The Brick Industry Association (BIA) has opened its call for entries for the 2017 Brick in Architecture Awards, the country’s premiere architectural design competition featuring clay brick.

Last year's winning BIA project in the Residential Single Family category was a home in Greenwich, Conn., designed by Charles Hilton Architects.

BIA’s annual awards honor outstanding, innovative and sustainable architecture in 10 categories that incorporate clay brick products as the predominant exterior building or paving material. Entries must be submitted online by April 30. Projects will be judged by a jury of peers, and the winners will be announced in June.

Architectural and design firms may enter projects completed since Jan. 1, 2012, in which new clay brick products comprise the predominant exterior building or paving material (over 50 percent), including: face or hollow brick, building brick, thin brick, paving brick, glazed brick, structural glazed facing tile, new clay brick products in special shapes and/or a combination of any of these units and more. Entries must be submitted online in one of several categories, includeing Residential Single Family and Residential Multifamily.