The church in Act I consists mainly of featureless gray brick walls, as if a gut renovation were under way.

NEWYORKER: Fiasco

In the newsroom of Caijing, a sleek and open gray brick space on the nineteenth floor of the Prime Tower, in downtown Beijing, her arrival is heralded by the urgent click-clack of heels down the hallway.

NEWYORKER: The Forbidden Zone

There is a gray concrete bathroom with rough bits of exposed brick.

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