"Selected bricks protrude" was one of the hugest ideas in architecture in the U.S. in the 1950s-1960s.

For instance, here was an idea for a two-story repetitive pattern of "selected bricks protrude," at an apartment building from 1954.

 

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In Norfolk, Virginia, on October 12th, 2023, at 233 W 25th St (built in 1954; a "contributing property" in the Park Place Historic District, 06000029 on the National Register of Historic Places) on the south side of West 25th Street, east of Llewellyn Avenue.

 

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Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names terms:

• Norfolk (7022201)

 

Art & Architecture Thesaurus terms:

• apartment houses (300005707)

• brick red (color) (300311462)

• brickwork (works by material) (300015333)

• exterior walls (300002523)

• geometric patterns (300165213)

• historic buildings (300008063)

• historic districts (300000737)

• lichens (Fungi) (300249626)

• Mid-Century Modernist (300343610)

• projecting (300010286)

• red brick (material) (300444202)

• stairs (300003228)

• stairwells (300004324)

• two-story (300163703)

• weathering (300054115)

 

Wikidata items:

• 12 October 2023 (Q69306950)

• 1950s in architecture (Q11185577)

• 1954 in architecture (Q2812106)

• contributing property (Q76321820)

• Hampton Roads (Q1011895)

• National Register of Historic Places (Q3719)

• October 12 (Q2920)

• October 2023 (Q61313015)

• Park Place (Q7137926)

• Park Place Historic District (Q123745574)

• South Hampton Roads (Q7567420)

• Tidewater (Q7800894)

• Tsenacommacah (Q7849523)

 

Library of Congress Subject Headings:

• Brick walls (sh85016796)

• Dwellings—Virginia (sh85040263)

• Historic buildings—Virginia (sh85061105)

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