Interesting. I think you must be right about having to have brickwork. I imagine it breaks up the facade nicely from the front view. It doesn't do much for it as a side view.

 

It's not bad. I just wonder what it does to the view from the inside.

 

Make them work harder?

 

Some more interesting brickwork for Catriona:

and


The second one (I think they are by the same builder, going by the use of the horizontal lines of angled bricks) annoys me a bit. It's a good effort of making a dull wall more interesting, but the window ruins the symmetry and the spacing of the lower patterns (DNA fragments? ) means they don't line up with the diamonds. Well, it irritates me!

 

Here's another way to use up a few odd bricks...

 

Saw this when doing my weekly shop this morning (the young chap running the Pretzel Bar didn't mind me taking a pic):


Triply interesting -
It's sideways...
...in two languages, and...
...it's a firmware error; never seen that before - the other screen, presumably the same system, was working fine. Mind you, thinking back, many years ago one of the bus-station screens spent some time displaying an Amiga 'Guru Meditation' error!