The Norton Folgate development in London by Allford Hall Monaghan Morris, Stanton Williams, Morris+Company, DSDHA, and EAST wins the Supreme Award at this year’s Brick Awards run by the Brick Development Association.
The Norton Folgate development in London’s City Fringe, designed by Allford Hall Monaghan Morris, Stanton Williams, Morris + Company, DSDHA, and EAST, has been named Supreme Winner at the 2024 BDA Brick Awards. This ambitious project has transformed a series of underutilised urban blocks into a thriving community. By carefully restoring, refurbishing, and extending existing buildings, as well as introducing sensitively-designed new structures, the masterplan has breathed new life into the area.
Clay brick, a material synonymous with quality, durability, and timeless appeal, is a key element of the development’s architectural palette. By employing a diverse range of brick tones and textures, the architects have created a harmonious and distinctive neighbourhood that seamlessly blends with the historic character of the Elder Street Conservation Area.
The project also won the Urban Regeneration category.
This year’s jury was chaired by Jonathan Hall (AHMM) alongside Scott Cromack (Croudace Homes), Dean Degun (Swift Brickwork Contractors), Alison J Duxbury (Triangle Architects), Jennifer Dyne (David Kohn Architects), Dave Mills (Lyons & Annoot), Amy Napier (Napier Clarke), John Ramshaw (Architecture Today), Ian Shard (LBT Brick and Facades), Sarah Firth (Haworth Tompkins), Tim Greensmith (Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios), Lex Harrison (Arup), Luke Tozer (Pitman Tozer Architects), Tatiana Von Preussen (vPPR), and Ian Wilson (Anglian Brickwork).
The award winners are:
Supreme Winner, and Urban Regeneration Award: Norton Folgate, London
Architects: Allford Hall Monaghan Morris, Stanton Williams, Morris + Company, DSDHA, and EAST
Brick manufacturers: Michelmersh Brick Holdings, Ibstock
Brickwork contractors: Paye Stonework & Restoration, Thorpe Precast, Lyons & Annoot
“This excellent mixed-use scheme is a unique blend of old and new, creating highly sustainable, innovative spaces in an historic environment in the heart of the city.”
“The whole team should be commended for bringing such a complex and lengthy project through to successful completion. It is a highly accomplished and sensitive marriage of historic retention, restoration and rebuilding, with new sympathetic commercial architecture in brick. It is an example of how challenging sites need great design, executed well, with a committed client, to breathe new life into them, giving them a sustainable future, without throwing out the past.”
Urban Regeneration highly commended: Elephant Tea Rooms
Architects’ Choice Award: The Scoop, London
Architect: Corstorphine & Wright
Brick manufacturer: Ibstock
Brickwork contractor: Grafton Brickwork
“A highly creative concept with the purpose of revealing the architecture of the adjacent building on to the high street.”
Contractors’ Choice Award: Royal Eden Docks Phase 2, London
Architect: Hunters
Brick manufacturer: Ibstock
Brickwork contractor: Swift Brickwork Contractors
“Royal Eden Dock is a faultless build of the highest quality. The Management team for Swift brickwork on site should be truly proud of what they have achieved. ”
Individual Housing Development Award: Six Columns, London
Architect: 31/44 Architects
Brick manufacturers: Wienerberger, Ketley Brick Company
Brickwork contractor: Atlant Construction
“This project consists of an enjoyable collection of living spaces heightened by the connection to the garden. The bricks were well chosen and add to the overall design impact from the street.”
Highly commended: Plas Hendy Stable Block
Small Housing Development Award: Manresa House, Birmingham
Architect: OMI Architects
Brick manufacturers: Ibstock, Wienerberger
Brickwork contractor: HH Smith & Sons Co
“The extensive use of clay brick, both internally and externally works well. The project blends well into the local residential area and provides a suitable and safe environment for the training priests and the supporting staff at Manresa House.”
Medium Housing Development Award: Forest Road, London
Architect: Gort Scott
Brick manufacturer: Michelmersh Brick Holdings
Brick Contractor: Legendre UK
“Beautiful looking building, the wet cast stonework complemented the tint of the bricks. Excellently constructed brickwork especially the window surrounds and stone heads!”
Highly commended: Lucy Cavendish College
Large Housing Development Award: Brabazon, Bristol
Architects: Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios, Grant Associates
Brick manufacturer: Michelmersh Brick Holdings
Brickwork contractor: YTL Developments
“A highly successful development that shows how the consistent use of a well chosen main brick can help to define the character of a new residential area. The success is in the simplicity and the consistency of the use of a main brick over many different buildings, with different scales, geometries and configurations in order to tie the development together. There is an economy of means that should be celebrated.”
Highly commended: Royal Eden Docks Phase 2, and Farrimond House
Craftsmanship Award: 5 Fredericks Place, London
Architects: Stanton Williams, Sonnemann Toon
Brick manufacturers: Ibstock, York Handmade Brick Company
Brickwork contractor: Grangewood Brickwork Services
“Interesting and exciting masonry features. It’s not very often one sees a well executed tapestry bond!”
Highly commended: Mapesbury
Sustainability Award: Aspen Wood Hospital, Liverpool
Architect: Gilling Dod Architects
Brick manufacturer: Michelmersh Brick Holdings
Brickwork contractor: Stock Brickwork
“This project is set to become the benchmark for all similar builds moving forward. The building delivers on lots of levels, including sensory design, robustness and security, low maintenance, longevity, and sustainability. It has also helped to add a sense of permanence, safety, and refuge to vulnerable service users, as well as confidence and trust from staff.”
Housebuilder Award: Cala Homes
Project 1: Shopwyke Lakes, Chichester
Architect: Cala Homes
Brick manufacturer: Ibstock
Project 2: Waterbeach Development, Cambridgeshire
Architect: Cala Homes
Brick manufacturer: Ibstock
“Consistently using finer brick design features that create stunning homes and a sustainable community. Cala go the extra mile to deliver exemplary customer service and nurture young apprentices within the business.”
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Public Award: Greenock Ocean Terminal, Inverclyde
Architect: Richard Murphy Architects
Brick manufacturer: Ibstock
Brickwork contractor: Heron Brothers
“Upper crisp lines with contrasting blue engineering bricks intersected with glazed bricks, a wonderful mock chimney to the roof area. Just a very good example of brickwork of which the masonry contractor should be justifiably proud.”
Highly commended: Oak Hill Lawn Crematorium
Education Award: Mulberry Academy London Dock, London
Architect: Architype
Brick manufacturer: Ibstock
Brickwork contractor: Swift Brickwork Contractors
“Mulberry, London Dock School reflects the rich history of it surroundings with great care, while providing a high-quality contemporary educational building. Careful consideration has been given to the choice of brick and how it was detailed.”
Refurbishment Award: Ice Factory, London
Architect: Buckley Gray Yeoman
Brick manufacturer: Michelmersh Brick Holdings
Brickwork contractor: Langdale Associates
“The building makes a subtle but coherent transition between old and new, with the new elements pushing the boundaries of the creative use of clay brick, while remaining respectful to the original building. A real delight!”
Innovation Award: HyBrick Bench, Science Museum, London
Architect: Unknown Works
Brick manufacturer: Michelmersh Brick Holdings
Brick contractor: Lyons & Annoot
“A demonstration of how hydrogen-fired bricks could potentially help to lower the carbon emissions of the brick industry. It points the way to other innovations to lower the carbon footprint of the clay brick industry.”
Highly commended: Foxglove House
Commercial Award: Berner & Wells Street, London
Architect: Emrys Architects
Brick Manufacturers: Ibstock, Michelmersh Brick Holdings
Brickwork contractor: Blou Construction
“High-quality detailing, materials and design of elevations and internal spaces responding to the two street, and courtyard conditions. Good use of brick in various conditions – historic repair, restoration, and heritage extension alongside contemporary. Nicely detailed throughout.”
Specialist Brickwork Contractor Award: Cara Brickwork
Project 1: Monk Bridge, Leeds
Architect: Carey Jones Chapman Tolcher
Brick Manufacturers: Ibstock, Wienerberger
Project 2: Islington Wharf, Manchester
Architect: Ryder Architects
Brick Manufacturer: Forterra, Michelmersh Brick Holdings
“In Cara we could see a business that cared about its people and also the communities that it worked in. It was evident from the drive of the senior leadership team, which cascaded through the business, that Cara invest in the future of their business with apprenticeships, but also in how they monitor quality as part of their works.”
Worldwide Award: Sandford Lodge, Ireland
Architect: Shay Cleary Architects
Brickwork manufacturer: Wienerberger Bronsgroen
Brickwork contractor: Glenbeigh Construction
“Architectural Excellence has to be demonstrated both in a rigorously clear concept design and in the beautiful realisation in bricks and mortar of the proposal. We feel this project really responds to both criteria.”
