# Beautiful/striking/or interesting brick structures **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [March 22, 2011, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beautiful-striking-or-interesting-brick-structures/575648 "2011-03-22T21:09:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![zagloba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/977dab/32.png) [@zagloba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zagloba)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2011, 8:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beautiful-striking-or-interesting-brick-structures/575648/21 "2011-03-23T08:47:38Z")
Two minarets: [Qutb Minar](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qutb_minar) in New Delhi, the world’s tallest brick minaret. [La Giralda](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Giralda) in Seville, converted into the bell tower for the cathedral. ---
**Author:** ![kjbrasda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/74df32/32.png) [@kjbrasda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kjbrasda)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2011, 9:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beautiful-striking-or-interesting-brick-structures/575648/22 "2011-03-23T09:08:26Z")
The [Mabel Tainter Memorial Theater](http://farm1.static.flickr.com/48/176340367_a1e6bab041_b.jpg) in Menomonie, Wisconsin. Built in 1889 of sandstone blocks, it is the heart of the theater community in Menomonie. More [info here](http://www.mabeltainter.com/history.html)if you are interested. ---
**Author:** ![PlainJain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/5daacb/32.png) [@PlainJain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PlainJain)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2011, 10:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beautiful-striking-or-interesting-brick-structures/575648/23 "2011-03-23T10:47:37Z")
> [@Teacake](#): > > [Battersea Power Station](http://battersea-buzz.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/battersea-power-station1.jpg) isn’t bad. Totally cool! ---
**Author:** ![Novelty\_Bobble](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Novelty\_Bobble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Novelty_Bobble)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2011, 11:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beautiful-striking-or-interesting-brick-structures/575648/24 "2011-03-23T11:27:55Z")
Darlington - Stockton being known as the birthplace of the modern railway commissioned [this sculpture.](http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://farm1.static.flickr.com/145/367261515_147102f23f.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.flickr.com/photos/jncarter1962/sets/72157594496307091/detail/&usg=__o718z94SZ4N_gGEGmcg6h1phvlw=&h=329&w=500&sz=146&hl=en&start=115&sig2=PZ1AC1pv4Idf3QHx6ZZgjg&zoom=1&tbnid=XTFCeFgOIWVnIM:&tbnh=172&tbnw=276&ei=59iJTbbxCdXN4AbanIyDDg&prev=/images%3Fq%3DDarlington%2Btrain%2Bsculpture%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DX%26biw%3D1280%26bih%3D681%26tbs%3Disch:10%2C3931&itbs=1&iact=hc&vpx=289&vpy=340&dur=2351&hovh=182&hovw=277&tx=153&ty=69&oei=ptiJTfjBJpKGhQe4v9HLDQ&page=8&ndsp=15&ved=1t:429,r:6,s:115&biw=1280&bih=681) Rather nice I think. ---
**Author:** ![MacCat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maccat/32/216_2.png) [@MacCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacCat)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2011, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beautiful-striking-or-interesting-brick-structures/575648/25 "2011-03-23T14:32:23Z")
> [@Omniscient](#): > > They are all iconic, and all are symbols of civilization and community. An aqueduct is about feeding cities, a bridge connects communities, pyramids are about cooperation, Beacon Hill is about liberty and patriotism. Beacon Hill is the only one made with brick. ---
**Author:** ![Omniscient](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omniscient/32/3290_2.png) [@Omniscient](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omniscient)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2011, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beautiful-striking-or-interesting-brick-structures/575648/26 "2011-03-23T20:40:10Z")
> [@MacCat](#): > > Beacon Hill is the only one made with brick. Did you miss this part of the OP? > [@](#): > > It doesn’t have to be a particular kind of brick- photos I’ve downloaded so far include glass bricks, ice bricks, Legos, blue glazed bricks, and of course red bricks. They won’t all make the cut. Stone blocks fit as well as any other. ---
**Author:** ![Teacake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Teacake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Teacake)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2011, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beautiful-striking-or-interesting-brick-structures/575648/27 "2011-03-23T20:55:22Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > These are great- thanks all! > > That is cool. What/where is that? Tibet? It’s Hadramaut, in the Yemen. [Article.](http://intarch.ac.uk/journal/issue20/reviews/fodde.html) ---
**Author:** ![Teacake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Teacake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Teacake)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2011, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beautiful-striking-or-interesting-brick-structures/575648/28 "2011-03-23T21:01:04Z")
> [@Omniscient](#): > > Did you miss this part of the OP? > > Stone blocks fit as well as any other. No they don’t. Bricks are moulded. Blocks are cut. Oops, sorry for double post. I somehow forgot I’d just posted! ---
**Author:** ![WotNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e19b73/32.png) [@WotNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WotNot)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2011, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beautiful-striking-or-interesting-brick-structures/575648/29 "2011-03-23T21:21:27Z")
> [@PlainJain](#): > > Totally cool! Meh. [Needs more pig.](http://blogs.ft.com/westminster/files/2010/04/pink-floyd-pigpig1.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![MacCat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maccat/32/216_2.png) [@MacCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacCat)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2011, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beautiful-striking-or-interesting-brick-structures/575648/30 "2011-03-24T00:21:13Z")
> [@WotNot](#): > > Meh. [Needs more pig.](http://blogs.ft.com/westminster/files/2010/04/pink-floyd-pigpig1.jpg) There’s this… [![](http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_h5DTV--cNLI/TRvF8aqXVNI/AAAAAAAAK1k/aDruTnT9zK8/s1600/three%2Bpigs%2Bbrick%2Bbuilding.jpg) ](http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_h5DTV--cNLI/TRvF8aqXVNI/AAAAAAAAK1k/aDruTnT9zK8/s1600/three%2Bpigs%2Bbrick%2Bbuilding.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![rekkah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ee59a6/32.png) [@rekkah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rekkah)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2011, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beautiful-striking-or-interesting-brick-structures/575648/31 "2011-03-24T00:55:22Z")
[Keble College](http://www.flickr.com/photos/ru_boff/472712547/#/), Oxford. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2011, 8:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beautiful-striking-or-interesting-brick-structures/575648/32 "2011-03-24T08:02:24Z")
> [@Omniscient](#): > > I think you should shoot for something grander. > > How about this [Segovia Aqueduct](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:AcueductoSegovia_edit1.jpg). > > Or the [Alcántara Bridge](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bridge_Alcantara.JPG). > > [Acorn street](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Acorn_Street_Beacon_Hill_Boston_Massachusetts.JPG) on Beacon Hill. > > And of course the [Giza Pyramids](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:All_Gizah_Pyramids.jpg). > > They are all iconic, and all are symbols of civilization and community. An aqueduct is about feeding cities, a bridge connects communities, pyramids are about cooperation, Beacon Hill is about liberty and patriotism. But half of those things aren’t brick, they’re stone: for starters, the pyramids and the Acqueduct. The Torre de los Amantes in Teruel and the Torre de la Giralda in Seville are brick. Los Amantes is particularly pretty, one of the best examples of mozárabe art. ---
**Author:** ![Girl\_From\_Mars](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/3da27b/32.png) [@Girl\_From\_Mars](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Girl_From_Mars)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2011, 8:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beautiful-striking-or-interesting-brick-structures/575648/33 "2011-03-24T08:22:24Z")
There’s the [Melbourne Shot Tower](http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4036/4651261501_72e2802018.jpg), which was recently surrounded by a large shopping mall (the glass roof above it), or [Flinders Street Station](http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3090/2852854764_e6f70ed0b1.jpg). ---
**Author:** ![Hallucinex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ba9def/32.png) [@Hallucinex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hallucinex)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2011, 8:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beautiful-striking-or-interesting-brick-structures/575648/34 "2011-03-24T08:30:23Z")
The [Kalon Minaret](http://www.flickr.com/photos/27784269@N06/4802847637/) in Bukhara, Uzbekistan ([closeup of brickwork](http://www.flickr.com/photos/27784269@N06/4817819353/)). Built in 1127; supposedly it impressed Genghis Khan so much that he ordered to leave it standing while everything around was being razed to the ground. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2011, 12:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beautiful-striking-or-interesting-brick-structures/575648/35 "2011-03-24T12:14:48Z")
The Harvard Lampoon Castle [![](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Lampoon.jpg) ](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Lampoon.jpg) [![](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Castle_Lasers-1.JPG) ](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Castle_Lasers-1.JPG) > **[Harvard Lampoon Building](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvard_Lampoon_Building)** > > The Harvard Lampoon Building (sometimes referred to as the Lampoon Castle) is a historic building in Cambridge, Massachusetts, which is best known as the home of The Harvard Lampoon, and for its unusual design. > The building was constructed at 44 Bow Street not far from Harvard Yard and close to the "Gold Coast" of residences for undergraduates of Harvard College before the creation of Harvard's "house system" (some of them now part of Adams House). Designed by Edmund M. Wheelwright, who also ove... ---
**Author:** ![MacCat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maccat/32/216_2.png) [@MacCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacCat)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2011, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beautiful-striking-or-interesting-brick-structures/575648/36 "2011-03-24T12:33:28Z")
> [@Hallucinex](#): > > The [Kalon Minaret](http://www.flickr.com/photos/27784269@N06/4802847637/) in Bukhara, Uzbekistan ([closeup of brickwork](http://www.flickr.com/photos/27784269@N06/4817819353/)). > > Built in 1127; supposedly it impressed Genghis Khan so much that he ordered to leave it standing while everything around was being razed to the ground. Amazing! ---
**Author:** ![bump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7c8e57/32.png) [@bump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bump)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2011, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beautiful-striking-or-interesting-brick-structures/575648/37 "2011-03-24T12:47:18Z")
The [Pantheon](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pantheon,_Rome)in Rome is particuarly impressive (only the dome & portico are not brick). ---
**Author:** ![Koxinga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/4af34b/32.png) [@Koxinga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Koxinga)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2011, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beautiful-striking-or-interesting-brick-structures/575648/38 "2011-03-24T12:50:03Z")
In Taiwan, red brick buildings are associated with the Japanese colonial period. The most famous is probably the [Presidential Office](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/78/Presidential-Palace-%28Taipei%29.png) (formerly the Japanese Governor General’s office). But there are a lot of other examples around Taipei. ---
**Author:** ![Floater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/dc4da7/32.png) [@Floater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Floater)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2011, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beautiful-striking-or-interesting-brick-structures/575648/39 "2011-03-24T13:40:09Z")
[Stockholm City Hall](http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Stockholm+County,+Stockholm,+Sweden&ll=59.328056,18.055086&spn=0.002698,0.006899&t=h&z=17&layer=c&cbll=59.328013,18.054706&panoid=Y2u5a9iUwtEPLvIX14vPtg&cbp=12,165.52,,0,-13.02). All bricks are hand made especially for this building. [The Ice hotel](http://www.google.com/search?q=ice+hotel+jukkasj%C3%A4rvi&hl=en&lr=&prmd=ivnsm&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=3kiLTfngBs-Rswbj--icCg&ved=0CFAQsAQ&biw=1024&bih=619) in Jukkasjärvi, Northern Sweden ---
**Author:** ![Caffeine.addict](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f475e1/32.png) [@Caffeine.addict](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Caffeine.addict)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2011, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beautiful-striking-or-interesting-brick-structures/575648/40 "2011-03-24T14:13:55Z")
I’m partial to the [Phanar Greek Orthodox College](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b9/Phanar_Greek_Orthodox_College_Istanbul.jpg)in Istanbul. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beautiful-striking-or-interesting-brick-structures/575648.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beautiful-striking-or-interesting-brick-structures/575648.md?page=3)