The CEMEX Building Award is an annual international competition that recognizes outstanding construction works. Its main objective is to acknowledge recent small-, medium-, and large-scale projects that stand out for their structural, conceptual, technical, and aesthetic solutions.
The categories of the international edition of the award are housing, institutional-industrial, and infrastructure. Special prizes are also awarded for sustainable architecture and accessibility. Any building project in the countries where CEMEX operates may enter the competition if 50 percent of its construction materials are CEMEX products, and it is finished within two years of the awards competition.
The CEMEX Building Award is designed to encourage innovation in construction, stimulate architectural quality, and recognize the talent behind new building solutions. It also serves to foster the exchange of ideas and solutions between the world's different construction cultures.
The book describing the XVI CEMEX Building Award is now available.
With 330 pages full of plans, photographs and interesting data, the volume includes information on the finalists in the international editions of the competition.
History of the Award
The CEMEX Building Award began in Mexico in 1991 as a local competition. In 2000 it became a nationwide award, and in 2004 the competition began to expand internationally.
By 2005, the call for entries extended to 12 countries, a figure which grew to 24 in 2006. The 2007 and 2008 award competitions included entries from the United States, Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Montenegro, Hungary, Australia, Puerto Rico, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, Costa Rica, Panama, Nicaragua, Venezuela, Haiti, and Mexico.
