Two minarets:
Qutb Minar in New Delhi, the world’s tallest brick minaret.
La Giralda in Seville, converted into the bell tower for the cathedral.
The Mabel Tainter Memorial Theater in Menomonie, Wisconsin. Built in 1889 of sandstone blocks, it is the heart of the theater community in Menomonie. More info hereif you are interested.
Totally cool!
Darlington - Stockton being known as the birthplace of the modern railway commissioned this sculpture.
Rather nice I think.
Beacon Hill is the only one made with brick.
Did you miss this part of the OP?
Stone blocks fit as well as any other.
It’s Hadramaut, in the Yemen. Article.
No they don’t. Bricks are moulded. Blocks are cut.
Oops, sorry for double post. I somehow forgot I’d just posted!
Meh. Needs more pig.
There’s this…
Keble College, Oxford.
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.
There’s the Melbourne Shot Tower, which was recently surrounded by a large shopping mall (the glass roof above it), or Flinders Street Station.
The Kalon Minaret in Bukhara, Uzbekistan (closeup of brickwork).
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.
The Harvard Lampoon Castle
Amazing!
The Pantheonin Rome is particuarly impressive (only the dome & portico are not brick).
In Taiwan, red brick buildings are associated with the Japanese colonial period. The most famous is probably the Presidential Office (formerly the Japanese Governor General’s office). But there are a lot of other examples around Taipei.
Stockholm City Hall. All bricks are hand made especially for this building.
The Ice hotel in Jukkasjärvi, Northern Sweden
I’m partial to the Phanar Greek Orthodox Collegein Istanbul.
