Holcim Foundation Awards
The world’s most significant competition for sustainable design - showcasing projects that contribute to the transformation of the building sector.
The Holcim Foundation conducts the global competition to spotlight real-world case studies that accelerate the global movement for sustainable construction.
The Holcim Foundation is a pioneer of the sustainable design and construction movement. It has served as a beacon of thought leadership for the building industry since 2003.
Holcim Foundation Awards 2025
Entries closed – February 18, 2025
Winners will be announced online in mid-October 2025, and the Awards Ceremony will be held in Venice, Italy, on November 20, 2025.
The competition offers total prize money of USD 1 million across five regions: Asia Pacific, Europe, Latin America, Middle East & Africa, and North America. USD 200,000 in prize money per region is allocated to winners in each region.
Independent expert juries for each region will evaluate entries using the Holcim Foundation’s goals for sustainable construction that serve as a road map to drive system change: uplifting places, a healthy planet, viable economics, and thriving communities.
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Before, I was seen as a nice young man from Africa building schools. After winning the Holcim Foundation Awards, people started calling me a designer, and it paved the way for my career.
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This is not a project trying to bring a solution to a specific location, but trying to answer the common problems we are facing worldwide.
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The Holcim Foundation Awards highlight each project’s contribution to solve a collective need and thus transform it into a collective desire.
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When the Holcim Foundation awarded BIG, it was a great encouragement to keep fighting the battles and finding the solutions.
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Winning the Holcim Foundation Awards helped us to convince the decision-makers behind this project of its many benefits.
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Winning a Holcim Foundation Award helped to validate the sustainability achievements that we can distil from this building.
Supercharging the best projects in sustainable design and construction
The Holcim Foundation Awards were created to recognise and promote projects that combine sustainable design and sustainable construction with architectural excellence.
The Holcim Foundation Awards competition was created in 2004 by the Holcim Foundation for Sustainable Construction to identify and celebrate shining examples of leading-edge thinking from across the building industry.
Since its launch, seven Awards cycles have been completed with over 340 prizes conferred - recognizing 20 further projects in the Holcim Foundation Awards 2023.
Holcim Foundation Awards 2023 winners
The winners of the Holcim Foundation Awards for 2023 underscore the breadth of diverse and innovative real-world approaches to transforming the built environment. The projects exemplify the growing global effort to provide holistic design and construction responses that advance multiple aspects of sustainable development.
A chronology of sustainable construction
The reach of the Holcim Foundation Awards competition is truly global. The competition and winning projects inspire us all to continue advocating for the rapid deployment of existing solutions that will contribute to a future where both humanity and our ecosystems can regenerate and thrive.