Office Building and Restaurant

Bond: The bricks have been laid according to a stretcher bond. A soldier course has been laid in order to provide a border for the tapered courses, creating a diagonal along the front of the building.

Jointing: The mortar joints are raked, ensuring that the brick pattern is still clearly visibly under the paint

Structural: The walls depicted by the images are mostly structural, except for the tapered balcony part, which is supporting no weight. Also, the internal concrete floors are actually expressed on the external façade of the building. Subsequently the bricks courses are laid in sections, separated by windows/doors and the concrete flooring above.

Surface Texture: The surface texture is very smooth, as the bricks have been coated by white paint

Colours: The original colour of the bricks has been masked by white paint.

Defects: Weep holes in the bricks have caused some discolouring of the bricks. Very slight bending of the bottom concrete layers and, subsequently, the above bricks courses.