Project summary:
Self-contained day labor station (San Francisco, USA) is a minimal physical urbanistic intervention with maximum social equity and neighborhood enhancement effects. The project is a small structure that functions as a labormarket and service delivery platform for day laborers who wait for casual work every morning at customary gathering points.
Winners of the Global Holcim Awards “Innovation” prize 2009 presented at the hand-over ceremony in San Francisco, USA, May 31, 2009 (l-r): John Petersen, “Innovation” prize winner, Public Architecture, San Francisco; Saskia Sassen, Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology, Columbia University, New York, and member of the global jury; Liz Ogbu, “Innovation” prize winner, Public Architecture, San Francisco; and Enrique Norten, Principal and founder, TEN Arquitectos , Mexico City and New York, and member of the global jury.
 read update - prize hand-over in San Francisco, May 31, 2009
 | Jury appraisal
Download an excerpt of the Global Holcim Awards jury report
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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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Global Holcim Awards "Innovation" prize winners (l-r): John Peterson and Liz Ogbu.
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Self-contained day labor station, San Francisco, USA
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| Video interview |  | View interview with project author Liz Ogbu at the prize hand-over in San Francisco, May 31, 2009
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| Video statements |  | | Members of the Global Holcim Awards jury discuss the jury process and need to pursue sustainability. |
| Project posters |  | | Each finalist presented their project to the jury on a series of seven posters. |
| "2nd Holcim Awards - Sustainable Construction 2008/2009" |  | Essay on the Global Holcim Awards "Innovation" prize and the authors of the project
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