplinary Biomedical Research
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The 12-storey facility has 315,000 sf of research and office space and consists of a concrete frame clad with brick, granite, glass and Alabama quarried limestone. Strict engineering requirements made this project exciting and challenging.
Location: Tuscaloosa, AL
Architect: CUH2A
Client: Masonry Arts
Completion: 2004
Category: Institutional
Project Type: Stone Engineering