Winners revealed: 2024 Think Brick Awards

A museum with a hit-and-miss masonry facade and a multigenerational seaside home wrapped in textured terracotta have taken out prime honours on the 2024 Assume Brick Awards.

The 2024 awards program attracted 200 entries throughout six classes. Six tasks have acquired awards, whereas 11 have earned excessive commendations.

Melbourne Holocaust Museum by Kerstin Thompson Architects acquired the celebrated Horbury Hunt Business Award for its playful utility of clay and strong glass bricks. The transparency of bricks permits pure mild to go by the inside within the day and synthetic mild to radiate by the outside within the night.

The jury counseled the usage of brick in a single airplane and its harmonious mix with the heritage constructing. “The textural and painterly qualities which are evoked from a single materials are extraordinary,” stated the jury. “It was only a pleasure for us to have a look at. Each the exterior look and inner expertise of the sunshine and the best way brick has been used as a lightweight shaping materials is extraordinary.”

Burnt Earth Home by Wardle earned the esteemed Horbury Hunt Residential Award for its in depth use of terracotta within the exterior brickwork and inside wall and ground linings. The burnt earth shade of bricks displays the colors of cliff edges within the close by locale. The brickmaking course of concerned extrusion and handtearing the floor previous to chopping, resulting in a tough, textured end.

“Burnt Earth Seaside Home is an incredible form of experimentation in expressing brickwork in a completely recent and particular person approach,” commented the jury.

Elsewhere within the awards, a public library, two colleges, a warehouse consolidation venture and a number of other residences had been amongst these to obtain accolades.

The awards jury comprised Bob Nation of Nation Architects, Tamara Donnellan of Facet Studios), Adrian Iredale of Iredale Pederson Hook Architects, Jessica Spresser of Spresser, and Cathy Inglis of Assume Brick Australia.

Horbury Hunt Business Award – class winner

Melbourne Holocaust Museum – Kerstin Thompson Architects (PGH Bricks and Pavers)

Excessive Commendations

Berninneit Cultural and Group Centre – Jackson Clements Burrows Architects (Nubrik)

The Spherical – BKK Architects & Kerstin Thompson Architects (PGH Bricks and Pavers)

Horbury Hunt Residential Award – class winner

Burnt Earth Seaside Home – Wardle (Krause Bricks)

Excessive Commendation

Naples Road Home – Version Workplace (Bowral Bricks)

Kevin Borland Masonry Award – class winner

The Warehouses – J.AR Workplace (Nationwide Masonry)

Excessive Commendation

Casa Piva – B.E Structure (Nationwide Masonry)

Bruce Mackenzie Panorama Award – class winner

Boronggook Drysdale Library – Antarctica: Architects and Structure Associates (Krause Bricks)

Excessive Commendations

Naples Road Home – Version Workplace (Bowral Bricks)

The Nursery on Brunswick – Clare Cousins Architects

Robin Dods Roof Tiles Award

John XXIII Faculty – TRCB (Bristile Roofing)

Excessive Commendation

Bellevue Hill Home – Tribe Studio Architects (Bristile Roofing)

New Entrant Award – class winner

Darlington Public Faculty – FJC Studio (Bowral Bricks)

Excessive Commendations

Boronggook Drysdale Library – Antarctica: Architects and Structure Associates (Krause Bricks)

Glen Iris Home – Pandolfini Architects

Tarakan Road Social Housing – NH Structure, Hen de la Coeur Architects, Openwork and Tract

The Warehouses – J.AR Workplace