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Polychrome brickwork also became popular in Europe in the later 19th century as part of the various medieval and Romanesque revivals. In France, the Menier Chocolate Factory in Noisiel, designed by Jules Saulnier and completed in 1872, is an early and very elaborate example, which is also noted for its early use of iron structure.
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.
Ginger Krieg Dosier is an American architect who, in 2010, developed a technique for using microbiologically induced calcite precipitation to manufacture bricks for construction. [ 1 ] Dosier's brick-making method consists of filling a rectangular form with sand layered intermittently with a solution containing urea , calcium chloride , and the ...
Large bricks on a conveyor belt in a modern European factory setting. A brickworks, also known as a brick factory, is a factory for the manufacturing of bricks, from clay or shale. Usually a brickworks is located on a clay bedrock (the most common material from which bricks are made), often with a quarry for clay on site.
In this elevation view for a wall in Flemish Bond, heading bricks appear in brown, stretching bricks in orange, and queen closers in lilac. The SVG file was written using gedit 2.30.4 on Debian 6.0.7 in April 2013. Width: 2260mm: Height: 2260mm
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 ...
Dutch brick (Dutch: IJsselsteen) is a small type of red brick made in the Netherlands, or similar brick, and an architectural style of building with brick developed by the Dutch. The brick, made from clay dug from river banks or dredged from river beds of the river IJssel [ 1 ] and fired over a long period of time, was known for its durability ...
Cobblestones on a road surface in Imola, Italy. Sett-paving, such as this surface in Fulham, south-west London, is commonly also often referred to as "cobblestones". ...