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Mise à l’honneur de projets environnementaux et communautaires

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Presentation of the Holcim Awards Gold 2014 for “Eco-Techno Park: Green building showcase and enterprise hub, Ankara, Turkey” (l-r): Howayda Al-Harithy, Head of the Holcim Awards jury for Africa Middle East and Professor of Architecture, American University of Beirut, Lebanon; Javier de Benito, Area Manager of Holcim for Africa Middle East; winners Onat and Zeynep Öktem, ONZ Architects, Turkey; and Bernard Fontana, CEO of Holcim Ltd.

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Celebrating the Holcim Awards Gold 2014 winner “Eco-Techno Park: Green building showcase and enterprise hub, Ankara, Turkey” (l-r): Javier de Benito, Area Manager of Holcim for Africa Middle East; winners Onat and Zeynep Öktem, ONZ Architects, Turkey; and Bernard Fontana, CEO of Holcim Ltd.

Presentation of the Holcim Awards Silver 2014 in the host city to “Evergreen City: Urban pine forest rehabilitation, Beirut, Lebanon” (l-r): Benedikt Vonnegut, CEO of Holcim Lebanon; Howayda Al-Harithy, Head of the Holcim Awards jury for Africa Middle East and Professor of Architecture, American University of Beirut; winners Yasmina Khalifé, Raëd Abillama, Bilal Hamad, Mayor of the City of Beirut; winners Youssef Abillama, Sawsan Bou Fakhreddine; and Bernard Fontana, CEO of Holcim Ltd.

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Presentation of the Holcim Awards Bronze 2014 for “Incremental Construction: Low-cost modular housing scheme, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia” (l-r): winners Asgedom Berhe, Dirk Donath, jury members Fasil Giorghis, Chair of Conservation of Urban and Architectural Heritage, Addis Ababa University and Howayda Al-Harithy (head of jury) Professor of Architecture, American University of Beirut; Bernard Fontana, CEO of Holcim Ltd; and winner Brook Haileselassie.

Accolades for all Holcim Awards main prize winners (l-r): Brook Haileselassie, Dirk Donath and Asgedom Berhe (Bronze), Zeynep and Onat Öktem (Gold), and Raëd Abillama, Youssef Abillama, Yasmina Khalifé and Sawsan Bou Fakhreddine (Silver).

Presentation of the Acknowledgement prize for “Adaptive Re-Use: Women’s center and playground, Beit Iksa, Palestine” (l-r): Amer Moustafa, Member of the Holcim Awards jury 2014 Africa Middle East and Associate Dean, School of Architecture and Design American University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates; winners Shatha Safi and Khaldun Bshara, Riwaq – center for architectural conservation, Ramallah, Palestine; Javier de Benito, Area Manager of Holcim for Africa Middle East.

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Presentation of the Acknowledgement prize for “Chicoco Radio: Community building designed for urban flooding, Port Harcourt, Nigeria” (l-r): Amer Moustafa, Member of the Holcim Awards jury 2014 Africa Middle East and Associate Dean, School of Architecture and Design American University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates; winners Kunlé Adeyemi, NLÉ Works, Lagos, Nigeria; Marco Cestarolli, NLÉ Works, Amsterdam, Netherlands and Michael Uwemedimo, CMAP, Port Harcourt, Nigeria; Javier de Benito, Area Manager of Holcim for Africa Middle East.

Presentation of the Acknowledgement prize for “Co-op Capacity Building: Community farming and market hub, Kigali, Rwanda” (l-r): Amer Moustafa, Member of the Holcim Awards jury 2014 Africa Middle East and Associate Dean, School of Architecture and Design American University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates; winners Pamela Larocca, Urban Future organization, Milan, Italy and Costanza La Mantia, Bantu Studio, Johannesburg, South Africa; Javier de Benito, Area Manager of Holcim for Africa Middle East.

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Presentation of the Acknowledgement prize for “Weaving Publicness: Socially-integrated office building with sustainable façade, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia” (l-r): Amer Moustafa, Member of the Holcim Awards jury 2014 Africa Middle East and Associate Dean, School of Architecture and Design American University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates; winners Wes Degreef, BC architects, Brussels, Belgium; Adeyabeba Tadesse Hailemariam, ABBA architects, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; and Ken De Cooman, BC architects, Brussels, Belgium; with Javier de Benito, Area Manager of Holcim for Africa Middle East.

Presentation of the Acknowledgement prize for “White Canvas: Health center and school in refugee camp, Bassikounou, Mauritania” (l-r): Amer Moustafa, Member of the Holcim Awards jury 2014 Africa Middle East and Associate Dean, School of Architecture and Design American University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates; winners Attila Szabadics and Mónica Rácz, ArchSus Group, Pécs, Hungary; Javier de Benito, Area Manager of Holcim for Africa Middle East.

Presentation of the “Next Generation” 1st prize for “Bio-Mimicry: Water research center, Fika Patso Dam, South Africa” (l-r): Daniel Irurah, jury member and Senior Lecturer, School of Architecture & Planning, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa; winner Jurie Swart, South Africa; and Edward Schwarz, General Manager of the Holcim Foundation, Switzerland.

Presentation of the “Next Generation” 2nd prize for “Destroyed City Told: Earthquake memorial and archaeological museum, Agadir, Morocco” (l-r): winners Laurent Sanz and Chamss Doha Oulkadi, BOM architecture, Agadir, Morocco / Paris, France; Daniel Irurah, jury member and Senior Lecturer, School of Architecture & Planning, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa; winner Mohamed Belhouari; and Dominique Drouet, CEO of Holcim Morocco.

Presentation of the “Next Generation” 3rd prize for “Machinarium: Regenerative urban catalyst and textile production, Pretoria, South Africa” (l-r): Daniel Irurah, jury member and Senior Lecturer, School of Architecture & Planning, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa; winner Heidi van Eeden, University of Pretoria, South Africa; and Edward Schwarz, General Manager of the Holcim Foundation, Switzerland.

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Presentation of the “Next Generation” 4th prize for “Waste to Energy: Urban energy recovery and development concept, Beirut, Lebanon” (l-r): winners Romy El Sayah, Yara Rahme, Marylynn Antaki, Mira Boumatar, all American University of Beirut, Lebanon; Benedikt Vonnegut, CEO of Holcim Lebanon; Daniel Irurah, jury member and Senior Lecturer, School of Architecture & Planning, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa; and winner Christina Attiyeh, American University of Beirut, Lebanon.

Presenting the Holcim Awards main prize-winning projects: Howayda Al-Harithy, Head of the Holcim Awards jury for Africa Middle East and Professor of Architecture, American University of Beirut.

Presenting the Holcim Awards Acknowledgement prize-winning projects: Amer Moustafa, Member of the Holcim Awards jury 2014 Africa Middle East and Associate Dean, School of Architecture and Design American University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates.

Presenting the “Next Generation” prize-winning projects: Daniel Irurah, Member of the Holcim Awards jury 2014 Africa Middle East and Senior Lecturer, School of Architecture and Planning University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.

“How do we make the city sustainable and smart?” Bilal Hamad, Mayor of the City of Beirut, Lebanon.

Bernard Fontana, CEO of Holcim Ltd and Chairman of the Steering Committee of the Holcim Foundation, Switzerland.

Welcoming more than 200 guests to the AUB campus, Ahmad Dallal, Provost of the American University of Beirut (AUB), Lebanon.

Master of ceremonies: Ricardo Karam, TV Talkshow Host.

Exterior view.

This zone has a program that incorporates everything from a city that is not a building or a road.

The SICU prototype is a compact double-story unit comprised of a prefabricated concrete lower structure and lightweight eucalyptus frames for the upper floor. After all parts have been prefabricated, the building was constructed in ten days by 35 students from three countries and now stands erect in a typical neighborhood of Addis Ababa, serving to demonstrate an alternative housing approach and to prompt further discussions between policy makers, industry and academia.

This project explores whether nature and architecture can amalgamate to become a hybrid solution in a vast landscape which has lost its reference to place and time. The transformation of place and time through architecture results in a progressive fusion giving meaning to a certain non-place lacking character and spatial qualities and resulting in an awakened space. This led to the idea of spatial reawakening through the medium of architecture.