In his second article on brick bonds, Mike Hammett focuses on their decorative potential The simple, regular form of a brick is very versatile and allows a great number of bond patterns to be used. A ...

Melissa Price shines a light on the anatomy of the humble brick and a variety of bricklaying techniques in her book Brick ...

In the West, bricks are almost always used to create straight, uniform walls in rectilinear buildings. India, on the other hand, has a long history of sculptural brickwork, using these basic ...

Giving your patio or walkway a spruce is a welcome aspect of enhancing your outdoors. Installing patio pavers is one of the common ways of improving your patio. If you're redoing your patio, a ...

Made of earthy stuff, brick is so back in the picture of high architecture it is showing up hard-handed bricklayer tradies as brilliant craftspersons — if not as artists — whose work could endure in ...

Pale bricks are arranged in a herringbone pattern on the outer walls of this compact house in north-east London that architect Zoe Chan designed and built for herself (+ slideshow). The Atelier ...