2006 Brick in Architecture Award Winners
The Brick Industry Association (BIA) has announced its annual Brick in Architecture awards. The awards recognize outstanding works of nonresidential architecture completed since 2001 that employ clay brick as a prominent feature. Best in Class, Gold, Silver and Bronze awards were given in seven categories: commercial; educational/schools; health care facilities; municipal/government; house of worship; other institutional; and paving and landscape architecture. A national panel of five architects and three landscape architects judged the entries based on fulfillment of project goals, aesthetic interest and appeal and overall impression. In the Paving and Landscape Architecture category here are the winners:
Best in Class: McKinley Ave., Ball State University, Muncie, Ind. Rundell Ernstberger Associates, LLC.
Manufacturer: Pine Hall Brick.
Distributor: LPS Pavement Co.
The Gold Award: Moffat Mall, Chestnut Court in Winnetka, Ill.
Architect: Private Gardens, Public Places.
Manufacturer: Whitacre-Greer.
The Silver Award: Beck Cultural Center, Knoxville, Texas.
Architect: Sparkman & Associates Architects, Inc. Landscape
Architect: Carol R. Johnson Associates, Inc.
Manufacturer: Pine Hall Brick. Distributor: Knox Brick.
The Bronze Award: Legacy Village, Lyndhurst, Ohio.
Architect: Dorsky Hodgson, Parrish, Yue Architects.
Landscape Architect: Mahan Rykiel Associates Inc.
Manufacturer: Boral Bricks.
Green Friendly Bricks
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Researchers at the University of New South Wales, Australia have developed bricks and building aggregate that can be manufactured entirely from waste fly ash. The result is a strong, lightweight building material that they believe could generate a thriving new ?EUR??,,????'?????<
Source: Green Building Press *Note: Research is still being done, but the majority of fly ash components have no more associated radioactivity than common soils and rocks. According to the U.S. Geological Survey, they are at levels below human health concerns.
New Cement Cleans Up
An Italian company has begun marketing a cement that is capable of absorbing pollution from vehicles. It has been installed at a number of places including Charles De Gaulle Airport in France.
Italcementi, which spent 10 years developing its TX Active, said the building material is capable of reducing urban pollution by more than 40 percent, the Italian news agency ANSA reported in August. Tests on a road near Milan showed TX Active cut the level of nitrogen dioxide and carbon monoxide by as much as 65 percent. It functions via a chemical process called photocatalysis, whereby sunlight triggers a chemical reaction when titanium dioxide on the surface of the cement comes into contact with pollutants in the air. TX Active works most effectively in bright sunlight. Italcementi said test results have been verified by independent bodies like the National Research Council. TX Active cement has already been used on a number of buildings, including Air France?EUR??,,????'?????<
Source: United Press International.
