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The young ones
One of our tasks at the BDA is to ensure brick remains high on architecture and engineering syllabuses. This is something I am passionate about, having taught in a school of architecture for 23 years. Promoting contemporary brickwork to professionals is one thing, but the students are the professionals of ...
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Mass uprising
Proponents of lightweight construction have got it wrong. High density thermal mass is vital to balance energy supply and demand.
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Westfield Student VillageEast London
Carefully modulated brickwork at university digs makes for a stimulating backdrop to student life.
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Hilversum Town Hall
Hilversum Town Hall, Holland (1934) is an extraordinary building that is regarded as an icon of 20th century architecture. Although it follows the compositional principles of the De Stijl movement, it was also influenced by the work of Frank Lloyd Wright, particularly Unity Temple, Illinois (1906).
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Not just a pretty facade
Brick’s structural contribution when used as cladding is unacknowledged, despite its widespread application, BDA principal engineer Dr Ali Arasteh recently told a brick industry gathering. In a typical brick/block cavity wall panel, the external brick leaf improves the slenderness and increases the overall loadbearing capacity of the wall by 50% ...
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Fired with enthusiasm
A field trip to Cuba for three diploma course architecture students at London Metropolitan University has borne unexpected results.
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Lewes Library Lewes, East Sussex
Traditional materials are given a contemporary twist on the first new-build public library in East Sussex for 15 years.
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Recruiting craftsmen (and women) of the future
The Better Brickwork Alliance (BBA), in which the BDA is a stakeholder, has launched a DVD aimed at youngsters who are considering a career in bricklaying.
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Welcome to the club
Several new members have joined the BDA. HG Matthews of Chesham, Buckinghamshire (www.hgmatthews.com), has been making handmade and machine-made bricks using local clay since 1923. Chartwell Brickworks (www.chartwellbrickworks.com), based in Edenbridge, Kent, makes handmade facing bricks and pavers and is also a supplier of lime mortar.
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Reinforced brickwork
Uruguayan engineer Eladio Dieste (1917-2000) did amazing things with reinforced brickwork, as Dr Remo Pedreschi, senior lecturer in structural engineering at Edinburgh University School of Architecture, demonstrated during a recent talk in London.The examples shown were astonishing in concept and detail, particularly because they were mainly for industrial, commercial and ...
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Brick Leaf House, Hampstead
The grand house tradition of Hampstead Garden Suburb is reinterpreted in mauve brick in this spacious home for two brothers.
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Book your seat
The Brick Awards 2006 are already in full swing and this looks like being a bumper year for great entries. Don’t miss the Awards Gala Night at the Marriott London Grosvenor Square Hotel on Wednesday November 8. Ticket information is available from CreatEvents on 0870 2419902; or see www.brick.org.uk
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Archive TitlesStrictly for the birds
The Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust wanted its new Cambridgeshire visitor centre kept low key. Allies and Morrison delivered with a powerful concept that survived a rocky funding ride.
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Amazing grace
A revival of interest in the amazing structural brickwork feats of Uruguayan engineer Eladio Dieste seems to be under way, judging by the success of a BDA lecture held in May.
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Archive TitlesZoom zoom zoom
A city that endlessly reflects itself to demonstrate the tedium of modern architecture…no, it's not another model of a Thames Gateway project, it's Archizoom's No-Stop City.
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Will Alsop is proposing tall ‘house blocks' on a site with plenty of open space to foster a more positive community.
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Archive TitlesWho is the Very Reverend Colin Slee?
Dean of Southwark Cathedral, that's who, and as part of the London Architecture Biennale he is lending his lectern to Renzo Piano later this month, so the Italian-born architect can deliver ‘sermon' about his work (sponsored by RIBA Journal).
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Social City
When riots erupted in France's suburbs last autumn many architects asked themselves what they could do to meet the huge social challenges they presented.
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Archive TitlesAll change in China
You can't have escaped the current media interest in China - TV programmes, the Sundays, the 'Berliners' - and it's frenetic pace of change. All this cannot quite prepare even a long-time sinophile and China watcher for the reality on the ground.