Architects Used Indiana Limestone for Landmark 15 Central Park West Location

OOLITIC, IND., – 7/13/14 –Robert A.M. Stern Architects, New York, received a 2014 Tucker Design Award on June 25, for the outstanding use of limestone facing in its design for 15 Central Park West, one of New York City’s premier residential locations. Stone used in the project was provided by the Indiana Limestone Company.

The biennial Tucker Design Awards honor those who have achieved excellence in design through the incorporation and innovative use of natural stone in their buildings or land. This year the prestigious juried awards, sponsored by the Building Stone Institute, were presented at the Frank Lloyd Wright-designed Unity Temple, Oak Park, Ill.

Award winners were selected by jurors Blair Kamin, Architecture Critic for the Chicago Tribune; Duncan G. Stroik, Principal, Duncan G. Stroik Architect, LLC, South Bend, Ind.; and Peter Lindsay Schaudt, FASLA FAAR, partner, Hoerr Schaudt Landscape Architects, Chicago. The jurors chose 12 winning entries from 85 submission binders. The awards were presented by BSI 2014 President John Grubb, Charles Luck Stone and BSI Executive Vice President Jane Bennett. RAMSA’s award was accepted by Peter Morris Dixon, the firm’s Communications Director.

At the presentation of the Tucker Design Awards 2014 (l. to r.): John Grubb, President, BSI; Duffe Elkins, COO, Indiana Limestone; Peter Morris Dixon, Director of External Communications, RAMSA; Tom Quigley, CEO, Indiana Limestone.

Indiana Limestone is a leading supplier of prime limestone for prestigious building projects across the United States and Canada. The Building Stone Institute is an industry advocacy group promoting and advancing the use of natural stone.

15 Central Park West is among New York City’s most celebrated residential addresses. It offers tenants world-class amenities and dazzling views of Frederick Law Olmstead’s masterpiece park. The elite condominium was started in 2005 and completed in 2008. It possesses an elegant Post-Modern structure said to echo New York’s grand apartment houses of the 1920s. The structure’s limestone façade was cut from the same Indiana quarry that produced stone for the Empire State Building.

“It’s a particular honor that RAMSA selected Indiana limestone for 15 Central Park West,” said Tom Quigley, CEO of Indiana Limestone Co. “This design choice identifies the building with a rich architectural tradition in New York and around the nation. Needless to say, it also imparts a beauty and permanence all its own to 15 Central Park West.” This year’s Tucker recipients were feted June 26 at BSI’s “Meet the Winners” reception.