One-dimensional photonic structures, known as Bragg stacks reflectors or Bragg mirrors, represent a well-developed subject in the field of optical science. However, because of a lack of dynamic tunablity and their dependence on complex top-down techniques for their fabrication, they have received little attention from the materials science community present recent and ongoing developments on the way to fun dimensional photonic structures obtained from simple botton-up techniques. We focus on the versatility of this new approach, which allows the incorporation of a wide range of materials into photonic structures.