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The crowning of the 2019 Brick Awards winners during a glittering ceremony that for 43 years has celebrated the best use of brick in the built environment.
Projects of the highest calibre are routinely entered by architects, contractors and developers and, this year was no exception.
This year’s title of Supreme Winner has been awarded to the excellent The Dorothy Garrod Building, Newnham College at the University of Cambridge (pictured). Designed by Walters & Cohen Architects, this outstanding project also won the Medium Housing Development and Craftmanship categories.
Focusing on the value of using durable materials and on finding the right suppliers of products, The Dorothy Garrod Building knits itself among the buildings already part of the college and creates a new frontage for the college from one entrance.
The elegant design balances solidity and transparency, with glazing alternating with full-height brickwork panels where hit-and-miss element weaves seamlessly into the texture and detail of the elevation. The hit-and-miss brickwork complements the existing buildings without mimicking them.
A bespoke mixture of Northcot Plumstead and Lynham Red bricks were made to create Sidgwick Blend bricks for the project.
“The supreme winner, the Dorothy Garrod Building, really impressed the judges who felt it was exceptional in a number of ways,” said Hillary Satchwell, Head Judge, Brick Awards 2019
“It manages to be exemplary teaching and research space, as well as student housing; it is a strongly urban and welcoming response to the surrounding streets in this part of Cambridge; and at the same time is an amazing work of carefully considered and expressive brick design and craftsmanship. Quite some achievement.”
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