Sentence examples for clinker brick from inspiring English sources

If clinker brick is the Wild One, brick set in the crisscross pattern called diaper work is like a ballerina.

Neither thin nor delicate, clinker brick is the Marlon Brando of masonry: misshapen, blackened in the kiln, historically regarded as trash by brickmakers.

Features: Wavy roofs, steeply pitched roofs, multiple gables, rolled eaves, parapets, turrets, leaded-glass windows (often diamond-paned), iron hardware, arched doorways, chimneys (sometimes crooked), clinker brick accents, exteriors of stone, brick and/or stucco (usually looking haphazardly applied) and half-timbering, often curved or cockeyed — all of it to convey antiquity and/or whimsy.

Rather than faking the grandeur of faux chateaux or other historical models, they took humble materials like clinker bricks, poured concrete and redwood shingles, and combined them with then-novel materials like Formica, linoleum and acres of plate glass windows that brought the outdoors inside and inspired a fresh, informal approach to living that eventually spread around the globe.

Vitrified clinker bricks still adorn both chimneys, and the roof sprouts curved rafter tails.

Begun in 1906, the Greene & Greene-designed Pacific Electric waiting station utilizes river boulders and clinker bricks, with inviting built-in benches and Batchelder-tile insets depicting birds, griffins and plants, plus a roof covered with vines.

I'M driving down a twisting, clinker-brick driveway banked by boulders, wildflowers and rare Torrey pines.

Beyond this section, where a harness-racing track had once tied up sixty acres, contractors in the years before the war positioned handsome limestone and clinker-brick single houses on new streets curving up the side of Shale Hill.

This paper reports the results of a study on using asbestos-cement slates as an additive to ceramic masses that are typical in the manufacture of sintered clinker wall bricks.

The architects George and Edward Blum were among New York's most versatile designers in brick, and clinkers did not escape their imagination, especially at the 1930 apartment house at 405 East 54th Street, at First Avenue.

One way to reach a more sustainable cement industry is replacing clinker by additions, such as waste brick powder.