Re:Why has the quality of brick buildings declined in the la...
by barrkel on Friday November 06, 2015 @05:34PM
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Wouldn't you expect brick for ornamental purposes to look prettier than brick used for functional purposes?
Re:Why has the quality of brick buildings declined in the la...
by greggyb on Friday November 06, 2015 @06:09PM
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No, you'd expect brick for ornamental purposes to look prettier than what it's covering.
Re:Why has the quality of brick buildings declined in the la...
by awqrre on Friday November 06, 2015 @07:35PM
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I have heard stories of a whole brick wall falling off the home ... but the home was intact... it was not "glued"/secured properly.
Re:Why has the quality of brick buildings declined in the la...
by Cerium on Friday November 06, 2015 @07:19PM
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I fully expect that the brick is structural in those examples. My university had brick dorms "the bricks". They had brick exterior walls and cinder block interior walls. The brick walls were brick on the outside and the inside and only one brick thick.
Re:Why has the quality of brick buildings declined in the la...
by dpark on Friday November 06, 2015 @07:58PM
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If the interior walls are cinder block, I would expect the brick to be purely aesthetic. Cinder blocks don't need brick next to them for strength if built correctly.
Re:Why has the quality of brick buildings declined in the la...
by roel_v on Saturday November 07, 2015 @03:29AM
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If there are cinderblocks on the inside, then the outside layer isn't structural. Depending on how old the building is, it might serve a purpose for insulation - either an 'air gap' or to sandwich proper insulation material between two layers. But the building will stand without the brick. This is actually the 'normal' way of building anything under, say, 4 stories in most of Western Europe.
This was my thought as well. The modern building is likely just using the brick as veneer, even if it is full-thickness brick. It's likely concrete walls with brick layered over it. The fact that the brickwork is poorly done likely doesn't matter except aesthetically. If all the brick fell off the building would still be standing.
The newer building is indeed ugly, and the brickwork looks cheap and poorly done. But that doesn't mean the technology has declined. It means the technology has advanced to the point that the brick is just ornamental.