LafargeHolcim Awards Competition 2017

LafargeHolcim Awards Competition Design

The competition for projects and visions in sustainable construction had 5,085 entries by authors in 121 countries. Valid entries will be examined by independent juries in five world regions.

University Hospital RWTH Aachen Extension

University Hospital RWTH Aachen Extension

HENN + C.F. Møller Architects (Berlin / Aarhus) jointly win an international competition to extend Germany’s most iconic hospital complex, the listed 1970’s high-tech University Hospital RWTH Aachen.

Billingstad House near Oslo

Billingstad House

Architects: Norhus. Tone Bekkestad, a prestigious lecturer and highly acclaimed environmentalist, has created a home with her husband that is compatible with their style of living and commitment to the environment.

Ballymagarry House in Portrush, Northern Ireland

Ballymagarry House

Design: 2020 Architects. The concept was conservation of the old forge and the rebuilding the ruins of the original dwelling creating a visual barrier for a modern highly glazed curved roof living accommodation block to sit behind.

Ingoldsby House in Anglesea, Victoria property

Ingoldsby House

Design: Seeley Architects. Quietly impressive and looking as if it belongs in the coastal vegetation, the Ingoldsby House is a sensitive response to a coastal site that required special consideration.

Double Houses in Roskilde

Double Houses

Design: Conm + Kallesø

The projects consits of two dwellings each 140 sqm. Each dwellings consists of an entrance, 2 toilets, 2 bedrooms, 1 master bedroom and a huge 60 sqm living room which has access to a semi secluded private garden facing the street.

Howard Elkus Architect, Boston, Massachusetts

Howard Elkus at his desk.

Howard Elkus Architect, the internationally acclaimed architect and urban designer, died unexpectedly at his Palm Beach, Florida, home on Saturday, April 1st. A longtime resident of Lincoln, Massachusetts, he was 78

House in House in Fitzroy North, Melbourne

House in House

House in House in Fitzroy North design by Steffen Welsch Architects is an exploration of site boundary as limiter, as a frame to both internal and external spaces, form and void. It is a new build in a streetscape with significant heritage value.

Campus Jourdan Paris Building

Campus Jourdan Paris Building

Designed by Thierry Van de Wyngaert and Véronique Fiegel, the Jourdan Campus for higher education and research unites the Ecole Normale Supérieure and the Paris School of Economics.

Lascaux IV in Montignac Building

Lascaux IV Montignac

Design: Snøhetta and Casson Mann

The new International Centre for Cave Art in Montignac, France welcomes visitors to an immersive educational experience of the prehistoric Lascaux cave paintings.

Dommeldange Housing Luxembourg by Metaform

Dommeldange Housing

Design: Metaform architects. When it comes to housing, one of the main problems people are facing in most urban areas today is a need to choose an apartment typology over single-family houses not because of their desire, but out of necessity.