Why has the quality of brick buildings declined in the last 100 years?

Re:Why has the quality of brick buildings declined in the la... by Cerium on Friday November 06, 2015 @07:19PM (#10522941)

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.

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Re:Why has the quality of brick buildings declined in the la... by dpark on Friday November 06, 2015 @07:58PM (#10523066)

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.

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Re:Why has the quality of brick buildings declined in the la... by roel_v on Saturday November 07, 2015 @03:29AM (#10524167)

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.

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