Thin bricks

An iconic family business since 1955, this client chose a nostalgic thin brick for this renovation that reflected the company's history and character. General Shale Cityhall Thin Brick is a favorite among designers for its distinct, old world charm. More

General Shale’s English Pub thin brick provided the textured, authentic look that designers and the client was seeking for this renovation of the former North Carolina Music Factory into the new AvidXChange headquarters. The challenge for this multi-storied project however, was to develop a distressed thin brick product that would work well in the precast process. General Shale and LS3P teamed up with precast provider Metromont Corporation and concrete form fabricator Architectural Polymer for an innovation solution. A custom pre-built form (developed by Metromont and Architectural Polymers) marries the varying distressed reliefs of the General Shale product to expose a larger surface area of the thin brick face and edges.  By c... More