CerraStone is a structural clay brick with an ultra matte textured finish.  This cost-effective masonry product offers the lifelong durability of brick and presents the classic appeal of stone.  We currently offer a wide variety of sizes and colors, with many more designs soon to come from our glaze lab.

The first application of CerraStone was on this Johnson & Wales University Academic Building in downtown Charlotte, N.C.  As the 1st Place President’s Award winner in the AIA’s Design with Brick competition for Brick SouthEast, it made a great first showing.

For the Johnson & Wales project, CerraStone served as an alternative to neighboring precast construction which was too costly.  This gave designer, Pat Campbell, AIA, a material that was within budget which allowed him more money for the designing and blending.  What resulted was a beautiful Collegiate Gothic building which blends beautifully into the surrounding campus area; the central tower provides a focal point for the entire downtown area.

Blending different sizes and colors gave this project a fresh new look of contemporary architecture.  Created with CerraStone was a “Super Grid” pattern of 12” X 12” units surrounded by 4” X 12” and 4” X 8” units, which, as the eye draws in closer, offers smaller patterns to be seen.  An accent wall of 8” X 8” in white ceramic glaze (not shown here) also adds to the building’s creative architecture.

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