Brick, stone, and terra-cotta, products that have the solidity and hue of earth, have timidly but perceptibly snuck back into New York’s repertoire of architectural ambitions.

The now nonagenarian architect of the Getty Center in Los Angeles transformed New York about 25 years ago, when he designed three glass-skinned apartment buildings that line up along West Street ...

The 21-story tower includes nearly 100 apartments, and its staggered form is clad with Roman-style grayish-white brick in a nod to the nearby historic buildings. Residential Single Family. Project: ...

The Ralph S. O’Connor Building was specified to blend in with Rice University's historic campus architecture through a facade composed of brick and limestone. (Dave Burk) The Ralph S. O’Conner ...

Discover how Laurie Baker transformed brick into a symbol of dignity and innovation in modern Indian architecture.

For years, author Robert L. Thompson heard fellow historians rave about the jazzy exterior wall designs of South Jersey’s 18th-century patterned brick farmhouses. These geometric arrangements of ...

One less-glamorous remnant is a single-story pumping station, a squat brick building occupying a 4,500-square-foot site in a prime location near the riverfront. Originally built in 1906 to aid in ...

A row of yellow brick apartment buildings sitting along Queen City Avenue in Westwood. Our OKI Wanna Know feature is a chance for you to ask about the little things that may not be headline ...

The city’s Landmarks Preservation Commission unanimously approved a sleek six-story apartment building, which nods to the neighboring historic architecture, for a long-vacant site on Park Slope’s 7th ...

Architecture firm Faber & Pagels, reportedly modeled it after an opera house in Prague, but they also made it a distinctly Chicago building with its rough textured limestone and corner turret.