Yeah red bricks are a classic but the color of bricks is tied to mineral composition in local clays. If you’ve got nice ferrous clays nearby you can get some of that classic English and new English red brick without having to ship it. Meanwhile elsewhere you may have something like Chicago’s yellow brick, or New Mexico’s “use a different material if you don’t want to pay out the ass shipping bricks across the continent”.
Local architecture styles will use local materials and barring some really weird situations (like that part of Arizona where the local material was petrified wood) that’ll be the cheap and abundant resource available to you. Though there’s always concrete
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Yeah red bricks are a classic but the color of bricks is tied to mineral composition in local clays. If you’ve got nice ferrous clays nearby you can get some of that classic English and new English red brick without having to ship it. Meanwhile elsewhere you may have something like Chicago’s yellow brick, or New Mexico’s “use a different material if you don’t want to pay out the ass shipping bricks across the continent”.
Local architecture styles will use local materials and barring some really weird situations (like that part of Arizona where the local material was petrified wood) that’ll be the cheap and abundant resource available to you. Though there’s always concrete