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Butterfield went on to use polychrome brick in more projects, and other architects also adopted the new technique at the same time. For example George Edmund Street used black bricks on a red background in his 1858–61 St James the Less in Pimlico, considered one of his finest designs, and George Gilbert Scott used black brick stripes on a red ...
A wall constructed in glazed-headed Flemish bond with bricks of various shades and lengths. An old brick wall in English bond laid with alternating courses of headers and stretchers. A brick is a type of construction material used to build walls, pavements and other elements in masonry construction.
A "face brick" is a higher-quality brick, designed for use in visible external surfaces in face-work, as opposed to a "filler brick" for internal parts of the wall, or where the surface is to be covered with stucco or a similar coating, or where the filler bricks will be concealed by other bricks (in structures more than two bricks thick).
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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. Both types are characteristically longer and flatter ...
The buzz here in State College is palpable. ESPN's "College GameDay" is here, and so is Fox’s "Big Noon Kickoff." The setting is expected to be a quintessential Big Ten fall masterpiece.
Dry ashlar masonry laid in parallel courses on an Inca wall at Machu Picchu Ashlar masonry north gable of Banbury Town Hall, Oxfordshire Ashlar polygonal masonry in Cuzco, Peru Quarry-faced red Longmeadow sandstone in random ashlar was specified by architect Henry Hobson Richardson for the North Congregational Church (Springfield, Massachusetts, 1871).