PAYETTE’s Young Designer’s Core traveled to the Granites of America (GOA) quarry and facilities on April 24, 2012 in Westford, MA. Highlights of the trip included a tour of the large shop facility where diamond-blade cutting machines and large radial saws are used amongst a variety of other machines for finishing and sculpting the Chelmsford granite that is extracted from the quarry just across the street.
A single mine generally extracts a single type or pattern of stone. Although only a handful of GOA’s nineteen mines across the U.S. are in operation at any given time, they have the capability to re-activate dormant mines depending upon market trends or job-specific needs. This can be particularly beneficial in situations where stone is being restored or replaced on older or damaged buildings where there is a need to match the existing condition.
We are honored to share PAYETTE has received two 2026 Green Good Design Awards from The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies—Land’s Sake Farm and The Ragon Institute of Mass General, MIT, and Harvard.
“Green GOOD DESIGN identifies and emphasizes the world’s most important examples of sustainable design and works to develop a public awareness program that informs the general public about which global companies are doing the best job in ecological and sustainable design for our world. Architecture, landscape architecture, urban planning projects, as well as product, packaging, and graphic design projects from over 30 nations were honored with the 2026 Green GOOD DESIGN Award.”
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