Custom Delivers Just What the Doctor Ordered
When Kindred Healthcare, Inc. began construction on a new extension of its award winning, long- term, acute care hospital in the Sacramento area, Performance Tile & Stone of Rocklin, Calif. won the contract for installing tile in the new facility. Kindred’s plans included a 2,200-square-foot industrial kitchen that specified 6-inch by 6-inch quarry tile and […]
Read MoreCustom Delivers High-Performance For A Florida Beach Airport
Northwest Florida Beaches International Airport, the nation’s first new international airport built since 9/11, opened on schedule with its first flight departing on May 23, 2010. The project, which broke ground in 2007 after a 10-year planning and feasibility stage, serves Panama City and the surrounding Florida Gulf Coast area, replacing the small, aged and […]
Read MoreOld Hollywood Elegance Returns To The Sunset Strip By Way Of A Custom Installation
Down a quiet sidestreet, just off the fabled Sunset Strip, there is an apartment complex that appears, at first and even second glance, to be a perfectly maintained vestige from Hollywood’s early days. Though its white stucco walls glimmer and its warm terra cotta tiles are pristine, 7 Fountains could easily pass for a building […]
Read MoreCustom Goes to Infinity and Beyond
Home to famed artifacts from America’s aeronautical heritage such as the Enola Gay, the Spirit of St. Louis and the Wright brothers’ original Wright Flyer that flew at Kitty Hawk, the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum is the world’s most visited museum. It is located on The Mall in Washington, D.C., and hosts over nine million guests […]
Read MoreCustom Helps Transform Hanes Mall
Like many shopping centers of a certain age, Hanes Mall in Winston-Salem, N.C. was a popular and well-patronized suburban mall in need of some significant updating. With two large wings that were built in different decades, the mall was functional but slightly disjointed in terms of both construction and design. The original structure dated back […]
Read MoreSix-Sided Sealing from Aqua Mix Preserves Beauty of Stone
Dubai International Airport is one of the world’s fastest-growing airports, and is in the midst of a long-term plan for expansion. Terminal 3 was recently completed after three years of construction, and features 3.8 million square feet of a Brazilian stone called Panha Fragola Corcovado, or “PF”. PF presented a serious sealing challenge because the […]
Read MoreWhen Stakes Are High, Custom Comes Through
Since the opening of Red Rock Casino, Resort & Spa, discerning visitors to Las Vegas have a fresh, contemporary alternative to the city’s famously massive hotels and casinos. Situated in Las Vegas’ new luxury community of Summerlin, Red Rock is the first billion-dollar resort built off the Strip delivering cool, classic Vegas, reinvented for the […]
Read MoreStone Installation Challenges For World’s Tallest Building
Burj Khalifa (known during construction as Burj Dubai) – the world’s tallest building – opened January 4, 2010. Custom Building Products was selected to provide tile and stone installation and protective products in different areas of the building. For the 160 floors of Burj Khalifa, the designers selected a vast range of stone and tile […]
Read MoreNew Medical Center Prescribes Custom to Solve Tiling Challenges
After a two-year long construction project, which began in April 2010, the home of Palomar Medical Center West in Escondido, Calif., was completed and open for business in 2012. Situated on a 52-acre site, the 11-story, state-of-the-art healthcare facility is designed to accommodate 360 patient beds, 12 operating rooms, a trauma center and a nursing […]
Read MoreAward-Winning Granite Water Feature Installed with CUSTOM System for Submerged Stone
Silicon Valley is the land of software giants, home to companies whose applications have become household names. When one of these companies decided to beauty their corporate campus with a granite water feature large enough to front multiple buildings, the tile contractor called on CUSTOM. De Anza Tile had to break the specifications to ensure […]
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