He is the founder of The Brick, one of Canada's largest volume retailers of furniture, mattresses, appliances and home electronics.
On November 11, 2012, Leon's has announced plans to acquire competing furniture chain The Brick for $700 million.
Comrie's father, Bill, and his uncles, Fred and John, are the founders of The Brick furniture company, which was sold in 2012 for $700 million.
Hosted by Elissa Lansdell and sponsored by the Rona chain of building supply stores and The Brick furniture chain, the series pits two Alberta families against each other in a competition to design and build a dream home.
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Although Richardson would later develop a highly personal Romanesque style, his training at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris equipped him to design in neo-Grec with its abstracted classical features that worked well in modern materials such as the brick employed here.
The brick Greek Revival building was constructed in 1864 to house the Union Guard of Copperopolis, the town's regiment of the Union Army.
At Corotoman, Carter maintained a building known as the "Brick House Store" where he kept imported goods that he sold and bartered to local planters.
Recently Mach has produced some permanent public works such as Out of Order in Kingston upon Thames, the Brick Train (a depiction of an LNER Class A4 steam engine made from 185,000 bricks, which can be seen near Morrison's supermarket on the A66 just outside Darlington) and the Big Heids visible from the M8 between Glasgow and Edinburgh.
It was while on shooting location in Birbhum district for Abhijan in 1962, that McCutchion developed a fascination for the brick temples scattered across the Bengal landscape.
The ponds are fed by a diversion pipe running from Mud Creek which flows just to the west of the Brick Works.
The brick is laid in Flemish-bond, although the pattern is inconsistent in some places.
The brick-based Town Hall for Hilversum in Holland by Willem Dudok (1928–30) was considered significant enough to earn him a RIBA Gold Medal in 1935.
The "Buy it by the Brick" exclusives included a Jack the Ripper Limited Edition figure, a coupon for the AVP: Aliens collector's set and a coupon for the Great Cthulhu colossal figure.
The facelift added a cream-yellow insulation to the brick building and archways to the design, embodying Islamic architecture - resembling the design of its high school branch.
J. J. McCoy, of Ortonville, Minnesota, competed at the Indianapolis track once before, as a member of the Velie Motors Corporation team in the inaugural contest on the brick oval at the 1911 Indianapolis 500 without getting into the money, however.
Bhai Tehal Singh had joined the squad which went to liberate Gurdawara Tarn Taran from the Mahant control on January 26, 1921 and was badly injured in the brick-bats thrown at the Jatha volunteers by the pujaris.
minus the design of the survey board (similarly but not quite looking to that of Family Fortunes) and the brick wall pattern replacing the stairs artwork, the cover art looks pretty much similar to the Pressman/Croner versions from the US in 1990 and Australia in 1989 respectively.
The park contains four contributing structures: the brick Shelter House (1904); Buffalo Museum of Science building (1926); Greenhouse (1907); and Humboldt Park Casino (ca. 1926).
An 1856 painting by Percy Carpenter, entitled Telok Ayer Street as seen from Mount Wallich, features an early visual record of the brick mosque.
During restoration work in the Cathedral between 2003 and 2006, the brick and plaster crypt containing the coffins of Gibney and Bishop Martin Griver was discovered by archaeologists under the floorboards of the Cathedral.
Michael Haverland Architect, PC has been recognized with numerous design awards from the American Institute of Architects (New York and Connecticut chapters), the Congress for the New Urbanism, the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture, and the Brick Industry Association.
More modest than the 1892 structure, the brick building at 721–27 S.E. Grand Ave. was constructed in 1896 in a Streetcar Era Commercial style.
Most notably, the brick-hard limestone below the practice fields left the players so battered that Lambeau frequently had to move practices back to City Stadium.
During restoration work in the Cathedral between 2003 and 2006, the brick and plaster crypt containing the coffins of Bishops Matthew Gibney and Martin Griver was discovered by archaeologists under the floorboards of an aisle in the Cathedral.
The T.21 was popularly named "The Barge", after its boat-like hull and sedate flying qualities, while the T.31 was often referred to as "The Brick", again after its flying qualities.
Opened in 1983, the brick building is located on the south bank of the River Thames between London Bridge and Tower Bridge, next to Hay's Galleria.
Donnellan was immediately fired one week before the Super Bowl, leaving J. T. the Brick as one of the few remaining hosts, hosting two live shifts plus replays throughout the day.
The brick is made from the local red clay, Etruria marl, which when fired at a high temperature in a low-oxygen reducing atmosphere takes on a deep blue colour and attains a very hard, impervious surface with high crushing strength and low water absorption.
Two cloisters — one secular, one for the monks — survive as the courtyards of the brick-and-stone 17th-century domestic ranges, now housing the Museum of the Principality of Stavelot-Malmedy, and museums devoted to the poet Guillaume Apollinaire, who was a long-term resident, and to the Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps.
In 1985 the brick station building was carefully disassembled and in 1987-1999 rebuilt on the site of Winchcombe railway station of the heritage Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway.
A Venetian patriot, close to the circles of Kossuth, he will be entrusted together with Gaspare Matcovich and Spiridione Gopcevich (1815 - 1861) with the project to turn the brick Implacable into a Hungarian man of war.