Recent Examples on the WebAdditionally, preserved brickwork and other fragments of flooring were located inside the ruins.—Brendan Rascius, Miami Herald, 31 May 2024 The architect Philip Johnson covered the small guesthouse on his property in New Canaan, Conn., in Flemish-bond brickwork.—Suleman Anaya, New York Times, 3 May 2024 Too many houses in rural areas stand empty and deteriorating: windows boarded up, yards littered with junk, brickwork greening with algae.—Dennis Zhou, The New Yorker, 26 Feb. 2024 Others could only lay an unusual type of brick or could only lay one particular brickwork pattern.—Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 15 Feb. 2024 Sides of stone buildings, distant brickwork, walls of glass that faced south toward the sun, all gleamed with a transfixing brilliance.—Martin Weil, Washington Post, 3 Feb. 2024 Plazas and courtyards contain feathery mesquite and blue-green palo verde trees and employ brickwork that blends with the buildings themselves.—Sam Lubell, New York Times, 1 Mar. 2024 This symmetry and regularity can seem mundane and almost invisible, as with brickwork on building walls or the hexagonal pattern in a honeycomb.—Quanta Magazine, 30 Oct. 2023 Think of fencing or brickwork painted in Green Smoke to accentuate flowering plants.—Elizabeth Sweet, Better Homes & Gardens, 12 June 2023
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