pattern + shadow

i really quite like the humble patterned concrete block. i think they have a bad name because they are always used in the wrong application.. you often see a few of them stuck somewhere inappropriate on a little pre-war brick house with a tiled roof, instead of being used en masse to make up a screen wall on a modern house... just imagine how good they would look somewhere fabulous like a case study house. i think the next modern monster i design will have to incorporate a concrete patterned block wall.. perhaps at the western end of an outdoor living area and incorporated in with the landscaping. the harsh west sun belting against the blocks would make the most glorious sharp shadows.

update: jacq from uber stylish utz sanby architects tells me they are called breeze blocks.. i knew there was a name for them, but sometimes my brain does not recall.


update: check out studio g for their take on the humble block.