Masonry Design Magazine

Marvelous Masonry: Tianjin Zhongshuge Library

Words: Cass Stern

It is not unusual today for masonry to be treated as a surface decision rather than a structural one. Too often, brick enters a project late in the process, trimmed back by budgets or reduced to a veneer once the “real” building work is finished. The Tian

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Marvelous Masonry: Tianjin Zhongshuge Library

Features

The Behind-the-Wall Secrets Every Mason Already Knows (But Some Ignore)
Words: Rob McKay

You’ve been around long enough to know this already: stone doesn’t fail on the face; it fails behind the wall. You can lay the prettiest veneer in the county, but if the prep is junk, that wall’s gonna start telling on you after a couple of winters. Manu

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If you've been around masonry construction long enough, you know the shelf angle is one of those details that’s easy to take for granted. It’s been used the same way for decades, set it at the slab edge, support the veneer, move on. But as building requir
Rethinking Shelf Angle Design for High-Performance Masonry Walls
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In construction, schedules rarely open up; they tighten. Weather delays, trade coordination, and last-minute scope changes all add pressure, even on jobs that were planned down to the minute. When that happens, experienced masons don’t start cutting corne
When Schedules Tighten, Experience Shows
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