Jack Woolley's Spiral House is hidden behind a simple brick wall
A brick wall almost completely conceals this small courtyard house that London architect Jack Woolley has completed on a former garden site in south London (+ slideshow). More
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Jakarta office block by Wahana Architects features trailing planting and an underground passage
Wahana Architects used a combination of red brick, perforated metal and slatted timber to provide different levels of exposure for each floor in the PS-26 Office in Jakarta, Indonesia (+ slideshow). More
Phillips Tracey replaces a derelict London dental surgery with a simple brick house
A brick wall conceals the majority of this two-storey house that Phillips Tracey Architects has slotted between a pair of heritage-listed buildings in south London (+ slideshow). More
Traditional ceramic blocks feature in Alan Chu's São Paulo apartment renovation
Brazilian architect Alan Chu has completed the renovation of a São Paulo apartment, which uses ceramic ventilation bricks to form partitions and furniture (+ slideshow). More
Tribe Studio adds contemporary brick extension to a 1920s Sydney bungalow
Square windows and a matching door puncture the dark brick facade of this extension to a 1920s house in a Sydney suburb, designed by local office Tribe Studio (+ slideshow). More
Renovated Barcelona apartment features vaulted brick ceilings and colourful floor tiles
Colombo and Serboli Architects and Margherita Serboli Arquitectura has renovated an apartment within an early 1900's building – aiming to "retrieve its Art Nouveau essence" through the restoration and recreation of original features (+ slideshow). More
See images of the best brick architecture on our updated Pinterest board
Fancy brickwork is all the rage. Check out dozens of architectural examples, including projects by Frank Gehry, Jamie Fobert and O'Donnell + Tuomey, on our updated bricks Pinterest board.
Today we like: handmade bricks
Architects are beginning to rediscover the potential of handmade bricks, which offer wider variations of colour and texture than their industrially produced cousins. Recent examples include an asymmetric house in Belgium, a canal-side development in London and a housing complex in Rwanda. Explore more handmade brick architecture »
House by Joris Verhoeven features handmade bricks and a lopsided roof
Architect Joris Verhoeven chose hand-moulded bricks for the walls of this asymmetric gabled house in the Dutch village of Riel (+ slideshow). More
Bricks, doors and roof tiles recycled by Phooey Architects for Melbourne house extension
The walls of this extension to a house in Melbourne feature a mismatched pattern of bricks and roof slates, sourced when part of the original building was demolished (+ slideshow). More
Matthew Lloyd builds decorative brick homes around a 19th-century London church
Diamond-patterned brickwork helps this trio of apartment blocks in east London blend in with the historic 19th-century church that it surrounds (+ slideshow). More
Chequered brickwork brings unity to a Cambridge housing community by Proctor and Matthews
Patterned brickwork reveals the entrances to all homes in this development near Cambridge, England, designed by Proctor and Matthews Architects to bring a sense of continuity to the large site (+ slideshow). More
Omgeving's black brick library in Zoersel is subdivided into smaller blocks
The front and rear facades of this library in Zoersel, Belgium, have been divided up into house-sized volumes to help the large building fit into its residential context (+ slideshow). More
SO-IL adds decorative brick entrance to Tina Kim Gallery in Manhattan
Brooklyn studio SO-IL has used corbelled brickwork to create a textured entrance to an art gallery in New York's Chelsea neighbourhood. More
MM++ Architects replaces the old walls of a Vietnam house with red bricks and pivoting glass
Vietnamese studio MM++ Architects stripped a house back to its concrete frame to create this pared-back open-plan villa featuring red brick walls, pivoting glass doors and leafy gardens (+ slideshow). More
B.E. Architecture completes a trio of red brick houses for the same family
These three brick buildings, featuring deep-set windows and internal courtyards, have been arranged by B.E. Architecture around a cobbled lane in the Australian town of Windsor (+ slideshow). More
Feilden Fowles reinterprets classical typologies for red brick school building in Somerset
Influenced by ecclesiastical and monastic architecture, this school building in Somerset, England features a row of brick gables that sit on top of a concrete colonnade (+ slideshow). More
Fraher Architects includes textured brick cladding on north London house extension
Slate-grey bricks applied in zigzagging rows give the walls of this London house extension a faceted texture that contrasts the smooth, pale yellow brickwork of the original property (+ slideshow). More
Fraher Architects completes an extension with a window that stretches up to the roof
A sliver of glazing stretches all the way up from the ground to the roof of this extension to a west London house, which is named The Lantern in reference to the way it glows at night (+ slideshow). More
Small London home by Satish Jassal Architects is clad in brick both inside and out
This compact brick house in north London by local office Satish Jassal Architects is squeezed onto a small plot at the end of a Victorian terrace, which influenced the use of materials and the facade arrangement (+ slideshow). More