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initiatives and experiences. The BAM project, which is

funded through fundraising, offers culturally enriching

and free-of-cost programmes that are in line with the

Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

The ‘Scion Innovation Hub – Te Whare Nui o Tuteata’

project of New Zealand secured the award in the

category of the Most Beautiful, Innovative and Iconic

Building.

This project is poised to transform the landscape with its

vision to reimagining the headquarters of the

prestigious Sion Research Institute, which specialises in

technology development for forestry. Located on the

outskirts of Redwoods in the magnificent

Whakarewarewa Forest, the primary goal of this project

is to bring together a workforce that was previously

dispersed across various small buildings across the

campus, in a central innovation hub. It also seeks to

improve the Sion Institute’s public interface by building

a new campus arrival point.

The ‘EatCloud Zero Food Waste – Zero Emissions – Zero

Hunger’ project of Colombia has been awarded the Best

Practices Award in ‘Sustaining Urban Food Systems’. The

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