RESTON, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Brick Industry Association (BIA) has awarded 42 winning projects in the 2025 Brick in Architecture Awards, the world’s leading design competition featuring fired-clay ...

Chicago's Will Quam, via his Brick of Chicago Instagram account, website and walking tours, has shared his passion for bricks ...

Let’s play Spot The Difference, urban edition. You’re on West 47th Street in Hell’s Kitchen, a Manhattan neighborhood known for its industrial vibe. Like much of the area, the street is lined with ...

How Bricks Reveal the Hidden History of Chicago,” Will Quam writes that brick in Chicago is “such a ubiquitous material that ...

Since 2018, brick aficionado Will Quam has led tours giving people a closer look at the material that helped rebuild Chicago after the Great Fire of 1871. The “Brick of Chicago” tour, named after Quam ...

The shortlist for the prestigious BRICK AWARD 26 has been announced, revealing 50 exceptional brick buildings from across the globe. Organized by wienerberger, the biennial award celebrates ...

My guess is that most of the bricks you’ve seen in your lifetime have been very uniform in shape. Each brick is rectangular. This is by design in almost all cases. The length of a brick plus one ...

Editor’s note: This story is an update of one that ran in 2009. Read the original here. One of mankind’s oldest building materials is brick. Before they shaped stone with tools, our ancestors dried ...

It’s one of the paradoxes of Philadelphia’s 21st century residential building boom. The more rowhouses and apartments that get built here, the more they look alike. The streets of Fishtown and ...

64 University Place, KPF’s stacked and stepped arcade of shallow arches. Photo: Michael Young/Courtesy of KPF 64 University Place, KPF’s stacked and stepped arcade of shallow arches. Photo: Michael ...

TIC Art Center in China is one of 44 projects awarded by the Brick Industry Association for its use of brick. (Vincent Wu) Since 1989, BIA has been observing new clay brick projects. In this latest ...

This month, the Brick Industry Association (BIA) honored 44 projects across the globe with its 2023 Brick in Architecture Awards. The awards program has showcased projects with exemplary designs and ...