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BB RR II CC KK B B U U L L L L EE TT I I N N The brick architecture of Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios First person: Stephen Proctor of Proctor & Matthews Expressive brick vaults by Lederer Ragnarsdóttir Oei 3XN’s Frederiksberg Courthouse in Copenhagen ADAM Architecture in London, AS2 in Bremen AUTUMN 2013 Design advice for severely exposed brickwork 2 • BB AUTUMN 2013 Brick Bulletin AutuMn 2013 contents State of the art 4NEWS Stephen Proctor of Proctor Projects in Antwerp and Essex; Brick &Matthews identifies strongly Awards shortlist; First Person –Stephen with the craft of bricklaying Proctor of Proctor &Matthews. and its ability to imbue projects 6PROJECTS with order,scale and visual Lucy Marston Architects, Austin-Smith interest. Brick modelling also Lord,3XN, ADAM Architecture, AS2, features prominently in two 51N4E and Stanton Williams. academy schools designed by 12 PROFILE Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios Mike Keys and John Southall discuss (profiled in this issue) and the Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios’ new Carmelite Monasteryin brick renaissance. Liverpool by Austin-Smith 18 PRECEDENT Lord. Elsewhere, brick’s Unusual and idiosyncratic brickwork at inherent flexibility is Park Meerwijk in Bergen, Holland. demonstrated by 3XN’s 20 TECHNICAL gravity-defying Frederiksberg Lederer Ragnarsdóttir Oei’srecycled brick Courthouse in Copenhagen. facades and roof vaults at the Museum of Viviane Williams (MA) BDA ModernArt in Ravensburg, Germany. design and marketing manager 22 TECHNICAL GUIDANCE The latest guidance document from the Brick Development Association examines To find out moreabout the bricks or pavers in featured projects, or to submit work, email severely exposed brickwork. [email protected] or phone 020 7323 7030. BDA member companies AJ Mugridge t+44 (0)1952 586986 www.ajmugridge.co.uk Bovingdon Brickworks t+44 (0)1442 833176 www.bovingdonbricks.co.uk Bulmer Brick &Tile Co t+44 (0)1787 269232 [email protected] Carlton Brick t+44 (0)1226 711521 www.carltonbrick.co.uk Coleford Brick &Tile t+44 (0)1594 822160 www.colefordbrick.co.uk Furness Brick &Tile Co t+44 (0)1229 462411 www.furnessbrick.com Hanson Building Products t+44 (0)330 1231017 www.hanson.com/uk HG Matthews t+44 (0)1494 758212 www.hgmatthews.com Ibstock Brick t+44 (0)1530 261999 www.ibstock.co.uk Ketley Brick Company t+44 (0)1384 78361 www.ketley-brick.co.uk Michelmersh Brick Holdings t+44 (0)844 931 0022 www.michelmersh.co.uk Northcot Brick t+44 (0)1386 700551 www.northcotbrick.co.uk Phoenix Brick Company t+44 (0)1246 471576 www.bricksfromphoenix.co.uk The York Handmade Brick Co t+44 (0)1347 838881 www.yorkhandmade.co.uk WH Collier t+44 (0)1206 210301 www.whcollier.co.uk Wienerberger t+44 (0)161 4918200 www.wienerberger.co.uk contacts Executive editor: Viviane Williams (MA) t: 020 7323 7030 e: [email protected] Brick Development Association, The Building Centre, 26 StoreStreet, London, WC1E 7BT The BDA represents manufacturers of clay brick and pavers in the UK and Ireland and promotes excellence in the architectural, structural and landscape applications of brick and pavers. The BDA provides practical, technical and aesthetic advice and information through its website www.brick.org.uk, in its numerous publications and over the phone. Frontispiece carmelite Monastery ISSN 0307-9325 Published by the BDA ©2013 Editorial/design: ArchitectureToday plc in Allerton, liverpool, by Austin-Smith lord (ph: SG Photography). cover tudor Grange Academy in Worcester by Feilden ARCHITECTURE clegg Bradley Studios TODAY (ph: craig Auckland/ Fotohaus). BB AUTUMN 2013 • 3 NEWS FIRST PERSON Tony Fretton Architects in Antwerp Tony Fretton Architects has obtained planning permission for apair of brick residential towers at Antwerp Docks in Belgium. Forming part of alarger waterside regeneration scheme which includes projects by Diener &Diener and David Chipperfield Architects, the foot- print and massing of the towers was set by exec- utive architect De Architecten NV,with Fretton responsible for the envelope, communal spaces and lobbies. Ahandmade Flemish brick with a pale grey-yellow tone is employed on Tower 5, while ared brick is used on Tower 6. Projecting bricks give the respective structures ahorizon- tal and vertical emphasis. Corners areleft open. The project is due to complete in 2016. Brick Awards shortlist announced Stephen Proctor of Proctor& Matthews reflects on the craft of The Brick Awards shortlist has been bricklaying and the importance announced by ajudging panel chaired by of the English garden wall. Richard Lavington of Maccreanor Lavington Architects. The awards aresplit into three categories: housing, building and landscape, and technical and craft. The shortlist includes Royal Road in London by Panter Hudspith Architects (top right, photo: Morley von Sternberg) for the best housing development Having passed through an era of render, of 26 units or more, and Grimshaw’sStoke cedar cladding and fibrecement facades City CentreBus Station in Stoke-on-Trent, of one formoranother,brick has emerged Staffordshire(bottom right, photo: Gareth as the material of choice for many housing Walker), for the best public building. Other projects. Unfortunately,the stripped safe shortlisted entries include the Michael Baker modernism of the rendered box is now boathouse in Worcester by Associated often repeated in endless flat stretcher Architects (best education building), and bond with shallow window reveals that do Travelodge Excel, London, by Aros Architects little to provide visual relief or to advance (best craftmanship). Architects and architectur- the craft of brickwork. All too often brick al students can vote for the Architect’sChoice is seen merely as an expedient way of Award online at the BDA website until delivering cost-effective housing within 27 September.The awards will be presented aconstruction industrythat is heavily London’sMarriott Grosvenor SquareHotel influenced by the most simple of brick on 14 November.For tables and tickets contact and block construction technologies. 020 7323 7030 or email [email protected] As apractice we have always been (details: www.brick.org.uk). interested in architecturethat responds to Bell Phillips Architects in Essex context and the narrative of place. Avoiding the somewhat lazy and superficial applica- tion of locally used materials as afirst Bell Phillips Architects has unveiled Bracelet response, we instead favour amorelayered, Close, an affordable housing development morphological and cultural approach to commissioned by Thurrock Council to be issues of pattern, place and purpose. built on an existing residential estate in It is thereforesurprising that prior to Corringham, Essex. Designed to Code for our collaboration with Ralph Erskine in Sustainable Homes level five, the 12 two- and 1999 on the Greenwich Millennium Village three-storey dwellings areplanned around a (GMV), we had completed only two brick communal courtyard garden. The richly projects: arural house in Burnham Overy coloured and textured brick envelope is Staithe, north Norfolk, and arow of eleven intended to bring warmth and life to the townhouses at Ropemakers Fields in east scheme, while also contrasting with the pale London. The latter was astudied contextu- masonryofthe surrounding estate. The bricks al response to the Georgian terrace of will be laid with aflush-pointed lime-coloured NarrowStreet, incorporating the famous mortar,intended to provide amonolithic Grapes pub. aesthetic and asense of permanence. 4 • BB AUTUMN 2013 Erskine insisted on the use of brick at GMV common thread, and to understand his delight to articulate scale, celebrate entrances and give to offer significant modelling and scale to as central to his strategy for alasting social at the potential of brick to create astrong emphasis to important townscape junctions each dwelling. Split brickwork is also used sustainability,leaving his junior collaborators sense of identity. within the masterplan. Alarge entrance court in secondarylocations to articulate impor- to grapple on phase two with issues of In recent years we have seen an increased forming the most significant urban gesture tant junctions and fenestration on each prefabrication and new lightweight materials interest among bricklayers and manufacturers in this partofthe development employs type. Both the brick detailing and gable aimed at meeting government targets set for in the revival of brick as acraft. Therehas also split-brick patterning to order and scale the forms of these simple structures are the project. Erskine’srich use of textured been an emerging willingness to rediscover the space, as well as to express the individual inspired by the eighteenth-centuryDutch brickwork (an important component of lost potential of brick in domestic architecture. terrace dwellings. Throughout the masterplan gabled houses in nearby Chatham. Here, the Scandinavian modernist tradition) is This has coincided with our own long-held the same devices areused to model and give patterned brickwork of adifferent kind inspiring as it exudes ahumanist architecture interest in the possibilities of brick. Three depth to what would otherwise be flat facades. now establishes one of the most important that gives scale and warmth to ahigh-density recent projects have enabled our studio to This approach serves to supportthe hierarchy aspects of the town’shistoric character. residential neighbourhood. explorefurther the potential of brickwork in of streets and provide individual dwellings Hargood Close in Colchester provides