Challenges climate change common thread Brick Award 2022

Every two years, the Brick Award honors projects worldwide that impress with innovative design and architectural concept using bricks. Providing answers to the challenges of climate change resonates in many of the nearly 800 entries this year. Wienerberger will award this international prize for ceramic architectural projects for the tenth time on June 9. Once again, work by Dutch architects has been nominated. On June 10, the online architecture symposium will focus on the question of how architects can make an impact with their designs and material choices in today's times.

Five Dutch projects nominated

Three Dutch projects have been nominated in the Living Together category: Merckt in Groningen by Powerhouse Company, the renovated PTT building on the Binnenrotte in Rotterdam by Orange Architects and the Television Picture Tube Factory in Eindhoven by Hilberink Architects. In the Feeling at home category, another homegrown project: the newly built single-family home in Amsterdam at Koopvaardersplantsoen by Bureau SLA. The fifth nomination, in the Brick Award category Building outside the box, is the Park Pavilion of National Park De Hoge Veluwe by Monadnock and De Zwarte Hond.

Online architecture symposium June 10

Connecting nature and culture by designing architecture that enables an ecologically sustainable future. Architecture symposium speakers from Germany, Austria, Canada and China will share their insights on this in the discussion of how architects can make a substantial contribution to the built environment. Of interest to architects, from 10:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Sign up for online participation: Architecture Symposium (brickaward.com). 

Brick22 

Out of nearly 800 projects from more than 50 countries, 50 entries were pre-selected and nominated by a panel of architectural journalists, including Ingrid van der Heijden of Amsterdam-based Civic.

Projects for the Brick Award 2022 are submitted by architects, architecture critics and architecture journalists. There are six prizes in total; in addition to the five category prizes, there is also an overall prize. The total prize money amounts to almost 30,000 euros. An independent international jury chooses the winners. The overview of the 50 nominees, together with five essays by international authors, will soon be available in the book Brick22.

Learn more about the 2022 Brick Award: https://www.wienerberger.nl/inspiratie/brick-award.html