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This is the facade from the bar next to my flat. I like the texture and the thin bricks overlapping.
The Gwent area used to have many different brickmakers, now all sadly lost. I hadn't encounteres this one before, but this brick was in the rubble next to the Cefn Ila walled garden, and was probably part of a now destroyed gardener's toolshed or something similar.
Yesterday I went with some friends to the OMSI to see The Art of the Brick. The displays were incredible and some mind-blowing. I wasn't even able to get pictures of all of the models! Most of them are done by the awesome Nathan Sawaya. This is a must-see attraction.
In the early 20th century bungalow era, builders often used bricks like these, clinker bricks, for fireplaces, chimneys, and pillars. Clinker bricks are actually damaged bricks, fired improperly. But Arts and Crafts designers saw them as beautiful in their own way. They do have a lovely look and character.
I really like the coloration of these bricks near my house and find them very pleasing to look at...
Man, I love textures and crazy broken patterns like this. It was raining the the bricks were wet, so the color was as saturated as they were.
This is from Portland, Oregon a couple weeks ago. Nice, huh?
Wall under construction in rural India, outside of Siliguri. The swastika is in wide usage in Hindu and Buddhist cultures, but without the genocidal connotations it has in the West! Purchase at shakyimages.tumblr.com
There is no stone for building in Bangladesh, so the people make bricks. Here, a bed of clay is being excavated and the clay mixed with water.
Chas Hattan Ltd Castleford Brick, does anyone know anything about this and where it was made in Castleford as I have come to nothing in finding out info about it?? It wasn't actually taken in Cas but can anyone help, it was found on the old Leeds to Wetherby railway line near Crossgates, did they produce bricks for the railways?