Holcim Foundation Awards 2025 Winners

20 Winning Projects Highlighting global trends reshaping sustainable design and construction

The Holcim Foundation for Sustainable Construction has announced twenty winning projects for the 2025 Holcim Foundation Awards, spanning Asia Pacific, Europe, Latin America, the Middle East and Africa, and North America with a prize pool of USD 1 million.

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(Listed alphabetically by project title)

  • Art-Tek Tulltorja

    Art-Tek Tulltorja

    A former brick factory in Pristina is reimagined as a creative and tech program, combining clean energy, circular construction, and community-led programming to drive cultural, social, and economic regeneration in post-conflict Kosovo.

    Art-Tek Tulltorja
  • Barrio Chacarita Alta Housing

    Barrio Chacarita Alta Housing

    An innovative social housing project in Asunción’s Chacarita Alta district upgrades an informal settlement through resident participation, providing safe, affordable homes and transforming a polluted ravine into vibrant public spaces and pathways.

    Barrio Chacarita Alta Housing
  • Brookside Secondary School

    Brookside Secondary School

    A school harnessing locally crafted, low-carbon clay bricks revives nearly lost artisanal skills, whilst providing economic opportunities for the area.

    Brookside Secondary School
  • Buffalo Crossing Visitor Centre

    Buffalo Crossing Visitor Centre

    A net-zero visitor centre in Winnipeg reconnecting communities to reclaimed landscapes, drawing on Indigenous design collaboration, and passive strategies.

    Buffalo Crossing Visitor Centre
  • The Crafts College

    The Crafts College

    A vocational campus uses recycled materials, passive design, and shared public space to connect education with sustainable building and craft, offering students a hands-on model for learning by making.

    The Crafts College
  • Gelephu Mindfulness City

    Gelephu Mindfulness City

    A bold design in Bhutan integrates spiritual values, passive design, and renewable energy into a large-scale urban plan. Shaped by the landscape and local materials, it aims to set a global benchmark for sustainable urban planning and development.

    Gelephu Mindfulness City
  • Healing Through Design

    Healing Through Design

    A compact health center in Bengaluru uses recycled stone and timber, passive cooling, and community-led design to form a vibrant, inclusive hub for healing, culture, and social resilience.

    Healing Through Design
  • Lawson Centre for Sustainability

    Lawson Centre for Sustainability

    A climate-conscious urban infill education hub at Toronto’s Trinity College is deploying passive design strategies that foster community, circularity, and ecological restoration.

    Lawson Centre for Sustainability
  • Moakley Park

    Moakley Park

    A community-led waterfront park in Boston that integrates restored marshes, stormwater management, adaptive landscapes, and native plantings to create a resilient and inclusive public space.

    Moakley Park
  • Old Dhaka Central Jail Conservation

    Old Dhaka Central Jail Conservation

    A historic jail site in central Dhaka is reimagined as a vibrant public space, blending adaptive reuse, passive cooling strategies, and local craft to deliver a culturally rooted, economically viable model for sustainable urban renewal.

    Old Dhaka Central Jail Conservation
  • Pingshan River Blueway Landscape Design

    Pingshan River Blueway Landscape Design

    A 40km river corridor in Shenzhen is transformed into a biodiverse public landscape, integrating passive measures to reduce the urban heat island (UHI) effect, material reuse, and regional cultural heritage to create a flood-resilient, inclusive urban greenway.

    Pingshan River Blueway Landscape Design
  • Portland International Airport Terminal

    Portland International Airport Terminal

    A sustainably expanded airport terminal in Portland with locally sourced materials, passive daylighting, and community-informed design.

    Portland International Airport Terminal
  • Qalandiya Green Historic Maze

    Qalandiya Green Historic Maze

    An incremental restoration project looks to revive a fragile historic village, honoring vernacular architecture, championing community engagement, optimizing ecological rehabilitation, and highlighting adaptive reuse.

    Qalandiya Green Historic Maze
  • Origin: The Reunion with the Lost Gardens

    Origin: The Reunion with the Lost Gardens

    Shaping a new landscape in Medellín, the project removes an obsolete concrete structure to uncover a buried creek. Integrating urban farming, water gardens, and outdoor classrooms, it reconnects a university campus with its natural hydrology.

    Origin: The Reunion with the Lost Gardens
  • School in Gaüses

    School in Gaüses

    A rural school in Catalonia built from local earth, timber, and tile rethinks education through sustainability, turning its forested site into a space where children learn by doing—inside and out.

    School in Gaüses
  • Schools for Flood-Prone Areas

    Schools for Flood-Prone Areas

    A Brazilian public school is redesigned to act as a multi-level refuge during annual floods, ensuring vital shelter for the local community, whilst offering a unique architecture that acts as a learning tool in itself.

    Schools for Flood-Prone Areas
  • Sesc Parque Dom Pedro II

    Sesc Parque Dom Pedro II

    In central São Paulo, a derelict triangular lot wedged between highways and a river is reborn as a vibrant community center for the city’s underserved downtown population.

    Sesc Parque Dom Pedro II
  • The Southern River Parks

    The Southern River Parks

    A large-scale restoration of Madrid’s southern riverbanks turns degraded land into resilient green infrastructure, using native planting, water reuse, and community-led design to address climate, biodiversity, and social challenges.

    The Southern River Parks
  • Waldorf School in Nairobi

    Waldorf School in Nairobi

    A semi-permanent primary school campus in Nairobi's forest poetically merges classrooms with nature, utilizing modular, earth-filled walls and lightweight roofs. 

    Waldorf School in Nairobi
  • Zando Central Market

    Zando Central Market

    Redeveloping Kinshasa’s central market, this project provides safe, comfortable, shaded stalls for 20,000 vendors using passive design, breathable brick façades, and open concrete structures.

    Zando Central Market

Awards 2025 Winners

The Holcim Foundation announces 20 outstanding winners of the 2025 Awards, highlighting global trends that are reshaping sustainable design and construction.

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