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Holcim Foundation Awards 2025 Last Call

In 2015, the Holcim Foundation recognised the BIG U, an ambitious flood protection project that doubles as an amenity-laden, public waterfront area for Lower Manhattan, by Bjarke Ingels. In the foundation’s Words with Winners film below, Ingels comments that this win “was a great encouragement to keep fighting the battles and finding solutions”. (Image: Supplied.)

There’s still time to enter Holcim Foundation Awards 2025.

Don’t miss your chance to showcase your sustainable design project and compete for a share of the USD 1M prize pool, awarded to 20 winners across five regions worldwide. Be part of sustainable design’s most significant competition and join the ranks of industry-changing architects, engineers and urban planners.

  • Cost: Free to enter
  • Prize: 20 winners, USD 1M prize pool
  • Deadline: February 11, 2025 – registrations close
  • Awards Ceremony: November 20, 2025, at the Holcim Foundation’s Venice Forum event during the Venice Biennale of Architecture
  • Eligibility: Client-supported projects of all scales in the late-stage design phase, not yet completed by February 11, 2025

Looking for some inspiration?

Thanks to collaboration with a number of talented filmmakers, a Holcim Foundation is able to offer intimate insights into the stories, designs, and teams behind past Holcim Foundation Awards winning projects, showcasing landmark sustainable design projects from past winners of the Holcim Foundation Awards, including Bjarke Ingels, WOHA and France’s NP2F Architectes.

WOHA’s Wong Mun Summ – BRAC University Campus, Bangladesh

A catalyst for positive urban change, enhancing a community of 20,000 students in Dhaka through “breathing architecture”.

Bjarke Ingels’ BIG U, USA

An ambitious urban-scale initiative creating a more resilient and enjoyable Lower Manhattan waterfront.

Loreta Castro Reguera’s La Quebradora Waterpark, Mexico

Addressing critical urban water management challenges in Mexico City.

Click here to enter now.

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