Holcim Awards 2021–22

Extending the Cycle repurposes and extends a building and exemplifies how design processes can be turned upside-down in favor of circular construction in Winterthur, Switzerland.

Barbara Buser (left), baubüro in situ, receives the Global Holcim Awards Gold trophy as a member of the winning team from Hashim Sarkis, Head of the Global Holcim Awards jury 2021.

Wetland Vitality is a landscape design for the recovery of a wetland creates environmental and social sustainability in Bogotá, Colombia.

Presentation (l-r): Harry Gugger, Holcim Foundation; winners Santiago Hurtado, Sebastián Mejia, and Edgar Mazo, Connatural; and Loreta Castro Reguera, Head of the Holcim Awards jury Latin America 2020.

Cultural Interlude, a self-sustaining music school and ecotourism center to preserve tribal cultural heritage in M’hammid El Ghizlane, Morocco.

Winner presentation (l-r): Stuart Smith, Holcim Foundation with winners Aziza Chaouni, Dana Salama and Thomas Duncan, Aziza Chaouni Projects, and Meisa Batayneh Maani, Holcim Foundation.

Propagated Sanctuary, an urban forest develops a self-sustained ecosystem and offers new environmental, social and economic opportunities to its inhabitants in Hanoi, Vietnam.

Winning team: “We are creating a forest, not a park” - Marek Betulaceae (3rd from left), ODDO architects, Vietnam.

Connective Threads, a participatory design upcycles textile waste to create refugee shelters while offering opportunities for the cultural expression of displaced people in the Zaatari Refugee Camp, Jordan.

Presentation by Holcim Foundation Board members Marilyne Andersen (left), Stuart Smith (centre) and Meisa Batayneh Maani (right) to winners Melina Philippou and Azra Aksamija, Future Heritage Lab, MIT, USA.