This award required three ingredients to be awarded the 2014 “Best use of Bricks Awards” comprising the actual manufacture of the brick by Austral Bricks, the builder’s skill in ensuring that the bricks are well laid (by Lamio Masonry) and a design that featured both. Whereas this type of brick is more commonly used in small feature walls, when used on multi storey buildings as it was on this project, The Kensington Colleges at the University of NSW, it results in a combination of colour and uniformity, according to the judges. The highly glazed and coloured face of the brick spread over a large area in a number of buildings provided a panoramic façade of colour. The bed and perpend joints were wonderfully gauged in a uniform series of lines which is the hallmark of a “good brick wall”. Well done.
Category
Housing (Residential) » Best Use of Bricks
Year
2014
Company
Richard Crookes Constructions
Design
"The Kensington Colleges" University of NSW
Prize
Winner