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Global Holcim Awards 2009

Gold: River remediation and urban development scheme, Fez, Morocco
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Project summary:
River remediation and urban development scheme (Fez, Morocco) is a multi-sited, multi-functional project that is centered upon the recovery of a river. Work on restoring it triggers a range of interventions in the Medina. Core components are the rehabilitation of the old city’s architecture, revitalizing public spaces and traditional tanneries, and creating new pedestrian zones.

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Prize hand-over to the winners of the Global Holcim Awards Gold prize 2009 (l-r): Dominique Drouet, CEO of Holcim Morocco; Javier de Benito, Area Manager of Holcim, Switzerland; members of the winning team Nicko Elliott, Aziza Chaouni and Takako Tajima, Bureau EAST, Morocco/Canada/USA; Markus Akermann, Chairman of the Management Board of the Holcim Foundation and CEO of Holcim, Switzerland; Hans-Rudolf Schalcher, member of the Management Board of the Holcim Foundation, Switzerland; Joe Addo, head of the jury for Africa Middle East 2008, Ghana; and Enrique Norten, member of the global Awards jury 2009, Mexico/USA.

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Jury appraisal
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Global Holcim Awards jury (from right):
Charles Correa (Head, India), Hans-Rudolf Schalcher (Switzerland), Saskia Sassen (USA), Peter Head (UK), Rolf Soiron (Switzerland); not pictured: Enrique Norten (Mexico/USA).

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Winners of the Global Holcim Awards Gold 2009 – here answering questions after receiving their prize at the Global Holcim Awards 2009 hand-over event in Fez, Morocco.

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Full list of project team members


Project Coordinators
  • Aziza Chaouni, Architect, Bureau E.A.S.T., Toronto, Ontario, Canada
  • Takako Tajima, Urban Designer, Bureau E.A.S.T., Los Angeles, California, USA

Team Members

  • Reem Alissa, Landscape Architect, Ph.D candidate, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California, USA
  • Dan Brunn, Architect, DBA, Los Angeles, California, USA
  • Marco Cenzatti, Industrial Districts Expert, Lecturer in Urban Planning at the Graduate School of Design, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
  • Nicko Elliott, Designer, Bureau E.A.S.T., Fez, Morocco
  • Hester Ezra, Co-Founder and Creative Director, Butterfly Works, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  • John Ferri, Architect and Builder, RADCORP, Los Angeles, California, USA
  • Vesna Kann, Designer, Bureau E.A.S.T., Fez, Morocco
  • Bonnie Kaplan, Restoration Specialist and Engineer, Medina Solutions, Fez, Morocco
  • Dennis Rijkhoff, Designer, Bureau E.A.S.T., Toronto, Ontario, Canada
  • Alex Toshkov, Historian, Ph.D candidate, Columbia University, New York, New York, USA
  • Marieke van den Heuvel, Design Researcher and Project Manager, Butterfly Works, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  • Faiza Zemmouri, Economist, Faiza Zemmouri Consulting, Fez, Morocco
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