Inspiration for Masonry Design
[vc_row][vc_column width=”3/4″][vc_column_text] These dynamic photos offer interesting visions to the future of stone masonry design. These design ideas would be great to see in Chicago! View captivating stone architecture designs > [/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
95 Peckham Road in London
[vc_row][vc_column width=”3/4″][vc_column_text] This design looks ahead of its time. It’s a great use of social distancing in the layout of the building. 5 Peckham Road in London contains 33 homes in a six-story, pale-brick housing block alongside the road with lower rise maisonettes arranged around a communal courtyard at the rear. Read more >[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
Brick Arcade in Mexico
[vc_row][vc_column width=”3/4″][vc_column_text] Brick archways fold around this public square in Jojutla, Mexico. Check out all the photos of this dynamic courtyard, it’s a great way to bring a memorable experience to places where people work, live, and play. Read more >[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
The Heights Building by BIG
[vc_row][vc_column width=”3/4″][vc_column_text]Brick—featured in the old school building that was on the site, as well as in much of Arlington’s historic architecture—is the prominent material here, albeit in white, not red. White brick, says Ingels, “better expresses the volumes through the play of light and shadow.” Read more >[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
Residenze Carlo Erba, Milan Eisenman Architects and Degli Esposti Architetti
[vc_row][vc_column width=”3/4″][vc_column_text]After decades of studying its architecture, Peter Eisenman finally builds in Italy. The serpentine structure employs traditional construction-reinforced-concrete columns and structural slabs with bearing walls at the six cores along the length of the building. Read more >[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
National Museum of Qatar by Ateliers Jean Nouvel
An immense collision of sandy-hued concrete disks, the building is planned as a loop that winds for almost a mile and makes you feel as if you’ve landed on planet Tatooine in the Star Wars universe. Read more >
Design Vanguard 2019: Michan Architecture
“That whole area of the city is built with brick walls,” he explains, “but in an extremely standardized way, because everything needs to be cheap.” Michan upends expectations by carefully arranging the bricks so that they actively respond to light and shadow. Read more >
V&A Dundee – Kengo Kuma & Associates
[vc_row][vc_column width=”3/4″][vc_column_text]The form of the museum is inspired by the cliffs on Scotland’s north-eastern coastline, with the cladding – dramatic lines of pre-cast concrete that run horizontally around the curving concrete walls – creating patterns of shadows which change with the weather and the time of day. V&A Dundee’s appearance is of two inverted pyramids […]
Basaren Block by Wingårdhs, Stockholm
[vc_row][vc_column width=”3/4″][vc_column_text] The white brick-clad structure has rounded corners, not only to allow light to travel continuously around the facade without creating hard shadows. It’s a great example of how to create symmetry in communities. Read more >[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
A Unique Masonry Home
[vc_row][vc_column width=”3/4″][vc_column_text]The existing double story Victorian terrace’s zigzag (almost scalloping) brown and gold brick façade was translated and embellished to form the scalloped extension to the rear, whimsically drawing a fortified silhouette in the sky. This castle-like structure would look great in Chicago! Read more >[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
