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Regional Holcim Awards 2011 for Europe

Holcim Gold Award: Urban renewal and swimming-pool precinct, Berlin, Germany by realities united in collaboration with DODK, Germany: Panorama Flussbad - left side. Holcim Gold Award: Urban renewal and swimming-pool precinct: Panorama Flussbad - right side. Holcim Gold Award: Urban renewal and swimming-pool precinct: Location in Berlin’s Center. Holcim Gold Award: Urban renewal and swimming-pool precinct: Details water treatment and pool. Holcim Gold Award: Urban renewal and swimming-pool precinct: Space and people density. Holcim Gold Award: realities united, team picture. Holcim Silver Award: City hall and civic center recycled from former factory, Oostkamp, Belgium by Carlos Arroyo Arquitectos, Spain, developed together with ELD Partnership, Belgium: An uncompromising in-situ recycling, not just to recycle materials like the steel, but to reuse the space itself, and all the functioning – often invisible – systems. Holcim Silver Award: City hall and civic center recycled from former factory: Total change inside, creating a luminous landscape of clouds; a sheltered public space within a controlled weather environment, where simple modular clusters may be arranged. Holcim Silver Award: City hall and civic center recycled from former factory: Main elements. Holcim Silver Award: City hall and civic center recycled from former factory: Images. Holcim Silver Award: Carlos Arroyo Arquitectos, team picture. Holcim Bronze Award: Lifestyle apartments and infrastructure recycled from former freeway viaducts, near Scilla, Italy by Philippe Rizzotti Architects in collaboration with Samuel Nageotte Architecture and Off Architecture, France: Discovering the vertical villages. Holcim Bronze Award: Lifestyle apartments and infrastructure recycled from former freeway viaducts: Inside the nests, a new way of high quality life. Holcim Bronze Award: Lifestyle apartments and infrastructure recycled from former freeway viaducts: General axonometry. Holcim Bronze Award: Lifestyle apartments and infrastructure recycled from former freeway viaducts: Progressive colonization. Holcim Bronze Award: Philippe Rizzotti, Samuel Nageotte, Tanguy Vermet and Manal Rachdi, team picture. Acknowledgement Prize: High-density cottage garden structure, Appeltern, Netherlands by De Stuurlui Stedenbouw with Atelier Gras, Netherlands: Eat me! Acknowledgement Prize: High-efficiency concrete formwork technology, Zurich, Switzerland by Gramazio & Kohler, Architecktur und Digitale Fabrikation – ETH Zurich, Switzerland: 1x1m double curved free-form wax element, produced by a robotic process, and the concrete positive cast against it. Acknowledgement Prize: Low-cost apartments incorporating smart materials, Hamburg, Germany by Barkow Leibinger Architects in collaboration with Schlaich Bergermann und Partner and TRANSSOLAR Energietechnik, Germany: View from street. Acknowledgement Prize: Medium rise timber office building in low-to-no carbon emissions district, Helsinki, Finland by Sauerbruch Hutton in collaboration with Arup, UK and Experentia, Italy: Principal elevation. 1st 'Next Generation' Prize: Efficient fabrication system for geometrically complex building elements, London, UK by Povilas Cepaitis in collaboration with Lluis Enrique, Diego Ordoñez and Carlos Piles, AA School of Architecture, UK: Cast on Cast components fabricated in towers. 2nd 'Next Generation' Prize: Materials reuse and regional transformation scheme, Gijón / Xixón, Spain by Elisa de los Reyes Garcia, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain: RE-using strategy: catalog of construction systems made of reused materials. 3rd 'Next Generation' Prize: Bioluminescent devices for zero-electricity lighting, Seville, Spain by Eduardo Mayoral, Universidad de Sevilla, Spain: Natural environment illuminated with populations of bioluminescent bacteria, also used to generate signs to orient people in the woods.

Holcim Silver Award: City hall and civic center recycled from former factory: Main elements.

Holcim Silver Award: City hall and civic center recycled from former factory: Main elements.