Promoting the exchange of knowledge and experience
Global Holcim Awards Gold 2012
Secondary school with passive ventilation system in Burkina Faso uses traditional building materials and actively involves the community in the construction process.
Global Holcim Awards Gold 2012
Prize handover in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (l-r): Rolf Soiron, prize winner Diébédo Francis Kéré and Joe Osae-Addo.
Global Holcim Awards Silver 2012
The multifunctional public building, Grotão – Fábrica de Música in the favela of Paraisópolis in São Paolo, transforms an eroded landscape into a productive zone and dynamic public space.
Global Holcim Awards Silver 2012
Winning team from Urban Think-Tank (l-r): Michel Contento, Lindsey Sherman, Alfredo Brillembourg and Hubert Klumpner.
Global Holcim Awards Bronze 2012
Urban renewal and swimming-pool precinct, Berlin Flussbad, aims to transform an arm of the river into a natural 745m swimming precinct equivalent to seventeen Olympic swimming pools.
Global Holcim Awards Bronze 2012
Presentation (l-r): Rolf Soiron, Holcim with winners from realities:united Jan Edler, jury member Mario Botta, Regula Lüscher, and Tim Edler.
Global Holcim Awards 2012 Innovation 1st prize
The Wasteless Free-Form Formwork construction technology combines existing processes and materials in a new way to fabricate non-repetitive free-form cast-on-site concrete structures using re-usable and digitally-fabricated wax formwork.
Global Holcim Awards 2012 Innovation 1st prize
Peter Wellauer and Roland Köhler, Holcim; Hans-Rudolf Schalcher, Awards jury member; and the winning team from Gramazio & Kohler, Architektur and Digital Fabrication, Matthias Kohler, Ammar Mirjan, Axel Vansteenkiste, Selen Ercan, and Petrus Lindström.
Global Holcim Awards 2012 Innovation 2nd prize
Low-cost apartments incorporating smart materials in Hamburg, Germany is an outstanding achievement in terms of concrete technology, typology and energy efficiency.
Global Holcim Awards 2012 Innovation 2nd prize
Members of the winning team for “Smart Material House” (l-r): Alexander Hückler and Mike Schlaich, Technische Universität Berlin with Frank Barkow and Heiko Krech, Barkow Leibinger Architects, Berlin.
Global Holcim Awards 2012 Innovation 3rd prize
The efficient fabrication system for geometrically complex building elements is resource efficient and considerably reduces construction waste.
Global Holcim Awards 2012 Innovation 3rd prize
Congratulating Global Holcim Innovation 3rd prize winners (l-r) : Lluis Enrique and Carlos Piles is Alain Bourguignon, CEO, Aggregate Industries UK.
The 3rd Holcim Awards competition of 2011-12 presented innovative approaches and integrated solutions that meet societal needs and address environmental performance and ecological footprints. The projects also show how economic efficiency can be improved through a combination of lower resource and energy consumption as well as reduced maintenance and total lifecycle costs.
53
prize-winning projects
6,000
competition entries
146
countries represented
The Holcim Foundation sees itself more and more as a network-platform for sharing information. We want to promote the exchange of knowledge and experience. And we want to support the cross-border multiplication of outstanding and innovative examples of sustainable construction – including the many prize-winning ideas presented in this publication.
A school project in Gando, Burkina Faso, a multifunctional community center in São Paulo, Brazil, and an urban renewal plan in Berlin, Germany are the winners of the Global Holcim Awards for 2012. These leading sustainable construction projects were selected from 15 finalist submissions by a jury of independent experts led by Enrique Norten. The finalists were the regional Holcim Awards 2011 winning projects that had been selected from more than 6,000 entries in 146 countries.
How to build with clay – and community: TED Talk
Global Holcim Awards Gold winner Francis Kéré shares his perspectives on blending beautiful architecture and social infrastructure
All 53 prize-winning projects at the regional level also competed for further prizes based on their contributions to sustainable construction through innovative building materials and construction technologies.
