Jerusalem Stone Gray

Jerusalem Stone Gray draws from the dressed pale meleke limestone that, by the 1918 McLean master plan and Governor Storrs's facade ordinance, has clad every building in the city for a century. Read in its hand-tooled, shaded state, the stone is a cool neutral gray-beige — desaturated, never golden, never ivory. The system is civic and monumental: ashlar coursing, chiseled texture, engraved serif caps, and the deliberate calm of restrained masonry.

耶路撒冷石灰岩灰，取自经手工凿琢的浅色 meleke 石灰岩——自 1918 年 McLean 总 规与 Storrs 总督颁布的立面法令起，这种石材就被规定用于全城每一栋建筑的外墙。 在凿面与阴影的状态下，石头呈现出一种冷静的中性灰米色：刻意去饱和，绝非暖金 色的落日石调，也绝非奶白。整套系统是市政而纪念性的——条石叠砌、凿痕质感、镌 刻式衬线大写字母，以及克制砌筑所带来的庄重沉静。