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7 months

One of our favorite photos of all time from a project. We completed in 2020. There is 60’ tower overlooking a lake. But standing inside pre-framing, getting to take in all 160,000 brick at once, is frankly amazing.

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Building Culture

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1 year

Yep. One of the biggest culprits? Fire departments and fire trucks. We literally design our towns, cities and neighborhoods around the giant size of our fire trucks. Rather than just making fire trucks smaller….as they are in historic districts and much of the world. It’s

Strong Towns

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Historic districts make up some of our highest value areas where people love to visit and long to live, yet we’ve made building this style of development illegal almost everywhere in North America.

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Recently completed.

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10 months

This is our favorite house we've ever done. Everything turned out better than we could have hoped. Yes, we obsessed over every little detail, every little finish, and it took much longer than we'd hoped, but it was worth it. You're never 100% sure all the thousands of decisions

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@Build_Culture

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The meme going around w/ these pics was: “30 people getting coffee", which is catchy. But one of my primary concerns w/ endless sprawl is it makes drive throughs the only economically viable biz option for low margin goods, and thereby reduces everything to a purely

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10 months

Finishing the groin vault. Such a cool process. We can't wait to bring this back to life in the US. Masonry is honestly just one of the coolest mediums to work with. So much potential here; it's like a new worlds been opened up and our minds are spinning with the possibilities.

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10 months

In Segovia, Spain for a 2 week research trip with some of the top masonry experts around the world. One of the main motivations was learning how to build a groin vault without formwork/centering. It’s…amazingly easy. The hard part is doing it neatly and quickly. But can’t wait

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Just about everyone has this in their city if not mainly made up by this. Where is it? I actually don't know. And does it matter? It's Anywhere, USA. Where a handful of people in boardrooms decide what everyone will eat across the country, all decisions are made based on Excel

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1 year

Old brick construction versus new. Was on vacation in Bend, OR, and walking the Old Mill District. The juxtaposition of old versus new couldn’t be more clear. Take a look.

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@Build_Culture

2 years

Brick details on one of our current builds #structuralmasonry #masswall #brick #construction

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Florence. Noticed how the streets and public realm feel “carved” from the solid building fabric. It’s not just about the buildings, but the space in between the buildings. This may be much more dense than what makes sense in Midwest cities in the US, like Oklahoma City, but the

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1 year

Timber porches feel dramatically different to standard 2x material and 4×4s or even 6×6s. These 8×8 posts (vertical piece) and beefy header (horizontal piece) feel substantial, but the biggest difference? The large timber rafters with a radius cut in. Compare this to a standard

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@Build_Culture

5 months

We need to make decorative elements like this again. Virtually no brick manufacturer does anymore. One day we hope to own a plant ourselves and produce amazing terracotta elements again for everyone.

Chicken Joe 🐔

@ChickenJoeSTL

5 months

A terracotta owl on a Victorian mansion in St Joseph, Missouri

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@Build_Culture

1 year

I really resonate with Leon Krier on this topic. He talks about how biological organisms grow until maturity, and then stop growing in size, and "grow" through replication (reproduction) rather than getting ever larger. He thinks cities should work the same way—things start

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11 months

Check this out! Wild example of how steel in masonry is a terrible idea. It's crazy because we can build skyscrapers and shockingly complex structures...but can't even build a garden wall that can last 30 years. And the sad part? ZERO reason to put steel in here like this.

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Building Culture

@Build_Culture

9 months

Come on in! Our 1900 Oso project, the first structural brick masonry house built in Oklahoma City in decades (if not close to a century), is a wrap and we are thrilled to show you around. We'll be sharing some of our favorite details this week, from the hardware to surprising

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Building Culture

@Build_Culture

2 years

Just a little back yard project from 2021, shortly after moving to OKC and purchasing our first house. Had to mark it as a BC house! One day we’ll build our own, but right now getting the business off the ground in a new place takes priority. This satisfied my itch, for the time.

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1 year

One of our projects from a couple years back. Super simple building. But the stone sills and lintels, a deep archway entrance, a couple details, and you have a gracious, everyday-beauty kind of building. Not pretentious, not fancy, but comfortable and confident.

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@Build_Culture

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Stitched together some footage for a new website we are working on with footage of old projects. Fun to look back! Just can’t beat brick masonry construction.

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Update on one of our masonry builds. Wrapping up mechanicals this week, and moving onto interior and finishes. This has been a REALLY fun one. Check out the fireplace!

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Many balconies are too shallow to really be used. Here we followed Christopher Alexander's pattern to keep a minimum 6' deep porch. Turns out, he's right. This balcony is off the master bedroom upstairs. Just outside the bedroom, in the hall, there is a little bar with space for

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Beautiful entrance to our Bend pocket neighborhood. We like to make transitions between spaces clear. Here, the two columns + the brick path mark a change from the public concrete sidewalk. The narrowness, the curving, make it feel more organic and private too. The goal isn't to

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Stunning steel doors we just installed on a project. They’re incredibly heavy—they feel like castle doors but open so, so smoothly. Love getting to work with talented and passionate craftsmen and local businesses (Monte Cristo). #bcjordanproject

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@Build_Culture

10 months

Groin Vaults Pt 1: we’d never fully understood “light frame masonry” until this research trip to Spainand talking to experts who’ve been studying this their whole lives. Of course have known of Gustavino vaulting, etc, but different to understand in theory and then in practice.

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Building Culture

@Build_Culture

2 years

Placing the final cap on the stepped gable of our Francesca build using locally quarried, natural sandstone. Looks awesome! #buildingculture #structuralmasonry #traditionalbuilding

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Building Culture

@Build_Culture

8 months

Excited to share with you the full home-tour of our integrally insulated structural brick masonry home in Oklahoma City. It's the next evolution of Building Culture as we work towards scaling masonry-based construction systems that can be replicated across the country. Details👇

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@Build_Culture

1 year

We were discussing painting brick and limewash or potassium silicate earlier this week. This is one of our projects under construction from 2018 with a limewash applied. We did two coats, using a 4" brush in a criss cross motion. You can water it down to different consistencies

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@Build_Culture

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What one of our structural masonry builds looks like before framing. We call it the “massing”—when all the brick envelope is up. There are about 60k brick here in our triple wythe wall system. It’s a fun process to watch as the building slowly reveals itself, brick by brick,

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@Build_Culture

11 months

All in the details. We really do love working with brick. We’ve found “toothing”, what’s going on in the column, to be a really cool detail that’s easy to execute, and can be done in veneer situations too, btw. It certainly slows down the labor, but it’s not difficult. Then,

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From a gut and total remodel of a 100 yr old historic home a couple years ago—our first project in OKC as we were transitioning from Carlton Landing. Got this door from an architectural salvage shop, and may be my favorite part of the whole build.

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@Build_Culture

1 year

Mixed-use urban development coming to downtown Edmond! We’ve got a boutique office park, and ~25 residential townhouses and live/work units. Still have a ways to go before breaking ground, but we’re excited!

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@Build_Culture

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We build the envelope first out of masonry, then come back with floors, framing, roof, etc. Lots of people ask us about mechanicals. Pretty simple. Floor plugs around perimeter, open web trusses for 2nd story floor for mechanicals, and rest of electric/plumbing run through

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@Build_Culture

2 years

Rendering of our next design/build! Excited about this one. One of my favorite details on this design: the corbeled chimney that starts midway up the wall. It’s one of the great things about structural masonry: you have mass to play with, and can corbel out structural elements.

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@Build_Culture

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1) we love using natural stone for lintels and caps. Simple, cost effective and beautiful 2) even if you are building brick veneer, you can still incorporate structural masonry elements and good details—eg a porch/entrance like this that is separate from the structure of the

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@Build_Culture

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We used a reclaimed brick out of Kansas on this one, along with a high-lime PHL mortar to protect it.

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@Build_Culture

2 years

From my visit back to Carlton Landing a month or so ago. The Moongate we built in the Bend continues to be the highest impact architectural feature for the cost we’ve ever done. Seems like there is something to learn here. #buildingculture #moongate #architecture

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Decorative fireplace in the works!

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@Build_Culture

2 years

Finished the entrance to our Francesca build with a big stone lintel—and it looks awesome! #buildingculture #structuralmasonry

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As I complain about the current lack of beauty in the world, I feel compelled to post this. We are doing something about it. And so are a lot of other people.

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A cool shot by Matt while up on a boom of a couple of our houses going up side-by-side in Wheeler yesterday evening, with Devon tower in the background. Looking good! #buildingculture #architecture

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@Build_Culture

2 years

Really enjoying how this one is turning out—a little deco flair we haven’t tried before. We added the black vertical brick at the last minute above the 2nd story windows. Benefits of being both the designer and builder—it’s a more organic and creative process. #structuralmasonry

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@Build_Culture

2 years

We could use some more masonry towers in this country. Simple, cool, and relatively cheap for the impact. And really, we just need more cool architecture.

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@Build_Culture

8 months

#bts of our newest project! This one has a touch of #artdeco and has been really fun to have come together.

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@Build_Culture

1 year

Cars kill 10x more people in the US than fires. About 39,000 to 3,800. We have a wild mismatch in priorities.

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11 months

Episode 1 out now! Designing For People. What happens when we design for people first? When the “why” behind everything we build is to facilitate human flourishing? In this episode we tour Wheeler District, a traditional neighborhood development (TND) just a mile from downtown

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@Build_Culture

11 months

More masonry toothing. And pretty hand chiseled stone lintel and sill on top and bottom. Couldn’t put a window here so we did this!

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1 year

Looking back at one of the houses in our Bend project while under construction. Brick goes up first. We limewashed on the way down while scaffold was still up. THEN we framed. Definitely a different order than usual! But a beautiful little house. The Dutch-inspired parapet on

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@Build_Culture

11 months

Sometimes mistakes make the project more beautiful. This is one of those instances!

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Working on a new website and ran across this from 2019, one of our last builds in Carlton Landing before moving to OKC. I like the rough brick with the more craftsman-like paneled columns on the stairs. Something we are continually exploring—the rough with the refined.

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Work in progress on the fireplace at our Jordan project. This is gonna be a cool one! The layering, corbels and black-brick details are 👌

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@Build_Culture

1 year

The sandblasted stone house numbers and copper gas lanterns are a nice touch here. First time using both, but certainly not the last!

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1 year

I do not mean to say this is the ideal—particularly because places should be a product of its people, who have their own culture, values and unique flair—but it's certainly a step up from the previous picture, and can provide the same services, just in a different format, and in

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This one is a beauty. Can't wait to unveil the interior here in a couple months! Loots of fun stuff we've been inspired by as we finish it out. We love when buildings start to take on their own unique identity and feel. We didn't intend this when we started, but the best way to

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@Build_Culture

1 year

Well that’s cool.

𝐒𝐭𝐞𝐚𝐦𝐩𝐮𝐧𝐤 𝐓𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐬

@Steampunk_T

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It is interesting : Stair dust corners are flexible, triangle-shape pieces of brass or nickel that keep dust from accumulating in stair corners. They were introduced near the end of the 19th century as a way to simplify sweeping.

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@Build_Culture

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Our zoning laws, building codes, fire and garbage trucks, and financing incentives create the conditions where the bottom is nearly impossible and the top is inevitable. Even though NO ONE wants it. Our outdated codes and regulations dictate what gets built today and it produces

Strong Towns

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We get what we legalize and prioritize.

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These scallops turned out great. First time incorporating decorative stone like this. I was inspired to try by all the old brick chimneys in my neighborhood. Simple detail, big impact. And somehow gives it a little deco flair. #structuralmasonry

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Largely agree. Good construction is almost never compensated fully upon completion. It ages into its best and most valuable years over time. We struggle with this problem—it’s VERY difficult to make money from building well. People can simply compare it to the house that’s twice

Casey Lynch

@roundhouse208

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A big culprit of low quality housing production is the merchant build model, which has grown with a proliferation of PE in RE with short term investment horizons. Their incentive is to reduce costs to generate the highest possible UYOC while still achieving high rents Cost

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Our Dutch inspired project post brick massing, pre framing. Finished this one up last month and sold, but post massing is always a special moment to look back on. It’s a beautiful process, not just a beautiful result. #structuralmasonry

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1) with masonry, you can "corbel out" half the thickness of the masonry and be structurally sound. With veneer, that's less than 2" With a 12" mass wall? That's 6". Here, the tower flairs 6" wider at the very top a unique look you see all over Europe and old masonry buildings,

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1/ Don’t paint brick with normal paint folks! Aka latex/oil based. Though, 99% of the time in the US that’s exactly what we do. The rest of the world generally knows better. It traps moisture in the walls and can cause very real problems—particularly with historic, mass-wall

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2 years

How do you build things that last? First, you make it beautiful. Beauty stirs the soul; it invites attention, love and affection. Mere utility cannot elicit such responses—it may meet a need, it may help you survive, but it does not rouse the heart.

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2 years

Interior shot of Frederick Hollow, our last project in Carlton Landing before moving to Oklahoma City. Pic recently sent to me by owner. #structuralmasonry #brickhouse

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9 months

The two most used words we throw around on this account - structural masonry. What are we talking about? The brick siding that we’ve come to know in modern housing is simply a veneer, it’s a durable siding, but it’s held up by wood structure. When we say structural masonry, we

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10 months

Putting finishing touches on our 1900 Oso project and getting ready for an open house over the next two weekends with Parade of Homes. If you're local we would love to see you there! If not, follow along as we reveal more. She's a beauty! #buildingculture #architecture

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Light and shadow. No filter necessary.

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Rereading Suburban Nation. It’s required reading at BC. Read it over a decade ago and it was a “take the blindfold off moment”. Have never seen the world the same since. Not sure BC would exist at all, and certainly not in the form it is today, had it not been for that book.

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Some people make fun of Sketchup (see next tweet for built version) saying its not a “serious” design tool. But it’s how I taught myself design (from no artistic or construction background—after a short stint as a CPA) during a 2-year hands-on apprenticeship. So, I disagree. 1/

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Simple. Beautiful. And almost ready for the wood burning stove going in.

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@WillHenke_03 Which is really sad. It’s obviously an incredibly important institution filled with hard working and brave people. Still trying to figure out who you really need to convince in order to change things…any idea? No one seems keen to try and do anything (federal, state, local

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Beauty matters. It's compelling, enriching, and worth celebrating. We spend billions every year to fly across oceans and experience great cities all over the world, just for a week or two. What if we could build like that, and live like that, at home? Trailer #2 for our first

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2 years

Great shot of our Frederick Hollow build from a friend. Captures the 60’ masonry tower and balcony nicely! #structuralmasonry #building #architecture

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Check out these iron drains we got for a back courtyard! Super cool. They're surprisingly heavy. They rust/oxidize a bit and then stop and should turn a little darker. We set them outside before installing as we don't want to stain the concrete as the rust washes off.

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True. Can build a wall with a single wythe of brick if you curve it. It’s why lighthouses are round. Was recently in Spain for research and was learning about the incredible strength of unreinforced, corrugated, catenary (think parabola) masonry shells—even in earthquakes. Lots

Historic Vids

@historyinmemes

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In England you sometimes see these "wavy" brick fences. And curious as it than a straight wail. A straight walt needs at least two layers of bricks to make is sturdy, but the wavy wall is fine thanks to the arch support provided by the waves. A crinkle crankle wall, also known

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The curved braces/rafters on the timber-frame porch and balcony really lend a lighter more “feminine” vibe. I’m consistently amazed what a little curve can do to change the feel of porches. So often, they feel tacked on imo, particularly shed roofs. Happens in a lot of TNDs/New

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Our Dutch inspired Francesca build pre-framing. #buildingculture #structuralmasonry #masswall #enduring #timeless

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Looking back at our Frederick Hollow build in Carlton Landing, OK—the most magical moment of the build when the massing is up, and nothing else. #buildingculture #structuralmasonry #beauty

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Inside our 1900 project we recently finished. Bringing the brick inside is so much fun. It manages to bring this cozy, earthy warmth to the home, while still feeling bright and fresh—if you get the lighting and details/colors right. Eg: went with clear coat on white oak floor.

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Really enjoying how this is turning out!! Some new details we’ve never tried before. #structuralmasonry

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Solid stone sills are a beautiful and durable alternative to brick sills. These are locally quarried, hand chiseled sandstone on our Selah Office build. #buildingculture #structuralmasonry

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#4 Masonry stage complete. Looks like it could have already been there for decades. That’s not because we try to make things “look” old. It’s just that all the longest-lasting buildings share certain characteristics and are our only reference point. This is built to BE old, 1 day

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Great shot of our Selah Office masonry build! Designed this with lintels rather than arches to span the openings, sourced local, hand-chiseled sandstone, and the result speaks for itself. Simple, but beautiful. #buildingculture #structuralmasonry

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The one piece of framing we do during masonry is that structural ridge beam. Since it’s a parapet wall, we leave a pocket, boom the ridge in, and then keep going. Structural ridge helps prevent outward thrust of rafters so that they rest on the brick wall—which is always good in

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We like to put all the names of the masons who worked on a project in stone. Literally. This work is hard. Being a mason is hard. Creating beauty is hard. And we want to heap praise on everyone who contributes to a project-not just the person who designed it, but the people who

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The full tour of 1904 Oso is here! Step inside our latest architectural masterpiece in the @wheelerdistrict ! Join @austintunnell on a captivating tour of this newly finished home, where design innovation meets timeless elegance.

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Progress on our Francesca build in Wheeler District! #buildingculture #architecture #structuralmasonry

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We care about the spaces between buildings as much as the buildings themselves. Beautiful homes and private shelter are essential, but so is shared beauty and shared experience. That's part of what builds culture and anchors communities-where we can collectively adventure

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This is cool: zoom in. 1 stone for each of the Vitruvian Triad: Firmitas, Utilitas, Venustas. Strength (durability), Utility, Beauty. Vitruvius, the Roman architect, believed those were the 3 attributes that constituted good architecture. We agree—and really, that’s our mission

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Nooks under stairs #architecture #interiordesign

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A little job site update from Matt on our Jordan project. Finishing masonry and prepping “window bucks”. I’ll post details on install, but we have wooden bucks anchored into the masonry (with ice/water membrane to protect wood), and this way we can install new construction stock

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Fun seeing drawings come to life. Note the reverse corbel: it steps in less each course to give it a little curve rather than a straight line—much more subtle and lends some refinement. And I know everyone will ask: tubes are for running electrical later and yes it’s far enough

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2 years

This is humbling. And motivating. Appreciate it.

Wrath Of Gnon

@wrathofgnon

2 years

Meanwhile, in Oklahoma, @Build_Culture is creating the future that London, Paris, Tokyo, Stockholm, Berlin, Riyadh and New York can only dream about.

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Just a little beauty for this dreary Monday in OKC.

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This is a fun one. Love the slow motion final shot with perfect sunlight reflecting. #bcjordanproject #buildingculture

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Inside our 60’ tower from a few years ago. With structural masonry, the brick shell/envelope go up BEFORE any framing. We finish masonry, and then come back into frame floors, roofs, partition walls, etc. #structuralmasonry #bcfrederickhollow

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Part of the beauty of mass-wall construction is the depth you can achieve: both in extrusion or negatives. You can take away to create deep shadow lines; we often take out 4” on flutes and details to provide deep shadows. And you can also corbel out significantly, like here.

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At what point in a flower’s life, from seed to full bloom, does it reach perfection?” This quote by Thomas Sterner comes to mind while watching our latest update of our Jordan project. With the priority of the build being on quality, we see beauty at every stage: from laying the

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Who needs words when you have hands? On another note: really enjoy how this building is turning out. A bit different than our other stuff to date. #architecture #structuralmasonry

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@Build_Culture

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1/ A cottage we completed in 2018 in @carltonlanding (~780 sq/ft footprint). Some limewash on the interior brick can really lighten things up and complement a more modern aesthetic—while still maintaining the visual interest and hand-crafted feel of exposed brick.

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Concept sketch of our boutique office/retail court in our Edmond project. We’ve long wanted to span two buildings with a connecting archway—and here’s our chance! It does a really nice job of continuing the building frontage on the street—while also being a beautiful feature

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@Build_Culture

8 months

We’ve said it before, and we’ll say it again, we love utilizing the space under the stairs in creative, functional and beautiful ways. But frankly, that goes for every area of a home, like the pantry, to an empty space in the hallway upstairs…it’s like a blank canvas ready to be

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