Award-Winning Brick Homes Offer Latest Ideas for Design Excellnce
2011 Single Family Winners Include Best in Class, Gold, Silver and Bronze
(HIT) - Home buyers and homeowners looking for the latest in outstanding brick design and sustainability can turn to award-winning brick homes for ideas. Projects honored in the 2011 Brick in Architecture Awards by the Brick Industry Association (BIA), Reston, Va., came from architects in 25 states. The winners’ reasons for choosing brick include its quality/long-term durability, beauty and environmental aesthetics, low maintenance and design flexibility through custom color blends, texture, rhythm, human scale, pattern and repetition.
“This year’s winning projects show how brick delivers flexibility, beauty, durability and sustainability with creativity that matches the architect’s imagination and desires,” said BIA President and CEO Gregg Borchelt, P.E.
The latest options in clay brick offer increasingly green benefits for more sustainable homes that can help homeowners save on major household costs. Naturally organic with virtually no waste, brick helps lower energy costs and upkeep through a maintenance-free exterior that offers superior durability, moisture control, termite resistance, proven stability and enduring beauty. Often incorporating recycled content, brick options including exterior, interior and landscaping features increase sustainability while meeting the highest green building criteria.
Award-winning homes include:
Best in Class |
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Single Family – Cedartown, Ga.
Pierce/Lee House
Designer: Clay Chapman
Builder: Period Architecture
Manufacturer: General Shale Brick Inc.
Distributor: North Georgia Brick Co. Inc.
Mason Contractor: Period Architecture
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Gold |
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Single Family – Dobbs Ferry, N.Y.
Hudson Valley Georgian
Architect: Hilton-VanderHorn, Architects
Landscape Architect: Rutherford Associates P.C.
Builder: Significant Homes LLC
Manufacturer: Redland Brick Inc.
Mason Contractor: V&Y Construction LLC |
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Silver |
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Single Family – Winnetka, Ill.
French Manor Home
Architect: Melichar Architects
Builder: Tiedmann Enterprises
Manufacturer: Redland Brick Inc.
Distributor: Illinois Brick Co.
Mason Contractor: Fontana Masonry |
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Bronze |
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Single Family – Lewisburg, Penn.
Lewisburg Residence
Architect: Archer & Buchanan Architecture Ltd.
Landscape Architect: Landstudies Inc.
Builder: CWD Distinctive Homes LLC
Manufacturer: Glen-Gery Corporation
Mason Contractor: Preston Boop |
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For more details on what makes brick green, go to www.greenbrick.com. To learn why brick is such an outstanding and versatile building material, go to www.gobrick.com.
About the Brick Industry Association:
Founded in 1934, the Brick Industry Association (BIA) is the nationally recognized authority on clay brick construction representing the nation’s distributors and manufacturers of clay brick and suppliers of related products. Web site: www.gobrick.com or www.greenbrick.com /703-620-0010.
Courtesy: Home Improvement News and Information Center
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