To celebrate
outstanding brick and ceramic building projects from around the world, the
world’s largest brick manufacturer Wienerberger is inviting architects,
architecture critics and journalists alike to enter projects into the
Wienerberger Brick Award 2020.
Initiated in 2004,
the Wienerberger Brick Award is a biennial international architectural award
presented to remarkable examples of modern and innovative brick architecture.
In 2020, Wienerberger will host this internationally recognised awards event
for the ninth time with a prestigious ceremony in Vienna.
For these highly
prized awards, Wienerberger is looking for impressive projects featuring
ceramic building materials, whether that is facing bricks, clay blocks, clay
roof tiles, clay façade panels or clay pavers. The use of Wienerberger products
is not a necessary condition of participation. Submitted projects can be newly
constructed, refurbished and converted buildings, can include new or reused
materials, and must have been completed in 2016 or later.
Participants are
asked to fill out an online form comprising of basic project data, a short
informative description of the project and building plans, as well as uploading
photos.
After the submission
period ends on the 9th April 2019, a panel of architecture journalists and
critics will narrow down the number of entries to 50 nominated projects for the
Wienerberger Brick Award 2020. These nominations will be published in the highly
sought-after Brick20 book.
The Wienerberger
Brick Award 2020 comprises of five categories:
- Feeling at
home: single-family houses, semi-detached houses and small housing
projects of high architectural quality that provide comfortable, healthy
& sustainable living spaces.
- Living
together: multi-family houses: innovative residential solutions
taking into account the trends and challenges of urbanisation such as
scarcity of space, social challenges and new living concepts.
- Working
together: comfortable, aesthetic and functional commercial buildings,
offices and industrial buildings.
- Sharing public
spaces: comfortable, aesthetic and functional public buildings for
education, culture, healthcare, public places and infrastructure projects.
- Building outside the box: innovative concepts and ways
of using brick, use of new construction technologies, special brickworks,
custom-made bricks and new ornamentation.
An international
jury of architects will select each category winner as well as the Grand Prize
winner in time for the Spring 2020 awards ceremony. The Grand Prize winner
receives a prize fund of 7,000 Euros, with each category winner receiving 5,000
Euros.
The Wienerberger
Brick Award team received nearly 600 fascinating project submissions from 44
countries for the 2018 awards.
To take a look at
past Wienerberger Brick Award winning projects and to submit an entry for the
2020 awards, visit www.brickaward.com.
The closing date for project submissions is 9th April 2019.
