A sculpturally engaging family home that utilises brick to acknowledge its heritage context has won the residential category in the 2012 Think Brick Awards.
Jackson Clement Burrows Architects won the category using red press bricks to create the home.
Judges commented that “the wrapping brick wall creates a permeable edge to the street which expresses the form and fine grain materiality.”
Harold Street Residence is a new dwelling located in a Middle Park heritage. The site is the north-west corner of an intersection in which the remaining corners are typical of the surrounding context - red brick Victorian terraces.
Jackson Clement Burrows Architects winning home.
Highly Commended in residential was awarded to Chenchow Little for Stewart House.
BVN Architecture were successful in winning the landscape category using Bowral Blue Pressed clay pavers to flow throughout the Mabel Fidler building blurring the distinction between hard and soft surfaces.
The Mabel Fidler building
The Reuse category was won by Alex Symes for “Austinmer” using recycled brick from ‘The Brick Pit’ and Austral bricks.
Alex Symes' Austinmer project
A&D reported in Friday, the commercial category and overall winners prize was shared by the Infinity Centre by McBride Charles Ryan and Billard Leece Partnership’s student accommodation building at La Trobe University, Wodonga.
The 2012 Awards enjoyed an increase in entries of 40 per cent from last year.
CEO Elizabeth McIntyre said: “The 2012 Awards have confirmed that Face Brick is back, it is used beautifully in design and its thermal qualities mean it is a building product that make buildings comfortable.”
The judges for the Awards included Camilla Block, Cameron Bruhn, Neil Durblach, Rachel Neeson and Emma Williamson.
To see all the entries and winners go to www.thinkbrick.com.au
