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Interior of a brick-lined well in Utrecht, Netherlands. A brick-lined well is a hand-dug water well whose walls are lined with bricks, sometimes called "Dutch bricks" if they are trapezoidal or made on site. The technique is ancient, but is still appropriate in developing countries where labor costs are low and material costs are high.
Frederick C. Robie House, an example of Prairie School architecture. An architectural style is characterized by the features that make a building or other structure notable and historically identifiable. A style may include such elements as form, method of construction, building materials, and regional character.
The chief building material was the mud-brick, formed in wooden moulds similar to those used to make adobe bricks. Bricks varied widely in size and format from small bricks that could be lifted in one hand to ones as big as large paving slabs. Rectangular and square bricks were both common.
Aula Palatina in Trier, built about 310 Ratzeburg Cathedral, since 1154–1160. Brick Romanesque is an architectural style and chronological phase of architectural history. The term described Romanesque buildings built of brick; like the subsequent Brick Gothic, it is geographically limited to Central Europe.
gray brick: parts of the building of brick, parts of stone and de mixed parts: Douai: Templer's House founded in 1155: changes in the 19th century: ↓: Our Lady's Church 12th–15th centuries: shells of the vaults and part of the interior sides of the walls of brick; outside all is of sandstone: Dunkirk: Belfry ↑: Saint-Eloi Church
Roman bricks in the Jewry Wall, Leicester.The 20th-century bracing arch in the background utilises modern bricks. Roman brick is a type of brick used in ancient Roman architecture and spread by the Romans to the lands they conquered, or a modern adaptation inspired by the ancient prototypes.
only tower medieval, embrasure of the portal of brick, else irregular pathwork of brick and plastered wall sections: ↓: Sittard, Sittard-Geleen: St. Peter's church (NL), RCE 33678: 13th–16th centuries: basilical nave of brick, lower parts of the tower brick and stone layers, transept, choir and upper tower of stone: ↑: Venlo: Sint ...
Brick Renaissance is the Northern European continuation of brick architecture after Brick Romanesque and Brick Gothic.Although the term Brick Gothic is often used generally for all of this architecture, especially in regard to the Hanseatic cities of the Baltic, the stylistic changes that led to the end of Gothic architecture did reach Northern Germany and northern Europe with delay, leading ...