Marianne McKenna joins the North American jury for the 2025 Holcim Foundation Awards 

October 17, 2024

Founding partner Marianne McKenna will serve as a juror for the 2025 Holcim Foundation Awards. 

Created by the Holcim Foundation for Sustainable Construction, the Holcim Foundation Awards celebrates projects that combine sustainable design and construction with architectural excellence. 

McKenna joins a jury of architects, engineers, and urban planners, including Jeanne Gang of Studio Gang, Pamela Conrad, founder of Climate Positive Design and Craig Dykers, founder of Snøhetta. 

An advocate for using design to positively impact the urban and natural environment, McKenna is known for innovative projects that inspire the institutional, academic, and cultural communities for which they are designed. 

Her portfolio includes the Center for Computing & Data Sciences at Boston University, the largest, sustainable, operational fossil fuel-free building in Boston; The Brearley School, a LEED Gold all-girls school in Manhattan; Toronto’s historic Massey Hall; and the Royal Conservatory TELUS Centre for Performance and Learning and its iconic Koerner Hall, which has garnered numerous awards including a Governor General’s Medal in Architecture. 

McKenna’s practice extends to teaching, community activation, and mentoring. She has been a Norman R. Foster Visiting Professor at the Yale School of Architecture and presently sits on the International Advisory Board for the McEwen School of Architecture at Laurentian University. 

She is currently leading the design for Yale Dramatic Arts and the Yale Repertory Theatre, the expansion of Arts Commons in Calgary, and a series of sustainable, community-building housing projects for Kindred Works. 

The Holcim Foundation Awards are open for submission until February 11, 2025. Winners will be honoured at the awards ceremony during the Foundation’s Venice Forum event on November 20, 2025. 

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