WHEN Lori Berger began looking for a Manhattan pied-à-terre three years ago, she came armed with a list of priorities. The West Side was preferable to the East because it would simplify the drive into ...

Not too long ago I was at a lecture given by a well-known futurist who proudly described (to a room full of heritage professionals) how he insulated his 200 year old home with seven inches of ...

With storm season upon most of the country, homes and other buildings made of genuine clay brick have shown superior performance in extreme weather conditions--reducing property damage and increasing ...

In 1971 Louis Kahn, an American architect, was giving a masterclass at the University of Pennsylvania. In the course of a passage about how architects are always informed by their materials, he ...

The scenes of devastation from the Morocco earthquake are both horrifying and grimly familiar. Piles of mud bricks littering whole neighborhoods where homes and businesses once stood. Rescuers walking ...

Painting a brick building is not a new trend. For years, it’s been a way to bring older buildings “back to life” and give a downtown streetscape a new look. But the question of whether it is a good ...

If you tool around downtown Tucson today, you can easily tell which buildings are historic and which are new. The old ones are built with brick. The new ones aren’t. The worst newer buildings are of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Kind of an odd question but, when you think about bricks, what locations come to mind? Do you think about brick buildings? Do you ...