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Judges select finalists for Brick Bay Folly

Awards | This year, five fanciful submissions have been short-listed for the prestigious 2025 Brick Bay Folly. Amanda Harkness takes a closer look at the line-up.

2024 Brick Bay Folly winner announced

Awards | This year’s colourful winning Brick Bay Folly, Femme-ly Velues, represents a first for the programme since its launch almost 10 years ago. Amanda Harkness takes a closer look.

Brick Bay Folly 2025: Call for entries

News | The well-known architecture competition is now taking entries, offering emerging architects the opportunity to realise an installation of their design with a $30,000 grant.

Five Folly finalists selected for Brick Bay

News | Amanda Harkness looks at the concepts proposed by this year’s Brick Bay Folly finalists and finds both creative composition and intrinsic decomposition.

The Voice of the Kōkōhau

Projects | This year’s winning Brick Bay Folly, ‘Te Reo o te Hau’, ‘The Voice of the Kōkōhau’, asks us to listen to the voice of the wind and explore the kōrero it has with its surroundings.

Brick Bay Folly: 2024: Open for entries

News | The 2024 Brick Bay Folly competition is now open for entries, offering emerging architects the opportunity to design (and possibly build) a small-scale architectural installation.

Brick Bay Folly finalists revealed

News | Folly judge Pip Cheshire considers the proposals by this year’s finalists and finds that each of them reflects the moral and cultural climate of our era.

Watch: The story behind the making of the 2022 Brick Bay Folly, The Nest

Watch | Inspired by a friendly pīwakawaka (fantail), the design references the delicate stacking and weaving of twigs while the subtle use of Resene paints and stains reference the colours of the bird’s wingspan and tail.

The Nest - This year’s winning Brick Bay Folly

News | The 2022 Brick Bay Folly design competition was won by Master of Architecture students from the University of Auckland.

Brick Bay Folly 2023 open for entries

News | Entries are now open for the 2023 Brick Bay Folly. Created as an opportunity for architecture students and recent graduates to investigate the intersection between sculpture and architecture.

Finalists announced: Brick Bay Folly 2021

News | With sustainability, the pandemic and climate and biodiversity crises front of mind, this year’s Brick Bay Folly entries tackled issues beyond those of simply translating whimsical computer renders into constructed reality.

Brick Bay Folly 2021 open for entries

News | The 2021 Brick Bay Folly programme is now open for entries until 28 June for students and recent graduates to create a design that explores the intersection of sculpture and architecture.

Traversing the digital-to-artefact divide: Brick Bay Folly 2021

News | Brick Bay Folly mentor Pip Cheshire considers the gap between the projected and the possible, and finds the winning entry, Genealogy of the Pacific, has bridged it deftly.

Brick Bay Folly 2020: Finalists announced

News | Competition chair Pip Cheshire describes the judging process that took place at the end of June to select five outstanding finalists from a field of 24 submissions.

Brick Bay Folly 2020: Call for entries

News | Students and recent graduates are invite to enter the 2020 iteration of this competition that explores the intersection of sculpture and architecture.