Brick Awards 2025

Brick type used: Heritage County Blend
Factory: Ellistown
Project location: Oxford
Architects: Adrian James Architects

2025 BDA Brick Awards shortlisted category: Housing Development (2-100 units)

Ibstock’s Heritage County Blend was the perfect choice for the façade, thanks to its classic, timeless aesthetic, with a contemporary edge. Its rich, red hue, combined with subtle colour variations, creates a façade that is both warm and inviting, contributing to the school’s vision of creating a genuine ‘home from home’.

Brick type used: Arden Weathered Red, Cissbury Red Multi
Factory: Parkhouse & Laybrook
Project location: Birmingham
Architects: BPN Architects

2025 BDA Brick Awards shortlisted category: Urban Regeneration

Using Ibstock’s Arden Weathered Red and Cissbury Red Multi Stock allowed for the perfect nod to Birmingham’s distinctive terracotta architecture. The combination of the warm red and rich brown hues of the bricks was the perfect arrangement for ensuring the site befits the traditional traits and materials visible throughout the Jewellery Quarter.

Brick type used: White Glazed
Factory: Clerkenwell
Project location: Surrey
Architects: Darling Associates Architects

2025 BDA Brick Awards shortlisted category: Commercial

Eden Campus is a transformative mixed-use regeneration project in the heart of Kingston Upon Thames. Eden Campus exemplifies how thoughtful, context-driven design, coupled with advanced materials and coordinated supply chain collaboration, can result in buildings that are not only architecturally compelling but also technically and environmentally exemplary.

Brick type used: Swanage Handmade Light Red Multi 50mm
Factory: Swanage
Project location: Wimbledon

Architect: Emrys Architects

2025 BDA Brick Awards shortlisted category: Commercial & Craftsmanship

These handmade bricks - produced at Ibstock’s Swanage facility using locally sourced clay - are celebrated for their authenticity and character. Each brick is individually hand thrown into sanded moulds, creating subtle variations in tone and finish that lend the façade a rich, organic texture. It’s this artisanal process, combined with a colour that echoes the classic red hues stipulated by planning, that sets the development apart. The result is a building with soul - its façade warm, tactile and responsive to the changing London light.

Brick type used: Swanage Restoration Red, Swanage Light, London White, Atlas Blue
Factory: Swanage, Clerkenwell & Lodge Lane
Project location: London
Architects: Benedict O'Looney Architects

2025 BDA Brick Awards shortlisted category: Refurbishment

Findlater’s Corner / The London Bridge Island is one of the most remarkable groups of railway arches in London. The polychrome brickwork (there are six different types of brick used on this project) takes inspiration from Borough, Bermondsey and London Bridge Station’s fabulous Victorian brick architecture.

Brick type used: New Chailey Stock Medium Multi
Factory: Chailey
Project location: London
Architects: Cottrell & Vermeulen Architecture Limited

2025 BDA Brick Awards shortlisted category: Education

The proposal for a new whole school library was developed closely with STAC in Nunhead, South London. The space focused on the demands of the school’s 6th Form, who had no dedicated space for personal study.

Brick type used: Otterburn Antique
Factory: Birtley
Project location: London
Architects: Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands

2025 BDA Brick Awards shortlisted category: Commercial / Refurbishment / Specialist Brickwork Contractor (Galostar)

This scheme reimagines and significantly enlarges a dull 1960’s office building on Norton Folgate (Drawing 1), with handsome new facades now reclad in Ibstock Otterburn Antique brickwork. The cut and carve approach retains 88% of the existing structure (along with its embodied carbon).

Brick type used: Capital Brown Multi Stock, Stuart Buff
Factory: Birtley
Project location: London
Architects: HTA Design LLP

2025 BDA Brick Awards shortlisted category: Large Housing Development (101+ units)

The Glassworks is the latest addition to the Greenford Quay masterplan, providing 354 build-to-rent homes as part of an 8.23-hectare regeneration of a former industrial site along the Grand Union Canal in Ealing. Technical innovation in brickwork is expressed through the variation of projection and bonding patterns, enhancing visual depth and shadow play.

Brick type used: Birtley Olde English
Factory: Birtley
Project location: London
Architects: RCKa

2025 BDA Brick Awards shortlisted category: Public

The redevelopment of Highgate Newtown Community Centre, within the Dartmouth Park Conservation Area of Camden, is transformative for many people. The palette is anchored by Ibstock’s Birtley Olde English—a warm, textured red brick that echoes the character of nearby terraces and mansion blocks, rooting the scheme in its context while adding richness and depth.

Brick type used: Himley Ebony Black
Factory: Aldridge
Project location: Berkshire
Architects: MICA

2025 BDA Brick Awards shortlisted category: Education

Wellington College is a world leading co-educational independent day and boarding school. Brick detailing plays an important role in the design, by using bays to create pleasing proportions and groupings of brick used in long horizontal planes, or being turned vertically as stack bond elements.

Brick type used: Birtley Old English, Birtley Old English Brown, Birtley Old English Buff, Ivanhoe Cream Original
Factory: Birtley & Leicester
Project location: Edinburgh
Architects: jmarchitects

2025 BDA Brick Awards shortlisted category: Large Housing Development (101+ units)

The development integrates with the surroundings, respecting the scale, form, and architectural character of the industrial context. The brickwork detailing is carefully considered. Variations in texture and pattern define articulate key moments in the elevation

Brick type used: Olde English Grey, Commercial Red
Factory: Birtley
Project location: London
Architects: Pitman Tozer Architects

2025 BDA Brick Awards shortlisted category: Large Housing Development (101+ units)

Bulrush Court, Leaside Lock is the second phase of a major residential redevelopment by The Guinness Partnership in Bromley by Bow, London. Designed by Pitman Tozer Architects, the scheme delivers 144 high quality affordable homes in a mid-rise mansion block.

Brick type used: New Chailey Rustic Stock and Bradgate Medium Grey
Factory: Chailey & Leicester

2025 BDA Brick Awards shortlisted category: House Builder

The architectural character of the scheme is brought to life through the careful selection of two signature Ibstock bricks: New Chailey Stock and Bradgate Medium Grey. These frogged facing bricks not only offer strong aesthetic appeal but also superior durability, making them an ideal choice for a high-profile, long-lasting build.

Brick type used: Brunswick Tryfan Grey
Factory: Cattybrook
Project location: Reading
Architects: PRP

2025 BDA Brick Awards shortlisted category: Specialist Brickwork Contractor

The design has been built on this historic simplicity, with verticality and a dynamic roofscape being a key anchor to this history. Four different but complimentary colours of bricks provide character and allow the expression of a series of terraced forms that respond to their individual context; dark bricks to express the marker buildings and the outward, facing elevations; light bricks for the water facing elevations; mid-tone bricks for the streets and to provide transition between light and dark; grey bricks for the three floor terrace blocks on the streets.

Brick type used: Multi Cream, Leicester Weathered Red, Bridgwater Weathered Red, Bristol Brown, Staffordshire Slate Blue Smooth
Factory: Eclipse, Cattybrook, Lodge Lane
Project location: Bristol

2025 BDA Brick Awards shortlisted category: House Builder

Brick type used: Arden Weathered Red, Leicester Weathered Red, Priory Weathered Red
Factory: Parkhouse, Eclipse
Project location: Gloucester

2025 BDA Brick Awards shortlisted category: House Builder

Brick type used: Dark Grey Imports, Heritage County Blend
Factory: Ellistown
Project location: Dorset

2025 BDA Brick Awards shortlisted category: House Builder

Brick type used: Ivanhoe Westminster, Bradgate Light Buff, Himley Ebony Black, Bradgate Medium Grey
Factory: Eclipse, Leicester, Alderidge
Project location: London

2025 BDA Brick Awards shortlisted category: House Builder

Brick type used: Ivanhoe Westminster
Factory: Eclipse
Project location: Caldicot

2025 BDA Brick Awards shortlisted category: House Builder

Brick type: Shoreham Red Multi
Project location: Harrow, London
Project type: Residential
Architect: Threefold Architects
Developer: Pocket Living
Brickwork contractor: Woodhurst Brickwork Ltd

2025 BDA Brick Award shortlisted category: Large Housing Development (101+ units)