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Regional Holcim Awards 2011 for Africa Middle East

Holcim Gold Award: Secondary school with passive ventilation system, Gando, Burkina Faso by Kéré Architecture, Germany: Aerial view.

Holcim Gold Award: Secondary school with passive ventilation system: Climate concept.

Holcim Gold Award: Secondary school with passive ventilation system: Courtyard.

Holcim Gold Award: Secondary school with passive ventilation system: Entrance perspective.

Holcim Gold Award: Secondary school with passive ventilation system: Plan.

Holcim Gold Award: Diébédo Francis Kéré, Kéré Architecture, Germany.

Holcim Silver Award: Sustainable refurbishment of a primary school, near Al Azarije, Palestine by ARCò - Architettura e Cooperazione, Italy: Refurbishment phases/photos of the renewed school / details of the external wall.

Holcim Silver Award: Sustainable refurbishment of a primary school: General plan and sections/photos of the renewed school / detail section and façades of the external mobile panels.

Holcim Silver Award: Sustainable refurbishment of a primary school: Design drawings/photos.

Holcim Silver Award: Sustainable refurbishment of a primary school: Photos of the renewed building.

Holcim Silver Award: Luca Atanasio, Consul General of Italy in Morocco; Piero Corpina, Deputy Country Manager, Holcim Italy; winner Giovanna Claudia Rosa Romano, ARCò - Architettura e Cooperazione; and Javier de Benito, Area Manager Holcim for Mediterranean & North Africa.

Holcim Bronze Award: Training center for sustainable construction, Marrakesh, Morocco by Anna Heringer, Germany in collaboration with Elmar Nägele, Austria; Salima Naji, Morocco; Martin Rauch, Baukunst GmbH, Austria; Ernst Waibel, Nägele Waibel Architects, Austria: Working model.

Holcim Bronze Award: Training center for sustainable construction: East elevation and longitudinal section.

Holcim Bronze Award: Training center for sustainable construction: Ground floor.

Holcim Bronze Award: Training center for sustainable construction: Working model.

Holcim Bronze Award: Salima Naji, Morocco; Martin Rauch, Lehm Ton Erde Baukunst, Austria; and Elmar Nägele, Nägele Waibel Architects, Austria.

Acknowledgement Prize: Affordable building materials from recycled agricultural waste, Zaria, Nigeria by Charles Oluwole Job, Bern University of Applied Sciences, Architecture, Wood & Civil Engineering, Switzerland in collaboration with Frédéric Pichelin and Andreas Rosenkranz, Bern University of Applied Sciences, Architecture, Wood & Civil Engineering, Switzerland; Henry Tata Kimeng and Sani Mustapha, Ahmadu Bello University, Department of Architecture, Nigeria; Chigbo Aghaegbusi Mgbemene...

Acknowledgement Prize: Building implementing holistic architectural design, Masdar City, UAE by Bob Gysin + Partner BGP Architekten, Switzerland in collaboration with Dyer, United Kingdom, Hurley Palmer Flatt, United Kingdom, Markus Braach, Switzerland and Milcris, Oman: Main entrance to the Sprinter Building and the café/restaurant from the central plaza.

Acknowledgement Prize: Sustainable public eco-tourism facility, Cape Town, South Africa by Architecture co-op, South Africa: Elemental place making.

Acknowledgement Prize: Urban precinct reconstruction and rehabilitation, Fez, Morocco by mossessian & partners, United Kingdom in collaboration with Yassir Khalil Studio, Morocco: Site plan and aerial view.

1st 'Next Generation' Prize: Adaptive re-use of industrial site for urban agriculture, Pretoria, South Africa by Calayde Aenis Davey, University of Pretoria, South Africa: The new industrial 21st century society shows an integrated urban market with the productive vertical farm.

2nd 'Next Generation' Prize: Passive floodplain agricultural system, Gohatsion, Ethiopia by Wonjoon Han in collaboration with Gunho Kim, University of Seoul, South Korea: For 3 months in the rainy season the structure gathers soil while submerged in the river.

3rd 'Next Generation' Prize: Culturally-sensitive urban master plan, Agadir, Morocco by Khalid El Jaouhari, ENA Rabat National School of Architecture, Morocco: Give priority to pedestrians, create a pole of attraction. Making the high landscape curve a promenade, the end of it is crowned by the architectural project.

Acknowledgement Prize: Affordable building materials from recycled agricultural waste, Zaria, Nigeria by Charles Oluwole Job, Bern University of Applied Sciences, Architecture, Wood & Civil Engineering, Switzerland in collaboration with Frédéric Pichelin and Andreas Rosenkranz, Bern University of Applied Sciences, Architecture, Wood & Civil Engineering, Switzerland; Henry Tata Kimeng and Sani Mustapha, Ahmadu Bello University, Department of Architecture, Nigeria; Chigbo Aghaegbusi Mgbemene...

Acknowledgement Prize: Affordable building materials from recycled agricultural waste, Zaria, Nigeria by Charles Oluwole Job, Bern University of Applied Sciences, Architecture, Wood & Civil Engineering, Switzerland in collaboration with Frédéric Pichelin and Andreas Rosenkranz, Bern University of Applied Sciences, Architecture, Wood & Civil Engineering, Switzerland; Henry Tata Kimeng and Sani Mustapha, Ahmadu Bello University, Department of Architecture, Nigeria; Chigbo Aghaegbusi Mgbemene and Okey Nduka, University of Nigeria, Nigeria: The end products: a variety of composite boards.