• Alice Charles: Homes from Vacant Buildings

    Arup’s Director for Cities, Planning and Design makes the case for turning Europe’s vacant and derelict buildings into homes, recorded at the Forum in Venice.

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  • Fellows at the Table

    How six Holcim Foundation Fellows used storytelling in Berlin to challenge sustainability myths and shape a new report on reusing Europe’s buildings.

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  • A Cooler Capital: CityMakers Live Madrid

    Planners, researchers and industry leaders on heat, retrofit and Madrid’s new urban plan, at the Holcim Foundation’s second CityMakers Live event.

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  • How Bucharest is Building with Its Past | Cities in Motion Film No.1

    Our documentary film series continues under a new banner, Cities in Motion, and opens in Bucharest, where a culture of regeneration is blossoming through an ambitious group of built environment professionals.

  • World Congress of Architects UIA 2026 Barcelona

    Panel discussion at UIA 2026 Barcelona: Kjetil Trædal Thorsen (Snøhetta), Kika Krista Kjærside (Danish Architecture Center), Marion Waller (Pavillon de l'Arsenal), Tatiana Bilbao (Tatiana Bilbao Estudio), and Hélène Chartier (C40 Cities).

  • CityMakers Voices No.5 — James Cameron

    James Cameron on solving urbanism's biggest challenges: cities need generations to share power as well as ideas.

  • James Cameron, Chair, Holcim Foundation Board | CityMakers Voices No.5

    What does it take to make climate resilience alluring rather than fear-driven, and why does valuing nature in cities start with letting go of the idea that we're separate from it?

  • CityMakers Voices No.4 — Sofian Sibarani

    In conversation with journalist Nolan Giles in Venice, Sofian Sibarani makes the case for nature-led urban design and the vernacular wisdom behind Indonesia's new capital.

  • Hamburg Builds with Water

    Speicherstadt's red-brick warehouses and iron bridges in Hamburg, part of the historic port district.

  • Sofian Sibarani, Founder, URBAN + | CityMakers Voices No.4

    What does it take to master plan a brand-new capital for the world's fourth-most populous nation?

  • World Congress of Architects UIA 2026 Barcelona

    Fireside Chat: Engaging Youth! (l-r) Laura Viscovich, Executive Director, Holcim Foundation; Jacob Meyers, Holcim Foundation Fellow & Emerging ChangeMaker

  • How Hamburg is Building With Water | Future Tides Film No.3

    Hamburg sits where the River Elbe meets the sea — and a new district has risen directly in the flood zone. Future Tides is a documentary series from the Holcim Foundation following the cities and city makers reinventing themselves in the face of climate change. Film 3 travels to Hamburg.

  • How Rotterdam is Redesigning for Water

    Future Tides No.1 is a 5-minute film exploring how Rotterdam is turning flood risk into a model for climate-resilient urban design.

  • Përparim Rama, Mayor of Pristina

    In this 15-minute CityMakers Voices conversation, Mayor Përparim Rama reflects on architecture, politics and how cities can empower people.

  • CityMakers Voices No.1 — Përparim Rama

    For Rama, Pristina’s transformation is about creating a city that empowers people.

  • CityMakers Voices No.1 — Përparim Rama

    Përparim Rama sees the role of mayor as city-making at full scale.

  • Board of the Holcim Foundation

    Board of Trustees of the Holcim Foundation (l-r): Carmen Diaz, Miljan Gutovic, Signe Kongebro, James Cameron (Chair), Alice Charles, and Thure Krarup.

  • Emerging ChangeMakers (ECM) Retreat 2025

    The 2025 Emerging ChangeMaker cohort united around the challenge of planning for multiple futures.

  • Holcim Foundation Awards 2025

    The five Grand Prize winners were celebrated alongside 15 Holcim Foundation Awards regional winners celebrating groundbreaking sustainable design projects across Asia Pacific, Europe, Latin America, Middle East & Africa, and North America.

  • Awards 2025 Prize Announcement – Art-Tek Tulltorja

    Presenting the Holcim Foundation Awards 2025 Grand Prize for Europe – Art-Tek Tulltorja in Kosovo.

  • Aftermovie | Designing Incentives for Change

    Experience how Brussels became a living laboratory for change, as Fellows worked with experts and policymakers to craft real-world incentives linking design, finance, and culture toward a circular built environment.

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