SIA – Société suisse des ingénieurs et des architectes

The SIA awards for sustainable and forward-looking buildings in Switzerland
Now in its second edition, the SIA (Swiss Society of Engineers and Architects) recognizes pioneering projects that are exemplary in the way they integrate into their surroundings and that represent an innovative contribution to the viable development of today’s living environment.

The SIA invited architects, engineers, public authorities, companies, investors, and private and public developers to submit projects covering schemes of any size. Each project was then judged on the design’s response to its environment and on the way it applied solutions that would meet users’ needs in an exemplary or novel way.

Six projects received awards and two others were given honorable mentions for their pioneering roles in designing evolutionary living spaces and their contribution to the sustainability of Switzerland’s built environment.

The exhibition brings together plans and documents produced by the projects’ designers, extracts from the jury’s report, Jules Spinatsch’s striking photographs and a series of short films by director Marc Schwarz in which he opens the floor to people involved in the projects and to members of the jury.