Holcim Awards for Sustainable Construction
The world’s most significant competition for sustainable design - showcasing projects that contribute to the transformation of the building sector.
Holcim Awards 2023 Announces Global Winners
The Holcim Foundation for Sustainable Construction has announced the winners of its international Holcim Awards for 2023, underscoring the breadth of diverse and innovative real-world approaches to transforming the built environment.
From the bustling streets of Madrid to heritage conservation efforts in China, the winning projects – awarded prize money totaling USD 1 million – exemplify the growing global effort to provide holistic design and construction responses that advance multiple aspects of sustainable development.
Supercharging the best projects in sustainable design and construction
The Holcim Awards competitions were created to recognise and promote projects that combine sustainable design and sustainable construction with architectural excellence.
The Holcim 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 Awards 2023. With a total prize pool of USD 1 million, the Holcim Awards competition was revised in 2023 to focus on projects at a late design stage that are client-supported and commissioned for real-world execution.
Holcim Awards 2023 Gold winners
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El 17. Composition of Knowledge House
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Awards Gold 2023 Europe
El 17. Composition of Knowledge House
El 17. Composition of Knowledge House360° co-design process for rehabilitation of an industrial building
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Fujian Tulou
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Awards Gold 2023 Asia Pacific
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Surf Ghana Collective
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Awards Gold 2023 Middle East & Africa
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Utopia Estrella Iztapalapa
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Awards Gold 2023 Latin America
Utopia Estrella Iztapalapa
Utopia Estrella IztapalapaUrban forest and social infrastructure precinct
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1925 Victoria Park Ave
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Awards Gold 2023 North America
1925 Victoria Park Ave
1925 Victoria Park AveHigh-tech and low-cost modular housing solution for urban living
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The winners of the Holcim 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 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.
Holcim Awards 2023
From adaptive reuse and material circularity to participatory design and cooperative business models
The 20 winning projects of the Holcim Awards 2023 each successfully represent highly contextual and practicable approaches to sustainable construction: across diverse scales, budgets, geographies, and forms. Moreover, having evolved the competition criteria this year to focus on commissioned projects at the late design stage, the winning projects exemplify how it is possible - in this decisive decade to advance sustainable development - to pursue and deliver the application of innovative design and construction practices that provide a holistic response to meeting human development goals and regenerating natural systems.
Use the map below to explore the regional themes addressed by our most recent Holcim Awards winners: