5th International LafargeHolcim Awards seeks leading projects of professionals as well as bold ideas from the Next Generation that present smart solutions for cities and the built environment.
The competition identifies the ideas with the highest potential to tackle today’s challenges to increasing urbanisation and to improve quality of life. Projects and concepts from the fields of architecture, landscape architecture, urban design, planning, technology, and civil and materials engineering are eligible to be entered online at: www.lafargeholcim-awards.org
The competition’s main category is open to architects, planners, engineers, students of related disciplines, project owners, builders and construction firms that showcase sustainable responses to technological, environmental, socioeconomic and cultural issues within contemporary building and construction. Projects must have reached an advanced stage of design, have a high probability of execution, and may not have started construction before July 4, 2016.
Participants up to the age of 30 years of age can also submit visionary concepts and bold ideas in the competition, irrespective of the probability of actual implementation of the project: the Next Generation category specifically seeks “blue-sky” solutions by students and young professionals.
The 5th International LafargeHolcim Awards competition closes for submissions on March 21, 2017.
More information online at: www.lafargeholcim-awards.org
