On September 23, the winners of the international Wienerberger Brick Award 2020 competition were announced. The Grand Prize and the award in the Sharing public spaces category went to the building of the Krzysztof Kieślowski Film School.Krzysztof Kieslowski in Katowice (until recently the Krzysztof Kieslowski Radio and Television Department) designed by BAAS Arquitectura, Grupa 5 Architects and MAŁECCY design studio. Congratulations!
TheWienerberger Brick Architectural Award has been awarded regularly since 2004 to buildings in which ceramic materials, bricks and tiles, play an important role. This year, 644 projects were submitted for the competition, of which 50 qualified for the finals. The final projects were evaluated by a jury of architects from five countries: Helena Glantz of Swedish studio Urban Design (winner of the 2018 Brick Award in the Building Outside the Box category), Toni Gironès Saderra of Spanish office Estudi d'Arquitectura Toni Gironès, Tina Gregoric ofDekleva Gregoric Architects of Slovenia, Mette Kynne Frandsen of Henning Larsen Architects A/S of Denmark, and Jonathan Sergison of UK-based Sergison Bates Architects.
Awards were given in five categories: Feeling at Home, Living together, Working together, Sharing public spaces and Building outside the box. The building of the Katowice university, which in the Polish edition of the competition [Wienerberger Brick Award 2019] received the Grand Prix and the award in the Sharing Public Spaces category, won both awards in the international installment of the Wienerberger Brick Award!
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Thespecial prize went to the project Can Jaime I n'Isabelle by Spanish studio TEd'A arquitectes, submitted in the Feeling at Home category. In the Feeling at Home category, the winner was the Iturbide Studio project by architects from the TALLER | Mauricio Rocha + Gabriela Carrillo studio. The award in the Working Together category went to the Delft Municipal Archive building designed by Gottlieb Paludan Architects and Office Winhov, while the Living Together category was won by a prototype country house from Rafi Segal and the MIT Rwanda team. The winner of the Building Outside the Box category is the Maya Somaiya library in India designed by Sameep Padora & Associates.
