i know lots of them

check out samuel mockbee/rural studio...they do some pretty cool residential stuff with masonry

i know people who spell masonry in all kinds of inventive ways...

IIRC, eric owen moss has done some pretty interesting things with masonry.

Office dA did a house (the Toledo residence) that uses it in a pretty inventive way. Try their webiste, www.officeda.com

yes, casa la roca by office da... very nice.

Will Bruder's synagogue in Phoenix uses a CMU wall that's all out of true to very nice and symbolic effect (meant to evoke the Wailing Wall).

Well, if you are willing to go back a few years, there's some pretty nice expressionistic use of brick done by the Amsterdam school of modernists, such as Michel de Klerk.

http://rogershepherd.com/WIW/solution3/deKlerk.html

I just noticed a really sweet trick in the SFMOMA by Mario Botta. He took these gray cinder bricks and every other line he would splay them all at angles, like he is want to do. The different was that space was left between the splayed bricks, so that sound would be absorbed by passing through the wall. The angled bricks probably also help to bounce sound around a bit. It was an all cinderblock auditorium, and there was almost no echo.