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Atlassian Design Team is donating Holcim price money to Start Somewhere

Instead of a prize money handover, we invite you to hear the amazing story of “Start Somewhere” and the initiator Oliver von Malm. Please join us on March 15 at 5 PM CET using this link > Admission is free.

The design team of the Atlassian Tower in Sydney is donating its Holcim Award prize money. As Bronze Asia Pacific 2020 Award winner the High-Performance Tower qualified as a finalist and was honored with the Global Holcim Award 2021 Commendation in November last year.

The team has decided to support the project of Oliver von Malm called ‘Start Somewhere’. He and his team designed and produce reusable concrete “twist blocks” for building schools, housing or shops in informal settlements.

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2021 Global Holcim Awards Commendation for High-Performance Tower in Sydney

As Bronze Asia Pacific 2020 prize winner the High-Performance Tower qualified as a finalist and has now been honored with the Global Holcim Award 2021 Commendation.

The entries that the jury considered outstanding at the global level were awarded prizes at a global handover ceremony. Due to the pandemic, this procedure was adapted: all regional and global prizewinners were invited to the International Architecture Biennale in Venice, where they received their prizes at a single handover ceremony.

The high-performance tower is a 39-storey building accommodating 4,000 workplaces. Introducing a new sustainability model, the design addresses an expanded program, incorporates next-generation systems, and presents an innovative typological and structural concept.  The design pursues low-energy and high-comfort performance, because “a good working environment is a very attractive asset,” says prizewinner Wolfgang Kessling. The Global Holcim Awards jury commented that the design successfully combines structural, environmental, and programmatic elements to achieve its goals in terms of sustainability and considers the building a remarkable contribution to sustainable architecture that is greater than the sum of its parts. “This project can be a source of inspiration for companies who want to build sustainable high-rises,” says Marilyne Andersen.

Winners: Wolfgang Kessling, Transsolar Energietechnik, Germany; Edwin Chan, EC3 Design, USA; James O’Callaghan, Eckersley O’Callaghan, United Kingdom;Corie D. Sharples and Andreia Taixeira, ShoP, USA; Ric Wang, Atlassian, Australia; Njnotschka Titchkosky, BVN, Australia.

Holcim Foundation: Project Overview Video > Authors Comment Video > Project Overview Page > Articles: “From box to space – High-Performance Tower in Australia” in Sixth Holcim Awards > “High-Performance Tower – New proposal for livability” in Sixth Holcim Awards >