New York startup works to revive classic building techniques 

FINALLY SOMEBODY TRYING TO BRING BACK BEAUTY IN AMERICAN ARCHITECTURE

The irony of one of the example for stone building being the pantheon in Rome, the largest free standing non reinforced concrete structure in the world

glass and steel towers built in the past decades will be demolished. But many beautiful buildings built in the early 20th century will be around for hundreds of years... thanks to people like him.

I'm 10000% for this, the beauty in stone is amazing!

This is incredible. Bring back beautiful architecture!

Yes!...Bring back beautiful architecture!

The reporters in the last minute sound clueless on what they are talking about 😂. Sounds like a high school presentation making up stuff on the spot and saying random buzzwords to make this seem revolutionary and inclusive.

There’s something primal about a building you know could withstand a massive blast and stand for maybe thousands of years

I’m glad to see this being talked publicly in North America but this have been used for at least 15 years in Europe. There is no novelty to it, it’s just a lack of vision from investors and architects.

More beautiful architecture please!!! The cost, effort, and time is so worth it when the alternative is soulless and depressing

We need more like that. Just came back from Paris, their buildings look a lot more beautiful than ours.

Yess. this is what we need to bring the Art Deco style back in our lives..

Well done. Stone is a great building material. Not a lot of old school stone craftsman around today. Concrete is VERY energy consuming. Stone lasts. Bravo.

Anything that brings back beautiful architecture is a good thing. Really glad they could help restore a historic building

Thank you thank you sir! I’ve long mourn the loss of artistic architechture. Glad to know companies like this exist! You are a hero!

Haven't they been using CNC carving to build the Sagrada Famillia in Barcelona for decades?

In the new world of high tech, the value of craftsmanship and handmade labor is increasing at a faster pace than we expected

There is a few companies that do this in Europe. A lot of buildings in Berlin and Barcelona have been rebuilt like this for example.

Stone is timeless and it'll be great to bring back beauty, to not just the cbd but residential buildings outside of the main centre.

Bring back classic beauty to architecture

This is fantastic. Not only will it make new buildings more durable and attractive, but it will also help reduce the costs of maintaining and restoring period properties.

Bringing back classics

Good video, i love it. didnt expect such good work.

Most of the antique stone architecture was Stone Cast. Many of the sculptures where duplicated with Molds and a concrete mixture was poured into the mold to form the part. It is still a low cost solution to stone architecture. It is fine if the guy wants to purchase a 7 axis robot for 500k. The old stone casting method could produce better detail for a lot less cost.

I love this! I always loved the stone carved buildings in Amsterdam, the elaborate doorways, so beautiful. Some of those beautiful houses also have stone carvings on the ceilings inside, they might even be able to do details like this too. And for modern design it makes so much more possible. I was wondering if they thought of using hempcrete? I heard it's really strong and better for the environment as well. I love this innovative thinking and to be honest I've never been a fan of the "cold" steel and glass buildings myself, I prefer ornamental. It's nice to let your eyes wander around a building like that and ponder the flowing shapes, there's a soothing quality to it to me.

The professor is right, once you factor in mining + transportation costs + limited suppliers who can control the quantity and price of stone, you're probably gonna end up with a cost that's much less attractive than what's already on the market (glass, steel, etc). No way would it be economically feasible to transport stone across long distances, so stone-based building projects will probably have to be closer to the quarry. Developers are going to opt in for the materials that will yield them the best profit in their projects. But still good to see a use for it in historical/specialty architecture!

This machine can be reproduced under 5000 USD using custom cnc router and opensource software.

This is incredible! Imagine the complexity of programming stone work into a machine. Bravo!

Anything to bring stone back into architecture.

I love what this guy is doing !!!

Looks great! Fantastic work

“…that’s just beginning to carve out the possibilities!”. Did everyone catch what he did here? These newscasters are so dang creative and witty!!

Fantastic idea! These are the things that make me like America

This man is a hero

No unit costs mentioned, so it's still too expensive

This is wonderful!

I'm afraid the professor is right. I hope the startup keeps filling the niche market of repairs on historic structures and doesn't try to expand too fast and fail/disappear. Those old buildings need fixing up!

I love this idea

Stone is timeless, albeit expensive

That's are amazing, I can't wait.

This definitely seems like it will mainly be used for historical restoration first and foremost, with some small entrance into the luxury markets, I can definitely see some major corporation or eccentric multimillionaire/billionaire ordering a large ornate stone construction. The vast majority of the dirty commoners won't be living or working in stone buildings anytime soon.

I hope we get to see more and more of the classic NYC I saw in movies as a kind in the 90s

Love it.

This is a hell lot better then all of the modern glass architecture slob we are in now. So back to the stone age lol.

GOOD. I'm tired of people complaining that new buildings need to much work to keep standing.

I've also seen the same facade restoration done using fiberglass. This is done on upper floors where it's more difficult to tell from the naked eye. Looks just as good.

Well done to this person to create this company.

Yes yes yes yes!! Amazing!

Thats great!

People are yearning for this. Yearning i say!

I’m with it!!! I like this idea 💡

This would be great if they could really scale it up! I’d buy

This is progress.

Architecture has always been the cornerstone of Western civilization. Hopefully, with CNC machines and KUKA stone carving robots, it will return to its glory days. Thanks for the original reporting; I really loved the back and forth between the differing views.

Yes

Bring this to Europe!!

Yesssss finally!!!

Finally some beauty returns to the world

I've been noticing this happening all around the world, we're on the threshold of a new ear. People are starting to change their view of "modern" architecture, and its not just architecture, art in general, but also nearly all other segments of society. If you dig a little deeper though, it makes perfect sense. Humans have always swung like a pendulum between a more emotional approach and a more rational one. You had the renaissance, which was a time of enlightenment, new discoveries and ways of thinking. Then comes baroque which is more about emotions and nature. Afterwards comes classicism and enlightenment, which are all about positivism, rationalism, science and knowledge. What follows is romanticism which was characterised by nationalism, emotions, naturalism and so on. Since the end of World War 2, we've been living in a more rational world, where people asked "yes, but why ornaments on buildings, they serve no purpose, beauty is individual and in the eye of the beholder", but that is all changing now.

Stone is beautiful, concrete and steel are usually ugly and lifeless. Love what he’s doing and hope that many other follow him.

$400k for an 7axis cnc is really low cost. A 5 axis mill is easily $1million.

Amazing I want this to go global

MEGALITHIC ARCHITECTURE IS MAKING A COMEBACK

Regular cnc presented like innovation

For anyone that's curious, I have a similar industrial robot in my backyard. My budget was considerably less than the $300-400k USD quoted here. I use it for milling stone. I only have one video up so far but will have more up this summer.

Yes yessss

I'm all for it!

I would love to see new art deco skyscrapers like 70 pine and the crysler building

Country stone masons in north liberty Iowa has been doing this for a good while

GRAND DAD!

I do question if this will be the future. The cost of working stone will always be higher. It is very innovative to bring in CNC technologies to Machine the stone as if it were a piece of metal. It certainly does greatly reduce the cost by removing the need for hundreds of hours of skilled artist labor and turning it in to dozens of hours of Machine time. But speaking as someone with a few years of Machining experience, it isn't as if Machining itself is a cheap or inexpensive venture. It isn't. Especially if you are constantly doing bespoke, one-off pieces that require designing and programming each time (which is what is being suggested of the stone here). I suspect the cost of these Machined Stone pieces will be far lower than they traditionally would have been in the past, but still much more expensive than the current modern options of Concrete and steel. I don't think they will catch on for that reason.

finally beautiful stones on The Rise again most things should be made to last centuries and look pretty instead of some glass metal plastic crap that you tear down and rebuild every few decades, profit is not the sole value human should be pursuing

It’s called composite combined the two a little of each makes it efficient and spectacular to look at. It’s not an either or it’s a both and

The men who built the Brooklyn Bridge and the Empire State Building had no degrees are better than all these business men, professors and artisans put together.

What is most wild about this is how many businesses are doing it already this is not new or exciting technology, it’s just how it’s done now

❤❤❤❤❤ very cool

Cool. I love graving, I realised it in Marocco, who were the masters of wood and stone gravings.

That "professor" should be set free.

Wow ❤❤❤

This is the sort of thing I wanted automation to be used for.. making impractical or difficult things we really want to have or do, practical. Can't wait to see new traditional buildings. Glass is ok, but if you've seen one glass building, you've seen them all.. and they're kind of bland, lose heat like a sieve, and don't respect the region's style or culture at all. This stonecutting technique could genuinely have huge impacts as people look from glass for style to stone ornamentation.

Love Love Love! Hopefully ROI doesn't get in the way, but at the end of the day the cost makes it way down to the consumer, so hopefully there are people out there willing to pay the price to live in art, or, investors willing to eat the cost. But amazing startup nonetheless

0stone is heavier. you can make a dye and sculpt as many in cement.

This is what I've been hoping for ever since hearing about CNC technology. Please build beautiful again!

I want my Bladerunner tiles now.

Which city are they showing at 2:31?

this is pretty much an idea we all have had, but the issue is that it's not just the materials but the methods that matter, the ecological argument here is that concrete and metals are far worse for the environmont than any traditional building technique, some concrete is kind off required and there is no material that doesn't have a cost to it as well as higher building offcourse taking less space meaning less of a physical footprint for human occupation, by and large though i'd say that we would be better off with rediscovery of traditional architecture (but there is a danger here, these styles developed specifically where they did because of a wide variety of elements from cultural exchanges to the very landscape, geological activity, ressource availability, just carving a couple stone slabs does not cut it (but it does show how technological advancement is again an element in the equation.

after few toulsands of yers there will be only dust from new built architecture, stone is the only thing that will be left of us if anything but layer of plastic

Yes, all the tools in Michelangelo’s Toolbox Sculptured present arks #robots #allthetools

I didn't know him of course, but I think Gaudi would be ok with the rough work being curved out with these robots, and the finer touches of the Sagrada Família finalized by hand.

cool , tech . i wonder how this will play into housing market? stone homes maybe , high quality to last in florida weather ? cool video and tech!!!

I've been using cnc machines to do stone work like that for years. Nothing new. Omag, Denver, Breton and others make them

We are so back

CNC for Rock

Yeah the cnc is totally a classical building technique

buildings esp in america are hideous and soulesss... go to any old building and feels amazing

They never should’ve stopped using stone

Wow....they invited the CNC machine?

We need more companies like this!

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Also what's to stop such concrete from also being reinforced with graphene sourced from biochar?