Mexican architect Frida Escobedo sourced rammed earth from her home country to make the rosy brick walls in this Aesop store in Brooklyn.
Hundreds of slender bricks stacked together and arranged in a gridded design feature in the Escobedo's Aesop store, located in Brooklyn's Park Slope neighbourhood.
"Just by placing it in a different direction or creating a different pattern, you have this beautiful, intricate design," Escobedo told Dezeen at the shop's opening on 29 March 2019. "That was the first inspiration."
"I'm always fascinated by this idea of having something modular, and very simple, such as a brick," she added.

Escobedo's 2018 Serpentine Pavilion in London similarly featured walls designed with Mexican materials and arranged as a "woven tapestry". The bricks at Aesop Park Slope are made by hand from Oaxacan red earth, and created in a workshop near Escobedo's studio Taller de Arquitectura in the Mexico City.
The technique for the adobe brick was developed by a former student of Frida's, Patricia Medivil.

Medivil uses natural pigment made out of the earth sourced in Mexico to create the rosy hue.
"Usually when we want this type of material, we go to her," said Escobedo. "They have beautiful colours."

Aesop Park Slope is the beauty brand's newest location in Brooklyn ? two other outposts are located in the borough's Williamsburg and Boerum Hill neighbourhoods.
The store's layout is arranged around a ...