Winning projects include those by students, emerging professionals, and leading practitioners — with some familiar names like BIG, the "Hy-Fi" by The Living's David Benjamin, Sheila Kennedy of KVA MATx, and NADAAA.

Below are a few of the winning projects.

HOLCIM AWARDS GOLD 2014 - North America: Poreform: Water absorptive surface and subterranean basin, Las Vegas, NV, USA
Main authors: Amy Mielke, Water Pore Partnership, New York, NY, USA; Caitlin Gucker-Kanter Taylor, Water Pore Partnership, Woodbridge, VA, USA
Further Author: Keller Easterling - Yale University, New Haven, USA

HOLCIM AWARDS SILVER 2014 - North America: Rebuilding by Design: Urban flood protection infrastructure, New York, NY, USA
Main Authors: Bjarke Ingels, Thomas Christoffersen, Kai-Uwe Bergmann, Daniel Kidd and Jeremy Siegel, BIG – Bjarke Ingels Group; Laura Starr, Stephen Whitehouse, Andrea Parker and Melon Wedick, Starr Whitehouse Landscape Architects & Planners; James Lima, James Lima Planning + Development; Steven Baumgartner, Buro Happold Engineering and Byron Stigge, Level Agency for Infrastructure, all New York, NY, USA; Matthijs Bouw and Ivo de Jeu, One Architecture, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Further Authors: Christina Kaunzinger - Green Shield Ecology, Bridgewater, USA; Edgar J. Westerhof - ARCADIS; Daniel Payne - AEA Consulting, Beacon, USA; Prem Krishnamurthy - Project Projects, New York, New York, USA

HOLCIM AWARDS BRONZE 2014 - North America: Hy-Fi: Zero carbon emissions compostable structure, New York, NY, USA
Main Author: David Benjamin, The Living architecture lab, New York, NY, USA
Further Authors: Danil Nagy - The Living, New York, USA; John Locke - The Living, New York, USA; Damon Lau - The Living, New York, USA; Ray Wang - The Living, New York, USA; Jim Stoddart - The Living, New York, USA; Dale Zhao - The Living, New York, USA; Nathan Smith - The Living, New York, USA; Christo Logan - The Living, New York, USA; Dane Taeyoung - The Living, New York, USA; Matt Clark - Arup New York, New York, USA; Shaina Saporta - Arup New York, New York, USA; Eben Bayer - Ecovative Design, Green Island, USA; Sam Harrington - Ecovative Design, Green Island, USA; Gina Albanese - 3M Minnesota, Saint Paul, USA; Kristal Reid - 3M Minnesota, Saint Paul, USA; Byron Trotter - 3M Minnesota, Saint Paul, USA

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT PRIZE: "Heritage Reframed: University building renovation and extension", Toronto, ON, Canada
Main authors: Nader Tehrani - NADAAA, Boston, USA; Katherine Faulkner - NADAAA, Boston, USA
Further authors: Erik Olsen - Transsolar, New York, USA; Tas Candaras - A.M. Candaras, Woodbridge, Canada; Claudina Sula - Adamson Associates Architects, Toronto, Canada; Barry Charnish - Entuitive Corporation; Shaili Pytel - Mulvey & Banani International, Toronto, Canada; Marc Ryan - Public Work, Toronto, Canada; Phil Bastow - The Mitchel Partnership; David Rulff - MMM Group, Toronto, Canada; Andrew Pruss - ERA architects, Toronto, Canada; Jim Broomfield - Eastern construction company, Toronto, Canada

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT PRIZE: "Chrysanthemum Building: Affordable residential urban infill development", Boston, MA, USA.
Main authors: Sheila Kennedy - Kennedy & Violich Architecture, Boston, USA; Frano Violich - Kennedy & Violich Architecture, Boston, USA
Further authors: Stratton B. Newbert - Buro Happold Engineering, New York, USA; Michael Pang - Buro Happold Engineering, New York, USA; Karen J. Wynne - Vanasse Hangen Brustlin, Boston, USA; Lucy Jen - Richmond So Engineers, Watertown, USA

NEXT GENERATION 1st prize: "Trash for Use: Municipal center for harvesting utility from waste", New York, NY, USA
Main author: Debbie Chen

NEXT GENERATION 2nd Prize: Machine Landscape Machine Landscape Coal mining sites for hydro-pump electricity storage
Main author: Kenya Endo - Atelier Dreiseitl asia, Singapore, Singapore

NEXT GENERATION 3rd Prize: "Pleura Pod: Air purification wall transforming carbon dioxide into oxygen", Cambridge, MA, USA
Main authors: Beomki Lee - Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA; Suk Lee - Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA; Daeho Lee - Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA

See more winning projects and other details over at Bustler.

Previously: Winners of the regional Holcim Awards 2014 for Europe