Prevalent in front yards across Palm Springs, concrete screen blocks have a handful of aliases—breeze blocks, ornamental blocks—that hint at their functional but decorative use as permeable ...

But none were as useful and affordable—or had as much panache—as breeze blocks. The name refers to a perforated concrete wall ... In 1956, he brought his decorative breeze blocks to Los ...

I own a diner where decorative concrete block forms the lower part of the exterior walls. At the front of my building a wing wall extends away from the building. Some of the solid concrete blocks ...

But arguably the best member of the cinder block family is the breeze block, more commonly known in the U.S. as the screen block ... they can also be completely decorative, and today are being ...

But what really excites LeVine, a midcentury architecture buff known to friends and clients as “Uncle Jack,” is the variety of concrete breeze block walls with cutout designs ranging from four ...