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What s the most expensive ceramic object in the world? Brick & Architectural Ceramics
1. Definitions Brick & Architectural Ceramics
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2. History Brick & Architectural Ceramics
7 Choga Zanbil Ziggurat Mesopotamia (Iran) approx. 2000 years BC
8 Choga Zanbil Ziggurat Mesopotamia (Iran) approx. 2000 years BC From Brick A World History. Image Will Pryce willpryce.com
9 Warehouse entrance, Ostia (Roman seaport), Italy approx 150 AD
10 Left: 19 th Century replacements of 16 th Century rubbed & gauged brickwork chimneys: Hampton Court Palace. Right: Cutting red rubbers with a wire saw and gauge box
11 Left: Coade Stone lion, Westminster, London. Image Will Pryce willpryce.com Right: Restoration on the Royal Albert Hall, London. Image Shaws of Darwen
12 Natural History Museum, London Alfred Waterhouse 1873-1881
13 Natural History Museum, London Alfred Waterhouse 1873-1881
14 Prudential Guaranty Building, Buffalo, New York by Louis Sullivan & Dankmar Adler 1894. Image Amy Frankie Smith amyfrankiesmith.co.uk
15 Flatiron, New York City - 1902 Daniel Burnham
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18 Gloucester Road Tube Station, London
19 Robie House, Chicago Frank Llloyd Wright
20 Johnson Wax Research Tower Frank Lloyd Wright Battersea Power Station Sir Giles Gilbert Scott
21 Alvar Aalto and Louis Kahn
22 IRCAM extension, Paris by Renzo Piano 1989 From Brick A World History. Image Will Pryce willpryce.com
23 Terracotta rainscreen cladding
24 Potsdamer Platz Berlin. Renzo Piano Building Workshop
25 Brandhorst Museum - Munich - Sauerbruch + Hutton. Images courtesy of NBK
26 St. Butolphs Hall Appartments - Spittalfields by Matthew Lloyd Image courtesy of NBK Ceramic
27 Central Saint Giles, London by Renzo Piano Building Workshop Images courtesy of NBK Ceramic
28 Central Saint Giles, London by Renzo Piano Workshop Image courtesy of NBK Ceramic
29 Central Saint Giles, London by Renzo Piano Workshop Image courtesy of NBK Ceramic
30 Spanish Pavilion, Aichi Japan Expo 2005, Foreign Office Architects Pieces by Ceramica Cumella - Spain
31 Yu'un House, Tokyo by Tadao Ando using a platinum glaze finish
32 House by Grayson Perry and FAT for Alain De Botton/Living Architecture
33 House by Grayson Perry and FAT for Alain De Botton/Living Architecture
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35 Kolumba, Cologne, Germany by Peter Zumthor
36 LSE Saw Hock Student Centre by O Donnell Tuomey Architects
37 LSE Saw Hock Student Centre by O Donnell Tuomey Architects
38 Porotherm insulating clay blocks images courtesy of Wienerberger
39 Earth bricks
3. Manufacturing Brick & Architectural Ceramics
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42 Extract from Houses Potter M&A, WS Cowell Ltd, London 1960
43 Handmaking WT Lamb, Pitshill Works, West Sussex
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45 Clamp firing bricks Ibstock West Hoathly, West Sussex
46 Extruding wirecut bricks
47 Extruding wirecut bricks
48 Extruding wirecut bricks
49 Hand pressing terracotta timber model of a capital Shaws of Darwen
50 Hand pressing terracotta plaster mould of a capital Shaws of Darwen
51 Hand pressing terracotta mould filled with clay Shaws of Darwen
52 Hand pressing
53 Hand pressing terracotta Firing of piece - Shaws of Darwen
54 Slip casting Shaws of Darwen
55 Slip casting Shaws of Darwen
56 Slip casting Royal Tichelaar, Holland
57 Slip casting from 3D printed moulds
58 Slip cast terracotta screen
59 Five-axis CNC wire cutting Boston Valley Terra Cotta
60 Extrusion
61 Extruding clay self curving on a turntable
62 Double helix extrusions
63 3d Scanning for restoration work Boston Valley Terracotta
64 Soft clay (Jonathan Keeps) and powdered clay 3d printing
65 3D Printed bricks Building Bytes, Brian Peters
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67 Five-axis CNC wire cutting Boston Valley Terra Cotta
68 Five-axis CNC wire cutting Boston Valley Terra Cotta
69 Five-axis CNC wire cutting Boston Valley Terra Cotta
70 Five-axis CNC wire cutting Boston Valley Terra Cotta
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4. Case Studies Brick & Architectural Ceramics
74 Villa Nurbs, Spain Enric Ruiz-Geli and Cloud 9
75 Villa Nurbs, Spain Enric Ruiz-Geli and Cloud 9
76 Villa Nurbs, Spain Enric Ruiz-Geli and Cloud 9
77 Villa Nurbs, Spain Enric Ruiz-Geli and Cloud 9
78 Villa Nurbs, Spain by Enric Ruiz-Geli and Cloud 9 Image Ceramica Cumella
79 Villa Nurbs, Spain by Enric Ruiz-Geli and Cloud 9 Images Ceramica Cumella
80 24 Savile Row, London by EPR Architects with ceramicist Kate Malone
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113 One Eagle Place, Piccadilly, London Eric Parry Architects/Stanhope
114 One Eagle Place, Piccadilly, London Eric Parry Architects/Stanhope
115 One Eagle Place, Piccadilly, London Eric Parry Architects/Stanhope
116 One Eagle Place, Piccadilly, London Eric Parry Architects/Stanhope
117 One Eagle Place, Piccadilly, London Eric Parry Architects/Stanhope
118 One Eagle Place, Piccadilly, London Eric Parry Architects/Stanhope
119 One Eagle Place, Piccadilly, London Eric Parry Architects/Stanhope
120 One Eagle Place, Piccadilly, London Eric Parry Architects/Stanhope
121 One Eagle Place, Piccadilly, London Eric Parry Architects/Stanhope
122 One Eagle Place, Piccadilly, London Eric Parry Architects/Stanhope
123 One Eagle Place, Piccadilly, London Eric Parry Architects/Stanhope
124 One Eagle Place, Piccadilly, London Eric Parry Architects/Stanhope
125 One Eagle Place, Piccadilly, London Eric Parry Architects/Stanhope
126 One Eagle Place, Piccadilly, London Eric Parry Architects/Stanhope
127 One Eagle Place, Piccadilly, London Eric Parry Architects/Stanhope
128 One Eagle Place, Piccadilly, London Eric Parry Architects/Stanhope
129 One Eagle Place, Piccadilly, London Eric Parry Architects/Stanhope
130 One Eagle Place, Piccadilly, London Eric Parry Architects/Stanhope
131 One Eagle Place, Piccadilly, London Eric Parry Architects/Stanhope
What s the most expensive ceramic object in the world? Brick & Architectural Ceramics
Porcelain: Qianlong porcelain vase c.1740 133 China stone (feldspar) + kaolin (white china clay) vase c.1740
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