Masonry Magazine October 1972 Page. 9
Hempstead Bank Building
The Hempstead Bank Building, designed by Bentel & Bentel, features innovative architectural design and masonry craftsmanship. Wallwasher lights from above, and spotlights from below, accent the handlaid masonry units.
The innovative three-story lobby provides an exciting open core. Customers and employees alike are delighted with the open spaces, the shadings of light, and the special outdoor quality the architects achieved with masonry and its many earthy tones in combination with a variety of natural plantings on different levels.
The exterior provides passersby with an equally dramatic effect. A spacious entrance arch, made by masonry craftsmen on the site, dominates one of the dark-textured brick exterior walls. At night, wall-washer lights on the masonry at each side of the arch provide a warm, friendly approach to the bank. To the right, a series of buttress-like brick arches taper into the roofline. Sloping back from the street and dominated by large horizontal slots for the windows, the surface of the sloping roof is paved with brick. BM&PIU Local 30-N.Y. bricklayers laid the units in place with Sarabond mortar.
"If other structures to follow at the Nassau Center measure up to the architecture of the Bentel & Bentel design and the masonry industry's craftsmanship for the Hempstead Bank Building, old Mitchel Field will more than regain its past glory," the IMI predicts.
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• October, 1972
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