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HOLCIM AWARDS 2025

The Holcim Foundation is calling for entries for its prestigious awards recognizing sustainable design projects at the late-stage design phase, with a total prize pool of USD 1 million distributed among 20 winners. The competition is free to enter and open to client-supported projects that have not yet been completed, with the entry window from October 1, 2024, to February 11, 2025. An expert jury will evaluate submissions based on sustainability goals, and the awards ceremony will take place on November 20, 2025, in Venice.

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HOLCIM AWARDS 2025

The Holcim Foundation is calling for entries for its prestigious awards recognizing sustainable design projects at the late-stage design phase, with a total prize pool of USD 1 million distributed among 20 winners. The competition is free to enter and open to client-supported projects that have not yet been completed, with the entry window from October 1, 2024, to February 11, 2025. An expert jury will evaluate submissions based on sustainability goals, and the awards ceremony will take place on November 20, 2025, in Venice.

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Submission
Sustainable Requirements
Design’s Most
Significant Prize
The following section provides a concise overview of the data needed to
submit your project. It is designed to guide you in preparing the required
information before entering it into the submission platform.

GENERAL PROJECT INFORMATION ENTER TODAY

Project title
The world’s most significant competition for sustainable design is
Project client
calling for entries. The Swiss-based Holcim Foundation seeks com-
(contact - required for validation of projects nominated for a prize)
missioned projects of all scales in the late-stage design phase, to
Project location (country)
be recognized from a global prize pool of USD 1M split between 20
winning entries.
PROJECT AUTHORS INFORMATION
The competition is free to enter and is open to client-supported
Project Main Author(s), Further Author(s) and Client projects of all scales at the detailed design phase but have yet to be
(including share of prize money) realized. Projects already under construction are eligible, provided
construction is not completed before February 11, 2025.
1. Kéré was awarded by the Foundation in 2012

CLIMATE RELATED DETAILS (ANNUAL AVERAGES)


The entry window is now open from October 1, 2024, until February
11, 2025, with the Awards Ceremony taking place at the Foundation’s
Temperature in °C | Relative humidity in % | Precipitation in mm
Venice | Altitude
Forum eventinon
m November
above sea level
20, 2025.

SUPPORTING SUSTAINABLE DESIGN


CONSTRUCTION DETAILS

Status of Project (select from): Over the past twenty years, the Foundation has committed USD 20M
to projects from an industry-changing cast of architects, designers
- Detailed design stage | Completed design | Under construction
and engineers championing innovative practices in sustainable de-
Status of Permission (select from): sign and construction. Winners include -
2. The Dryline was a 2015 winner
- Applied for permit | Approval / License not City-preserving
required | Approved | Other
infrastructure like New York’s BIG U Dryline by Bjarke
Ingels Group and One Architecture.
Start of Construction: [date]
Socially sustainable buildings, including Pritzker Prize-Winning Fran-
cis Kéré’s Gando Primary School in Burkina Faso.
TYPE OF INTERVENTION AND PROJECT IN M/M2
Sustainable architecture driven by building innovation like WOHA’s
Select from: rain harvesting BRAC University in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
- Building project Landscape architecture, such as London’s National History Museum
Urban Nature Park acclaimed for bringing biodiversity back to the
- Landscape integrated within a building project
city.
- Building integrated within a landscape project
3. London’s Urban Nature Park, 2023
- Landscape project AWARDING EXCELLENCE

- Infrastructure project Independent expert juries evaluate submissions and nominate the
Competition Entries Open: 01.10.25 winners in five geographic regions. Juries comprise architects, engi-
- Intervention (can select multiple options):
neers and urbanists and evaluate entries through the Foundation’s
Competition Entries Close: 11.02.25
- New construction | Retrofit | Conservation | goals for sustainable
Extension construction
| Adaptive reuse - uplifting
| Rehabilitation places, a healthy planet,
/ Repair
thriving communities, and viable economics.
20 Winners Globally
Jury chairs are world leading architects. Sou Fujimoto will chair the
5 SpecialSPACE
INTERVENTION Recognition
USE (CAN Prizes
SELECT MULTIPLE OPTIONS)
Asia Pacific jury, Kjetil Thorsen will preside over Europe, Sandra Bar-
Residential | Commercial | Hospitality | Industrial | Educational |
clay will lead Latin America, Lina Ghotmeh will chair the Middle East
Free to Enter
Recreational | Transport | Critical infrastructure and Africa jury, and Jeanne Gang will lead the North American jury.
awards.holcimfoundation.org

Submission
Sustainable Requirements
Design’s Most
Significant Prize
COST DETAILS

Project costs in USD | Construction costs per M²

SUSTAINABILITY GOALS:
(free-form text, <750 characters on each of the following topics):
ENTER TODAY
Healthy planet:

- Sustainable building design through passive The world’s most significant competition for sustainable design is
measures
calling for entries. The Swiss-based Holcim Foundation seeks com-
- Efficient construction and operations
missioned projects of all scales in the late-stage design phase, to
- Landscape and biodiversity integration be recognized from a global prize pool of USD 1M split between 20
- Land use and transformation
winning entries.

Thriving communities:
The competition is free to enter and is open to client-supported
projects of all scales at the detailed design phase but have yet to be
-Participatory design realized. Projects already under construction are eligible, provided
-Community construction is not completed before February 11, 2025.
1. Kéré was awarded byimpact and resilience
the Foundation in 2012

Viable economics: The entry window is now open from October 1, 2024, until February
11, 2025, with the Awards Ceremony taking place at the Foundation’s
- Financial feasibility
Venice Forum event on November 20, 2025.
Uplifting places:
SUPPORTING SUSTAINABLE DESIGN
- Aesthetic qualities and cultural integration

Over the past twenty years, the Foundation has committed USD 20M
to projects from an industry-changing cast of architects, designers
OPTIONAL DATA SHEET:
and engineers championing innovative practices in sustainable de-
Complete a Standardized Form to provide additional figures and
sign and information (eg:
construction. passive
Winners include -
2. The Dryline
design measureswas| aLCA
2015| material
winner efficiency measures | renewable energy | energy/water
City-preserving infrastructure like New York’s BIG U Dryline by Bjarke
efficiency | biodiversity integration)
Ingels Group and One Architecture.

Socially sustainable buildings, including Pritzker Prize-Winning Fran-


PROJECT IMAGES: cis Kéré’s Gando Primary School in Burkina Faso.
Team photo Sustainable architecture driven by building innovation like WOHA’s
Hero image rain harvesting BRAC University in Dhaka, Bangladesh.

Landscape
Mandatory architectural drawings: Site plan | Typical floor architecture,
plan | Typical such(lateral)
site section as London’s
| National History Museum
Urban Nature
Typical site section (transverse) | 3D rendering / Whole building x 2 Park acclaimed for bringing biodiversity back to the
city.
Optional: Architectural drawings x 3 | Renderings/images x 6
3. London’s Urban Nature Park, 2023
AWARDING
Image requirements: (maximum file size 25MB, minimum EXCELLENCE
1200 x 600
pixels, no mandatory image ratio, format – png, gif, jpg, jpeg, or webp)
Independent expert juries evaluate submissions and nominate the
Competition Entries Open: 01.10.25 winners in five geographic regions. Juries comprise architects, engi-
neers and urbanists and evaluate entries through the Foundation’s
Competition
ENTRY Entries Close: 11.02.25
FORM AT: awards.holcimfoundation.org
goals for sustainable construction - uplifting places, a healthy planet,
thriving communities, and viable economics.
FURTHER QUESTIONS: [email protected]
20 Winners Globally
Jury chairs are world leading architects. Sou Fujimoto will chair the
5 Special Recognition Prizes Asia Pacific jury, Kjetil Thorsen will preside over Europe, Sandra Bar-
Free to Enter clay will lead Latin America, Lina Ghotmeh will chair the Middle East
and Africa jury, and Jeanne Gang will lead the North American jury.

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