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...Its surfaces are treated with care and given depth and modelling in a manner rare in contemporary development, which now largely sees brick used as a dumb veneer, more wallpaper than structure....
...a serious approach to the material — something very different from veneers of stick-on brick, the default language of the city’s new housing blocks....
...“A home is so much more than brick walls,” she adds. “There might be pushback during any project....
...The Papinchaks went on to painstakingly relocate and rebuild two 1950s Usonian Wright homes brick by brick — the Duncan house, which came from Illinois and which they opened to the public in 2007, and the...
...A fake façade to a fake nightclub, this is a paper-thin veneer (in fact, literally a veneer, constructed of a membrane of wood) embellished with a bouncer and a velvet rope to produce the expectation that...
...And the electric car maker's website added to the tension, adopting a black veneer ahead of the anointed hour. Was it the much-anticipated Model Y? The rolling out of the semi-truck?...
...Amin Taha’s monumental 15 Clerkenwell Close in London is steeped in architectural and geological history....
...The public front of the building remains the 1919 Police Headquarters Block on Hollywood Road, executed in a kind of sub-Lutyens red brick municipal style, now opened out to accommodate restaurants and retail...
...It feels a little like finding yourself in one of those black-and-white architectural photos of big city scenes or jazz clubs. Somehow, at sometime, everything went grey. With a touch of chrome....
...If brick is being used as an appliqué veneer of fashion and faux modesty, it will fade away like all the other styles....
...The hint of sadness is that in its success, design seems doomed to act as a sacrificial layer, a veneer of cool to attract the big brands that will ultimately displace it....
...The brownstone veneer was removed and 10cm of exterior foam insulation was placed over the masonry with an equivalent thickness of insulation inside....
...Holten had the “unreal” chance to create something new; his puppet theatre in bricks and mortar, although Mr Møller, as Holten calls him, chose the architect, Henning Larsen....
...Awarded a peerage in 2001, Lord Browne was featured in Vanity Fair magazine and his home in Architectural Digest....
...Mountains, for example, were fabricated from plasterboards and fields from stained oak parquet bricks....
...Saratoga is famous for horses so anytime I said “I’m here for writing” (I majored in creative writing and architectural restoration) they’d say to me, “Oh, and did you bring your horse?”...
...There is a well-trimmed village green, brick houses in a pleasant jumble of architectural styles and a primary school towards which a modest bust of George Cadbury gazes....
...What we build, where we have lived and dreamt, desired and died always becomes more than just bricks and mortar....
...It seems destined to fare better than previous attempts at architectural munificence in King’s Cross....
...It is hard to imagine, in an age when the replacement bricks in the terminal walls had to be made of Leicestershire clay and fired in a specially built kiln in Derbyshire, to match the surviving originals...
...Where the architect wants to emphasise something – a door, a reading room, a display case – he employs the most exquisite book-matched and highly figured veneers....
...“Without us [Pedini] couldn’t have imagined it into a house and without him we couldn’t have got access to the materials” – which, he adds, offered big advantages over traditional bricks and mortar....
...Externally, the rectilinear grey-brick building has few architectural pretensions, although its all-glass façade nicely opens it up to its surroundings....
...A 30-minute drive from the airport, across the parched brown landscape dotted with tin and mud-brick shacks, is the Mafeteng clinic, built 100 years ago and fallen into disrepair....
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