Discover the artistry of cement brick design through the skilled hands of an 80-year-old craftsman. Watch as he expertly molds cement bricks using breeze block moulds, creating timeless designs ...

As Ron and Barbara Marshall observe in Concrete Screen Block, the curtain wall outside the American Embassy closely resembled the cast concrete walls of Notre Dame du Raincy, built in the early 1920s.

Architect Edward Durell Stone, credited by some with pioneering the form, erected massive facades made of breeze blocks for buildings such as the U.S. Embassy in New Delhi, completed in 1959.

Australian designer Tom Fereday has developed a faceted cement breeze block that can be flipped over and combined in various ways to create angled surfaces. Sydney-based Fereday created the Omni ...

Well, besides the cool look, they are fairly cheap to install and buy (around $2.50 a block), are great for insulation (concrete keeps them cool or holds in heat), and are almost always made from ...

Prevalent in front yards across Palm Springs, concrete screen blocks have a handful of aliases—breeze blocks, ornamental blocks—that hint at their functional but decorative use as permeable ...

These screens of patterned concrete blocks in carports and on building facades are seen in many structures that date to the post-World War II building boom in Southern California.

Concrete is a huge contributor to worldwide CO2 emissions, and Concrete Masonry Units (aka cinder blocks or breeze blocks) make up a significant part of this. However, a new project by Skidmore ...

Breeze blocks are having a moment in the sun. Having been painfully hip in the architecture of the 1950s and 60s, they were used so extensively, in both houses and commercial buildings, that they ...