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Global Holcim Award 2012 Winners Announced

Global Holcim Awards 2012 Gold: Secondary school with passive ventilation system, Gando, Burkina Faso by Diébédo Francis Kéré, Kéré Architecture, Germany (Image © Holcim Foundation) Global Holcim Awards 2012 Gold: Secondary school with passive ventilation system, Gando, Burkina Faso: The project improves the children of Gando’s future through education. (Image © Holcim Foundation) Global Holcim Awards 2012 Gold: Secondary school with passive ventilation system, Gando, Burkina Faso: The newly shaded landscape creates a platform for meeting, learning and teaching with multiple sports fields. (Image © Holcim Foundation) Global Holcim Awards 2012 Gold: Secondary school with passive ventilation system, Gando, Burkina Faso: The library is a focal point of the Gando school project. (Image © Holcim Foundation) Global Holcim Awards 2012 Gold: Secondary school with passive ventilation system, Gando, Burkina Faso: Site plan. (Image © Holcim Foundation) Global Holcim Awards 2012 Gold: Secondary school with passive ventilation system, Gando, Burkina Faso: Participation in the construction work. (Image © Holcim Foundation) Global Holcim Awards Silver 2012: Urban remediation and civic infrastructure hub, São Paulo, Brazil by Alfredo Brillembourg and Hubert Klumpner, Urban Think Tank, Brazil: Transforming a void into a productive zone and dynamic public space. (Image © Holcim Foundation) Global Holcim Awards Silver 2012: Urban remediation and civic infrastructure hub, São Paulo, Brazil: Landscape and music school developed as one building. (Image © Holcim Foundation) Global Holcim Awards Silver 2012: Urban remediation and civic infrastructure hub, São Paulo, Brazil: Landscape and building systems. (Image © Holcim Foundation) Global Holcim Awards Silver 2012: Urban remediation and civic infrastructure hub, São Paulo, Brazil: New terraced landscape. (Image © Holcim Foundation) Global Holcim Awards Silver 2012: Urban remediation and civic infrastructure hub, São Paulo, Brazil: Site map. (Image © Holcim Foundation) Global Holcim Awards Bronze 2012: Urban renewal and swimming-pool precinct, Berlin, Germany by Tim & Jan Edler, realities united, Germany in collaboration with Denise Dih, DODK, Germany, Heiko Sieker, Ingenieurgesellschaft Prof. Dr. Sieker, Germany, Anna Lundquist, Christian Bohne, Man Made Land, Germany: View of pool area towards Dom, Lustgarten and Castle. (Image © Holcim Foundation) Global Holcim Awards Bronze 2012: Urban renewal and swimming-pool precinct, Berlin, Germany: View of filter basin along Friedrichsgracht. (Image © Holcim Foundation) Global Holcim Awards Bronze 2012: Urban renewal and swimming-pool precinct, Berlin, Germany: Segment A: Isometric view of swimming pool area at Lustgarten. (Image © Holcim Foundation) Global Holcim Awards Bronze 2012: Urban renewal and swimming-pool precinct, Berlin, Germany: Segment C: Isometric view of renaturized uppermost section of the river. (Image © Holcim Foundation) Global Holcim Awards Bronze 2012: Urban renewal and swimming-pool precinct, Berlin, Germany: Functional diagram of filter basin. (Image © Holcim Foundation) Global Holcim Innovation 1st prize 2012: High-efficiency concrete formwork technology, Zurich, Switzerland by Matthias Kohler, Kohler, Architektur und Digitale Fabrikation – ETH Zurich, Switzerland in collaboration with Fabio Gramazio, Silvan Oesterle, Ammar Mirjan and Axel Vansteenkiste, Gramazio & Kohler, Architektur und Digitale Fabrikation – ETH Zurich, Switzerland: Final result: two-sided free-form (double curved) concrete cast with corresponding wax formwork. (Image © Holcim... Global Holcim Innovation 2nd prize 2012: Low-cost apartments incorporating smart materials, Hamburg, Germany by Frank Barkow, Barkow Leibinger Architects, Germany in Prof. Regine Leibinger, Barkow Leibinger Architects and Technische Universität Berlin, Institut für Architektur, Fachgebiet Baukonstruktion und Entwerfen, Germany; Prof. Dr. sc. techn. Mike Schlaich, Technische Universität Berlin,Institut für Bauingenieurwesen, Fachgebiet Entwerfen und Konstruieren - Massivbau, Germany... Global Holcim Innovation 3rd prize 2012: Efficient fabrication system for geometrically complex building elements, London, UK by Povilas Cepaitis, AA School of Architecture, United Kingdom in collaboration with LLuis Enrique, Diego Ordoñez and Carlos Piles, AA School of Architecture, United Kingdom: Simplifying complex geometries. (Image © Holcim Foundation)

Global Holcim Awards Bronze 2012: Urban renewal and swimming-pool precinct, Berlin, Germany: View of filter basin along Friedrichsgracht. (Image © Holcim Foundation)

Global Holcim Awards Bronze 2012: Urban renewal and swimming-pool precinct, Berlin, Germany: View of filter basin along Friedrichsgracht. (Image © Holcim Foundation)