Awards History

Awards 2005–2006: Cycle Summary

Pioneering the importance of sustainable design

  • Global Holcim Awards 2006 winners

    Global Holcim Awards Gold 2006 winner, Christoph Ingenhoven of Ingenhoven und Partner Architectken, Düsseldorf, Germany.

  • Project Entry 2005 Europe – Stuttgart Main Station, Stuttgart, Germany

    Global Holcim Awards Gold 2006

    The Main Station Stuttgart project in Germany places the railway station underground to recover land and to create a new urban area, combining structural and landscape aspects.

  • Global Holcim Awards Gold 2006

    Winning team from Proyectos Arqui5 (l-r): Maria Pocaterra, Victor Gastier, Silvia Soonets and Isabel Pocaterra.

  • Global Holcim Awards Gold 2006

    The San Rafael-Unido urban integration project in Caracas takes maximum advantage of the steep slope to create social spaces, housing units, and measures to mitigate the danger of landslides.

  • Global Holcim Awards Silver 2006

    Presentation of the Holcim Awards Gold 2005 Europe (l-r): Mario Cicalese, Jeremy King, Antonello Stella, Michele Mole, Luigi Centola, Santo Marra, Gianni Rastrelli, Luciana Polimeni and Piero Latella.

  • Global Holcim Awards Silver 2006

    Waterpower, renewal strategy for the Mulini Valley in Italy recovers a landscape and a system of pre-industrial water mills currently in danger of collapse beyond repair.

  • Global Holcim Awards Bronze 2006

    Global Holcim Awards Bronze 2006 winners (l-r): Josée St.Onge, Daniel Pearl, Jennifer Towell, Mark Poddubiuk, Sudhir Suri, Martine Bédard, Martin Roy.

  • Project update August 2011 – Greening the Infrastructure at Benny Farm, Montreal, QC, Canada

    Global Holcim Awards Bronze 2006

    Greening the Infrastructure at Benny Farm in Montréal, Canada foregrounds socioeconomic processes in relation to a community-driven housing project.

In 2004, the first Holcim Awards competition was launched by the Swiss-based Holcim Foundation for Sustainable Construction in collaboration with five of the world’s leading technical universities.

46

prize-winning projects

3,000

competition entries

120

countries represented

The Holcim Awards were created to promote innovative, future-oriented and tangible sustainable construction projects and reinforce stakeholder awareness of the importance architecture, engineering, and construction have in achieving a more sustainable future.

At the regional level, more than 3,000 projects from 120 countries were submitted and subsequently reviewed by independent juries.In ceremonies held between September and October 2005,46 teams were recognised and shared in USD 1.1 million.

Following the first phase of the competition, the three top winning teams of each region automatically qualified for the global Holcim Awards. In April 2006 prizes amounting to an additional USD 1 million were presented to four winning teams at a ceremony held in Bangkok, Thailand.

Global Holcim Awards 2006 ceremony - Bangkok, Thailand

Following the first phase of the competition, the three top winning teams of each region automatically qualified for the global Holcim Awards. In April 2006 prizes amounting to an additional USD 1 million were presented to four winning teams at a ceremony held in Bangkok, Thailand.

The first ever Global Holcim Awards winners were an urban integration project in Caracas, Venezuela, and the design for a new main railway station in Stuttgart, Germany - both receiving the Gold prize. The Holcim Awards Silver went to a regional master plan and renewal strategy for the Mulini Valley near Amalfi and Scala, Italy, Holcim Awards Bronze to a low-cost housing and urban renewal project in Montréal, Canada.

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