Brick Award 24

The submission period for our Brick Award 24 starts on December 6, 2022.

Assessment Criteria

Assessment criteria include an innovative design and architecture concept, skillful and innovative use of bricks as well as architecture quality in terms of aesthetics, shape and configuration of the project. Special attention is also directed to sustainability, climate resilience, energy efficiency, affordable living – the adequacy of the project in relation to its intended purpose, building type and cultural context.

The winners of the Brick Award are announced biennially at an award ceremony and presented, along with the 50 nominations in the accompanying Brick Book. Winning projects are endowed with price money and can be found all over the world. The first Brick Award in 2004 was won by Josef Pleskot in Czech Republic with his beautiful solution for a pedestrian passage in a castle park. In the following years the Grand Prizes went to Hungary, Germany, Liechtenstein, South Africa, Thailand, Spain, Austria, Great Britain, Switzerland , Poland  and in 2022 to China!

Award categories

Categories for nomination

• Feeling at home: single-family houses, semi-detached houses and small housing projects of high architectural quality that provide comfortable,  affordable, healthy, & sustainable living spaces with focus on energy effiecient solutions.
• Living together: innovative residential solutions taking into account the trends & challenges of urbanisation such as scarcity of space, energy efficiency and climate resilience, social challenges as well as new living concepts

• Working together: comfortable, aesthetic, energy effiecient and functional commercial buildings, offices and industrial buildings
• Sharing public spaces: funtional, energy efficent, aesthetic and adequate to its purpose public buildings for education, culture & healthcare, public places and infrastructure projects
• Building outside the box: innovative concepts with focus on circular building solutions, energy efficiency and ways of using brick, use of new construction technologies, special brickworks, custom-made bricks & new ornamentation

The award categories can be subject to slight changes depending on the year and the development of trends and current topics.

Details here