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Brick in Architecture Awards 2021

March 7, 2022

2021 Brick in Architecture Awards Celebrate Design that Delivers

49 Winners Include Philadelphia Craftsmanship Award

Brick in Architecture Awards 2021 Winners

RESTON, Va., March, 2022 — The Brick Industry Association (BIA) has awarded the 2021 Brick in Architecture Awards, the global premier design competition featuring clay brick.

The winners include 49 projects out of 138 entries—almost double the amount over the past three years—with eight Best in Class winners featured in this video. The Best in Class, Gold, Silver and Bronze winners include projects in the United States, Australia, Canada and Mexico.

“These awards demonstrate clay brick’s infinite design versatility derived from a myriad of available colors that never fade, textures, and installation options. Brick’s natural beauty along with its unmatched durability, fire, and wind-blown debris protection, energy efficiency, and low or no maintenance are some of the qualities that make clay brick the best wall cladding available,” said Ray Leonhard, BIA’s President and CEO.

The 2021 Best in Class winners include:

Commercial
– Farm Credit Services of America – West Building, Omaha, Nebraska

photo : Tom Kessler

Architect: Clark & Enersen
Mason Contractor: Jeff MacTaggart Masonry LLC

photo : Tom Kessler

This office building is the third addition to a corporate campus connected via skywalk, and features red, buff and pink brick in different depths of patterns.

Educational (Higher Education)
– Fitts-Woolard Hall – NCSU, Raleigh, North Carolina

photo : Mark Herboth

Architect: Clark Nexsen Architecture & Engineering
Brick Manufacturer: Sioux City Brick (subsidiary of Glen-Gery)
Brick Distributor: Custom Brick & Supply Co.
Mason Contractor: Brodie Contractors

photo : Mark Herboth

Throughout this four-story facility featuring traditional red and gray flashed brick, high degrees of transparency create a light-filled, vibrant academic and research environment.

Educational (K-12)
– Thomas J. Waters Elementary School North Annex, Chicago, Illinois

photo : Darris Lee Harris

Architect: Bailey Edward Design
Brick Manufacturer: The Belden Brick Company
Brick Distributor: Brickworks Supply LLC
Mason Contractor: MPZ Masonry

photo : Darris Lee Harris

This new elementary school annex in Chicago’s historic Ravenswood Gardens neighborhood features red brick that matches the original building but with a contemporary look.

Historic Renovation
– City of Galveston 30th St. Water and Electric Light Station, Galveston, Texas

photo : Angie LaBiche

Architect: The LaBiche Architectural Group Inc.
Brick Manufacturer: Acme Brick Company
Mason Contractor: Marsh Waterproofing Inc.

photo : Angie LaBiche

This iconic 1904 building serves as a meeting, party and wedding venue, featuring a red brick exterior that was completely tuck pointed and replaced bricks harvested from building originals.

International
– Bangalley House, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

photo : Michael Nicholson

Architect: Casey Brown Architecture
Brick Manufacturer: Austral Bricks
Brick Distributor: Brickworks Building Products

photo : Michael Nicholson

This residence is moulded into the landscape, featuring red and white brick that was chosen for toughness and durability.

Paving & Landscaping
– Capturing an Artist’s Vision: A Monumental Journey, Des Moines, Iowa

photo : Corey Gaffer

Architect: substance architecture
Brick Manufacturer: Endicott Clay Products Company
Mason Contractor: Seedorff Masonry Inc.

photo : Corey Gaffer

Collaborating with a celebrated African American artist to honor Black lawyers, this 30-foot high sculpture of radical geometry features modular gray brick.

Residential – Multifamily
– 40 Bleecker Street, New York City, New York

photograph : Alexander Severin

Architect: Rawlings architects pc
Brick Manufacturer: Acme Brick Company
Brick Distributor: Belden Tri-State Building Materials
Mason Contractor: Milestone Masonry Corp.

photo : Alexander Severin

This luxury 61-apartment building in Manhattan’s NOHO district features a brick façade in custom light colors chosen for the historic neighborhood with clean and modern detail.

Residential – Single Family
– Neighborhood Cottage, Mountain Brook, Alabama

photograph : Laurey Glenn

Architect: Taylor Plosser Davis Architecture + Design
Brick Manufacturer: Endicott Clay Products Company
Brick Distributor: Acme Brick Company
Mason Contractor: Fry Construction Inc.

photo : Laurey Glenn

This new home in an older suburban neighborhood respects its Tudor revival neighbors both in material and scale, featuring Artisan brick with a reflective finish.

Craftmanship Award
Recognizing an individual mason or team of masons for artful or unique brick installation

– Filigree House – Residential-Single Family Category, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

photo : Halkin Mason Photography

Architect: Moto Designshop
Brick Manufacturer: General Shale
Brick Distributor: Diener Brick Company
Mason Contractor: Brandon Reiss Masonry

photo : Halkin Mason Photography

The 2021 judges include Jason Cole, LEED® AP, BD+C – Ballinger; Robert Mercer, AIA-Chapman Sisson Architects and Robert Ramirez, AIA, NOMA – WRA Architects.

See BIA website for the list of all winners the all competition entries in the Photo Gallery at https://www.gobrick.com/architectureawards and the full video.

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August 17, 2021

BIA Opens Entries for 2021 Brick in Architecture Awards

Entries due by Nov. 1

Brick in Architecture Awards 2021 Call

Reston, Va., August 16, 2021 — The Brick Industry Association (BIA) has opened entries for the international 2021 Brick in Architecture Awards, the premier architectural design competition featuring fired-clay brick.

St. Vincent Mixed-Use Building – Austin, Texas

photo : Louis Curtis

Entries are due by Nov. 1, with 50% fewer required materials for faster submission. All submissions must use clay brick as the project’s primary building material. Entrants must be either an architect or designer employed by an architectural, design-build or landscaping design firm.

“The BIA Awards celebrate brick architectural design, a historic and timeless material with infinite possibilities,” said Gavri Slasky, AIA, LEED AP, associate, Stephen B. Jacobs Group P.C., New York, New York.

Per the competition rules, eligible projects include any work of architecture completed since January 1, 2016 in which new clay brick products comprise the predominant exterior building or paving material (over 50 percent) including: face or hollow brick, building brick, thin brick, paving brick, glazed brick, structural glazed facing tile, new clay brick products in special shapes and/or a combination of these.

Bernard Zell Anshe Emet Day School Expansion – Chicago, Illinois:

photographer : Steve Hall, Hall + Merrick Photographers

“The BIA Awards are an excellent opportunity to showcase the craftsmanship of our masons in realizing our designs in brick,” said Carey Jackson Yance, LEED AP, RA, principal, CANNOdesign, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Debuting last year, an overall Craftsmanship Award will honor exceptionally artful installation by an individual mason or a team of masons.

“The versatility, timeless artisanship, and high-performance quality of brick blend to provide a rich and honest medium of expression that is an integral part of our practice, evident in our two Best in Class awards, the Taft Freshman Academy of 2020 and the Back of the Yards High School of 2014,” said Luis Collado and Jose Luis de la Fuente, principals, STL Architects, Chicago, Illinois.

MLK Plaza – Bronx, New York:

photo : David Sundberg/Esto

Entries must be submitted online in one or more of these categories:

1. Commercial

2. Education – K-12

3. Education – Colleges & Universities (Higher Education) *

4. Residential – Single Family

5. Residential – Multi-Family

6. Paving & Landscape Projects

7. Historic Renovation**

8. International (If project is located outside of the U.S., Canada or a U.S. Territory, it must be entered in this category)

* Includes residence halls & academic/administrative buildings **This does not need to meet the 50% or more new brick requirement but must have 50% or more brick renovated on the project.

United States Land Port of Entry, New Mexico, USA
Design: Richter Architects

photo courtesy of BIA
United States Land Port of Entry, New Mexico

Curtin University Midland Campus, Perth, Western Australia
Design: Silver Thomas Hanley Architecture / Lyons Architecture

photo : Dion Robeson
Curtin University Midland Campus

“It celebrates a beautiful craft,” said David Richter, FAIA, principal, Richter Architects, Corpus Christi, Texas.

“Sourcing the brick for our award-winning Inglewood Residence was an immense undertaking, but one of the highlights of this projects,” said Mark Odom, Founding Principal, Mark Odom Studio, Austin, Texas. “We were honored to be awarded for these efforts.”

BIA and Zonda will co-brand an email featuring the winning projects to more than 40,000 architects and designers. All submitted projects will be posted to BIA’s online Photo Gallery.

Judged by peers, the 2021 winners will be announced in January.

Questions: Tricia Mauer: tmauer@bia.org.

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Founded in 1934, BIA is the nationally recognized authority on clay brick construction representing the nation’s distributors and manufacturers of clay brick and suppliers of related products. http://www.gobrick.com / 703-620-0010.

Brick in Architecture Awards 2021 information received from BIA

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