How the Construction Brick Became the Rockstar in Retail Design

IT'S TRENDING: HOW THE CONSTRUCTION BRICK BECAME THE ROCKSTAR IN RETAIL DESIGN

Anything terra-coa has been This report observes how bricks used, redeﬁned, modernized, are being used in the Retail and given a new life in the ﬁeld. recent two years.

Designer Room on Fire Tigerlily Sydney Brand Flagship Store Photography Sean Fennessy

1 Design oﬃce Room On Fire The perforaon of a secon of took inspiraon from Sydney’s the brick façade allows light to coastal landscape and beaches pass through and adds an for Tigerlily’s store. The outer enchanng glow to the façade is made of Bowral architectural element. The same bricks, a locally manufactured mof is then repeated inside building block characterized by the store, creang a subtle a pale sandstone color. dialogue between inside and outside.

Designer Room on Fire Tigerlily Sydney Brand Flagship Store Sean Fennessy (incl. Photography following image)

The modular and eﬀortless The building blocks were hand- element of the brick creates an made from Oaxacan red earth incredibly intricate at the by Patricia Medivil, whose Aesop store in Brooklyn by specialty is this speciﬁc rosy Mexican architect Frida hue. Escobedo.

Designer Frida Escobedo Brand Aesop Park Slope Photography Courtesy of Aesop

In the Coﬀee Nap Roasters 2nd customers could live a new in Seoul by Design Studio experience. There is no ﬁxed MAOOM, bricks are the chosen sing spot. Depending on your material to create an evocave state of mind, the type of sight space where to sit and relax for you want to enjoy, you can a moment. The designers got choose to sit in a parcular rid of tables and chairs and place. created a scenery where

Designer Design Studio MAOOM Coﬀee Nap Roasters Brand 2nd in Seoul Photography Soulgraph Jin Seonggi

For the Urban Revivo Shanghai parcular grace to the overall flagship store, the Chinese firm architectural design, thanks to DOMANI envisions a canyon- the different paerns created like structure created by red and the reflecon of light on its bricks. These represent the surface. trace of the city architectural style of the early 1980s. The chosen material adds a

Designer DOMANI Urban Revivo Flagship Brand Store in Shanghai Photography Feng Shao

Tres birds workshop was aenon of the guest aer selected to design the Japanese passing through the entrance. restaurant Uchi in Denver. The wall is a composite of red Using TBW’s experience in and crystal bricks that refract Japan as a foundaon, the ﬁrm the light as it streams into the was able to bring Japanese dining room. As the sun sets, sensibilies to the table while one can peer out from the incorporang that which makes inside to see the Denver Denver unique. The southern skyline. wall grabs the immediate

Designer Tres Birds Workshop Uchi Japanese Brand Restaurant Photography James Florio

A brief historical background A lile history about the material

Bricks are one of the oldest with molded ornamental known building materials as shapes. they have been used for Brick colors usually deﬁned also building purposes at least since the place were it came from or 7000 BC. was going to be used.

Inially composed of clay or In Victorian London, due to the composite mud bricks with dense fog, bright red bricks straw as a binder, it was not were chosen to make buildings unl the mechanized mass more visible. producon during the Industrial Although the amount of red Revoluon that bricks started pigment was reduced in bricks to be used as a modern building producon, red has remained material. the most desired color sll to this day. Rapidly, brick structures replaced other raw materials In more recent mes, some of like stone or rock and became the most famous architects of the chosen material for the the 20th century chose this construcon of commercial material, among them Le buildings. Also, thanks to the Corbusier, F. L. Wright, and new hydraulic press technology, Louis Khan. bricks were not only much more durable but of higher quality.

They presented smoother surfaces as well as precise shapes and could be produced