Holcim Foundation Awards
The world’s most significant competition for sustainable design - showcasing projects that contribute to the transformation of the building sector.
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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.