Why do brick buildings have vertical bricks above the windows?

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Sometimes it’s shaped like an arch. Is this just for aesthetics, or is it structurally necessary?

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These days it’s very common to have a steel plate over a window in the outer wall on which the next layer of bricks is stacked instead of the layer of vertical bricks.

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