An old mill building built along a New Hampshire river had a pair of walls meeting at an acute angle:
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
That steel post certainly took a direct hit at some point in its career, though…
#1 by Raj on 8-October-2012 - 00:35
My cows would love that corner for scratching themselves.
#2 by Ed on 8-October-2012 - 07:28
Now that would be fun to watch! [grin]
I suppose you could build a structure that’s all corners in your pasture, something like a star, and they’d love you for it…
#3 by biguggy on 8-October-2012 - 12:59
I have seen it used on obtuse angles as well.
#4 by Ed on 8-October-2012 - 15:57
Nowadays, with all the fancy diamond saws, you could cut the bricks to put a clean knife edge on the corner. Back in the day, even a master stonecutter might leave a lot of brick fragments lying around the bottom of a three-story wall!
#5 by biguggy on 8-October-2012 - 20:17
I am sorry I do not know how ‘obtuse’ became ‘house’.
#6 by Ed on 8-October-2012 - 20:37
It started as “ouse”, which I corrected to “house”, as it looked like a typo and that was the closest match.
But now it’s what you intended; sorry ’bout that.