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There's an aerated brick I did in Limoges last year, in Concepts for New Ceramics in Architecture.
Like Jorge Méndez Blake's sculpture of building a brick wall above Kafka's book "El Castillo" shows that more astute observation can be subtle and yet invaluable.
Streets that you can read by running your fingers over brick and stone.
When we reject granite and limestone and sandstone and wood and copper and terra-cotta and brick and wattle and plaster, we simplify architecture and we impoverish cities.
Some find innovative uses for old materials like brick and terra-cotta.
And when the Chinese Pritzker Prize winner Wang Shu was building a history museum in Ningbo, he didn't just create a wrapper for the past, he built memory right into the walls by using brick and stones and shingles salvaged from villages that had been demolished.
If we do nothing, millions of us are going to hit a brick wall as we try to learn to deal with AI.
But eventually, no matter how good you are at digging up the church records, and all that stuff, you hit what the genealogists call a brick wall.
Shoots seem tiny; to reach the sun they can break through a brick wall.
See the brick wall as all these problems we've inflicted on the planet, environmental and social.
We're seeing scavenged terra cotta tile and little pieces of signs, and plaster over the brick, some color, and this is Sulay Montakaya's house in Sultanbelyi, and it's getting even better.
All of these buildings are made out of reinforced concrete and brick.
In those days there was still countryside close to the city, farms, cornfields, cows; even not far from our building with its blurred brick and long shadowy hallway you could find tracts with hills and trees you could pretend were mountains and forests.
Take the humble house brick.
They use a soil microbe to transform loose aggregates, like sand or crushed stone, into a biofabricated, or biocement, brick.
The bacteria produce crystals that form around each grain of sand, locking together all the loose particles to form a solid brick.
And what happens if you build a brick wall too high without mortar?
And it was all the people who lived in those homes, were the ones that were actually taking it apart and working, and getting paid per brick to take their cities apart.
Very interesting studies done on people recovering from surgery, who found that people who faced a brick wall versus people who looked out on trees and nature, the people who looked out on the brick wall were in the hospital longer, needed more medication, and had more medical complications.
Someone's put a brick through the window.
Enheduanna’s Ur was a city of 34,000 people with narrow streets, multi-storied brick homes, granaries, and irrigation.
But when I was here, a lot of my fellow teenagers were in a very different situation, leaving school at a time then of rapidly growing youth unemployment, and essentially hitting a brick wall in terms of their opportunities.
Children bring stones for the foundation, women bring water for the brick manufacturing, and everybody works together to pound the clay floors.
Some of the firemen told me that they were also inspired to do better because they were so pleased to get thank-yous rather than brick bats.
Object metaphors describe price movements as non-living things, as in, "The Dow fell like a brick."
In our desire to protect those we care about by giving them the cold, hard truth about their medical prognosis, or, indeed, a prognosis on the expected quality of their life, we have to make sure that we don't put the first brick in a wall that will actually disable someone.
Of course to bring such a brick of a book to the big screen is a task not to be envied, but it could be done with class.
Watching this movie was like hitting my head repeatedly against a brick wall.
otherwise save the time out of your life and go do something more constructive with it, like hitting your head on a brick wall and insulting your own intelligence.
If you are being dragged to this movie, and someone is paying for you....fine.... but its still going to be more painful than a brick in the forehead.
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