Week4

This building is located just opposite to my apartment. It is an old warehouse, but now it has been refurnished and acts as an office, with a cafe on the ground floor.

The building is divided into several parts, first is that there are two types of bricks used. The lower part is using a lighter brown coloured brick, in English bond, where the upper part is a large arch using a darker coloured brick, which is also using English bond. The most interesting part of the building is that there is a layer of bricks right under the arch; therefore there is no need for major keystones to support, which also concludes that the arch was purely ornamentation and is not structural.