RAISING THE BAR
GLOBAL HOLCIM AWARDS 2015 WINNERS
Global Holcim Awards Gold 2015 – $ 200,000
Articulated Site : Water reservoirs as public park , Medellín , Colombia Mario Camargo and Luis Tombé , Colectivo720 , together with Juan Calle and Horacio Valencia , EPM Group ( Empresas Públicas de Medellín ) all Colombia
Global Holcim Awards Silver 2015 – $ 100,000
Post War Collective : Community library and social recuperation , Ambepussa , Sri Lanka Milinda Pathiraja and Ganga Ratnayake , Robust Architecture Workshop , Sri Lanka
Global Holcim Awards Bronze 2015 – $ 50,000
The Dryline : Urban flood protection infrastructure , New York City , USA Bjarke Ingels and Kai-Uwe Bergmann , BIG – Bjarke Ingels Group ( Denmark / USA ), One Architecture ( Amsterdam ) and team
For project details and video comments by the jury see : www . lafargeholcim-foundation . org / Projects / post-war-collective
Bronze : flood protection in New York A large-scale integrated flood protection system to address the vulnerability of New York City to coastal flooding won the bronze award . The Dryline project by a consortium headed by BIG – Bjarke Ingels Group ( Copenhagen / New York ) and One Architecture ( Amsterdam ) in collaboration with the City of New York , proposes a protective ribbon in Southern Manhattan , creating public spaces along the water ’ s edge . The infrastructural barrier incorporates a range of neighborhood functions that foster local activities . Mohsen Mostafavi praised the project for turning a problem into an opportunity . He says : “ The project makes a political statement by means of an architectural and urban proposition – where tangible solutions to the effects of climate change can be created , where New York City is a prototype from which similar strategies in susceptible regions around the globe could be pursued ”, he said .
For project details and video comments by the jury see : www . lafargeholcim-foundation . org / Projects / the-dryline
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