bricks

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On the floor in front of the mural, broken bricks and concrete slabs are piled up.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 15, 2026

Two teenage sisters from Gaza have won an environmental award for turning rubble into reusable bricks, saying they wanted to "turn destruction into something useful".

From BBC • May 13, 2026

Meanwhile, portable phones, at first the size of bricks, were introduced in 1992.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 26, 2026

In the previous year, his “Trace” exhibition at San Francisco’s Alcatraz featured portraits of people he considers activists, prisoners of conscience, or advocates of free speech, created with nearly a million toy bricks.

From Salon • Apr. 26, 2026

First Leo made himself a forge out of mud bricks, each one baked with his own fiery hands.

From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan