Brick isn’t as common in the US. It’s more “regional.” I’m most towns, you’ll have like one or two brick buildings and that’s it. A town hall, maybe a church.
London is an extremely old city. In the US, the older areas with older buildings like New York often have brick, but almost everywhere else, where most structures are less than a century old, they use alternatives. Most commonly this is lumber framing with exterior siding (either wood or plastic), interior sheet rock (“drywall”), with fiberglass insulation in between.
Am I missing something? Aren’t most buildings bricks? Or is that just because I live in London?
Not here in the USA!
Brick isn’t as common in the US. It’s more “regional.” I’m most towns, you’ll have like one or two brick buildings and that’s it. A town hall, maybe a church.
What are they built from then?
Wood and sheetrock
Wood mostly.
Bricks aren’t uncommon for commercial buildings, though they’re often painted or otherwise different colors.
Bare brick boxes are very indicative of long-gone industry, but it’s not the bricks themselves that are truly to blame for giving that impression.
London is an extremely old city. In the US, the older areas with older buildings like New York often have brick, but almost everywhere else, where most structures are less than a century old, they use alternatives. Most commonly this is lumber framing with exterior siding (either wood or plastic), interior sheet rock (“drywall”), with fiberglass insulation in between.