Winners Announced in Global Design Competition for Bricks in Architecture

The six winners in the 2016 Wienerberger Brick Award competition share one common trait: the innovative use of one of the world’s most enduring and versatile building materials. For the first time since Wienerberger Brick established this international biennial award in 2004, architects — as well as journalists and architecture critics — were eligible to enter the competition. More than 600 entries from 55 countries were submitted, and 50 projects from 24 countries were shortlisted for final jury selection. The award is endowed with a total of $35,300 (31,500 euros) of prize money across five categories. Wienerberger Brick may sponsor the competition, but it leaves the selection of winners up to a panel of judges. “An independent jury of experts guarantees an objective selection procedure,” says Heimo Scheuch, Wienerberger’s chairman of the board. “Wienerberger has no voting rights on the jury decision.” This year’s winners were selected by a jury of four, including Laura Andreini of Italy, Alfred Munkenbeck from the United Kingdom, Matija Bevk of Slovenia and Johan Anrys from Belgium. Anrys was winner of the 2014 Wienerberger Brick Award in the Public Re-Use category. Four other categories qualify for the Brick Award, including Residential Use, Public Use, Urban ... , Architizer Editors, read more http://ift.tt/1TH9c7X