Brick

A brick is a type of building material used to build walls, pavements, and other elements in masonry construction. Properly, the term brick denotes a unit primarily composed of clay, but it is now also used informally to denote building units made of other materials or other chemically cured construction blocks. Fired bricks are one of the longest-lasting and strongest building materials. Air-dried bricks, also known as mudbricks, have a history older than fired bricks.

The steel and glass roof spreads between two brick flanking buildings.

seven thousand cubic meters of stone and a huge quantity of bricks were required

massive dressed granite blocks, smaller uncut stones for walling, mud mortar to fix them, bricks for vaulting and arches

The exterior has a decorative stucco over brick treatment, intended to simulate ashlar blocks.

most constructed of brick in the latter-half of the 19th century

brick on the first floor supporting a heavy-timber frame above

Seniff built the 15-room brick Georgian Revival mansion that exists today

is polychrome brickwork, richly ornamented with sculpted bricks and terracotta

In 1867, a brick jailhouse was built

The villa introduce itself as yellow brick shell

The building consists of gault brick under a half-hipped thatched roof

original brick walls

The two-story brick masonry house

built a brick plantation house in Greek Revival style there

The new walls were made with bricks instead of adobe

with a red brick

a marble loggia at the base a long red brick shaft a stone

a 50-metre-tall, brick folly

Notre-Dame-sous-terre, in granite masonry and flat bricks, dates back undoubtedly to the 10th century.

the three-story yellow brick mansion comprises 36 rooms in an Italianate villa style

With the keys to the building being handed over in 1902, it was however not fully completed until 1904, after which 40 million bricks, half a million precious stones and 40 kg (88 lb) of gold were used.

While the palace's styles are an accident of fate, a unity exists due to the use of pink bricks and a symmetrical, if vague, balancing of successive low wings.

At Jericho, circular dwellings were built of clay and straw bricks left to dry in the sun, which were plastered together with a mud mortar.

The facade is made of marble at the base, with white brick covering the upper stories

The arch is constructed of brick-faced concrete covered in marble.

Built using brick, white marble and limestone

made of brick, with some flower-ornamented iron balconies

Steinway Hall is a New York City designated landmark and has a facade made mostly of brick, limestone, and terracotta

The facade is largely composed of brick with sandstone trim and terracotta detailing.

a central block, of two storeys and constructed of brick

It is built of brick with stone dressings, rendered on the front, and with a Welsh slate roof.

Eustatia (Greek for "good place to stay") is a brick house overlooking the Hudson River

It is constructed of stucco over brick

one of the few Greek Revival buildings built of brick in the town

The Georgian home was built using bricks made in two kilns that Alsop built on the property.

It is a two-story brick structure with a hipped roof and cupola

It is brick-clad on the first floor exterior, and stuccoed above.

it is an Italianate two-story villa built in brick and covered in clapboard

The first floor is built of brick and above the house is sheathed in shingles.

It is a three-story brick building with a turret, gables

It is a brick building in the Georgian Revival style

is a brick dwelling consisting of a two-story, central block

It was built in 1907 of poured concrete faced in brick.

the chimneys and foundation required 12,000 bricks

George Gilbert Scott won the competition to design it, with an ornate Gothic red-brick scheme.

The Castle of the Teutonic Order in Malbork, commonly known as Malbork Castle (Polish: Zamek w Malborku; German: Ordensburg Marienburg), is a Brick Gothic castle complex located in the town of Malbork, Poland, built in the 13th and significantly expanded in the 14th century.

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In 1726, it became the home of the Harrison family of Virginia, after Benjamin Harrison IV located there and built one of the first three-story brick mansions in Virginia.

The basement contains four brick arched chimney supports, and nine small windows.

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In 1682 Col. William Tayloe purchased 3,000 acres from Col. Moore Fauntleroy's son William, and built a 20-room brick dwelling called "The Old House." William's son, Col. John Tayloe I inherited the house upon his father's death in 1710.

It has an unusual brick mansion in the style of Palladio's "Roman Country House" completed in the 1760s, and was perhaps designed by Thomas Jefferson.

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Whitehall is an unusually long one-story five-part Flemish bond brick building, about 200 feet (61 m) in length, with a two-story elevation on the north side.

Lee Hall or Lee Hall Mansion is a historic brick plantation house that was built during the period from 1848 to 1859.

Approximately 80 percent of Menokin's original materials have survived, including: original stones, brick and mortar; queen posts and dragon beams; intact framing assemblages; and the interior woodwork.

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Begun in 1725, the Flemish bond brick Rosewell mansion overlooking the York River was one of the most elaborate homes in the American colonies.

Berry Hill is located on a site that is now about 650 acres (260 ha) in size, between River Rd. and the Dan River The main house is a two-story brick structure, finished in stucco and topped by a gabled roof.

Thus, in 2013 the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation and Virginia Department of Historic Resources supervised repairs by The Roofing & Remodeling Company, including replacing leaky flashing around 40 dormers, six chimneys and eight brick walls, installing new copper flashings in accordance with National Slate Association specifications; replaced flashings on the ridges and hips of the roof, as well as replacing some slates.

During the same year, he sold his remaining Abingdon property at auction to the Alfred Richards Brick Company.

William and Judith Rives added the brick, federal style addition to the home in 1824, which was built by Captain John Perry, one of Thomas Jefferson's master brickmasons.

It is an elegantly detailed 2+1⁄2-story Georgian/Federal-style, Flemish bond brick house, probably built about 1760 and substantially renovated in the late 1790s, by Enoch Magruder and his son, Dennis of Harmony Hall.

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Cocke spared no expense during the construction, utilizing hand-molded brick.

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The new tower, from which the first-order light was first exhibited on December 16, 1871, was the tallest brick lighthouse tower in the world.

The two-story residence, built in 1853, is a common-bond brick structure, which has a kitchen at the east side of the dwelling, separated by a long hyphen.

During the fire of 1884, everything except the exterior brick walls, the interior masonry partitions, and the columns of the porticoes were destroyed.

The house is a two-story, Gothic Revival style stuccoed brick residence with a three-story central cross gable.

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The original structure, a brick Jacobean lodge now serving as the east dependency of the manor house, was built before 1690 by his descendant, Colonel John West.

Carr's Hill was built in 1906, and is a two-story, five bay brick dwelling in the Colonial Revival style.

It is a Colonial Revival/Tudor Revival-style brick manor house.

It is a Flemish bond brick house with a five-bay facade and is topped by a hipped roof.

It was built about 1685, as a 1+1⁄2-story, T-shaped brick building, with a two-story central projection at the front.

As a member of the U.S. National Register of Historic Places, Sugar Loaf Farm maintains the only surviving brick grist mill in Augusta County, Virginia.

This revealed that the complex as completed in 1784 was seventy feet square and contained within a brick wall.

The Federal style brick plantation house incorporates elements of Georgian architecture.

In 1811, Burwell had planned a large, two-story brick home with an east wing.

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The stately brick manor house, currently undergoing renovation, was constructed between 1790 and 1810.

The structure was rebuilt in brick in the Federal style by his grandson Dr. Corbin Braxton in 1828.

It was built about 1820, and is a two-story, five-bay, L-shaped brick dwelling with a hipped roof.

Architecture Brickwork This church is the outstanding example of the brick, rectangular room church in the state of Virginia.

It was built about 1825, as a two-story, rectangular Federal style brick dwelling with a hipped roof.

It was built about 1742, and is a 1+1⁄2-story, brick Colonial-style dwelling.

The current two-story, brick main house dates from 1828, and was rebuilt in 1916, after a fire gutted the interior.

Although destroyed in 1910, the 1771 mansion that is depicted in old photographs appears to be a Georgian-style brick dwelling with gambrel-roofed brick wings.

Two unusual fireplaces brick chimneys, with multiple flues, project through either end of the central portion of the house and tower over the one story wings.

It is a two-story, five-bay, Federal style brick dwelling with a hipped roof.

It is a two-story, late-Georgian brick home on a stone foundation built about 1785.

The main house was built about 1750, and is a two-story, 11 bay, stuccoed stone and brick dwelling with a side gable roof.

It was built about 1785, and is a two-story, five bay brick dwelling in the Late Georgian style.

Built around 1764, it has two stories of brick laid in a Flemish bond pattern, and a low, hipped roof with chimney stacks at both ends.

The central stuccoed brick section was added about 1810, and the frame west wing between about 1815 and 1820.

It was built about 1777, and is a 1+1⁄2-story, three-bay, double pile brick dwelling with a steep gable roof.

The house was built about 1796, and is a two-story, five bay brick dwelling with a hipped roof and deep two-story rear ell.

It is a 2+1⁄2-story, five-bay, gable roofed brick dwelling in the Georgian style.

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The main section was built about 1810, and is a 2+1⁄2-story, single pile, brick structure.

Locust Hill is a Federal-style Flemish-bond brick house situated on the first rise of the eastern slope of Catoctin Mountain.

The mansion was bought by John Munn in 1929; between that year and 1932, it was transported brick-by-brick to Princeton, where in 1958 it was sold to Princeton Day School, which uses it as a school administration building housing its admission and advancement offices.

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It consists of a mid-19th century vernacular Greek Revival brick farmhouse with several auxiliary structures.

The house is constructed of stuccoed brick, dominated by a projecting two-story pavilion with one-story hipped-roof wings on either side.

It is a two-story, five bay by two bay Georgian style brick dwelling.

Now a two-story, five-bay, L-shaped brick dwelling, it originally had 1+1⁄2 stories, but raised to a full two stories in the mid-19th century.

The Centennial comfort stations are two brick buildings in Philadelphia's Fairmount Park originally built for the 1876 Centennial Exposition.

It was built circa 1848, and is a two-story, three-bay, rectangular brick Greek Revival style dwelling.

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It was built about 1825, and is a two-story, three-bay brick structure in the Federal style.

It was built in the mid-18th century, and is a two-story, five-bay, brick and frame dwelling.

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The 57' x 39' structure is executed in very even Flemish-bond brick with tooled penciled joints.

It was built between 1828 and 1830, and is a 2+1⁄2-story, Federal-style brick mansion with a central-hall plan house covered by a gable roof.

The two-story, 3-bay Federal style brick main house was built about 1826 and expanded circa 1840.

It is a 2+1⁄2-story, eight-bay, brick dwelling in the Federal style.

The manor house was completed in 1824, and is a two-story, five-bay, brick dwelling in the Federal style.

The principal two-story, hipped roof brick core was built between 1800 and 1810.

Aberdeen is an imposing brick temple-form house.

The facade and perimeter walls are made largely of Roman brick, with concrete trim, cut-stone decorations, and art glass windows.

The Johnson Administration Building is designed in a variation of the streamlined Art Moderne style, with a curved brick facade and Pyrex glass-tube windows.

The first two stories of the facade are made of rusticated limestone blocks, while the upper stories have a Renaissance Revival brick facade, with limestone, metal, and terracotta details inspired by the Beaux-Arts style.

Blackpool Tower is also the common name for the Tower Buildings, an entertainment complex in a red-brick three-storey block that comprises the tower, Tower Circus, the Tower Ballroom, and roof gardens, which was designated a Grade I listed building in 1973.

The brick facade is painted buff, with black details, and contains a frieze that depicts flying fish.

The Johnson Administration Building is designed in a variation of the streamlined Art Moderne style, with a curved brick facade and Pyrex glass-tube windows.

The original buildings share design features, such as facades of glass, enameled steel, and colorful glazed brick.

The outer ring, which is built of load-bearing brick, includes all four exterior walls and the library carrel desks immediately inside them.

They had New York architect Bancel LaFarge design a stableyard complex of barn, stable, work buildings, and cottages; the buildings were constructed of brick salvaged from the ruined main house.

The surviving remnants of his complex - a later replacement brick house and Fairfax's stone land office - were designated a National Historic Landmark in 1960.

Built about 1734 by noted planter, burgess and patriot Landon Carter (1710-1778), it is one of Virginia's finest Georgian brick manor houses.

The main floor is set on a brick basement with brick pillars to support the veranda of the second story.

The house was built in the late 18th century, using bricks between cypress studs.

Claymont Court, or simply Claymont, is a Georgian-style brick mansion, the grandest of several built near Charles Town, West Virginia for members of the Washington family.

Beall-Air, also known as the Colonel Lewis William Washington House, is a two-story stuccoed brick house in classical revival style near Halltown, West Virginia.

During this period, Gaudí used an abundance of ceramic tiling to decorate his work, as well as Moorish arches, columns of exposed brick and temple-shaped or dome-shaped finishes.

The cathedral's principal construction material is brick but the pillars and many details are of Gotland limestone.

While the lower section has a facade of limestone, the upper stories incorporate a buff-colored brick facade and contain numerous setbacks.

To convey the republic's wealth and power, the original brick façades and interior walls were embellished over time with precious stones and rare marbles, primarily in the thirteenth century.

The pyramid complex of Khui included a mortuary temple and a mud brick enclosure wall which, like the main pyramid, are now completely ruined.

The complex centers on a mudbrick pyramid, built atop a yellow limestone outcrop found at the site, that has a ground level base of 106 m (348 ft) with sides converging at 42°35′ ± 3′ to the apex 48.65 m (159.6 ft) high.

It was erected on leveled ground and composed of a mudbricks core covered with a casing of white Tura limestone blocks resting on foundations.

It is built of reddish bricks, has a tiled roof and decorative elements are made of white Istrian marble.

Snell's farmhouse is a two-story Italianate-styled building, with walls of brick made nearby at a brickyard owned by Snell himself and Milo Jones.

Some of the most striking are red brick Romanesque architecture with crenelated towers and elaborate ornamentation.

It was the first fired-brick house built in Redlands (and the second in all of San Bernardino County, California), and is the oldest surviving house in Redlands.

This complex consists of several brick industrial buildings.

It is a brick Federal style building, different from other Hudson houses in that style, built around 1810.

It was built in 1839 and is a two-story, five-bay, brick dwelling with a gable roof in the Greek Revival style.

It is a 2+1⁄2-story brick home with a high pitched slate roof with projecting eaves.

It was built about 1912, and was a 2+1⁄2-story, asymmetrical Mediterranean Revival style brick and stuccoed dwelling.

Despite some alterations and an unclear architectural development, the two-story brick central hall Greek Revival plantation house remains one of Iberia Parish's finest Greek Revival structures.

Fairview is a two-story stuccoed brick plantation house with flush end chimneys and a unique stepped gable at one gable end.

It is a very rare example of a composite structure, featuring a wooden frame with reed and plaster (visible from within the house), encased in brick.

It is traditionally built from local materials such as planked timber, cement, stone or brick with wood shingle, and thatch or zinc roof.

The main house was built between 1848 and 1852, and is a 1+1⁄2-story brick residence in the Greek Revival style.

It was built in 1822 as a two-story, five-bay rectangular brick dwelling with a Georgian style, center hall plan.

The plantation house was built about 1835, and is a 2+1⁄2-story, rectangular, brick dwelling in a late period Federal style.

Built about 1800, it is an imposing brick example of Federal architecture.

It is a brick Italian villa-style house designed by Richard Upjohn in the mid-19th century.

It consists of an 1840s Greek Revival style two-story brick dwelling, adjacent brick slave quarters, a Federal-style stone house built about 1810 over a spring, a frame wagon shed, a log hog barn, and a frame forebay bank barn.

Built in 1836, it consists of a three-story brick house with a two-story kitchen wing connected by a wood hyphen.

The manor house was designed by Peabody and Stearns, and is a large red brick house, with Queen Anne styling.

The estate home is a monumental brick and limestone Tudor Revival style structure built as a summer home for Anne Alden in 1879, and enlarged for the industrialist William John Matheson in 1900.

It is a 1+1⁄2-story, Federal-style brick house built about 1807.

It was an example of early brick architecture in the United States dating from about 1660 to 1720.

The brick house is two stories over a raised basement, with a center-hall arrangement on both levels.

The house was originally constructed c.1829 of red brick with slate roof, with additions in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

It was built in 1816 and is a 2+1⁄2-story, gable-roofed, brick, Federal period residence.

The house is multi-part, gable-roofed, brick and stone dwelling house constructed probably in the mid-late 1840s, with elements of the Greek Revival style.

It is a large brick residence that was built as housing for the manager of the Dutchess Company, a large local printing works, shortly after the plant was built in 1848.

It is a vernacular Federal style masonry residence constructed of random fieldstone with brick infill.

It is a five bays wide, Flemish bond brick Georgian style home built about 1743.

Criss Cross is a Colonial style brick house built about 1690 by George Poindexter in New Kent County, Virginia.

Further restorations occurred in 2007 and 2009, but it remains a shell of the former self, an inconvenience in the road, standing as a roofless brick structure with two ogival arches in series, devoid of its former facade and covered passageway.

It is a 2½ story brick structure covered in stucco.

The DeFreest House was built around 1765, partially constructed of European brick used as ballast in Dutch fur trading ships that sailed up the Hudson.

A steeply pitched gable roof, imitation half-timbering on the second floor, brick and stucco surfaces, and dormers on the front and rear are among the exterior features of the structure.

Later buildings used brick, incorporating elements of a variety of styles - Gothic Revival, Second Empire and Queen Anne - that were popular at the times of construction.

The main house was completed in 1853, and is a two-story, L-shaped brick dwelling composed of a side-gable-roofed, five-bay building with a rear extension in the Federal style.

It is a two-story, nearly square, stucco covered brick dwelling with an overhanging hipped roof.

The brick house was built in 1860.

The Kieldson Double House in Boise, Idaho, is a 2-story, brick and stone building with a Renaissance Revival facade containing late medieval elements.

Withers' design, a red brick house of two and a half storeys and raised basement, features many Romanesque Revival touches, such as a recessed front porch with two round-headed arches divided by a spiral column with molded floral design and Corinthian capital.

It is the town's oldest brick residence, built in 1807 for a pair of prominent local merchants.

It is a 2+1⁄2-story brick dwelling on a cut stone foundation and topped by a hipped, cross-gabled roof.

The estate was described as consisting of a square, 2-story brick mansion with a platform and cupola.

It was built about 1808-1815 and is a 2+1⁄2-story red brick building that is a remarkably well preserved example of an elegant Federal-style dwelling.

Constructed in 1926, the building is in the Spanish Revival style, with a tile roof and glazed brick façade.

The brick structure was constructed in 1847.

A large brick house was erected there that was called Mattaponi, the name of the nearest creek and a Native American word meaning "meeting of the waters".

It was built about 1822, and is a two-story, single-pile, central-passage-plan Federal style brick I-house.

It is a two-story, brick, Italianate style residence, with a rear wing of frame construction.

The brick house was built in a mixture of Georgian and Federal styles, and is New York City's earliest remaining Early Federal style townhouse.

The main farmhouse, a brick three-story building, was built c.

The house is a two-story, five-bay wide brick building on a rock faced, random ashlar base in the Italianate style.

The house was built in 1879, and is a two-story, Italianate style cross-plan brick dwelling with an attached summer kitchen.

The house was built in 1838, and is a Greek Revival style brick dwelling.

It is a brick Federal style house, with some Greek Revival decorative touches, built in the 1820s as a wedding present from a local landowner to his daughter and son-in-law.

It is a Federal-style, two-story, five-bay frame house with brick ends, which is two rooms deep and has a gable roof.

Archbishop John Morton (1486-1500) rebuilt the palace, adding a five-storey tower of brick, and Thomas Cranmer was visited there by King Henry VIII in 1544.

The house was built about 1800, and is a two-story, brick dwelling with basement and attic in the Georgian style.

The Garden house at Charlton House, in the Royal Borough of Greenwich, is a small red brick summer house with undercroft and high pyramidal swept roof dating from c.1630.

It is a pre-Revolutionary brick house in a Dutch Colonial style with some English influences.

The Brick Row Historic District in the village of Athens, New York is a small row of brick row houses that were built as apartments for the workers of the booming clay mining industry in the late 19th century to early 20th century.

It was built in the third quarter of the 18th century, and is a 1+1⁄2-story, single-pile, gable roof house with a wood-frame core of three bays with brick ends.

Under general Qi Jiguang's supervision, 1,200 watchtowers from Shanhaiguan Pass to Changping were constructed between 1567 and 1570, and sections of the ram-earth wall were faced with bricks.

In accordance with guidelines issued by the state government, the palace was primarily constructed of stone, brick and iron, with the use of inflammable materials kept to a minimum.

== Design == The stupa's plinth is made of bricks covered with gold plates.

It is built of brick and plastered on the outside, which is wrought into a grotesque and fantastic mosaic with Chinese cups, plates, and dishes of all sizes and colours, broken and whole, so set in the plaster as to form figures of elephants, monkeys, demons, and griffins, flowers, fruits, vines, and arabesques.

It is built primarily out of brick, except for the minaret, which is built of stone.

It has been built with bricks and plaster depicting iconographic images in stones and plaques (terra-cotta glazed tiles) with the main purpose of educating the people of the region in the religious ethos of Theravada Buddhism and in accordance with the personal beliefs of the King Kyansittha.

Instead of repairing it, Latrobe demolished, redesigned and rebuilt the interiors within the existing brick and sandstone walls.

== Architecture == === Design === Consisting of four floors and 340 rooms, with a floor area of 200,000 square metres (2,200,000 sq ft), it was built using 700 million bricks and 3,000,000 cu ft (85,000 m3) of stone with little steel.

Most were built of fired and mortared brick; some incorporated sun-dried mud-brick and wooden superstructures.

Prior to redevelopment, the power station was a 200 m (660 ft) long, steel framed, brick clad building with a substantial central chimney standing 99 m (325 ft).

All of these elements, constructed out of brick covered with lime, broken marble, or glass have a specific architectural function but are also real sculptures integrated into the building.

=== Facade === The building's facade is made of brick, granite, and terracotta, and white Yule Marble and iron are also used in the building.

The lower story is stone while the upper crenellated stories are made of brick.

Residents lived in attached houses made of stone and mudbrick.

The solid foundation was made out of limestone blocks and mud bricks; it was 22 metres (72 ft) tall.

The hall was constructed mainly of Fareham Red brick, with terra cotta block decoration made by Gibbs and Canning of Tamworth.

The palace was erected as a conventional brick construction and later encased in various types of rock.

The hall's style is one of refined eclecticism, blending massive, austere, Northern European brick construction with whimsical elements reminiscent of Venetian Gothic architecture, such as turrets adorned with golden starlets, decorated balconies, wooden masts, and statues.

Prior to the heavy use of baked bricks in the reign of Neo-Babylonian ruler Nebuchadnezzar II (605-562 BC), construction at Babylon was primarily of unbaked brick, with the occasional use of baked bricks or bitumen.

The building was originally to have been faced in stone, but that was considered too costly, so red brick, with cement render details, was used for the main building instead.

Queen Victoria's address during the ceremony ended: "I trust that it will remain for ages a Monument of discerning Liberality and a Source of Refinement and Progress." Built between 1899 and 1909 in red brick and Portland stone, the new façade of the museum stretches 720 feet (220 m) along Cromwell Gardens.

The Meyer May House is stylistically typical of Wright's Prairie houses, featuring a two-story, T-plan construction of pale brick, with Ludowici-tiled hip roofs and long broad eaves, art glass windows and skylights.

The original structure was made of of pink granite, of interior stone, of steel, of brick, and 30,000 light bulbs.

The building is built in yellow brick with details and basement in light gray granite.

It was constructed using bricks clad on the exterior with sand-coloured Anston limestone from South Yorkshire, topped by a spire covered in hundreds of cast iron roof-tiles.

Beresford of Washington, D.C., and the New York City architectural firm of Warren and Wetmore were appointed the architects, and Beresford said the structure would be built of concrete and brick around a steel frame.

The seven-floor hotel is constructed of limestone and buff brick in the Beaux-Arts style.

The main station facade on the Marunouchi side is made primarily of bricks, and partly dates back to the station's opening in 1914.

The temples at Uruk were quite remarkable as they were constructed with brick and adorned with colorful mosaics.

There are cuneiform (Sumerian writing) on many walls, some entirely covered in script stamped into the mud-bricks.

He also reported that some structures had survived, with "eighty small viharas, built of bricks and many left undamaged" but "there was absolutely no one to look after them".

Jackson commissioned construction of a more refined home, and the original plantation house was a two-story, Federal-style mansion built with bricks manufactured onsite.

The three-story "Great House" is constructed in the Georgian style with red brick walls and white trim boards on a square foundation.

Constructed of bricks made on the site, the 16" walls are finished with stucco on the exterior and painted white to resemble marble, and the interior is plastered.

Howard situated the three-story wooden frame house, which includes a one-story rusticated stucco-covered brick base on a concrete foundation, to face east towards the Mississippi River.

The house at Poplar Forest is made of brick and has an octagonal floor plan.

It is a Federal style two-story, brick building with end wall gables and chimneys and a stuccoed exterior.

Originally a 1+1⁄2-story white brick building, a second floor was added to the house in 1840 along with four fluted Doric columns.

It is built of stuccoed sandstock brick, with window and door architraves and other detailing of locally cut stone, including Marulan mudstone.

The red brick house was designed by the Columbia, South Carolina, architects Lafaye and Lafaye.

Also built of scored stucco over brick, they were 1+1⁄2 stories tall and measured 20.03 m (65 ft 9 in) wide by 12.95 m (42 ft 6 in) deep.

The house is built in brick, including the interior walls.

Its 2-foot-thick (0.61 m) walls are of brick made on the premises; the granite was shipped from Rhode Island.

The main house is a handsome Federal period brick house, 3+1⁄2 stories in height, that was built about 1820, with possible design input from the noted South Carolina architect Robert Mills.

The present Selma is a two and one half-story, hip-roofed, stuccoed brick mansion.

The two-story house was constructed with exterior walls of brick imported from Boston, such brick being harder and denser than the local kind.

The manor house, the first building on the farm, is centrally located and was constructed of brick in 1822.

The main house is a two-story brick building, with a gambrel roof.

The two-story house was a rectangular stuccoed brick structure over a raised basement.

As a married man with a growing family that needed to be accommodated, he partially demolished the old Yarralumla homestead in 1890 and, the following year, finished building a three-storey, red-brick house on the site.

Carnegie Hall was constructed with heavy masonry bearing walls, as lighter structural steel framework was not widely used when the building was completed.

It was built with bricks laid in kankar lime.

It is constructed of bricks and sandstone.

In both edifices, each bay is tied to the others through brick arches tied by juniper beams, and masonry is made with rubble.

The core of the pyramid was made with small rough blocks of local limestone with a loose fill of sand debris and mud brick.

Typical for pyramids of the Middle Kingdom, the Black Pyramid, although encased in limestone, is made of mud brick and clay instead of stone.

The pyramid was constructed with a mudbrick core and a limestone outer casing with its backing stones.

It is a red brick building, two stories in height, with white Italianate trim and black shutters.

The house is built in the Shingle Style with a wood-shingled exterior featuring brick and stone towers, prominent gables and large porch, and interiors with fine woodwork.

The two-story Cream City brick house became the residence of Louis's mother, Jane, while Louis himself moved to Saint Paul, Minnesota not long after construction was finished.

Decorations were severely limited and were designed to blend into and set off the building's handmade red brick construction.

The medieval church was constructed with brick, stone and flint.

Happy Retreat is a 2+1⁄2-story white-painted brick structure, with two-story flanking wings.

It is constructed of self-supporting mixed masonry walls of stone and brick.

It is a monumental four storey brick building, with two wings and connecting floors which span the road beneath.

Most of the house was made of brick.

Loos built his buildings with roughcast walls and used the stucco to form a protective skin over the bricks.

The eastern half of the manor house is made of brick and includes a courtyard, the kitchen, two more bedrooms and a bathroom.

The front of the original house was reclad in a sandstone ashlar facade, with the original rear and courtyard walls of Flemish bond red brick remaining.

The Bower was built in brick with a center hall plan.

This was the land on which James Dowzer constructed a large two storeyed brick house as his residence, later known as Eskdale.

The structure was built of reinforced concrete and veneered with bluff-colored brick.

The first floor is built out of stuccoed brick, as are the pillars that support the second level of the gallery.

The main house at Upper Brandon is a five-bay center hall, red brick structure built in the Federal style with a low hip roof with a widows walk.

When it was originally built, Blakeley was a Federal style two-story brick house, three bays wide, with a western wing and a one-story portico.

It is an important example of a late Federal style brick house.

Belvidere is a large stone-and-brick mansion with a 2+1⁄2-story central block over a partial basement, a 2-story-over-basement east wing, and 1+1⁄2-story service wing.

The structure is of brick and consists of four floors with a tiled roof.

The large stuccoed brick mansion was built at the center of a 450-acre (1.8 km2) plantation on the edge of town for Dr. John R. Drish in 1837.

The house is brick-built and Harled, with wooden panelling and decorative plaster ceilings in the interior.

The house was built of hand-fired brick and wood from local cypress and pine trees.

It is a three-story, Italianate structure with red brick and brown trim, with full basement.

The basement is half a story below ground and contains a brownstone facade, while the three stories above it contain a brick facade.

Thomas Icely's original cottage was replaced by a large single storey but elegant brick villa that was designed and built by G.A.

There was an original timber structure on the site, which was largely replaced by the Gothic Revival two-storey brick building, apart from some timber elements that were incorporated into the rear.

The main residence, a two-story brick building set on an English basement, replaced an earlier structure that was the home of Van Rensselaer's father, General Robert Van Rensselaer (a brother of Lt.

The house is a three-story brick structure, with massing suggestive of a pseudoperipteral building.

It is roofed in red glazed tile and the outer walls are bricks of lime and sandstone, plastered and originally painted white (grey today) with espalier.

It is built of brick on a limestone foundation, painted white, and is two stories tall.

It is constructed in brown brick with diapering in blue brick and some stone dressings; the roof is of grey-green slate.

The Willard-Case Mansion is a monumental Greek Revival style brick mansion, originally built in 1836-1843 by John Seymour.

The house represents a rich example of Queen Anne elements: red brick walls with stone dressing, terracota shingles, balconies, bay windows, verandas, leadlight windows and elaborate chimneys.

Built circa 1796 as a two-story, five-bay, brick dwelling that sits on a stone foundation, this historic structure has a gable roof.

It is one of a series of row houses, built of brick with sandstone trim.

The building rests on a rusticated stone podium; its facades and main walls are of brick masonry with some interior partitions and walls of the gallery and kitchen in wood.

It is a 2+1⁄2-story, brick and timber frame dwelling with a gable roof.

The three-story brick house stands on a brick foundation and has an L-shaped plan.

Like other buildings in the village, the houses were built from local materials such as red bricks and fieldstone quarried from the rock falls of the Piedmont mountain cliffs right behind Shawbridge.

It is a three-story brick structure, set on a raised brick foundation.

He added a second story and attic using bricks made from local clay, bringing the main part of the house into its present form.

Fernside, a low symmetrical brick building, was built c. 1876 for John Alexander Boyce who arrived in Toowoomba from Brisbane in August 1870.

The main mansion house is a large two-story brick building covered by a shallow hip roof.

Snowden Hall is a two-story Georgian brick house and was the home of three generations of the Snowden family.

Built entirely in brick with decorative stone elements creating a refined two-tone effect, the villa comprises three main parts: the central rectangular block with three ground-floor arches and a first-floor loggia supported by decorative brackets, an angular tower with a square base and battlemented crown and a side wing covered with a gabled roof that is topped by pinnacles that resembles a medieval chapel.

It is a three-story stuccoed brick structure, with a hip roof.

It was constructed of rendered brick on a stone foundation, with ten feet wide verandahs on all sides, and a slate roof.

The home is a 6,700-square-foot, 2+1⁄2-story, eight-bedroom mansion built of sandstone and red brick.

The main house is a two-story, three-bay structure of brick painted red.

It was built in 1869 by Moses Barlow on the site of a former tavern, and is a 2+1⁄2-story, Second Empire style brick dwelling with a slate mansard roof.

The pyramids, mostly built of local sandstone (and in later periods of brick), are under 30 metres (98 ft) in height-significantly smaller than the well-known ancient Egyptian pyramids.

"Apart from the slender brick piers, the only solids of the wall surface are the spandrel panels between the windows. ... .

The new construction resembles a hoisted sail, water wave, iceberg or quartz crystal resting on top of an old brick warehouse (Kaispeicher A, built in 1963) near the historical Speicherstadt.

Built in the early 2nd century, the 5-level 8-sided tower was made of layers of tufa, Kentish ragstone, and red bricks.

He reduced the courtyard, demolished the wings and rear of the palace, constructing a new structure dominated by four red-brick and travertine towers at the corners.

Its Functionalist Romantic styling with textured, complex facades, colourful brick, wood and plastic panels, attention to context, and relatively low-rise construction represented a major break with the Brutalist high-rise architectural orthodoxy of the time.

The walls were made of brick and plaster.

The building itself appears enmeshed with the landscape, achieved by a blend of man-made materials such as brick and rough dash-coat stucco and natural materials such as granite river stones and the creeping fig [ficus pumila] that grows on the foundations of the terrace and steps.

The overall design was approximately Gothic, built using stock bricks and bath stone dressings.

Twenty varieties of brick were fired in Santiago for lintels, corners, floors, moldings, and solid walls more than a meter thick, a precaution in an earthquake-prone city.

The original structure consists of packwalls of varying thickness and slabs supported by brick counter ceilings with steel or wood roof lines, according to the sector.

Concrete and steel were used during the construction of the station building and the rough-hewn Muschelkalk ("mussel chalk") blocks were laid as a facade over bricks.

The brick fort is five-sided, 170 to 190 feet (52 to 58 m) long, with walls five feet (1.5 m) thick, standing 50 feet (15.2 m) over the low tide mark.

The mosques within the Ark of Bukhara were made of cotton, wood, clay, and both, raw and baked bricks.

John Whitton, the engineer-in-chief, designed a neo-classical station building to be constructed of brick, with the decorative detail formed using polychromatic and relief work.

The walls are adobe brick covered with a smooth surface into which intricate designs are carved.

The complex of brick and shell limestone has six courtyards, built on an area of 9,159 m2 where the building covers 7,115 m2.

The bricks were ferried down the Chao Phraya by barges, where they were eventually incorporated into the walls of Bangkok and the Grand Palace itself.

Designed by an unknown architect, the brick Great House is a two-story H-shaped structure, surrounded on four corners by attending outbuildings, all of which still stand today.

In 1822, Monroe began construction on the main house, a two-story brick mansion in the Federal style.

The Callaway family made a large profit from the interest and was able to take that money to fund the building of the brick manor house by 1869 under his grandson Aristide's leadership.

The basement has a brick floor, reportedly 6 feet (1.8 m) deep, with brick piers rising to support the main structure.

The 2+1⁄2-story house is built of plantation-produced brick, with granite window sills and lintels.

The construction started as a late gothic defensive castle, built of large red brick on a granite plinth and surrounded by a moat, but by the end it had introduced many renaissance features.

The thick exterior and interior walls and the columns are all made from brick, likely manufactured onsite, giving the building a fortress-like appearance.

The house walls are made of red brick with a patterned masonry that creates an openwork frame.

The bricks were laid about 18 degrees from the vertical which allowed them to be partially supported by the rear wall during construction.

The ksar's structures are made entirely out of rammed earth, adobe, clay bricks, and wood.

The temple had brick-lined floors, columns and door frames and carvings made of wood.

The interiors of the Villa Mairea were led primarily by Aino Aalto, featuring rich articulation in wood, stone and brick, alongside custom built-in cabinetry, lighting, and textiles.

The commanding feature is the central towering dome constructed of iron and brick and covered with tissue-paper thin sheets of pure 23-carat gold.

The dome, shape of doorways, and stepped towers are typical of Roman style, while the polygonal apse, capitals, narrow bricks, and an early example of flying buttresses are typical of the Byzantine.

The exterior walls are of puddingstone, granite and blue stone blocks, with brick window and door surrounds.

Historical accounts note that the walls of the two-storey circular section were solid and constructed of soft red sandstock bricks from Parramatta/Prospect.

Red brick, mainly English bond, some Flemish bond, with some plastered timber framing, roofed with handmade red clay tiles".

The first part of the Met to be built was a red-brick and stone "mausoleum" designed by American architect Calvert Vaux and his collaborator Jacob Wrey Mould.

Structurally, the external walls of the building are made of plastered red brickwork with columns and beams of reinforced concrete.

The exterior design of the house is Tudor, with mullioned and transomed windows, and twisted brick chimneys.

It is built using traditional material including lakhori bricks and lime mortar.

The lower terrace is a long rectangle (100 x 40 m) supported by a wall with massive buttresses, the cladding of which is in opus mixtum of brick latticework.

It was acquired in 1694 by the Surveyor-General of the Ordnance, William Bridges, who demolished the house and rebuilt it; the original brick structure remains intact under the facade added in the 18th century.

It is a 2+1⁄2- to 3-story dwelling with a wood exterior resting on a brick foundation in the Queen Anne style.

Various views of Orchard Pond's plantation house, a 2-story brick home with 8 support columns, 4 for each floor.

Farmhouse, Constructed in Greek Revival style during the 1850s using Cream City brick, a distinctive, light-colored brick made locally.

It is also believed that during the ownership of Madame Rillieux (1805-1810), Edgar Degas' great-grandmother, the ground floor was enclosed with masonry walls of soft brick.

The six front columns were constructed of red brick and covered with hard plaster.

Rubble masonry was used for the main structure, but the rural Italian character is conveyed by the use of elongated brick (seventeen centimeters long by two centimeters thick).

The property includes a 19th-century mansard-roofed barn with Second Empire styling, and a historic brick Greek Revival house, built for one of the early farmers of the land.

The front facade features a steeply pitched roof, four large irregularly spaced chimneys, and a large brick tourelle with a conical roof.

The second farmhouse, constructed in 1861, features a segmented arched brick cellar, a characteristic feature of German vernacular architecture.

The attached buildings, that served as senzalas in the old days, are built of brick masonry.

There are large, L-shaped brick piers on the porch which, along with the chimneys, was built using clinker bricks.

A further ramp leads to the watchtower built with both stone masonry and brick with openings on all four sides.

He purchased 44 perches (approximately five acres) of land from Joseph Lambert for $300 and built a Federal-style brick home.

The large, two-level structure was constructed using bricks fired on site by the plantation's slaves.

The imposing façade, built of brick, is 90 metres (300 ft) long and faces the Castle Square.

The foundations, as was traditional in medieval Moscow, were built of white stone, while the churches themselves were built of red brick (28 by 14 by 8 cm (11.0 by 5.5 by 3.1 in)), then a relatively new material (the first attested brick building in Moscow, the new Kremlin Wall, was started in 1485).

It is a hall built of stone and brick with eight domes, each 5 x 11.40 m.

It was built of brick with concrete facing.

The present complex, consisting of four brick buildings, most likely was erected during the tenure of Ralph Wormeley IV (1715-1790).

The residence is a stucco, two-story brick building with a three-bay Greek Ionic portico.

With its refined classical elements set off by red brick walls, the composition is a graceful statement of Jefferson’s architectural ideals.

The exterior base of the hotel is largely made of grey stone ashlar, with steel framing running up the building, Glenboig brick cladding.

It received the name "Red Minaret" because of its red brick minaret.

The visible walls of the Palace are of stone, while the less visible walls are of red brick with stone facing.

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originally brick, since 1905, Silesian sandstone

Red brick with red Mansfield stone, slate roofs and cast iron balconies

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