It's Elfin's Tuesday Architectural Appreciation thread! This week- Bricks.

Ok so before Binners starts clamouring… 🙄

Part two in the Materials Mini-Series. Last week was concrete, so this week, it’s bricks!

Post up pics of yer fave/interesting/unusual brick buildings. Little bit of info of location and the building itself if possible, makes it more interesting for others.

Here we go then…

St Pancras Midland Hotel; to think that this masterpiece was once threatened with demolition!

Westminster Cathedral:

Battersea Power Station:

Hampton Court, home of my favourite king:

I likes teh bricks, reminds me of Belfast and London.

Keble College, Oxford – William Butterfield neo-gothic modesty.

Birmingham University

Hurray!!! Cheers Fred I was giving you til this afternoon before i started badgering you.

😀

Here’s one of my favourites.

Salford Crescent’s old fire station. Its easily identifiable as one. Its now an art gallary. I used to live down’t road from it. Its surrounded by concrete tower-block hell. Its like a little oasis in the middle of it all

And,of course, the cathedral to house music. The Hacienda:

Did you know it was originally built as a yacht warehouse? Despite being god knows how far from the sea.

The British Library, right next door to St Pancras!

not the best pic but I really like the vaults at London Bridge

When I’m rich I’m gonna have a brick vault basement for a swimming pool and wine cellar 🙂

mmmm Byzantine:

Also from Brizzle, my old flat:

Illinois Institute of Technology Chapel by Mies van der Rohe

New ODA sub-station

excellent theme.

birmingham uni

trinity road stand, villa park, now vandalised

That’s a great Paolozzi sculpture of Newton outside the British Library.

Both from Florence, but you knew that.

Boddingtons chimney:

and the little holding pen next door. Don’t drop the soap 😉

More bricks ??

Stockport Viaduct

The best thing about Stockport as it provides you with a number of ways out of Stockport 😀

Illinois Institute of Technology Chapel by Mies van der Rohe

Surprised anyone thinks that is attractive architecture.

Illinois Institute of Technology Chapel by Mies van der Rohe

Surprised anyone thinks that is attractive architecture.

Not surprised that stw-ers are very narrow minded.

Posting from a phone but saw some lovely buildings in hAmsterdam built with really thin (shallow) bricks. Somebody please post a pic for me.

The World’s tallest brick building. A beauty.

Not surprised that stw-ers are very narrow minded.

Different taste = narrow minded? Don’t be a berk

Dez; it’s aP though in’t it. He’s a proper artichoke and everyfink. So best to just pretend it’s nice otherwise we’ll look a bit thick… 😳

Former Bryant and May match factory, Bow:

St Mary and St Joseph’s church, Poplar; one of my fave local buildings:

I don’t mind looking thick. That building looks like my old school. Where I learnded to be fick.

Royal Holloway and Bedford /University of London

Kev

I’m not a fan of brick. Maybe it’s because of the relative lack of it on buildings up here north of border? Anyway, despite that, Scotland’s best contribution to this thread is:

Alexander Greek Thomson then

they’re looking to demolish another of his buildings at the moment.

A quality theme this week Fred. Some belters here 😀

I know I’ve posted these previously, but they’re very relevent and the pictures are amazing

Andrew Brooks absolutely amazing photographs of Manchester’s underground (brick) tunnels

This is round the back of Newcastle Uni:

This is the underside of the Civic in Newcastle:

This is the wall next to Ladbrokes on the other side of the street:

A John Peel fave

More bricks, and gold than you can shake a stick at… Sienna

and

http://www.gothereguide.com/basilica+santa+croce+florence-place/

Bricks, gold and religion.. Santa Croce

A classic ‘brick shithouse’ which would make an interesting and yet not too challenging restoration project :

Legoland.?

Ooh a new discovery (for me)
The Jetavanaramya

I would have to give another vote for Battersea power station. I have drove past it a hundred times and never taken any notice of it but it wasn’t until last year when I was working on the Red Bull X-fighters there that I got right up close to the beast. I never even gave it a thought that it would be made of brick, the thing is stunning up close.

Old breweries. Basically they are chemical plants with a brick skin.

Threlfall’s in That Manchester

I can see and smell this one from my office window.

A classic ‘brick shithouse’ which would make an interesting and yet not too challenging restoration project

My old bike shed and garden walls were made from reclaimed ‘brick shithouse’. It is the only bit of our old house that I miss.

Got to have a bit of Brunel in here I think. The Rail bridge at Maidenhead. The flattist arch for a bridge in compression I believe.