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...BrickLink is part of a large ecosystem that's sprung up around Lego where people resell Lego, where people even make new types of pieces that can combine with Lego pieces to make different kinds of constructions...
...Alternatively, topiary is a relatively cheap and sustainable way to add structure, or frame or block views....
...“Lego is less about brick-based construction and more about being a talent agency for mini-figures,” says David Robertson, author of the leading book on the company, Brick by Brick....
...than a traditional masonry brick....
...There hardly seems to be a construction business that isn’t investing in being cleaner. Ibstock says it is diversifying into low carbon bricks and concrete....
...Many key materials, such as bricks and glass, are very sensitive to volatile energy prices....
...Contemporary building codes demand thermal breaks and consecutive layers, which mean that in practice every facade is only a weather screen: stone, brick, terracotta, all is appliqué....
...When “sticks and bricks” are half the cost of a dwelling, economies of scale and lower-cost capital are the industry’s best hope....
...“The actual process of construction is really quick,” he says. “The external walls of our house went up in three days. It’s basically like building with giant Lego blocks.”...
...Later, a crowd gathers around a new floor installation, also titled “Ground Break”, an 18 metre by 18 metre construction made up of 4,000 bricks (again borrowed from Janssens’ exhibition)....
...Store cards, with their high interest charges and late fees, turn out to be far more lucrative than running a brick-and-mortar store....
...His blocks crack, flake, break and threaten to implode, glazes drip and pool ($15,000-$70,000)....
...He estimates the timber construction has 70 per cent less embodied carbon emissions than an equivalent 190 sq m house in concrete and brick....
...Atelier Oï has also created a huge rectangular version of its Marble Arches table, a monolith made from a single block of marble....
...With state-owned China Construction Bank taking rare legal action against the troubled mainland developer Shimao Group, however, that is no longer a given....
...America’s biggest bricks-and-mortar retailer on Thursday raised its full year sales and profit guidance after it delivered a strong set of first-quarter results....
...“He targets Orbán, but there he has hit a brick wall,” Mráz said. “The cohesive power of the premier is unscathed, appealing to a stable 45-50 per cent of voters....
...grey brick-walled hutongs in Beijing....
...“I built this house brick by brick,” he said. “If they want me out, they can kill me.” Photography and additional reporting by Ricardo Lisboa...
...From Lego bricks to laundry detergent pods, consumers are calling for options that are more sustainable than plastic....
...In a working-class neighbourhood on the outskirts of Rosario, one-storey cinder-block homes and semi-paved streets are punctuated by so-called bunkers: brick-sized holes in the wall that function as makeshift...
...Housebuilding accounts for about two-thirds of national demand for bricks, and expectations of slower construction rates has prompted analysts to downgrade companies that make bricks and other building materials...
...It’s like Michelangelo with his block of marble – the statue already being in the block of marble. And by the same token, when we do restorations, the response is always there....
...This thoughtful piece of London infill is built in creamy brick and is intricate and carefully detailed....
...Local authorities, which are contending with straitened finances across England, have some power to block permitted development conversion in certain areas....
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