The Brick Award has been held since 2004 (every 2 years) and is awarded for projects of modern and innovative architecture made of ceramic building materials - bricks, tiles, large-format blocks, paving stones, etc. In 2020, the ceremony was traditionally held in Vienna, but in Coronavirus related winners will be announced and awarded online. The 2020 Brick Award Ceremony will take place September 23 at 18:00.
The Brick Award is based on dialogue with architects, quality architecture aficionados and critics. Our focus is on examples of excellent brick architecture from around the world and its creators.
This year, 644 projects from 520 architects from 55 countries have been nominated for the Brick Award.
The selection of the winners takes place in 2 stages - first, the "pre-jury", which included architectural journalists Anneke Bokern (Netherlands), Christian Hall (Germany) and Jonathan Glancy (Great Britain), selected 50 projects from the total array. Then, in the fall of 2020, another jury of world architects will choose from them the winners in the following nominations:
- Feel at home (single-family houses, small housing projects of high architectural quality). Selected 11 projects from Mexico, Spain, Germany, Belgium, Vietnam and Argentina.
- Live together (apartment buildings, innovative residential solutions, taking into account the trends and problems of urbanization). Selected 10 projects from Rwanda, Iran, Netherlands, Bolivia, Belgium, Portugal, Argentina and Chile.
- To work together (comfortable, aesthetic and functional offices, commercial and industrial buildings). Selected 9 projects from the Netherlands, Germany, Argentina, Austria and South Korea.
- Be in society (comfortable, aesthetic and functional public buildings for the needs of education, culture and health, public places and infrastructure projects). Selected 11 projects from Poland, China, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, England and Vietnam.
- Build outside the box (innovative concepts and ways of using bricks, as well as new building technologies). Selected 9 projects from India, Rwanda, Germany, China, Nepal, Argentina and Zimbabwe.
Not a single Russian project was shortlisted for the award.
The total prize fund is 26,500 euros and is divided by nominations. One of the winners will be awarded the Grand Prix and a special prize will be awarded.
