The Concrete Award honors outstanding buildings in architecture and civil engineering as well as material-specific developments.
The award family consists of the classic competition for the building construction category. With the 2025 edition, infrastructure projects will now also be honored. The jury can now award a special prize for a building that uses concrete as a building material in a particularly surprising, technically innovative or creative way.
The Beton Award is awarded by Betonsuisse, a joint venture of the building materials industry organizations involved in the value creation of concrete.
Categories of the Concrete Award
Bernina Pass maintenance base, Poschiavo
The Bernina is one of the highest Alpine passes in Switzerland. An operations building had to be erected not far from the top of the pass. Exposed concrete is the logical choice for the extreme climate, the use and a supporting structure that uses as little material as possible. The Bernina Pass maintenance base continues to write Switzerland's history as a country of infrastructure buildings. The prize is therefore also a sign of the cultural value that the jury attaches to this often neglected type of building. The maintenance depot is designed for road maintenance in summer and snow clearing in winter.
Questions for the jury president Prof. Dr. Jacqueline Pauli
The jury for the Concrete Architecture Prize consists of nine outstanding experts who, as practitioners and academics, cover the entire spectrum of building culture - from architecture and urban planning to materials science and engineering. Jury President Prof. Dr. Jacqueline Pauli studied civil engineering at EPF Lausanne and ETH Zurich and has worked at ZPF Ingenieure since 2013. She has headed ZPF Consulting AG in Zurich since 2020 and was appointed Professor of Structural Design at the Department of Architecture at ETH Zurich in 2022....
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