Awards 2017–2018: Cycle Summary

Hydropuncture in Mexico intermingles flood basins and public amenities, with spaces following the gravitational logic of flowing water in an underprivileged area of Mexico City.

Congratulating the winners (l-r): Rodolfo Montero, Holcim Mexico; winners Loreta Castro Reguera, Taller Capital and Manuel Perló, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México; with Holcim Foundation Board members Roland Köhler, Enrique Norten, and Maria Atkinson.

Legacy Restored reinterprets traditional local construction to design a new mosque with a capacity for 1,000 people and creates a literacy center and library in the renovated derelict mosque in Dandaji, Niger.

Winners (l-r): Yasaman Esmaili, Studio Chahar and Mariam Kamara, Atelier Masomi, congratulated by Bernd Eitel, Holcim, and Jens Diebold and Stuart Smith, Holcim Foundation.

Grassroots Microgrid in Detroit, USA is based on acquisition and use of concentrations of vacant parcels for solar and geothermal energy generation and water management.

Winners (l-r): Eric Mahoney and Constance Bodurow, studio[Ci], Bernd Eitel and Jens Diebold, Holcim.

Cooling Roof is a research investigation on how to cool large-scale structures using water on the roof as a thermal insulator and solar reflector, including a prototype in Cherry Valley in California, USA.

Presenting the Ideas prize to Georgina Baronian (center) are Maria Atkinson and Roland Köhler of the Holcim Foundation’s Board.

Territorial Figure proposes an infrastructure for the use of tidal energy in Río Gallegos estuary at Punta Loyola in Argentina.

Presenting the Global Holcim Awards Ideas prize (l-r): Mariela Marchisio, Universidad National de Córdoba; Angelo Bucci, University of São Paulo, Ideas prize winners Juan Cruz Serafini and Tomás Pont; and Carlos Espina, Holcim Argentina.