New Brick/Old Brick

I suppose there are walls and walls of metaphors you can lay on this picture. There is nothing wrong with old brick, it’s perfectly acceptable brick. I bet at one time, decades ago it was traditional red – even fire engine red –brick. not the pale vestige of red that it now appears to be. I guess this building is getting refurbished, maybe even rehabilitated. The solution? Put a new brick exterior over the old brick exterior. For the transition we see a brick on brick façade. The past isn’t even passed. It’s just the surface beneath the surface.