Brick is finding its way back onto NZ homes in a new and exciting way!
As the classic brick of the 70s and 80s gave way to other forms of cladding, Stellaria is making waves across NZ with an incredible range of bricks manufactured in some of Europe’s oldest kilns.
Partnered with Wienerberger, Stellaria has been introducing brick to NZ with a fresh innovative approach. Moving away from the NZ 70 series brick, now a new world of brick has become available in NZ. New colours, formats, texture and style has created a world of possibility for brick cladding on NZ homes.
Brick is reliable. It’s durable and trustworthy. It’s the very best cladding to symbolise tradition, timelessness, and family. It says everything about the value of your home and how much it means to you.
Featured here is the beauty, form and life of Stellaria’s long format brick. This is the Wasserstrich or ‘Waterstruck’ brick manufactured in Beerse, Belgium. At 500mm long and 40mm high, these bricks are manufactured using a very special production technique – the bricks are literally ‘struck’ with water as they are taken out of their moulds after firing. This leaves them with irregular and jagged edges for that ‘weathered’ look – not one brick is identical to another!
The architect and client chose this very special white brick and the bricklayers have done an incredible job with the installation.
Waikato builder Steve Joynes and his team of craftsmen bricklayers installed every brick with much passion and painstaking attention to detail, because no brick is perfect or straight. Rather, each brick tells its own story of the production technique designed to be varied, unique and stand-out. A project like this doesn’t come easily but when all is said and done… the beauty is in the art, craftsmanship, and design, all pulled together by this very stunning brick.
The colour range of white, beige, reds, greys and a charcoal black ‘burnished’ is stunning. Now, Wienerberger produces the Waterstruck ECO bricks at 400(L) x 65(D) x 40(H) which are also available in many different colours.
