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The Waycroft
Arlington, VA
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David M. Schwarz Architects, Inc.Distributor
Brickworks Supply, formerly Glen-Gery Capital Brick Masonry Supply CenterThe Waycroft, located in Arlington, Virginia, is a 61,000 square feet multi-residential building with three levels of underground parking that sits on an entire city block in the well-known neighborhood of Ballston.
The broad curve façade of The Waycroft makes for a dramatic landmark at a critical intersection of Glebe Road and Wilson Boulevard, linking the commercial business district with a residential community. This building offers 491 units, with retail giant Target and the Silver Diner restaurant located on the ground level, occupying about 100,000 square feet for retail purposes.
This remarkable project features multiple façade heights that create three unique architectural buildings, all linked with separate entrances, utilizing various brick colors, shapes and textures from Glen-Gery. Each building possesses a unique aesthetic design yet blends seamlessly into the surrounding neighborhood, and each other.
The project features blends of several brick colors from light cream to deep red across full and thin brick sizes. The combination of brick bond patterns and color mortars utilized alongside the custom corner details of precast and brick quoins as well as other materials, provide interest, depth and dimension to this breath-taking city block.
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Enhanced Design Visualizer Tool Inspires + Simplifies
Designers, architects and homeowners can create a picture perfect home or building using Glen-Gery’s newly enhanced Virtual Design Tool, fully loaded with Glen-Gery products and colors.
Major technology upgrades to the tool allow a user to “See it before you live it,” choosing a home style that best matches their vision then applying product to fully visualize the outcome. The design process starts with going directly to the Glen-Gery website or by scanning a QR Code located on a sample chip in a Brickworks Design Studios. No QR code on your sample? No problem, simply use the search to find product name.
To help visualize brick or stone styles on a building, the website offers three options:
- PICTURE PERFECT
Use one of our pre-loaded commercial or residential images.
- PICTURE PERFECT DIY
Upload and prepare a custom image with auto-mask
- PICTURE PERFECT PRO
Have us professionally mask a custom image for a small fee.
According to Denise Smith, Marketing Manager, the tool is used mostly for residential design as architects have their own rendering software to realize commercial building design.
“With over 600 Glen-Gery products to choose from, the selection process has been overwhelming in the past,” she said. “The enhanced user interface and updated tool makes it much easier to select a product and apply it to all a home.”
Typically, homeowners will select one of our pre-loaded images or upload or their own image. That could include a sketch, front elevation, or a photo of their own home, or a neighboring home.
With the new enhancements, users can go from the Glen-Gery website directly into Picture Perfect with a product pre-selected so all that is needed is to select a home style. The visualizer also links back out to the Glen-Gery, making the two sites fully integrated and allows a user to view product details while applying the product to a home.
Other enhancements to the tool include viewing projects full screen, adding paint to wall sections, access to trending color palettes and a larger variety of stock images. Users have the ability to change roof, window, door, trim and mortar colors to completely design the
Should a couple want to visualize different products on their home, a comparison slider allows them to compare and print two designs simultaneously.
User friendly. Innovative. Check out Picture Perfect here: https://www.glengery.com/brick-stone-inspiration/virtual-design-tool
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Stratford Thin Brick, Thin Tech Classic
Welcome to the Brickworks worldwide flagship Design Studio in NYC
On Thursday, March 3rd, Brickworks North America Corporation, parent company of Glen-Gery Corporation, officially celebrated the launch of its global flagship Design Studio in New York City. Located on the legendary 5th Avenue, the Brickworks New York Design Studio aims to provide architects, designers and homeowners an upscale, stylish space to collaborate on projects, explore premium products, and attend industry and educational events.
The New York Design Studio is Brickworks’ third Design Studio in the U.S. and ninth Design Studio internationally. Located at 445 5th Avenue, the Brickworks New York Design Studio measures more than 16,100 square feet across three levels and displays premium products in a space that is meant to inspire architects, designers and consumers alike.
The Design Studio’s showroom features 20 product displays, including Glen-Gery’s newest 2022 product line and international products, such as Kite Breeze, GB Masonry and Urbanstone, which are exclusively on display at the New York location.
Architects and other industry professionals will have endless design possibilities with both traditional brick products to modern, sleek color and high-end Venetian glass brick. Visitors can browse, touch and leave with samples – all of which are available in a range of colors, shapes and sizes to provide design flexibility for architects, designers and consumers. The space will also be used for events hosted by industry leaders. Click here to view our upcoming schedule of events, and reserve your seat.
One particularly unique feature of the space is a state-of-the-art broadcast studio to expand reach and accessibility to national and international audiences. The studio will offer opportunities to live stream events, including speaking engagements and product launches, host podcasts, and develop educational content videos.
Opening the international flagship Design Studio in New York City is a significant milestone for Brickworks and another opportunity to continue its expansion across North America but also aligns the brand with fellow luxury design brands also located on the famed 5th Avenue in New York City, arguably the most stylish street in America.
The festive 1930s-style opening celebration on March 3rd was attended by more than 300 guests including “Queer Eye For The Straight Guy” stars Carson Kressley and Thom Filicia, one of today’s most influential and respected interior designers and both founder and owner of Thom Filicia, Inc. Other attendees included the Honorable Arthur Sinodinos AO, Australian Ambassador to the United States, Nick Greiner, Australian Consul-General to New York and Season 4 The X Factor Australia winner and ARIA award-winning singer/songwriter, Samantha Jade.
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Designing in Brick - Mortar & Joints
EFFECTS OF MORTAR IN MASONRY DESIGN
Mortar is often used in masonry design not just for a practical purpose, but also as a design element. Mortar is placed between bricks or stones when building to bind them together. In addition to being the glue that holds together building materials, mortar can completely change the look and feel of a masonry design project.
Approximately twenty percent of a brick wall’s surface is mortar. As such, it has a significant effect on the building’s overall appearance, and truly has the power to transform the entire visual experience of the building. The range of mortar colors and joints create numerous opportunities for architects, builders and homeowners to enrich the look of their buildings or homes.
Mortar Color
Utilizing a colored mortar, instead of a standard gray, and different design techniques can completely transform the visual experience of a building.
Match or Contrast
The right mortar color can blend in with and accent the brick itself. This brings the dominant shade to the forefront, creating a visually pleasing design effect. Alternatively, the mortar can contrast with the brick facing to produce unusual and memorable visual effects. This has more of a compelling and eye-catching appearance for those who are seeking a standout look for a building.
Play Up Single Colors
Another way to use colored mortar is to pick one of the colors from brick units that cover a range of tones. Whether it matches one brick color within a blend or one shade within multicolored units, the mortar will tend to make the color more visible overall. When you use mortar to play up a single color in this way, it can make the wall’s overall tone lighter or darker, warmer or cooler.
Accentuate Patterns
Sometimes, two or more mortar colors are used to accentuate patterns in masonry. Quoins, bands and other ornamental elements can add character to a project, but they can have an even greater visual impact when paired with matching mortar to set them apart from the field masonry. This can create an overall captivating effect with the aesthetic of the building.
Mortar Joints
Mortar joints themselves can also transform the overall appearance of a building or surface. Mortar joints fill the space between the bricks. This is an important functional aspect of mortar. However, the type of mortar joint chosen in masonry construction will also govern the overall visual of surfaces.
Different mortar joint profiles not only provide a variety of looks, but also contribute to the water resistance needed to ensure the longevity of the building. Although there are many mortar joint profiles, there are a few types that can specifically work wonders to impact design.
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Concave or Groove Joint |
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Flush Joint |
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Vee or V Joint |
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Grapevine Joint |
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Extruded or Squeezed Joint |
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Overmortar or "German Smear" |
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How To: DIY Brick Fireplace
Glen-Gery partnered with Hometalk and Lia Watson from Southern Yankee DIY to produce an easy to follow, DIY brick fireplace!
Watch and learn how you can transform your living space with thin brick. Before the fireplace transformation, Lia installed custom made built-ins before she decided to do something special with thin brick. She chose Washington Thin Brick to complement the black arched bookcases because of it's color and texture.
For step-by-step instructions, click here.
Supplies:
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Glen-Gery Thin Brick
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Type N Mortar Mix
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Non-sagging Adhesive
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3/8″ Spacers
Tools:
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Caulk Gun
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Level
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Diamond Blade/Wet Saw
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Trowel
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Grout Bag
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Striking Tool
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Tape Measure
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