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    Alvar Aalto on what a brick is worth

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    Bond patterns in brickwork

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    Brick protects against warming

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    Orange brickwork interlaced with green brick and timber provide an attractive environment

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Brick Bulletin Summer 2005

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Brick Bulletin Summer 2005

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  • 5
    01 A variation of Dearne’s bond used for 19th-century estate cottages (some of the headers might be half bats)

    Bond patterns in brickwork

  • 6

    Brick protects against warming

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    Orange brickwork interlaced with green brick and timber provide an attractive environment

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  • 8

    Don’t forget to enter the 2005 Brick Awards

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    Feel-good art

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    Leader

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    Seen from across the canal, the Brindley comprises an interplay of complex forms

    Runcorn’s Guggenheim

  • 12
    A

    The Genius of Botta

  • 13
    Brick is the predominant external walling material throughout the estate for both terraces and apartment blocks

    The space age is over

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    Works for us

 

 

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