2022's Best Brick Designs...to go

Photo by Rory Gardiner.

In future blog posts this fall we’ll be encouraging you, as architects, builders, and designers, to enter the Brick Industry Association’s Brick in Architecture Awards. We offered the same encouragement last year, and you may be thinking, “I’d like to see the winners of that brick awards program…thingy.” We’d like you to see them, too, and we have just the solution for you.

Check out this page on the Brick Industry Association’s website. Not only does it contain photo galleries of all the winners in all the categories of 2022’s contest, it also hosts downloadable PDFs that hit the highlights of 2022’s winners with more robust descriptions of the designs based on commentary provided by the participants. Similar downloadable files are also available for previous years’ awards going back to 2010.

Fair warning before you click over to the Brick in Architecture page: set aside some time, because once you start perusing the award-winning designs by your contemporaries you’ll find it difficult to stop. You’ll find your self saying, “Wow, that’s some amazing brickwork,” and, “I never thought of doing that with brick,” and, “Maybe my firm should enter this thing in 2023.”

You should. You definitely should.