Moscow furniture factory from the 1980s turned into loft-style apartments
DNK Architecture Group has turned a former furniture factory in Moscow into apartments, replacing prefabricated concrete panel cladding with hand-made bricks. More
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Ralf Pasel and students use handmade bricks for boarding house at Bolivia school
Red handmade bricks and corrugated metal form this dormitory at a school in an Andean village in Bolivia, which was designed and built by Berlin architecture students and German architect Ralf Pasel. More
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Glass and slender grey bricks clad EYRC's Waverley house in Silicon Valley
Boxy forms wrapped in Danish brick and large stretches of glass form this California residence, which was designed by US firm EYRC to capture light and connect to the outdoors. More
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Karakusevic Carson and David Chipperfield unveil sister towers in London's Hackney
David Chipperfield Architects has teamed up with Karakusevic Carson Architects to create a pair of matching, hexagonal housing towers on an estate in east London. More
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Richard Bell Architecture creates minimalist spa beneath London home
Monolithic white blocks and handmade bricks feature inside London Spa, which Richard Bell Architecture has constructed under a home in the west of the city. More
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Ellie Birkhead uses human hair and manure to make region-specific bricks
Design Academy Eindhoven graduate Ellie Birkhead has developed a process of brick making that incorporates local waste products from the Chiltern Hills, in an attempt to "forge a future for local industry". More
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Studio Ben Allen adds pair of brick vaults to terraced house in York
Two arches made from handmade bricks form an extension at the rear of this Victorian terraced house in York by London practice Studio Ben Allen. More
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Studio B creates rectangular brick home for historic Denver neighbourhood
Colorado architecture firm Studio B took cues from Denver's old bungalow homes to create this low-lying residence faced with handmade brick, walnut panelling and large panes of glass. More
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La Voûte Nubienne revives ancient building technique to "transform housing" in Africa
Future Makers: in this movie, Thomas Granier explains why his organisation La Voûte Nubienne believes the future of housing in sub-Saharan Africa can be transformed by reviving a 3,500-year-old building technique. More
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Trio of brick volumes form Highgate House by Carmody Groarke
Carmody Groarke has completed a north London house featuring three brick volumes and a grand window facing into woodland, as documented in these images by Swiss-French photographer Hélène Binet. More
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Herzog & de Meuron reveals more photos of new Vitra Design Museum gallery
Swiss firm Herzog & de Meuron has released a full set of images of the Vitra Schaudepot – a new gallery for the permanent collection of the Frank Gehry-designed Vitra Design Museum in Weil am Rhein, Germany (+ slideshow). More
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John Pawson's Life House is a Welsh countryside retreat built from dark and light bricks
London designer John Pawson has completed the seventh property in Alain de Botton's Living Architecture series: a Welsh valley retreat with a dark skin and a pale interior (+ slideshow). More
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Ola Architecture Studio's housing block in Melbourne designed as an "ode to brick"
Built near the heart of Melbourne's historic brick-making district, this block of apartments and shops has walls of black bricks that are arranged to create perforated patterns and provide privacy for residents (+ slideshow). More
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Nash Baker Architects combines brick base and gabled timber top for Broad Street House
A timber box with a pitched roof sits atop the handmade-brick ground floor of this house in the English village of Orford by London studio Nash Baker Architects (+ slideshow). More
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Jamie Fobert pairs handmade bricks with bronze panelling for London townhouse
This London townhouse by Jamie Fobert Architects features handmade bricks, bronze panelling and Georgian-inspired window shutters. More
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Annabelle Selldorf designs new primary school for rural Zambia
A New York-based nonprofit organisation has commissioned Selldorf Architects to design an elementary school for a remote village in southern Zambia. More
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Tompkins Rygole's Woodridge house evokes Arts and Crafts architecture with brick facades
The facades and walled garden of this house in the English town of Newbury are entirely faced in Flemish-bonded handmade bricks that reference the neighbouring Arts and Crafts buildings (+ slideshow). More
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Rafael Freyre uses natural and local materials to connect House in Azpitia with its setting
Stones from surrounding mountains and bricks from a local kiln were used to build this house bordering a desert in Peru, so it appears "like a new layer on the landscape" (+ slideshow). More
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Today we like: handmade bricks
Architects are beginning to rediscover the potential of handmade bricks, which offer wider variations of colour and texture than their industrially produced cousins. Recent examples include an asymmetric house in Belgium, a canal-side development in London and a housing complex in Rwanda. Explore more handmade brick architecture »
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House by Joris Verhoeven features handmade bricks and a lopsided roof
Architect Joris Verhoeven chose hand-moulded bricks for the walls of this asymmetric gabled house in the Dutch village of Riel (+ slideshow). More
