The J.L. Burnham Block building, located at 911 W National Ave., has a unique connection to one of cream city brick's earliest purveyors. Built in 1875, it was originally used as a commercial center, ...

Demolition workers are tearing down the old power plant on the Milwaukee Veterans Affairs campus this month. Well, "tearing down" isn't really the right description. They're not taking it down brick ...

Bricks are one of the oldest building technologies in the world and one of the very first fully fabricated ones, made by mixing ingredients together like the earliest ceramics. But one scientist ...

Was it a coffee lover or hater who came up with this innovative idea? What if your morning coffee could help build the next generation of eco-friendly homes? That's exactly what researchers in ...

Lego has abandoned plans to make its famous bricks from recycled plastic bottles, saying that the manufacturing process would be more polluting than the current production of oil-based bricks. Lego ...