From Argentina to Iran, via Italy’s only whisky distillery and Tate Modern’s Switch House extension, architects are using one of the most ancient building materials in startling new ways. A book by Philip Jodidio brings together the best modern brickwork from around the world.
Source: Bold, beautiful bricks from Paraguay to Poland – in pictures
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| Puni Distillery, Glorenza, Italy Werner Tscholl’s building houses Italy’s only whisky distillery. Brick is used throughout the building in a design that recalls the region’s agricultural architecture Photo: reneriller.it/Taschen |
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| Landmark Nieuw-Bergen, the Netherlands Rotterdam-based Monadnock’s tower, clad with green and red bricks, was conceived as the urban focal point for the small southern town of Nieuw-Bergen in Limburg. Small openings in the facade allow light to penetrate during the day and escape from within at night Photo: Stijn Bollaert/Taschen |
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| Termeh Office Building, Hamadan, Iran This multipurpose building’s undulating roof uses traditional bricklaying techniques and is built to be walked, sat and played on. Located in one of the world’s oldest cities, the challenge for Iranian architects Farshad Mehdizadeh and Ahmad Bathaei was to create something modern and functional that felt of a piece with neighbouring structures. Photo: Parham Taghiof/Taschen |
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| Diego Arraigada’s house, Rosario, Argentina Arraigada’s building combines exposed concrete ceilings and floors with a beautiful lattice-patterned, perforated facade Photo: Sergio Pirrone/Taschen |
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| Boceto, Ascunción, Paraguay Local practice Estudio Elgue incorporated existing walls and materials from an older, demolished building into this new live-work space. Natural ventilation, created by hollow brick in the walls, makes the building highly energy efficient Photo: Leonardo Finotti/Estudio elgue & associados/Taschen |
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| The Brick House, Wada, India This building, designed by Mumbai-based iStudio Architecture, celebrates local artisanal brick in a modern and energy-efficient structure Photo: AMI/Ami Somdatta Nhawkar/Taschen |
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| Saw Swee Hock Student Centre, London, UK This 2009 commission for the London School of Economics saw Irish architects O’Donnell + Tuomey create an unusual faceted facade for this “lived-in warehouse” structure Photo: Dennis Gilbert/View/Taschen |
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| North Rhein Westphalia State Archive, Duisberg, Germany Standing on a harbour on the Rhine in Duisberg, north of Düsseldorf, this house-shaped tower, designed by Ortner and Ortner, was added to an existing 1930s brown-brick warehouse. Standing 76 metres high, Germany’s largest archive has 148km of shelving behind its blank, red-brick facade Photo: Malgorzata Replinska/Taschen |
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| Thread: Artists’ Residency and Cultural Center, Sinthian, Senegal Local materials and construction techniques were used for Toshiko Mori’s community art space near the Malian border: mud brick and masonry blocks, bamboo and thatch, recycled tile shards and spaced brick with mosquito netting. Photo: Iwan Baan/Taschen |
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| Tate Modern Switch House, London Herzog and De Meuron’s 10-storey, 64.5-metre-high ziggurat added 60% to Tate Modern’s gallery space and used the same base palette of bricks and brickwork as the original power station structure Photo: Iwan Baan/Taschen |
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| CKK Jordanki congress and cultural centre, Toruń, Poland Spanish architect Fernando Menis made his design for a new cultural centre in the medieval heart of the Polish city of Toruń as low and rock-like as possible. Crushed red brick and concrete inside the building were combined with a nearly white concrete exterior, to emphasise the contrast between modern and historic. Photo: replisia/Malgorzata Replinska/Taschen |
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| Auditorium theatre, Llinars del Vallès, Barcelona, Spain Álvaro Siza’s building presents a medley of minimal brick facades along most of its outer periphery. Extensive use was made of ceramic klinker brick Photo: Joao Morgado/Taschen |
Source: Bold, beautiful bricks from Paraguay to Poland – in pictures
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