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1 The fourth cycle of the International Holcim Awards broke a number of records: there were more submissions over 6,100 projects were entered in the competition, 2,514 of which met all the formal criteria. And there were more winners the five regional juries selected 62 regional prize winners. 15 of them won an Award and are now qualified for the global competition in 2015; 21 won an Acknowledgement prize, and 25 a Next Generation prize. In addition, for the first time a project was dis-tinguished with an Honorable Mention. The winners received their accolades at five memorable ceremonies held in Moscow, Toronto, Medell n, Beirut, and Jakarta. The following pages sum up these events, conducted in close collaboration with the local Holcim Group companies, and introduce the prize winners. Our cover image shows the happy winners of the Holcim Awards Gold for North America.

2 Foundations17 December 2014 Foundations 172 Behind the scenesWhen the winners are handed their prizes on the stage, it all seems unencumbered and exhilarating. But behind each event there is an enormous amount of work most of which is done by the local Holcim Group regional ceremonies of the Holcim Awards are among the most important events of the Holcim Foundation and the most impressive: Hundreds of guests, competition participants, and representatives of government, business, the construction industry, and NGOs gather to attend festive prize ceremonies held in each of the five global regions. These ceremonies take place at a new location in each cycle and must be organized from for the ceremony must be found. All the guests must be transferred from the airport to the hotel and after the event back to the airport, and during their stay they must be taken care of around the clock.

3 Organizing a full- day program for the day following the ceremony requires even more effort. Here the many guests visit built examples of sustainable construction as well as other local sites of interest and thereby gain insight into the host ideal platformThe local employees are dedicated to the Holcim Awards, partially because the events offer an ideal platform for maintaining good relations with their most important stakeholders. The Holcim Awards prominently place sus-tainable construction and thus Holcim in the local spotlight. How successfully this is done is reflected at the media briefing held on the morning after each ceremony; dozens of journalists attend these briefings. And even greater evi-dence of the ripple effect of the Holcim Awards is the flood of printed and electronic reports published following the ceremonies which always portray Holcim in its proactive of work on the spotThe events are conducted by the Holcim Foundation in close collaboration with the local Holcim Group companies: The event venue, hotels, and restaurants must be secured.

4 Suitable speakers, a good moderator, and exciting show Foundations 173A unique balance also of genderIn a way, the Holcim Awards are a preview into the future of sustainable construction: Trends are revealed very early in this competition. The reasons behind this are that the Holcim Awards span the globe and bring together the best of each region, that the innovative capacity of young professionals is specifically tapped in the Next Generation category, and that the competition honors projects, not finished works. Thus the competition is always a step ahead of reality; many of the prize-winning projects will become part of the built environment only years this context, the question of who receives the Holcim Awards is especially interesting because these professionals are the ones who are shaping the future of sustainable con-struction today. During the current cycle, it was striking to see how many women took to the stage to receive prizes at every level, in every category and in all regions.

5 No other competition of this kind honors as many women as the Holcim Awards. After the Awards is before the Awards! The story of the regional ceremonies has ended but the book of the fourth cycle of the Holcim Awards also contains chapters not yet written. From the 15 regional Awards winners, the laureates of the Global Holcim Awards Gold, Silver, and Bronze will be identified in 2015. The regional ceremonies were highlights of the fourth cycle of the Holcim Awards but by no means were they the final curtain call. The three main winners in each region are automatically qualified to compete for the Global Holcim Awards Gold, Silver, and Bronze argu- ably the world s most coveted prizes in the field of sustainable construction. These 15 prize winners are now called upon to present their projects in more detail again and in particular to show the progress that they have Global Holcim Awards jury members: Mohsen Mostafavi (Head), Dean, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University, Ang lil*, Senior Dean, Chair of Architecture and Design, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich), Aravena*, Executive Director, Elemental, Atkinson*, Sustainability Business Advisor; Founding CEO, Green Building Council of Australia, Batayneh Maani, Founder and Principal Architect, maisam architects and engineers, Kakabadse, President, WWF International, Schuler, Professor of Environmental Technology, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University, USA.

6 And Founder, Transsolar Energietechnik, Soiron*, Chairman, Holcim Foundation for Sustainable Construction, Switzerland.*Members of the Board of the Holcim Foundationmade since they were entered in the regional competition. A dedicated jury has been selected to choose the global winners. In March 2015 the members will convene in Zurich to make their decision. The locations of the Global Awards hand-over events are not yet known as these ceremonies are con- ducted where the respective project is located. Lights, camera, action!To introduce the people behind the projects, the Holcim Foundation featured Winner Video Statements in this cycle for the first time: A team of journalists with camera was present at each ceremony to record spontaneous statements by the prize winners about their projects and sustainable construction. The clips can be viewed at They give an authentic impression of the atmosphere at the ceremonies and of the proponents of sustainable 174 Russian grandeurCeremony for Europe in Moscow, RussiaThe series of regional Holcim Awards ceremonies opened in Moscow.

7 Only a few of the foreign guests already knew the Russian capital, so they were especially delighted by the warm recep-tion they received. At the ceremony in the stylish ambience of the Theatre of Dramatic Art and attended by 230 guests, a total of 12 prizes in all catego-ries were awarded. An Honorable Men-tion was presented for the first time in the history of the Holcim Awards. On the second day of the event the guests became better acquainted with this city of over 12 million people. The event closed with a dinner on the Moskva winners of the Holcim Awards for Europe (from left): Luis Basabe Montalvo, Luis Palacios Labrador (Bronze), Gilles Delalex (Silver), Francisco Leiva, Lucia Pierro, Marco Scarpinato (Gold), Enrique Arenas Laorga (Bronze).Acrobats of the Moscow State Circus enthused the guests with their skills during the ceremony. Sustainability is part of our DNA at Holcim : CEO Bernard.

8 To Pashkov Palace for dinner with a view of the grandeuer: From the ceremony at the Theatre of Dramatic Awards Gold Freshwater ecological reserve and remediation, Saline Joniche, ItalyMain authors: Francisco Leiva, Grupo aranea, Alicante, Spain; Marco Scarpinato, AutonomeForme, Palermo, Italy Holcim Awards Silver Low-cost flexible university building, Paris, FranceAuthors: Gilles Delalex, Yves Moreau, Thomas Wessel-Cessieux, Muoto, Paris, France Holcim Awards Bronze Participatory urban neighborhood, Vienna, AustriaMain authors: Enrique Arenas Laorga, Luis Basabe Montalvo, Luis Palacios Labrador, Arenas Basabe Palacios arquitectos, Madrid, Spain Holcim Awards Honorable MentionEnergy-efficient office building, Holderbank, Switzerland Author: Christian Kerez, Christian Kerez AG, Zurich, SwitzerlandAcknowledgement prizeConstruction materials recycling and logistics hub, Brussels, BelgiumMain authors.

9 Ana Castillo, Lieven De Groote, Jan Terwecoren, Annekatrien Verdickt, TETRA architecten, Brussels, Belgium Acknowledgement prizeReusable aggregates requiring no binding agent, Stuttgart, GermanyAuthors: Karola Dierichs, Achim Menges, University of Stuttgart, Institute for Computational Design, Stuttgart, GermanyMain category Holcim Awards 2014 EuropePrizes for the Next Generation : Projects and visions by teams from six countries were addressed the audience and the to places of interest in the city and finally a trip on the Moskva 176A celebration with friends Ceremony for North America in Toronto, CanadaAlthough the Holcim Awards had never been presented in Toronto, the ceremony at Evergreen Brick Works (images above) was almost like a homecoming: The adaptive reuse project for this former factory won an Acknowledgement prize in the second Holcim Awards com-petition.

10 Within this rustic industrial ambience, the nearly 250 guests en-joyed an event that was perfect in every way. The excursions on the second day took the guests to places like Toronto s Distillery District, Waterfront Project, and to lunch at a dizzying height atop the CN Tower. For sustainable construc-tion, the sky is the limit and that applied especially to this ceremony!The winners of the Holcim Awards for North America (from left): David Benjamin (Bronze), Caitlin Gucker-Kanter Taylor, Amy Mielke, (Gold), Kai-Uwe Bergmann and Matthijs Bouw (Silver).The Zero Gravity Circus from Toronto inspired the guests with a powerful of the Holcim Awards ceremony visited the revitalized Waterfront area of Toronto as The spaces between the old kilns of Evergreen Brick Works were ideal for poster exhibitions. Sustainable construction: Getting to know the Distillery District.