Micah Springut
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Founder, @Monumental_Labs. Building the infrastructure for the aesthetic renaissance of cities. Sculpture + architecture + urban design.
New York, USA
Joined February 2010
How the hell do you do this to a building?! . Not technically a crime against humanity, but it ought to be.
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Vanderbilt's new residential colleges by David M. Schwarz Architects
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I’m running for mayor. My plan: 6 stories of beautiful masonry on bottom. Build whatever you want on top. I call it Paris on the streets, Hong Kong in the sheets.
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Rome wasn’t built in a day, but if you gave us a few months lead time…
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Frank Lloyd Wright's unbuilt National Life Insurance Building in Chicago, with its copper and glass curtain wall. 3D images were made by Spanish architect David Romero.
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Something I know that most people don’t:. Some time in the next decade it will be cheaper to build buildings out of stone, fabricated by robots, than out of steel and concrete.
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Important to note the courtyard colleges provide more beds (1,275 vs 1,200) and square footage (812k sq ft vs 800k) than the towers.
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Periodic reminder that stone looks like this in the sun.
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Here's what we do all day. We're bringing back stone craft.
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Can I suggest something (for fire country) without everyone getting mad?
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Welcome, first time viewers. My day job is CEO of @Monumental_Labs. We're building robotic stone carving factories to create cities with the splendor of Florence, Paris, or pre-war New York, at a fraction of the cost.
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Why are we working on stone carving tech? To build stuff like this again:.
One of the most extraordinary sculptural commissions of all time in NY: The Appellate Division Courthouse of New York State. Constructed in 1896 for $639k, $160k of which was for sculpture alone (25%)!
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Simple, repeatable. We could put them everywhere if we wanted to.
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In my city, glass curtain walls will be allowed but only Japanese architects and Renzo Piano will be allowed to design them.
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I really can't abide everyone saying Art Deco is America's one true architectural style as if Richardsonian Romanesque is not a thing.*
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Not captured in the standard pyramid pics: The Louvre’s gorgeous details.
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Internet, should we raise some money and get some new sculptures?
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Also permitted by right: Viennese greenhouses.
In my city, glass curtain walls will be allowed but only Japanese architects and Renzo Piano will be allowed to design them.
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Why are we working on stone carving tech? To transform every service entrance.
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Looking for someone to run this…. No joke, we’re hiring a manufacturing director. Pic is fake but directionally accurate :)
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1919 WWI Victory Arch: a temporary structure of wood and plaster built in Madison Square and torn down the following year. Today, we could make it a permanent reality in stone for less than the cost of a nearby penthouse. DMs open, NYC officials.
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Do you think the architect cries himself to sleep at night? Was this the path he imagined for himself? . New residential tower in Jamaica, Queens.
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Ugly buildings piss me off because we have a literal wonderland to preserve and build off of.
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It’s showtime! Our Stripe sculpture now on display at Stripe Sessions. It took just one month to fully design, mill, and hand finish this 6ft sculpture in Carrara marble.
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Our growing supply of corbels
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This is the 1902 Chamber of Commerce Building in downtown NY. There were 3 sculptures installed in 1903 -- of John Jay, Alexander Hamilton and DeWitt Clinton, designed by Daniel Chester French and Philip Martiny.
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Petit Palais, built for the 1900 Paris Exposition. Seems 124 years ago they knew something about sun and stone.
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Walked by 51st and Madison today to see our work, just installed on the Villard Houses. First addition to the NY landscape: ✅
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Pick your favorite Parthenon replica: . 1. Walhalla, near Regesnberg Germany, 1842
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Imagine being good enough at architecture to design Tribune Tower and the American Radiator Building and then do the Art Deco masterpieces McGraw-Hill and Rockefeller Center. Congrats, you're Raymond Hood.
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FULL DEMOLITION. What a gut punch. My favorite building getting off the train at 125th.
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The statues were commissioned for $12k a piece in 1902 - or around $440k in today's dollars.
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7 hours of progress
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The secret of architectural ornament’s innate affordability is that what appears extremely complex from far away is, in fact, pretty simple.
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When I first saw this, my jaw dropped and I thought it was some 80's architecture crime, from when the Chamber of Commerce relocated. But it looks like weather and chemical reactions degraded the Vermont marble, and the statues were removed in 1926, just 23 years later.
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Art Noveau curves on new townhomes. The best thing about AI is the ease with which we'll fabricate custom designs.
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The sheer abundance of atlantes, caryatids and other figures on Viennese buildings seems unique. Is there another city that compares?. What new motifs might adorn a city in our approaching golden age of stone?
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It’s too bad we didn’t have a specific Italian Renaissance dedicated to brick.
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The good news? We could remake these today. For far less than the $440k a piece they originally cost.
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Sorry, but if you don’t think rising construction costs are what killed beautiful architecture, you’re wrong. Example 1: 246 Greene St. ~37k sq ft, built 1892 for $140k ($4.8m today). That’s $130 a sq ft. Unthinkable.
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JP Morgan tower. All the money in the world and they built a bus terminal 🤮
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Much sharper, now on the 5mm bit.
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Find me a contemporary entryway better than this service entrance.
Why are we working on stone carving tech? To transform every service entrance.
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Your apartment isn’t “luxury” unless it looks like this
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We have the technology to properly light things. No AI needed, just good taste.
I remember Notre Dame de Paris as very impressive but gloomy. Now look at it. Wow!
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Dancer in progress
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Milling complete. On to hand finishing.
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What did I do at work today? Made the robots come alive.
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It’s the holidays. STOP FIGHTING and come together around our true enemy: people who paint over stone work.
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Is there a worse architectural style than this?. Asking sincerely, what is it?
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Our network TV debut. 8am.
.@Monumental_Labs, a New York-based startup is trying to bring back ornate and intricate stone structures by using industrial robots that are often used on auto assembly lines to create stonework for buildings. Learn more tomorrow on CBS Saturday Morning. @BLBlackburn
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