Comunicatul de presă privind câștigătorii premiilor HOLCIM pentru anul 2015

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22 aprilie 2015

arh. Cornelia Burcuș
Secretar Executiv

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Filiala Teritorială București a Ordinului Arhitecților din România
str. Sf. Constantin nr.32, sector 1
010219 București, România

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010014 București, România

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Media release / Winner announcement
Zurich, Switzerland – April 20, 2015

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Global Holcim Awards competition announces winners for 2015*The winners of the 4th Global Holcim Awards for Sustainable Construction have been decided – the trophies and USD 350,000 prize money go to projects in Colombia, Sri Lanka and the USA. All three prizes recognize architectural interventions that deliver tangible benefits to local communities: Turning a decommissioned water reservoir into a park in Medellín, rebuilding social fabric through a community library in Ambepussa following Sri Lanka’s civil war, and creating public zones and flood-protection for the island of Manhattan.

Global Holcim Awards Gold 2015 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
www.holcimawards.org/Projects/articulated-site

Global Holcim Awards Silver 2015 Post War Collective: Community library
and social recuperation, Ambepussa, Sri Lanka Milinda Pathiraja and Ganga Ratnayake, *Robust Architecture Workshop*, Sri Lanka
www.holcimawards.org/Projects/post-war-collective

Global Holcim Awards Bronze 2015 The Dryline: Urban flood protection
infrastructure, New York City, USA A consortium led by* BIG – Bjarke Ingels Group*, Denmark/USA, and *One Architecture*, Netherlands
www.holcimawards.org/Projects/the-dryline

The USD 2 million Holcim Awards is the most significant international
competition for sustainable design and takes place every three years. The 4th cycle attracted more than 6,000 entries for projects to be built in 152 countries. A jury of international experts led by Mohsen Mostafavi, Dean of the Graduate School of Design (GSD) at Harvard University, USA selected the winners.

Full media release including project descriptions and jury quotes
attached.

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Further information on the winning and finalist projects including high
resolution images for download and video comments by the jury is available at: http://www.holcimawards.org/global-winners-eng

Other language versions of this media release
- French: http://www.holcimawards.org/global-winners-fra
- German: http://www.holcimawards.org/global-winners-deu
- Sinhala: http://www.holcimawards.org/global-winners-sin
- Spanish: http://www.holcimawards.org/global-winners-esp

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*Media contact:*
Dominik Baumann & Edward Schwarz
Phone +41 58 858 8292, news@holcimfoundation.org
Holcim Foundation, Hagenholzstrasse 85, CH-8050 Zurich/Switzerland
www.holcimawards.org