Two publications on the regional Holcim Awards 2014 have been released. A special issue of the internationally-renowned architecture magazine ‘A’A’ L’Architecture d’Aujourd’huiappraises a selection of Holcim Awards prize-winning projects. In addition, the magazineFoundations captures the festive mood at the five ceremonies which celebrated 62 awarded projects and their authors.

A special issue of leading contemporary architecture magazine ‘A’A’ L’Architecture d’Aujourd’hui features Selected Projects/Morceaux Choisis from the winners of the 4th International Holcim Awards competition for sustainable construction projects and visions. The examples show how attitudes towards sustainability have transformed and were selected and appraised by the Executive Editor and publisher of ‘A’A’, Antoine Vernholes, and architecture and design critic for the Financial Times, Edwin Heathcote. The Holcim Awards prize-winning projects show the importance of using sophisticated approaches that address environmental performance but also further progress regarding enhanced social, financial and aesthetic outcomes.

The magazine highlights the responsiveness of the competition to promote solutions to the contemporary challenges such as rapid urbanization at the edges between wealth and poverty, alongside robust projects in the context of slower economic growth. This multi-faceted view of sustainability demands a new and more symbiotic conceptualization of building lifecycles, infrastructure, resource management, and the application of technology and techniques.

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Foundations 17 – Regional Awards 2014

The Holcim Foundation’s magazine Foundations features the best moments of the regional Holcim Awards ceremonies 2014 at which a total of 62 projects out of more than 6,100 entries were presented with Awards, Acknowledgement or “Next Generation” prizes. The prize-handover events took place in Moscow (for the region Europe), Toronto (for North America), Medellín (for Latin America), Beirut (for Africa Middle East) and Jakarta (for Asia Pacific).

Foundations 17 – Regional Awards 2014 (flip book)

Foundations 17 – Regional Awards 2014 (PDF, 6.17 MB)

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