Masonry Magazine June 1993 Page. 14
SECTION LOOKING WEST
SECTION LOOKING NORTH
WEST ELEVATION
panels and looked at them in a variety of lighting conditions to ensure a suitable match. Supplied by Acme Brick, the color is "brick mould." The brick field features a Flemish bond pattern, which has an imitation lock row every seven courses, imparting a subtle horizontal pattern.
Home Builders Laud MFCA and Jim Buckley
THE MASONRY FIREPLACE and Chimney Association was honored recently for its contributions to help train skilled workers for the homebuilding industry, at the National Association of Home Builders Convention in Las Vegas. Jim Buckley, MFCA representative (above right) received the Hands that Work Award, the highest honor presented by the Home Builders Institute, the educational arm of NAHB, from Rich McCleery, left, chairman of the HIB board of trustees. Buckley told the audience at a breakfast meeting of MFCA's involvement in the Industry-Education Alliance skilled worker training program.
The large Gothic arch was interpreted from the existing church. It has a double soldier course and row lock with a limestone key. Double soldier course repeats at the top of the brick gable with limestone coping and a limestone keystone. The ends of the gables have corbeled wings, reflecting a similar detail on the older building.
Frame is structural steel, with steel deck, bar joists, and prefabricated wood trusses. Siding is brick veneer with concrete masonry unit bearing walls, limestone coping and tinted mortar.
The north and south buildings each have a round rose window with a radial double soldier course. These soldier courses have special trapezoidal-shaped bricks that accommodate the radial shape without excessive mortar joints.
The interior solution successfully combines Gothic and modern styles in the new 300 seat sanctuary which retains a conventional altar arrangement with a modern, concentric-seating layout. Four traditional intersecting wood arches, which form two intersecting gables, soar above the altar to a skylight. The centrally planned sanctuary rests beneath this vault of arches.
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