Word: bricking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mark's Roman Catholic Church at Burlington, Vt., a gleaming structure of glass blocks and red brick produced by local architects who were chosen because they had never designed a Catholic church before, is strictly 20th Century. But it has one primitive feature that has rarely been seen in Christian churches since the 9th Century. Its altar is set in the center of the church (see cut), so that the face and hands of the priest offering Mass are visible to his congregation from three sides. The altar of the new cathedral to be built in Britain...
...Nashville, Tenn. last week, young black and white students of both sexes were sitting down to breakfast together in an old red-brick house near Fisk University. All morning and most of the afternoon they were swinging pickaxes on a onetime plantation at the end of 18th Avenue North, west of Hootin' Annie and Billy Goat Hills. Members of the American Friends Service Committee's first interracial work camp in the South, they were converting a little patch of former slave soil into a recreation field for local...
Fresno's functional city hall is handsome, economical, moderately experimental in plan and design. It is a low (two-story), flat-roofed structure, surfaced with unpainted red brick, trimmed with stainless steel and aluminum. Architects were Fresno's Franklin & Kump & Associates. Construction costs were $290,000. To cut future maintenance bills, Architects Franklin & Kump eliminated all elevators, made use of natural light by means of oversize windows, skylights, glass panels atop interior walls. Instead of stairways, the building has wide ramps. Central feature of the building is an open two-story lobby. On the second floor...
...brick of the building's exterior surfaces is repeated on the interior lobby walls...
Life in X-House. In Britain today Spaatz's private life consists mainly of the four to eight hours he sleeps nightly in the spacious, big-windowed bedroom of "X-House," a comfortable, 19th-Century brick pile in a London suburb. There, as he did in Africa, he leads a kind of corporate, family existence, with his staff as family, and himself as patriarch, straw boss and referee...