BDA Awards 2005 - Ibstock Brick triumphant

Projects using Ibstock bricks proudly won 7 out of 14 categories at this year's BDA Brick Awards.

Projects using Ibstock bricks proudly won 7 out of 14 categories at this year's BDA Brick Awards, especially featuring in the Best Public Building Award and BDA Building of the Year 2005.

Other successful categories included Volume Housebuilding Award, Best Commercial Building, won for the 3rd year running, Best Craftsmanship Award won previously in 2002 and 2004, and Best Public Housing Development (2nd year running); Ibstock once again won more categories than any other manufacturer.

Ibstock Brick contributed bricks to the Fitzwilliam College Gatehouse and Auditorium at the University of Cambridge for Best Public Building and BDA Building of the Year 2005.

Comprising two distinct buildings in brown and creamy buff brick, this was designed by Architects Allies and Morrison.

Judges viewed the buildings as 'confident' and were impressed by the use of brick in two contemporary structures.

The Volume Housebuilding Award was given to 3 projects submitted by Countryside Properties in Manchester, Bolton and Didsbury.

The latest phase of the project in Didsbury, South @Didsbury Point, was considered to have a contemporary nature which harmoniously blends brick, render and timber, using Ibstock's Dorset Red Stock.

Sportcity, East Manchester featured Ibstock Cheddar Red and Birtley Olde English Buff, and Regency Place in Bolton was built with a wide selection of Ibstock bricks.

The National Trust New Central Offices in Swindon was considered the Best Commercial Building.

Deliberately echoing the neighbouring 19th century railway buildings of this famous railway town, the design was by Feilden Clegg Bradley with brickwork by Glenn Simms Contractors.

The Judges were attracted to 'the 'curtain' of blue engineering brick' which formed the outer skin and sustainability features include solar shading from vertical stack-bonded brick fins as well as lime mortars to allow the building to breathe and move.

The Best Craftsmanship Award went to The Orangery, Maidstone in Kent, designed by Inwood Tuck Jones Partnership.

This project used single cant and standard Dorsett Red Multi stock bricks, allied with inverted plinth bricks, constructed by EC Gransden and Co Pepys Estate at Deptford in London won the award for Best Public Housing Development for the handling of its refined detailing that contrasted a variety of bricks with other materials to provide a very varied yet harmonious design.

The development was designed by BPTW Partnership who won the same award in 2004 for another of their South London public housing developments, again using Ibstock Brick as a partner.

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