BRICK BULLETIN Herzog & de Meuron’s Ordos 100 architects O’Donnell & Tuomey’s Timberyard in Dublin Edward Cullinan and Levitt Bernstein in Brent Bruno Fioretti Marquez’ Berlin-Köpenick library Restoring Frank Lloyd Wright’s brick buildings SUMMER 2009 Why, where and how of movement joints BRICK BULLETIN SUMMER 09 Contents Outer limits 4 NEWS For sheer inventiveness the Projects from Duisburg to Norwich via Ordos project, in which 100 East Grinstead; plus Brick Awards 2009 of the world’s most promising 6 PROJECTS young architects have been O’Donnell & Tuomey in Dublin, invited to design villas in the Cullinan and Levitt Bernstein in Brent, Mongolian desert, promises de Leeuw van Zanten in Meppel, BFM to be one of the most bizarre in Berlin and Arkitema in Copenhagen yet exciting ventures of recent 12 PROFILE years (pp12-17). Intriguingly, Up-and-coming architects design in brick many have opted to build in for the Ordos 100 project, masterminded local brick and their plans by Herzog & de Meuron in Mongolia reveal a striking synthesis of 18 PRECEDENT tradition and creativity. Frank Lloyd Wright’s brick showcases at Jayne Rolfe Johnson Wax and the Robie House 22 TECHNICAL To find out more about the bricks or pavers in featured projects, or to submit work, email Why, where and how of movement joints [email protected] or phone 020 7323 7030. 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The BDA provides practical, Ordos 100 project by DRDH Architects. technical and aesthetic advice and information Back cover through its website www.brick.org.uk, in its Neues Museum, Berlin, numerous publications and over the phone. renovated by David Chipperfield Architects. Published by the BDA ©2009. Photo: Johannes Kramer. Editorial and design: Architecture Today plc. 2 • BB SUMMER 09 BB SUMMER 09 • 3 NEWS Ortner & Ortner in Duisburg Black brick for Hanover Square London, such as at Bedford Square and St Sheppard Robson’s Open Academy the main entrance, is a glass box contain- the client expressed a preference for a James’s Square. The use of traditional lime ing the learning resource centre. A warm softer looking brick. Sample panels were Austrian practice Ortner & Ortner has Squire & Partners has designed a £26m mortar is intended to minimise movement Norfolk’s first City Academy, the £20m red brick was chosen for the hall to com- built on site using the two alternatives, and designed a major extension to Germany’s mixed-use development for a prestigious expression to a single vertical joint. Due Sheppard Robson-designed Open Academy plement the Norfolk vernacular and to employing a range of mortar colours and largest archive building, situated in the port site on the south-east corner of Hanover to start on site in the autumn, the project in Norwich, has started on site. The 9000 contrast with the cedar cladding, which joint types set against other materials from of Duisburg. Dating from the 1930s, the Square in London’s Mayfair. The 8460 has been designed with sustainability in square metre scheme is characterised by will weather to a silver-grey colour over the palette. In the final specification a existing listed building will be supplement- square metre scheme replaces an existing mind and is expected to provide an 18 two interlocking forms: a cedar-clad drum time. The initial proposal was for a smooth- multi-faced handmade-effect brick was ed with a 70 metre high brick archive tower. 1960s building and comprises residential, per cent saving in carbon dioxide emis- housing the main teaching spaces, and a faced red engineering brick to strengthen selected. The intention is to use a lime- The structure will accommodate some office and retail accommodation. Largely sions when compared against the current rectangular brick sports hall. Located at the contrast with the timber cladding. coloured mortar, incorporating recessed 150 kilometres of shelving together with constructed from black brick, the facades 2006 Building Regulations. the junction of the two volumes, above However, as the design process developed joints to accentuate the brick courses. an events hall in the gable. Located are punctuated with deep window reveals adjacent to the existing archive will be lined in white marble, with additional solar an undulating six-storey brick building shading provided by vertical bronze fins. comprising reading rooms, offices and The 50mm brick, laid in flemish bond with additional archive space. The scheme is lime mortar, is from a region of Holland intended as a cultural landmark for the renowned for its rich brown chocolate- entire Ruhr area and is set to feature coloured clay, as opposed to purple/brown prominently in the Essen European Capital or blue. Black bricks draw on the history of of Culture programme next year. a small number of Georgian buildings in Lego villas go under the hammer Book early for the Brick Awards Barking regeneration to go ahead In a departure from their usual line of work, Anticipation is already growing for the A major regeneration scheme in Barking, Gareth Hoskins Architects (above), gm+ad 2009 Brick Awards, which will be presented Essex, by Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects (above left), RMJM (left), Michael Gilmour at London’s Marriott Grosvenor Square for the London Thames Gateway Develop- Associates, and Aedas (below) have designed Hotel on 4 November. There are 13 awards ment Corporation, has gained planning Lego villas to raise money for the National split into three categories: housing, build- approval. Situated adjacent to the River Autistic Society Scotland. The designs were ing and landscape, and technical and craft. Roding, the Creative Industries Quarter displayed at the Scottish Design Awards There is also the supreme award – the includes 220 residential units, studios for local nominations exhibition, before being sold BDA Building of the Year, judged to be the artists and community facilities. The new at a charity auction (photos: Mark Seager). best overall project from the 13 award build elements are combined with existing winners. Entries for each category will be industrial structures, including a nineteenth- Visionary centre for eye surgery seminar spaces and various public areas. sourced from local clay, with two tones of judged on design, choice of brick, brick century malthouse and granary, to form a Intended to reflect rural farm structures, the same brick used to create a plinth. The detailing and craftsmanship. The judging public space at the heart of the scheme. Toh Shimazaki Architects has designed a while also complementing nearby residen- bricks are from the same kiln, but fired at panel will be chaired by Bob Allies of A handmade brick selected from a darker pioneering new centre for eye surgery on tial buildings, the design makes extensive different temperatures due to their location Allies & Morrison Architects. To book tick- palette of brown and grey has been chosen Hazelden Farm in East Grinstead. The use of local materials. Both the massing and within the kiln. The brick wall head (eaves ets and/or tables at the awards please for the blocks immediately adjacent to the project, which is due to complete later this layered brickwork are staggered to evoke level) and interface between the two brick contact Lucy Bond on 07958 755921 or granary and malthouse. White and glazed month, includes two operating theatres, the exposed strata of the jagged sandstone tones moves up and down along the adja- [email protected] white bricks will be used for the outer blocks, consultation and test rooms, offices, from which they emerge.