Sustainable design’s most significant prize
Holcim Foundation Awards 2025, the world’s most significant competition for sustainable design, is calling for entries.
The Swiss-based Holcim Foundation seeks client-supported projects of all scales in the late-stage design phase to be recognised by a global prize pool of USD 1 million, split between 20 winning entries.
The competition is free to enter and is open to client-supported and commissioned projects of all scales at the detailed design phase that have yet to be realised. Projects already under construction are eligible, provided construction is not completed before February 11, 2025.
The entry window is open until February 11, 2025. The Awards Ceremony will take place at the Foundation’s Venice Forum event on November 20, 2025.
Supporting sustainable design
Over the past 20 years, the Foundation has committed USD 20 million to spotlighting projects from an industry-changing cast of architects, designers, and engineers championing innovative sustainable design and construction practices. Winners include:
- City-preserving infrastructure such as New York’s BIG U Dryline by Bjarke Ingels Group and One Architecture.
- Community-driven buildings, including Pritzker Prize-Winning Diébédo Francis Kéré’s Gando Primary School in Burkina Faso.
- Building systems innovation such as WOHA’s rain harvesting at BRAC University in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
- Landscape architecture, such as London’s Natural History Museum Urban Nature Project, acclaimed for bringing biodiversity back to the city.
Awarding excellence
Jury chairs are world-leading architects including Sou Fujimoto (Asia Pacific), Kjetil Thorsen (Europe), Sandra Barclay (Latin America), Lina Ghotmeh (Middle East and Africa), and Jeanne Gang (North America).
Free to enter
Please visit awards.holcimfoundation.org for more details on Holcim Foundation Awards 2025.
