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Echo-Blocks

Echo-Blocks provide a unique way to connect the purpose of your project with the design of its architecture and the landscape. These custom fabricated architectural terra cotta blocks feature patterns, images, and/or text to integrate specific visual elements related to your project. Choose from stock pieces or customize your own images.

Use Echo-Blocks as a focus to a building's entrance for signage, wayfinding, or corporate identity. Reinforce a key concept by using the blocks as a continuous linear band. Echo-Blocks are for interior and exterior application, and can be used both structurally and ornamentally.

Ideas for Use:

  • Integration in buildings and landscape
  • Custom masonry block units
  • Corporate building identity (logo and branding)
  • Retaining walls
  • Corporate campuses

Product Details:

  • Design
        Stock or custom design
  • Colors
        Many color and glaze options available.
        Complimentary in color, texture, and shadow, to other building materials of stone and brick.
  • Sizes
        7-5/8" tall x 15-5/8" long x 3-5/8" deep. Fits into standard masonry construction.
  • Construction
        Custom fabricated architectural terra cotta blocks. Cavity-back blocks can be made in any bed depth
        to be used structurally or as a tile veneer.

STOCK DESIGNS:


    Nature Series
  •     $70.00 each
    Water

    Water    		 Leaves.

    Leaves
    Stone.

    Stone    		 Prairie Grass.

    Prairie Grass

     

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Architectural Echo-Blocks Project

Raccoon River Nature Lodge
West Des Moines, IA

A continuous linear band of custom designed echo blocks runs throughout interior of the Raccoon River Nature Lodge at a height that marks the water level of the Great Iowa Flood in 1993.The Raccoon River Nature Lodge, located in Raccoon River Park in West Des Moines, IA, is a unique space for various gatherings in a natural setting. Echo-Blocks originated as a custom solution for this project. They were created in two patterns: one with images of a cracked river bed and the other with cottonwood leaves and branches. A continuous linear band of the custom design Echo-Blocks runs throughout the exterior and interior of the building at a height that marks the water level of the Great Iowa Flood in 1993.
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