Tag Bricks

20-03-2020

Renovated timber, brick and laminated bamboo home in Beijing

A Siheyuan is a traditional Chinese home renovated by restoring the existing parts using local materials along with modern additions that add value to its classic style.

31-01-2020

Barozzi Veiga’s brick Lausanne Cantonal Museum of Fine Arts

Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts Lausanne, Lausanne’s Cantonal Museum of Fine Arts, is a dust-coloured brick building with a front wall marked at regular intervals by vertical fins that break up its 350-metre façade.

30-01-2020

RaeRae House by Austin Maynard Architects combines form and function

With RaeRae House, the team from Australian firm Maynard Architects have crafted a house that conceals a practical, functional and sustainable structure behind an iconic appearance. It incorporates two terrace houses, reinterpreted with a fresh approach and attention to the context.

06-12-2019

Fogon, a restaurant in Riyadh by Hitzig Militello Arquitectos

The Argentine studio, Hitzig Militello Arquitectos led by Fernando Hitzig and Leonardo Militello has designed the Fogon Restaurant inside the Saedan shopping mall in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The architects paired the typical materials of a British pub with a contemporary aesthetic to match the context.

08-10-2019

Mikhail Riches designs energy-efficient social housing in Goldsmith Street, Norwich

Architecture firm Mikhail Riches designed a highly energy-efficient social housing development project in the centre of Norwich in the UK. A complex of terraced houses that offer a valid alternative to high-density apartment buildings. The project won the Riba Stirling Prize 2019.

11-01-2019

Tingbjerg library, a COBE project with a brick baguette façade

COBE’s Tingbjerk library is a provocative and seductive brick-faced prism that goes beyond classic traditional construction schemes

23-11-2018

BBGK Architekci: Katyń Museum in Warsaw

In the Warsaw Citadel is the Katyń Museum, commemorating the slaughter of 21,768 Polish military officers and civilians at the hands of the Soviet secret police in 1940. Katyń Museum was designed by a team of architects, artists and landscape architects under the guidance of BBGK Architekci.

22-10-2018

Henley Halebrown, De Beauvoir Block

RIBA London Award 2018 winner De Beauvoir Block in London is by UK architecture practice Henley Halebrown, who came up with new workspaces for creative businesses in this characteristic semi-industrial terrace, also adding a central external courtyard and rooftop studios.