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Day: October 7, 2012

  • Unusual Brick Corner

    An old mill building built along a New Hampshire river had a pair of walls meeting at an acute angle:

    Acute-angle brick corner
    Acute-angle brick corner

    Architects know that bricks, being the prototypical rectangular solid, generally don’t work well in such situations, but I suppose sometimes you just do what must be done and call it decorative:

    Acute-angle brick corner - detail
    Acute-angle brick corner – detail

    That steel post certainly took a direct hit at some point in its career, though…