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Micah Springut

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2 months

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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Periodic reminder that stone looks like this in the sun.

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Why are we working on stone carving tech? To build stuff like this again:

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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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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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Also permitted by right: Viennese greenhouses.

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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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Why are we working on stone carving tech? To transform every service entrance.

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2 months

This was a fun project

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Just the American Renaissance happening in real time.

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3 months

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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27 days

Maybe we gave up gothic too soon.

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8 months

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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2 months

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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Project update:

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FULL DEMOLITION. What a gut punch. My favorite building getting off the train at 125th.

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4 months

Look at my block

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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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3 months

Your apartment isn’t “luxury” unless it looks like this

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24 days

Find me a contemporary entryway better than this service entrance.

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Why are we working on stone carving tech? To transform every service entrance.

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7 months

POV: your marble blocks arrived from Italy

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4 months

What did I do at work today? Made the robots come alive.

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4 months

Should we build squares like this again or nah?

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3 months

Secret project in the works (larger than life).

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2 months

Coming soon: our tallest sculpture yet

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1 year

A lot of discussion this week around the bland state of American architecture, but wanted to point out something that hasn't received much attention: The revival of classical masonry-clad buildings. The epicenter is New York's Upper East Side, and it's just getting started.

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2 months

Our network TV debut...8am

CBS Saturday Morning

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2 months

. @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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7 months

Mondays are for making logos in marble

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2 months

Unbelievably epic photos by @joethomasphoto of the balconies we restored on the Palace Hotel

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1 year

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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3 months

I already found the perfect 5-over-1. Y’all can go home now.

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4 months

Stripe seems to be making something…monumental. @stripe

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Coming up on 700 years. Starting to think stone could be a solid building option.

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9 months

Getting into the details now

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4 months

Just a little wall texture brought to you by mass production.

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4 months

Fireman’s Memorial on a night stroll. A reminder we can build something like this for less than a cost of a public bus. Billionaires and politicians, my DMs are open.

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5 months

PSA, we make marble dogs.

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9 months

Officially in city building mode

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1 year

One of the saddest street transformations to take place in NY this year. 15 Beekman St, designed by McKim Meade & White, razed for this:

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2 months

The full segment is out…

CBS Saturday Morning

@cbssaturday

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. @Monumental_Labs , a New York-based startup is looking to bring back a blast from the past by using robots to create intricately-carved stone buildings. Because of cost, stone in new construction has largely vanished in favor of glass. @BLBlackburn has more on how it works.

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Early stages of milling to restore an NYC landmark

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Showing up to work Monday…

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10 months

A new building in Gramercy, designed to equally piss off trads and modernists.

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27 days

We need many more tiny neighborhood parks with sculpture.

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6 months

Milling in Portuguese Pink

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7 months

Shipping out today: @OlympianMotors marble logo pedestal. With a silhouette of their gorgeous electric car, the Model 01. Love their aesthetic.

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1 year

Something amazing is happening at the factory

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7 months

POV: a non-marble block arrived

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1 year

Contemporary sculptors are creating extraordinary new figurative works. They deserve to be seen. An ongoing thread of some of the best sculptors and sculpture today...

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1 year

Recreating the 1st Century Graeco-Roman dancing faun torso. Rough milling complete.

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2 months

@jasoncrawford Yes, much smaller amount than in reinforced concrete though

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24 days

Very tall sculpture 🤤 very tall crane 🤤🤤🤤 Amazing visit to @JohnsonAtelier / @atelier_jo64888

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5 months

Something landed in the factory…

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2 months

Me, a stone maximalist: “does this one go too hard??”

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9 months

We sold our first Lincoln bust to a private collector. We have a second. Think we can sell it here on X?!

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10 months

Patience and Fortitude, marble lions of the New York Public Library, commissioned in 1911 for $420,000 in today's dollars. @Monumental_Labs could do this today for under $200k. "Cost" is no no longer a reason not to build great things.

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7 months

So here’s what’s going on. We stacked the stone. We have a life sized statue of a boy and teddy (by Ryan Kingslien) and in the empty space we placed additional works by Ryan and other artists. With 7 pieces in a single setup, this cuts down costs tremendously.

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Throwback to the Lincolns we made last year. Calling all patriots, can we get a Founding Father to do next? 🇺🇸🦅🏛️🇺🇸

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3 months

Thanks to @collision @patrickc and the entire @stripe team that brought this together in record time, and a special shout out to @sammcallister who had the vision to make it happen.

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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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Work it.

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3 months

Get ready for load bearing stone

Structural Stone Makes a Comeback

A growing movement is reviving load-bearing masonry construction, using innovative techniques to overcome stone's limitations and reduce embodied carbon.

www.architecturalrecord.com

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4 months

Hello world!

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6 months

Stepping into 2024 like:

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In startups, it’s important to celebrate your wins. Me: 🤔🤔🤔 “…like this?!”

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6 months

But does the robot feel pride in her accomplishments?

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7 months

The architecture of CNC milling

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1 year

Robot tool change

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9 months

Hand finishing on a balcony panel for the restoration of the 1884 Villard Houses.

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4 months

It’s a big one

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3 months

Hey folks, proud to announce I'll be a contestant on "Carving Wars," a new reality show in which companies compete to build a replica of the Louvre, on a field in Iowa. Ok kidding, but check out this teaser of @Monumental_Labs making a sculpture for .

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Who leaked the secret memo?

Patrick McKenzie

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1 month

An interesting outcome of LLMs plus CNC machines would be reversing the much-lamented decline in adornment on buildings. “For an upcharge of $X00 per square foot, we can do a frieze in any style you can imagine.”

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We’re in the news again:

Daily Commercial News

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2 months

U.S. Spotlight: New York City-based tech entrepreneur Micah Springut, the founder and CEO of @Monumental_Labs , says it is time to rethink the concrete, steel and glass approach to the design of new towers in New York.

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7 months

Personally delivering a sculpture to @narosenblum :)

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3 months

Marble is such a sick material.

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11 months

This kind of architecture? We just can’t build it any more. Unless you gave me like $1 or $2m; then I could build it for you. I’m serious. Your little retail + hotel project would make its money back in no time.

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The feckin G O R G E O U S West of England and South Wales District Bank building in Bristol by W. B.Gingell and T. R. Lysaght. Edmund Burke M.P. used the previous building on the site as his election campaign headquarters.

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When it comes to doors, I like curves

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Marble is such a sick material.

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6 months

If rough milled pink marble isn’t in your construction plans, I don’t know what to tell you.

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2 months

@pyongyangplod This isn’t traditional stacked masonry we’re talking about. It’s post-tensioned stone shipped in sizable blocks and simply connected on the building site

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9 months

What a team. Balcony panel #2 with just a little work left to do.

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11 months

Hang in there, America. These guys are going to create some of the most incredible buildings over the next few decades.

Eli Lever

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11 months

Hanging out with @Cobylefko & @mspringut @Monumental_Labs discussing amazing opportunities for buildings. The robot sculpting is mind blowing!

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8 months

He’s at it again

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6 months

I just want to build awesome things and post about them here, but reminded that this place is full of anonymous accounts with some weird axe to grind. The top image is public domain and the bottom image is posted with the permission of Mark Foster Gage Architects.

Vitruvius Grind

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6 months

Tweeted and deleted this earlier but it still rubs me the wrong way that Micah and Monumental Labs are using (uncredited and presumably uncompensated) other people’s artwork to sell their services.

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John Simpson could have done the most basic level of research before claiming Monumental Labs is threatening the jobs of artists. This dude thinks the AI is making the art or something. That's NOT what's happening. ARTISTS pay us to turn THEIR art into stone sculpture,...

Newsweek Opinion

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Artificial Intelligence Threatens Disaster for Artists

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“Oh no, we can’t do details, but check out these shades of blue and yellow.”

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3 months

Because directly copying the human form is lazy pastiche. Today I’m pleased to announce @Monumental_Labs ’ rebrand as Monumental Slabs. We’re ditching the details and focusing our efforts on piling limestone slabs on top of each other until we’ve achieved the essence of figure.

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why are all modern plaza style areas so lifeless and concrete while old plazas are so lovely and warm

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9 months

Inspection time. Deciding if we keep going for more detail on the robot or let the hand carvers take it from here.

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This is gonna look so cool on the building.

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Journey to the saw

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9 months

A shopping trip in Carrara

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1 year

Lincoln #2 getting roughed out. The previous was a smaller test piece. This one is a private commission.

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Sneak peek of something we’re making :)

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11 months

Friday dose of robots making sculpture.

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9 months

Those national TV lights @Monumental_Labs today

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4 months

15 Clerkenwell Close. A demonstration of stone as a structural material. And there’s something in it for everyone. Trads: Adding ornament to it is easy Mods: “truthful” materials RETwit: simpler, cheaper, stronger than reinforced concrete Greens: 98% less carbon

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1 year

Never stand behind a robot arm. Unless you’re a trained professional.

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2 months

@aussieflya A better product at a lower cost??? My word 🤭

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3 months

I’ll be in SF next week to unveil our statue at Stripe Sessions. Come by or lmk if you’re around.

John Collison

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Stripe Sessions is next week in San Francisco! We’ll share 30+ product updates, talk about the future of payments, chat with Jensen Huang, @fidjissimo , and @lhsummers , and host an expo showing the latest in AI with @Monumental_Labs , @AnthropicAI , @GitHub , and @elevenlabsio .

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1 year

Off the robot, you see a host of imperfections and strange textures. Now we start hand carving.

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6 months

The rebuttal to the @Monumental_Labs takedown piece. A good time to remind everyone there is no returning to handcraft anywhere near the scale that would make our cities beautiful again. Once you pay a living wage, you must accept support from software and robots.

The Aesthetic City

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@RealFinishes @Monumental_Labs Thank you for the insightful piece - I can't disagree with you, as your points are so valid. I feel I'm stuck - as we act like we don't have an alternative, while there is - but choosing for that alternative (the truly humanist one) might be too late now. I confess I'm

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