FEATURE: LATICRETE products adorn floor in Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford ness. With this in mind, lead architect Robin Guenther, a principal with the architec- tural firm Perkins + Will in association with Hammel, Green and Abrahamson, Inc. and Mazzetti, set out to fulfill Packard’s vision by designing one of the country’s most sus- tainable children’s hospitals. To bring to life two mosaic tile themes representative of California’s seashore and the Redwood Forest, inter- national award-winning mosaic artist Gary Drostle and his company, UK-based Drostle Public Arts, created and installed 19 hand-cut mosaics using Winckelman Unglazed Porcelain, a set of bronze medallions and 700 hand-cast glass leaves to be set in a specially designed terrazzo floor. After nearly two years of craftsmanship, Drostle’s designs were installed in the ground floor lobby area of the hospital and first-floor central corridor using LATICRETE® products. “For each portion of our mosaic tile work, there was an appropri- ate LATICRETE product to ensure a lasting installation and bring the ‘wow’ factor with a pop of color in the grout,” Drostle said. “More importantly than that, each of the products chosen has received multiple certifications and decla- rations, including Health Product Declarations(HPD),Environmental The new hospital features mosaic tile designs representative of California’s sea- shore and the Redwood Forest. International award-winning mosaic artist Gary Drostle and his company, UK-based Drostle Public Arts, created and installed 19 hand-cut mosaics using Winckelman Unglazed Porcelain, a set of bronze medallions and 700 hand-cast glass leaves to be set in a specially designed terrazzo floor. 38 TileLetter | August 2018