Niall McLaughin Architects, London, United Kingdom © Nick Kane
Equipo de Arquitectura, Asunción © Federico Cairoli
Estudio Arqtipo, Argentina © Federico Kulekdjian
Grafton & O'Mahony Pike, Ireland © Ros Kavanagh
Hangar, Madrid, Spain; Palma Mexico City, Mexico © Luis Diaz Diaz
Durability and Innovation in Brick Architecture
The Brick Award 2024, a biennial international prize initiated in 2004 by Wienerberger, has honored five winning projects across five categories — Feeling at Home, Living Together, Working Together, Sharing Public Spaces, and Building Outside the Box — along with one Grand Prize Winner chosen across all categories. With 743 submissions from 54 countries, this eleventh edition once again highlighted the innovative and diverse use of brick in contemporary architecture worldwide.
The Grand Prize was awarded to the British firm Níall McLaughlin Architects for their International Rugby Experience in Limerick, Ireland, winner in the Sharing Public Spaces category. Inspired by Limerick’s Georgian architecture, this exhibition and event center dedicated to rugby stands out for its strikingly contemporary architectural language while integrating seamlessly into the urban fabric it helps to enhance.
The winner in the Feeling at Home category was the Paraguayan studio Equipo de Arquitectura for its Intermediate House, built with compressed earth blocks that help maintain cooler interior temperatures.
The Living Together award, dedicated to collective housing, went to the Argentine team Estudio Arqtipo for a project combining ten residential units on a narrow corner plot, each with its own private outdoor space.
In the Working Together category, the Irish studios Grafton Architects and O’Mahony Pike Architects were recognized for the new headquarters of the Electricity Supply Board of Ireland, a project that skillfully combines contemporary construction standards with Dublin’s historic architecture.
Finally, the Building Outside the Box prize was awarded to HANGHAR (Madrid) and PALMA (Mexico City) for their collaborative project Tipos de Espacios, a temporary brick installation created for the Concéntrico Architecture and Design Festival in Logroño, Spain. The installation guided visitors through a sequence of spatial typologies along one of the town’s narrow alleyways.
The international jury was composed of five architects:
Christelle Avenier (France), architect and cofounder of Avenier Cornejo Architectes
Christine Conix (Belgium), architect and cofounder of Conix RDBM Architects
Ingrid van der Heijden (Netherlands), architect and cofounder of CIVIC Architects
Wojciech Malecki (Poland), architect and founder of Maleccy Biuro Projektowe
Boonserm Premthada (Thailand), architect and founder of Bangkok Project Studio
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