Global Holcim Awards 2006
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USD 1 million in prize money was awarded to the best sustainable construction projects entered in the first global Holcim Awards competition. Joint winners of the Holcim Awards Gold were an urban integration project in Caracas, Venezuela, and the design for a new main railway station in Stuttgart, Germany.
 | Main Station Stuttgart, Germany
Global Holcim Awards Gold 2006
This project by Christoph Ingenhoven is part of a larger program of infrastructure renewal. The enormous scale of the operation offers a refined solution with technical innovation and a design that acknowledges the need for quality public space in the city center.
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 | San Rafael-Unido, urban integration project, Caracas, Venezuela
Global Holcim Awards Gold 2006
With this project Proyectos Arqui 5 addressed the challenges of the desolate urban conditions of a poverty-stricken neighborhood by providing infrastructure for water, sewage and electricity along the steep stairs and paths.
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 | Waterpower - Renewal strategy for the Mulini Valley, Italy
Global Holcim Awards Silver Europe 2006
The project by Luigi Centola uses water as the central theme with the preservation of a number of historic buildings and maintaining aesthetic balance between existing and new structures.
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 | Greening the infrastructure at Benny Farm, Montreal, Canada
Global Holcim Awards Bronze 2006
This project upgrades the housing infrastructure for a community in Montreal. At the core of the design by Daniel Pearl was the establishment of participatory models invested in sustainable construction focused on common energy, water, and waste management.
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