A week is left until the deadline for accepting applications for the most significant international competition in the field of sustainable construction, LafargeHolcim Awards. The final day of registration of participants is March 21, 2017. The opportunity to upload competition works in a special form on the website for applicants remains until March 28.
The LafargeHolcim Awards have been running for 12 years. For the previous competition, held in 2014-2015, more than 6,000 projects from 152 countries of the world were submitted, which has become a record for the award at the moment. At the same time, in 2014, Russia became the second in the European region in terms of the number of applications (103), behind only France (146). One of the projects, developed by Alexander Veshnyakov, Dmitry Ivanov, Natalia Mikhailova, Alexandra Tyron and Nadezhda Pavlova, won an award in the Next Generation category. A group of Russian architects has proposed a number of public centers for small towns, forming a virtual network using an Internet connection. The jury, first of all, was interested in the idea of creating an "architectural tool" that promotes vital activity in small towns throughout Russia.
The evaluation of projects submitted for the 2017 competition will be carried out by an independent jury, which includes world-renowned experts. The main European regional jury, which will evaluate projects from Russia, will be Harry Gugger, winner of the Golden Lion at the Venice Architecture Biennale, professor of architecture at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL Lausanne) and member of the board of the LafargeHolcim Foundation since 2010.
“The LafargeHolcim Awards bring together a wide variety of ideas and appreciate people's drive to make life better,” said Meisa Batayneh Maani, jury member of the 2017 LafargeHolcim Awards and founder and director of Maisam Architects & Engineers in Jordan.
