La giuria, guidata da Mohsen Mostafavi (Dean of the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University) sta decidendo tra una rosa di 15 progetti, a loro volta già vincitori dei premi Gold, Silver e Bronze degli Holcim Awards 2014 relativi alle cinque macroaree mondiali.
I partecipanti, provenienti da ogni parte del globo, interpretano in modo diverso l’attuale grammatica della sostenibilità nel campo dell’architettura e della costruzione.
In giuria sono Marc Angélil, Senior Dean of Architecture and Urban Design at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich, Switzerland), Alejandro Aravena, Principal of Elemental (Chile), Maria Atkinson, Founding Director of the Australian Green Building Council (Australia), Meisa Batayneh Maani, Principal of maisam architects and engineers (Jordan), Yolanda Kakabadse, President of WWF International (Ecuador), Mohsen Mostafavi, Dean of the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University (USA), Matthias Schuler, Principal of Transsolar(Germany) and Rolf Soiron, Chairman of the Board of the Holcim Foundation (Switzerland). Di seguito sono riportati alcuni dei progetti candidati al premio.
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