• CityMakers Voices: James Cameron

    The Holcim Foundation Board chair on valuing nature in cities, designing resilience without fear, and what younger generations can teach us about sharing power.

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  • Cities in Motion: Bucharest Builds with Its Past

    Ștefan Ghenciulescu and city makers on turning reuse into a design opportunity, from a historic theater to a reservoir reborn as public space.

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  • Rules for Better City-Making: UIA 2026 Barcelona

    Five voices, from Barcelona's chief architect to Snøhetta's founding partner, on making the most of what already exists in the urban fabric.

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Supporting citymakers as change accelerators for sustainable construction

Founded in 2003, the Holcim Foundation was among the first global initiatives to define and champion the principles of sustainable construction. Today, we build on that legacy with a clear ambition.

  • Our Vision

    Influence how cities are built, renewed, and cared for - advancing responsible urban development and placemaking that integrates buildings, infrastructure, and public space to create greener, healthier and more resilient places for growing urban populations to live and work.

  • Our Mission

    To support citymakers as change accelerators for sustainable construction — mobilising knowledge, partnerships, and practice to translate integrated urban thinking into tangible impact where it is most urgently needed.

A Strategic Partnership with C40 Cities

Empowering Citymakers to Shape a Better Built Future

Bologna, Italy

An important first step in translating our renewed vision into action is our new partnership with C40 Cities through the C40 Reinventing Cities initiative. This collaboration bridges city governments, the private sector, and the next generation to drive low-carbon, resilient urban development worldwide.

Coming Events

CityMakers Live Madrid

As one of Europe's most heat-exposed capitals, Madrid is racing to cool and renew its built fabric just as it reshapes its General Urban Plan, a framework first adopted in 1997, to embed climate resilience into the rules of development.

This invitation-only event on October 6, 2026 in Madrid gathers city officials, practitioners, and developers at Infinito Delicias, a Holcim Foundation Awards 2023 winner for its industrial retrofit, to explore circularity as a practical strategy: renovating rather than demolishing to cut emissions, waste, and cost.

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