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Brick Bulletin
Brick Bulletin is a quarterly publication, highly regarded in the construction industry. The first Brick Bulletin was published in 1947, and features profiles of brick projects, news and technical guidance.
Winter 2009
This issue includes:
- Thomas Ford & Partners at Malling Abbey
- Charles Rattray on the 2009 Brick Awards
- Christian Garnett Partners’ Portman Estate offices
- Spanish sensitivity: Cruz & Ortiz in Amsterdam
- Rough with smooth: Aravena & Torrejòn in Texas
- Designing with bricks and mortar for durability
Autumn 2009
This issue features:
- Marlies Rohmer’s multi-ethnic Amsterdam mosque
- Local and aesthetic: Sergison Bates profiled
- Bending rules: Goetz Hootz Castorph in Munich
- PV Jensen-Klint’s Gruntvig Church in Copenhagen
- AHMM in Barking, Bauman Lyons in Lincoln
- The pros and cons of thin-joint mortars
- Marlies Rohmer’s multi-ethnic Amsterdam mosque
Summer 2009
This issue features:
- Herzog & de Meuron's Ordos 100 Architects
- O'Donnell & Tuomey's Timberyard in Dublin
- Edward Cullinan and Levitt Bernstein in Brent
- Bruno Fioretti Marquez' Berlin-Kopenick library
- Restoring Frank Lloyd Wright's brick buildings
- Why, where and how of movement joints
- Herzog & de Meuron's Ordos 100 Architects
Spring 2009
This issue features:
- Meck Architekten in Munich
- Martin Pearce profiles Hopkins Archiects
- DSDHA's Pond Meadow School in Guildford
- John Pardey on Jom Utzon's early brick projects
- Ortner & Ortner's garden city of house types
- Testing times for unfired clay bricks
- Meck Architekten in Munich
Winter 2008
This issue features:
- Brick Awards 2008
- Van Heyningen & Haward in London
- Hans van der Heijden on new Dutch architecture that is ‘solid, urban and real’
- SHoP Architects’ undulating brick facades have fun with New York’s zoning laws
- Quinlan and Francis Terry in Chelsea
- Fritz Höger’s German Expressionism
Autumn 2008
This issue includes features on:
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Kazuyo Sejima’s Tokyo townhouses
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Martin Pearce profiles Alan Short
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Handmade by robot – Bearth & Deplazes
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Sergison Bates in Finsbury Park
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Claus & Kaan’s Enschede extravaganza
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Stephen Taylor and the Surrey vernacular
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Brick testament: Eladio Dieste in Uruguay
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Summer 2008
- Project Features on:
AHMM in Southwark, Kahlfeldt Architekten in Berlin, Hansjörg Göritz in Vaduz, Tony Fretton Architects in Denmark and Brixton and Atelier Zhiang Lei in Nanjing - Profile by Graham Bizley on the rise of Maccreanor Lavington
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Plecnik in Prague and Ljubljana
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Brick cladding by Florian Beigel and ARU in South Korea
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The Code for Sustainable Homes part two
- Project Features on:
Autumn 2007
- Peter Phippen on Alvar Aalto's Villa Mairea
- Case studies on the Louise T Blouin Institute, Wilbury Hills Cemetery and British Library Centre for Conservation
- Technical section addresses the Code for Sustainable Homes and Mortar Joint Profiles.
Summer 2007
- Brick Sculptor Michael Morgan on brick as a metaphor
- Six of Australia's top architects explore brick's role in 21st Century homes
- The Technical section looks at planning for expansion - movement in masonry
- Case studies on Poplar Cottage, Church of Our Lady and St Vincent and Parish Centre, Pallant House Gallery.
Spring 2007
- Alan Short on the joy of form and feeling
- Thermal mass matters; how brick answers the sustainability question
- Case studies on The Ark at Bukharra, UCL's Slovanic School, Headlands House
Autumn 2006
- Unwrap the new Orangery at Windsor's Savill Court Hotel
- Gaudi touch at the UCL Slavonic Studies school
- Skilled workmanship at St Pancras International Station
- Robert Adam suggests sustainable design and materials are a building's defence against the ravages of time and fashion
- How to design and specify freestanding brick walls
- Plus news and more cutting edge buildings from continental Europe
Summer 2006
- Woolf Architects' reinterpretation of the grand house
- Case studies on Feilden Clegg Bradley's Westfield Student Village at QMC and a neo-vernacular library by McMorran & Gatehouse
- Bill Dunster explains why thermal mass is the new black
- The low-down on steel reinforcement in structural brickwork Plus news and more cutting edge buildings from continental Europe
Spring 2006
- Feilden Clegg Bradley's new offices for the National Trust
- Case studies :A creamy delicious addition in Bayswater by Russell Jones and BowZed in Bow - the latest in sustainable architecture
- Ken Shuttleworth reminisces over his brick experiences
- Considerations for achieving successful interior brickwork
Autumn 2005
- Winning projects in the 2005 Brick Awards. Green bricks for a healthy workplace, the Construction History Society and BDA Annual Lecture
- BDA Director Michael Driver argues that what we build is more important than how we build it
- Case studies on Caruso St.John Architect's Brick House, BDA Building of the Year Fitzwilliam College Gatehouse and Auditorium by Allies and Morrison and Alton's new library
Summer 2005
- How brick can help the battle against global warming
- A mini retrospective of the amazing brick architecture of Mario Botta
- Case studies on BPTW Partnership's bright young homes on the Elmington Estate in Peckham, London, John Miller + Partners' dynamic Brindley Arts Centre and stylish brick housing by Shepheard Epstein Hunter on the Stonebridge Estate in London
January 2005
- Winning projects in the 2004 Brick Awards
- Case studies on Hopkins Architects' learning and resource centre in Norwich, the BDA Building of the Year Toxteth TV by Union North and the Walled Garden at Scampston - a triumph of regeneration
- Mike Taylor of Hopkins Architects says brick should be used structurally and not solely as a cladding
October 2004
- BDA Director Michael Driver outlines recent changes at the Better Brickwork Alliance and the newly formed Association of Brickwork Contractors
- Case studies on MacCormac Jamieson Pritchard's Dana Centre, a new extension to Winchester College by NVB Architects blends contemporary brickwork design with a historic setting
- Will Alsop laments the demise of brick as a structural material and looks for new creative uses
June 2004
- BDA Director Michael Driver on why the brick industry is ready and able to take on sustainability challenges
- Case studies on CZWG's Fulham Island - another example of that practice's creative use of brickwork and a geometrically inspiring building, by Brady+Mallalieu in Dublin
- Oh the joy of bricks... a personal view from Dr James Campbell.
January 2004
- BDA Director Michael Driver talks about the potential of brick
- Case studies the Sloane Robinson Building, Keble College, Oxford, by Rick Mather Architects uses Roman-style stack-bonded bricks to create a building which is at once contemporary and classical
- The BDA's Peter Watt explains how to make sense of the European Union's new harmonised standards for clay bricks and pavers
June 2003
- The latest news including ODPM housing statistics rethink; brick shown to be eco-friendly material for highway bridges; new definitive guide to global brick; recent NEC exhibition
- Case studies on a university building in Bristol - the first UK project to feature 'glued' brickwork and traditional brickwork techniques used in a modern idiom at a Norfolk shrine
- The truth about stack bonding
January 2003
- The latest news including Brick Awards winners, the Get A Life With Brick Campaign, European Standards developments and why Prince Charles did a spot of bricklaying
- Case studies on the Women's Library, London, winner of the Best Public Building award and the Angell Town Estate, Brixton, Supreme Winner of the 2002 Brick Awards
- How to specify brickwork for chimneys. This article contains construction details as well as information on BDA Publication
Winter 2001
- Case studies on Bristol's new children's hospital, pinpointing the right brickwork for the Imperial War Museum extension, ‘Off-the-frame' brickwork delivers build economies at Brindleyplace, Georgian inspiration at Wimbledon Parkside, Elegance, excitement and extra-long bricks in Birmingham student flats, virtuoso brickwork demonstrates time-honoured skills and no hush at Rugby Library. It's all dramatic geometry and exciting colour
- Cladding that dares to be different a look at our neighbours
- Bridging 300mm cavities at the Beddington Zero Energy Development
Summer 2001
- Case studies on Coventry's new university library, how Dublin Corporation is preserving city-centre living, solid brickwork, solid craftsmanship at Corpus Christi, Tring, Solaria on the Severn at Tewkesbury, the problems of a difficult site elegantly resolved at Monmouth, Ikon Gallery deploys craft skills to create cutting-edge art showcase and blue and red bricks engineer harmony at Strathclyde University
Winter 2000
- Skilled bricklayers are out there, maintains masonry contractor Geoff Irvine
- Case studies on Canon UK headquarters, converting and complementing a Baillie Scott mansion, world of Glass exhibits solid and fin wall brickwork and Peabody Trust innovates in Newington Green
- Tinting brickwork
- Designing with precast brickwork panels
Summer 2000
- Ecohouse designer Dr Susan Roaf on designing for sustainability
- A polished performance at Harley-Davidson showrooms
- Award-winning housing in Glasgow uses brick to the full
- Bold and stylish stripes distinguish Docklands housing
- The Contact Theatre brings new drama to Manchester in more ways than one
- Restoring brickwork structures at London Bridge
- Brickwork openings of non-brick widths
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