Archinect

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

The new, 15-story glass commercial space was constructed inside the building’s old brick masonry shell, offering tenants 460,000 square feet of Class A office space enhanced by carefully-inserted biophilic elements and marked by the firm’s attenuation to ascendant health and wellness considerations typical in modern workplace design.

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ArchDaily

AUGUST 23, 2023

It is considered the first skyscraper built in structural masonry, with ceramic bricks and a granite base. But what is structural masonry about, and how can designers use it in architectural projects? But what is structural masonry about, and how can designers use it in architectural projects? Read more »

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Archinect

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Energy-neutral dwelling with exquisite details Using Belgian hand-formed bricks, architect Joris Verhoeven has designed a breathtaking residence in Berkel-Enschot. The use of elongated bricks gives the house a timeless appearance and a warm, distinctive ambiance. All of these features work together to minimize energy consumption.

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Archinect

MAY 11, 2023

” Both buildings feature a mixture of warm grey calcium silicate brick to create a “contemporary interpretation of historic masonry on the campus.” Inside, public and social activities are concentrated on the ground floor, seeking to depart from what the team calls the campus’ “traditionally h.

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BD+C

MAY 11, 2016

If properly designed and constructed, brick masonry can be highly durable and tends to demand little in the way of routine repairs. However, it is still important to conduct regular inspection of the building façade to identify emerging problems and to plan for replacement of materials approaching the end of their lifespan.

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Archinect

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

For a renovation and expansion of the Design Museum Gent, an innovative new recycling process is turning old bits of broken concrete and glass into the bricks that will cover the museum’s exterior. This approach utilizes local materials rather than extracting clay or importing mass-produced bricks from elsewhere.

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Archinect

OCTOBER 26, 2023

A conventional brick was used for the outer walls. The variation in colour in bricks and grouting, and the use of different masonry bonds, adds playfulness to the design. Our clients from Aalst gave us carte blanche to design their new home. All they wanted was colour throughout the house, a distinctive design and.

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Archinect

MARCH 6, 2023

Located in Gillett Square, the scheme refurbished existing workspaces in a Victorian-era brick masonry building while adding ten new mini retail units and a two-story extension to provide increased usability and interaction between its tenants and their neighbors in the square. Finally, the design comes wrapp.

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Deezen

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

In collaboration with Colorado-based Prometheus Materials, architecture studio SOM has created a spiral installation made of bio-bricks for the 2023 Chicago Architecture Biennial. It was assembled using a conventional stacked masonry technique carried out by the International Masonry Institute and J&E Duff.

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Bustler

MARCH 10, 2024

This year's winners of the annual Brick in Architecture Awards were announced by the Brick Industry Association today. The award celebrates artistic and technological advancement of the material and the skilled use of brick masonry in architectural designs. The full list of winners can be viewed here.

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Archinect

JULY 6, 2023

The form of the addition and its red angled metal cladding camouflages with the local Victorian houses’ red brick and angular ornamentation. Evoking the sturdy masonry construction of the Victorian building, the addition features deep windows and skylight cavities filling the space with soft, indirect light.

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Archinect

JUNE 4, 2023

was tasked with designing a highly complex contextual building intended to relate comfortably to both Myrtle Avenue, lined with its low late 19th and early 20th Century brick buildings to the north and to the collection of somewhat more eclectic academic buildings on the historic Pratt campus to the south.

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Archinect

MAY 5, 2023

These doughnuts are made using technology similar to a 3D printer, where batter is robotically mapped onto the surface of a moving poo.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Local architecture studio Partisans has completed a house with an undulating yellow brick facade designed to look pixelated in Toronto , Ontario. The bricks are choreographed to convey movement Partisans designed this facade to be "formally performative" in its context.

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Dwell

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Project Details: Location: Lillehammer, Norway Architects: Sanden+Hodnekvam Architects Footprint: 2350 square feet From the Architects: " The area around the lake of Mjøsa has long traditions with masonry. It has been the home of 25 brickyards, and both the railway station and church in Lillehammer are made of brick.

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Architizer

JANUARY 24, 2022

It is becoming increasingly popular to use rainscreen cladding materials such as timber, clay tiles and zinc in conjunction with brickwork, render or other masonry finishes. Rainscreen Cladding Overhanding the Brick Face: Masonry Wall. Contributions by Aida Rodriguez-Vega, architect and researcher at the Detail Library.

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Building and Interiors

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

When it comes to construction, bricks have gained an edge over other building materials like wood. Bricks are a type of block used in the construction of walls, pavements, and other structural elements in masonry construction.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

SJB designed a facade of reclaimed and broken bricks for 19 Waterloo Street Informed by the playful houses that feature in movies by French director Jacques Tati, 19 Waterloo Street features a patchwork-like facade made from reclaimed materials and broken bricks. We wanted there to be joy and delight."

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Archinect

MARCH 4, 2022

The new community meeting wing is balanced with the original structure in a simple, traditional brick and stone massing, articulated with a contemporary masonry and glass façade. Its central location confirms its importance as a town resource and gathering place for the entire community.

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Dwell

APRIL 9, 2024

The concrete base and full height masonry walls serve to create a material language of visual mass and permanence for the home. The masonry walls and deeply raked mortar joints are highly textured, countering the smooth finished concrete surfaces and lime painted walls. Have one to share? Post it here.

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Archinect

JULY 25, 2022

Brick masonry remains the predominant residential construction material, though Low Energy Architectural Practice Principal Mark Siddall says the regulations will “help designers, architects and engineers make more informed decisions so that the risk of overheating can be reduced in new properties.

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Deezen

JANUARY 30, 2023

Expanded cork, construction waste and human urine feature in this roundup of brick alternatives, designed to reduce the masonry unit's embodied carbon footprint.

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Dwell

MARCH 27, 2023

HabHouse updated the 1950 home with wood accents and fresh appliances while preserving its existing masonry. Photo by Cameron Carothers for Sotheby’s International Realty See the full story on Dwell.com: In Los Angeles, a Revived Midcentury Decked Out in Redwood and Brick Asks $2.6M

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Deezen

JANUARY 18, 2023

Architecture studios Carmody Groarke and TRANS Architectuur Stedenbouw have collaborated with material researchers to develop a brick made from local construction waste, which will be used to build the new wing of the Design Museum Gent. This fabrication process, coupled with the use of recycled composites, results in a brick with 0.17

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Deezen

JANUARY 5, 2022

Indian studio Renesa has used earthy-hued masonry to form the entire facade and interior of a brick manufacturer's showroom in New Delhi. The retail space was conceived for local company Jindal Mechno Bricks , which has been producing bricks, tiles and pavers for more than 50 years.

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Deezen

MARCH 28, 2023

Brazilian architect Denis Joelsons has completed a renovation of a series of brick structures called Sítio Rio Acima near São Paulo , including a primary home with a vaulted ceiling and arched clerestory window. The renovation was completed by architect Denis Joelsons In 2022, Denis Joelsons stitched the 34,425-square metre (8.5-acre)

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Deezen

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Located in Haitang Bay, Neri&Hu designed two L-shaped buildings with wood-clad upper levels containing 343 guest rooms perched on top of a masonry base, where the lobby, reception, dining hall and event spaces are located.

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designboom

JANUARY 26, 2022

the structure was built using mud, wood, adobe masonry, bahareque, reed, brick, and tile -- most of which originate from a disused house on-site. The post freddy bonilla estudio’s casa cóndor revives vernacular architecture in ecuador appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

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Deezen

AUGUST 7, 2023

US architecture studio GBBN designed three brick buildings that allow social housing to both "fit in and stand out" in Cincinnati, Ohio. The team selected red brick for all of the facades to draw on Cincinnati's masonry vernacular and to highlight both the commonalities and differences between the structures.

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Deezen

MARCH 1, 2023

The interior was lined in concrete and pale timber While the original timber structure was in too poor a condition to retain, the masonry work was preserved and largely unaltered, with the brick and stonework finished in white plaster in some areas of the interior and left exposed in others.

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Deezen

OCTOBER 6, 2023

The new building's first floor has floor-to-ceiling windows and is topped with a wooden canopy that extends over the street, while the upper floors were clad in grey brick. The structure was built using a mass-timber frame fabricated in Minnesota, while locally sourced brick and concrete were used throughout the rest of building.

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Dwell

JANUARY 2, 2024

Welcoming guests through an alley-facing entrance, its scale and concrete masonry unit (CMU) walls speak to the industrial backdrop of the city's evolving landscape. Try 14 Years An Angular Brick and Steel Home in London Stands Out Among Its Rowhouse Neighbors Have one to share? Post it here.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Our chamfered form with big picture windows and lime-plastered masonry sits contemporary in the street and the south side of Edinburgh," project architect Ayla Riom told Dezeen. A brick shell encloses the apartments The housing block's structure was made from cross-laminated timber , which has been left exposed internally.

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Dwell

JANUARY 31, 2022

Brcar Morony Architecture deploys bespoke masonry to counter a noisy streetscape and privacy concerns. Photo by Justin Alexander Photo by Justin Alexander Resembling the battlements of a medieval castle, the new facade is composed of recycled bricks—some of which were salvaged from the existing house.

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The Spaces

MAY 23, 2022

And long-established techniques like brick vaults, jack-arch roofs, precast hourdi clay roofs, and filler slabs reduced concrete consumption. And long-established techniques like brick vaults, jack-arch roofs, precast hourdi clay roofs, and filler slabs reduced concrete consumption. A lot of hotels claim eco-credentials.

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Architonic

JANUARY 21, 2024

<p>The structure was built to consolidate three functions inside three conjoined buildings—the filtering, panning, and finishing of sugar—that required the use of enormous equipment housed in cavernous, multistory spaces purposefully obscured by the repetitive punched arch windows in the masonry.

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aasarchitecture

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Xiuwu County, situated in the western part of Henan Province within Jiaozuo City, was historically known as Huaiqing Prefecture. The Chinese term “Shu Di Huang” specifically denotes the prepared or cooked Rehmannia root. Shu Di Huang). LUO studio was commissioned to work on its design in early 2021.

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