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  • Many traditional houses comprise loadbearing natural stone slabs. Here, the limestone panels are set in front of the timber structure of the vertical extension.

    Simply Sophisticated - How Building Structure becomes Design Principle

  • Unfinished surfaces give the residents opportunities for appropriating spaces. The door to the private room becomes the front door of a house.

    Architecture is Merely the First Layer of a House

  • The masonry walls were erected by use of traditional methods. Wood wedges were set into the joints to adust the masonry blocks.

    Solid Recycling - Developing Sustainable Strategies

  • Affordable Rent Through Simple Standards

  • Postwar textbooks in Germany focused above all on rational solutions for housing reconstruction.

    Learning from the Existing Fabric

  • Sustainability Sparks Surprising Solutions

  • The town hall occupies two existing buildings of the former navy yard: a mast workshop and a tarpaulin factory.

    Town Hall in Den Helder

  • The inner courtyards are enclosed with polycarbonate, creating a solar chimney effect. In summer, warm air is drawn upward through the space, enabling natural ventilation.

    Raw Rooms - Social Housing in Ibiza

  • For the new cinema in Cahors in southern France the office of Antonio Virga Architecte designed a brick facade that seems almost weightless due to omitting individual bricks.

    Ornament and Brickwork

  • Essay: Brick A­rchitecture in ­Flanders

  • Recycling of bricks: Museum of Art in Ravensburg by Lederer Ragnarsdóttir Oei Architects

    Technology: Sustainable Construction with Thermally Insulating Brickwork

  • View through the “baguette” rainscreen to the dome of the Shrine of the Book, by Frederick Kiesler.

    Technology: A Building Material with a Rich Tradition - Using Brick in Custom Solutions

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