Fired clay brick continues to evolve with new color blends, textures, and architectural shapes that inspire innovative and enduring designs. These design trends are evident in the winning projects ...

Hammers rang through the air and saws rasped as piles of brick and stone rose across Nyack during the Gilded Age. Downtown ...

The Architects’ Alphabet is a 26-part series describing design elements featured in Gregory J. Scott’s upcoming book “Urban Legend, The Life & Legacy of C. Emlen Urban,” Lancaster’s most renowned ...

A building’s façade is much more than a pretty face. Exterior cladding plays a dual role as the architecture’s primary aesthetic and the building envelope’s first layer, making it one of the most ...

Editor’s note: This story is an update of one that ran in 2009. Read the original here. One of mankind’s oldest building materials is brick. Before they shaped stone with tools, our ancestors dried ...

SOUTH BEND — As workers in recent weeks have removed decades of grime from the exterior of the Lafayette Building in downtown South Bend, something unexpected happened. The building’s original ...

When Colombian architects Miguel Niño and Johanna Navarro set out to re-engineer the brick, they did so through the lens of sustainability. They wanted to create a mass producible, high-performance ...

As commercial buildings continue to evolve in the global pandemic era, learning more about Brick Schema, and how it leverages metadata to influence healthy buildings, is critical for both consulting ...