Acme Brick helps make dermatologist's office a "visual playground"

Promotion: the slender Fusion thin bricks by brick manufacturer Acme Brick lend a pearlescent quality to the facades of this office building in Texas, designed by US studio An.onymous.

Located in North Richland Hills, the 836-square-metre building was created for dermatologist Northstar Dermatology and is intended as a contemporary take on healthcare architecture.

The building's defining feature is its facades, which are enveloped in thin, glazed bricks from Acme Brick's Fusion range, placed at unexpected angles.

The specific product used by An.onymous is the modular Panama City Glossy brick, which has a pearlescent quality that changes with the movements of the sun.

To enhance their iridescent, ever-changing look, the bricks are mounted to the elevations at various angles and with a mix of stacked and running bonds.

This is magnified further with irregularly placed movement joints and window cutouts that break the brick facades into deliberately asymmetrical sections.

Acme Brick said it is a "visual playground" that "challenges traditional notions of brick construction".

"Acme Brick Fusion plays a crucial role in achieving this unique design," said the brand. "Thin brick enables creative applications impossible with traditional brick construction. In designing a facade that is both visually striking and symbolically rich, An.onymous challenges our understanding of what brick can do."

An.onymous described the facades as "oblique drawings of the buildings themselves".

"The thin brick system, used with varied stacked and running bond patterns in horizontal and diagonal arrangements, conforms to the drawn projections on the facades, while exposing the symbolic quality of the material as a non-brick – a tiling system that only signifies brick," said the studio.

The facades also nod to the building's asymmetrical floor plan, which was developed from a computer-generated study on circulation.

Acme Brick said these details collectively give rise to a building that "presents a bold, contemporary take on healthcare design".

Founded in 1891, Acme Brick claims to be the world's largest US-owned brick manufacturer. Today, it operates from 15 brick plants across four US states.

To find out more about the manufacturer and its slender Fusion Thin Bricks, visit its website.

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