Storytelling is a powerful medium

Members of the Holcim Foundation Awards 2025 jury for Latin America (l-r): Gustavo Utrabo, Loreto Lyon, Ricardo Pérez Schulz, Loreta Castro Reguera, Sandra Barclay (Chair of Jury), Federico Torres and Jorge Pérez-Jaramillo.

Members of the Holcim Foundation Awards 2025 for North America (l-r, standing): Hanif Kara OBE, Marianne McKenna, Jeanne Gang (jury chair), Tina Larson, (l-r, seated): Craig Dykers and Pamela Conrad.

Members of the Holcim Foundation Awards 2025 jury for Middle East & Africa (l-r): Driss Kettani, Christian Benimana, Tosin Oshinowo, May al-Ibrashy, Christophe Levy and Albert Williamson-Taylor. Not pictured: Lina Ghotmeh.

The regional jury for the Holcim Foundation Awards 2025 convened in Lyon, France to select the prize-winning projects from Europe (l-r): Kjetil Trædal Thorsen, Jury Chair (Norway), Johanna Gibbons (United Kingdom), Sandra Boivin (France), Caroline Bos (Netherlands), Thomas Auer (Germany), Pierluigi Turco (Italy), and Stuart Smith (Germany).

Jury members (l-r): Shimul Javeri Kadri, Leonard Ng, Ma Yansong, Theresa Yeung, Sou Fujimoto (chair), Maria Atkinson AM, and Cyril Giraud.

Situated alongside Hajar Wisnu Satoto's home, the Sekar Djagad project pairs a new joglo-roof dance stage (background) with a smaller office and administrative building (right) built using leftover and salvaged materials. Photo: Courtesy Ukara Studio.

Kaiser Borsari Hall’s “whole life” (operational and embodied) carbon impacts are reduced by 90% compared to a “business as usual” project. Photo © Kevin Scott.

Windows maximize daylighting within the structure but use sun shades and 2 low-e coatings on the glass to manage thermal gain. Photo © Kevin Scott.

The Qifeng Tulou is located in the core demonstration area of rural revitalization in Hua’an County, which has a particular representative and exemplary significance.

Cuimei Tulou at Chinese New Year. The intervention preserves and upgrades the existing living spaces and adds new programmes only within the vacant spaces to provide economic opportunities to its residents.

The project creates a continuous green corridor, connecting fragmented green spaces to form an ecological backbone. It provides access to schools, public buildings, and amenities via pedestrian and bike paths, allowing residents to meet their daily movement, sports, and social needs, while also enabling inter-neighbourhood mobility.

Openact Architecture (l-r): Carlos Zarco Sanz and Zuhal Kol.

Arup invited the Fellows on a tour of the Bloomberg Center building on the newly developed Cornell Tech campus at Roosevelt Island, an award-winning LEED Platinum building that targets Net Zero.

Arup invited the Fellows on a tour of the Bloomberg Center building on the newly developed Cornell Tech campus at Roosevelt Island, an award-winning LEED Platinum building that targets Net Zero.

The Holcim Foundation and ULI New York hosted a sold-out event on “Decarbonization at Scale,” a topic that has never been more critical for the future of the built environment in North America.

Christian Benimana, Co-Executive Director and Senior Principal at MASS Design Group and member of the Board of the Holcim Foundation at the Board meeting in Zurich, Switzerland in May 2024.

Members of the panel discussion (l-r): Thomas Wehrle, Roger Boltshauser, Prof. Dr. Andrea Frangi, Ana Alberati and Dr. Chris Luebkeman (moderator).

The design advocates for abandoning disconnected and standardized architectural models in favor of designs that are contextually responsive and adaptable to the unique conditions of the area.

For Infinito Delicias, Madrid, Spain (l-r): Laura Viscovich, Executive Director, Holcim Foundation; Belinda Tato (Chair of Jury), Founder of ecosistema urbano, Madrid, Spain; the collaborative team from Husos, Elii, and Ultrazul, Madrid, Spain; and Priya Pawar, Program Manager – Holcim Awards, Holcim Foundation.

The first 12-storey near-zero emission mixed use rental development in Ontario.