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.

Concrete Screen Block: ... Palm Springs’s midcentury modern flair—its swooping butterfly roofs and endless walls of glass—is now nationally known.

Screens of concrete panels surround Block Wall House, a triangular home that design studio Nendo has nestled into a forest in Japan. Located in Japan's Nagano Prefecture, the home has a long ...

A breeze block screen wall can be a beautiful thing – the pattern of each individual block adding to a greater whole, and a larger pattern, when they’re used en masse. Of course, I didn’t ...

In the U.S., breeze blocks were super-popular in the 1950s and '60s, when low-slung homes in places like Southern California used them as exterior walls to block onlookers from seeing inside those ...

It’s quite difficult to anchor this 2-by-10 to the cores of the concrete block wall. Many contractors might tell you that you need to embed anchor bolts in concrete that’s poured to fill the ...

The primary wall system is CMU veneer. The project has 20,000 square feet of natural ground and standard CMU. The design team took a unique approach to the old use of CMU block by using two ...