The architecture category of Fast Company’s World Changing Ideas Awards honors buildings that change the way we live or work, using or creating more sustainable materials or more energy-efficient design, and help make our world more humane. See the finalists and honorable mentions below, and read about the winner, an easy-to-assemble emergency shelter for refugees and disaster survivors that can be upgraded into a long-term home with local materials.
Finalists
Acre, Modern Mill
Making Sustainable Apartments Mainstream, Juno
One House to Save Many, Suncorp
SPLAM Timber Pavilion, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill
Urban Sequoia, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill
Honorable mentions
Caterpillar, Prince Concepts
IntenCity, Schneider Electric
Mars Dune Alpha, Icon
Modular Supportive Housing, Montgomery Sisam Architects
Recycled Asphalt Roofing Shingles, GAF
Thinking Outside the Big Box, DLR Group