Brick Award 10...Final Results announced on 8th April
2nd prize winner at The Brick Awards 2010...Anagram Architects from New Delhi!
Wienerberger, a renowned name in the field of clay based building materials, ventured into the Indian market, in 2006. Head quartered in Vienna, Austria, Wienerberger is the world’s largest producer of Clay Building Bricks and the second largest producer of Clay Roof Tiles in Europe.
Every alternate year, we organize one of the most prestigious international awards in the field of architecture, the Brick Awards. In 2010, the 4th Brick Awards will be taking place in Vienna and Wienerberger India is taking this opportunity to invite architects from all over India to participate in this competition and submit their project for Brick Award 10 and brick'10, an internationally renowned architecture based book.
Wienerberger Brick Award 2010:Innovative and creative brick architecture recognised for the fourth consecutive time
– First Prize goes to the new State Forum and Parliament building of the Principality of Liechtenstein (Hansjörg Göritz Architecture Studio)
– Documentation Centre for Human Rights in New Delhi receives Second Prize (Anagram Architects)
– Single family house in Germany awarded Third Prize (Nikolaus Bienefeld) – Special Prize awarded for infrastructure buildings in Mali and the Museum of Architecture for the Island of Hombroich Foundation in Germany (Álvaro Siza, Rudolf Finsterwalder)
– More than 300 international guests attended the award ceremony on April 8, 2010 in Vienna’s Liechtenstein Museum.
Close to 100 entries from India and the prize winner- Anagram Architects
Vienna, April 9, 2010 – Wienerberger AG, the world’s largest brick producer and the largest roof tile manufacturer in Europe, last night handed out its annual Brick Awards, together with 21,000 Euros in prize money. Two hundred and sixty projects from 32 countries were submitted by architecture critics for this year’s competition. A jury of international experts, comprising Andrea Deplazes (Switzerland), Maurizio Masi (Italy), Radu Mihailescu (Romania), Vladimir Plotkin (Russia) and Thomas Rau (Netherlands) chose the winners from the large number of entries. Selection criteria included an architecturally innovative external appearance with appropriate use of brick as a material, as well as the functionality and the environmental friendliness of the building put forward.
“Our man-made surroundings have a considerable impact on our sense of well-being. That is why it is important for architecture not only to satisfy present requirements, but also to contribute to the future of construction. I am particularly pleased to see that for a lot of the projects that were submitted for this year’s Brick Award, the idea of sustainability played a significant role. It became evident that sustainability was being achieved not only through the application of technology in architecture, but also through the use of advanced materials and intelligent building designs, not to mention consideration of geographical and climatic conditions. These factors play a positive role in the overall energy balance of a building, not just on its energy demands,” explained Heimo Scheuch, Chief Executive Officer of Wienerberger AG. “We also pay heed to this idea with our e4- Program, which embodies our concept of an energy-efficient brick building.”
The Wienerberger Brick Awards 2010 were presented during a large gala dinner on the evening of April 8 in the Liechtenstein Museum in Vienna. More than 300 international guests, as well as the Wienerberger AG Board of Directors, attended the ceremony. Besides honouring the architects and presenting the trophies, the company also unveiled its “Brick 2010” coffee-table book, as it has in previous years. The book celebrates the winning projects, together with 35 other exceptional brick structures from all over the world. Residential and non-residential structures displaying exposed bricks, clay blocks, roof tiles and clay pavers provide an excellent demonstration of how good brick architecture can achieve unity between functionality and construction, between economy and ecology, and between physical comfort and artistic value. The 240-page book also contains many editorial articles on sustainability and Far Eastern brick architecture.
This Callwey Publishers product will be available in bookstores from April 2010. It can also be ordered online (www.brick10.com).
South Asian Human Rights Documentation Centre, India – Architect: Anagram Architects
Applied design and creativity have turned the new office building of the South Asian Human Rights Documentations Centre (SAHRDC) in Delhi into an unusually poetic structure. On a 50 sq metre footprint and with a limited budget, the architectural duo of Valbhav Dimri and Madhav Raman, has created spatially efficient and cost-effective office space. In so doing, the duo felt that it was important to shield any work areas from noise, the visual distractions of the street and from direct sunlight. This was achieved on the outside of the otherwise minimalist outer skin of the building through an elaborate brick wall alongside the building’s longer side wall. Inspired by traditional construction, a single repeating brick module with an optically complex pattern was configured. This was created in the style of a splendidly carved jalis (brise soleil), a long-standing tradition in Indian architecture. Facing bricks measuring 230 x 115 x 75 mm (the standard brick size in India) were used to achieve this. The erection of the elaborate frontage wall was the result of a five-week learning and re-learning process, accompanied by on-site experimentation with transfer technologies. The wavy shape of the wall is a good example of the way in which unique architectural effects can be achieved when the simple shape of the brick leads the way and its unique characteristics are allowed to dictate more complex patterns, structures and openings.
