30 Best Architecture Firms in France

These annual rankings had been final up to date on December twenty ninth, 2023. Wish to see your agency on subsequent 12 months’s checklist? Proceed studying for extra on how one can enhance your studio’s rating. 

The French are formative cultural leaders in lots of respects — from delicacies to artwork tp style. They’re considered as international front-runners in a number of disciplines, and structure is undeniably one in all them. After we consider France, we regularly admire the illustrious Gothic church buildings, the Haussmannian Parisian boulevards, the ornate Baroque palaces, Le Corbusier’s modernist triumphs and the charming countryside cities.

The French constructed setting is swimming in architectural historical past, however equally so in modern triumphs. It’s not solely the Gothic and Renaissance châteaux that make this paysage français so thrilling to discover, additionally it is the architectural innovation going down as we speak. Revolution is rooted within the French DNA, and the dedication to reworking and creating just isn’t misplaced in its architectural neighborhood. Whether or not they’re reinventing established architectural typologies like faculty design or invigorating their public areas by inexperienced structure, the French stay governors of structure incroyable.

With so many structure corporations to select from, it’s difficult for purchasers to determine the business leaders that might be a really perfect match for his or her undertaking wants. Happily, Architizer is ready to present steerage on the highest design corporations in France primarily based on greater than a decade of knowledge and business information.

How are these structure corporations ranked?

The next rating has been created in keeping with key statistics that reveal every agency’s degree of architectural excellence. The next metrics have been gathered to determine every structure agency’s rating, so as of precedence:

• The variety of A+Awards gained (2013 to 2023)
• The variety of A+Awards finalists (2013 to 2023)
• The variety of initiatives chosen as “Venture of the Day” (2009 to 2023)
• The variety of initiatives chosen as “Featured Venture” (2009 to 2023)
• The variety of initiatives uploaded to Architizer (2009 to 2023)

Every of those metrics is defined in additional element on the foot of this text. This rating checklist might be up to date yearly, making an allowance for new achievements of France structure corporations all year long.

With out additional ado, listed here are the 30 finest structure corporations in France:

30. BFV ARCHITECTES

BFV Architectes is an structure studio funded by Jean Bocabeille, Olivier Fassio and Jean-Brice Viaud. This acronym stands for greater than 20 years of expertise. It embodies each a historic continuity and a powerful need to develop collectively and broaden the scope of motion. The concept of making a brand new observe was apparent to the three males, as a lot as their will to maintain constructing a constant, environment friendly and significant form of structure. Bocabeille, Fassio and Viaud’s initiatives have been carried out both as collective journeys ([BP] Architectures, Plan01 or Fassio-Viaud Architectes) or particular person adventures (Jean Bocabeille Architecte).

A few of BFV ARCHITECTES’s most outstanding initiatives embrace:

• PULSE, Saint-Denis, France
• A MIXED USE PROGRAM: 132 housing items + 1 non secular middle + 2 retail companies, Paris, France
• NURSERY SCHOOL, Épinay-sous-Sénart, France
• HOUSING PROJECT (& Rooftop), Pontoise, France
• MORE WITH LESS, Paris, France

The next statistics helped BFV ARCHITECTES obtain thirtieth place within the 30 Greatest Structure Corporations in France:

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29. Structure Patrick Mauger

The company contributes to the transformation of the town, designing buildings that enrich life by multiplying their attainable makes use of. The fields of exercise are extremely various, starting from city areas with research to switch the reception areas within the Cité des Sciences et de l’Industrie and the northern Vilette esplanade (definition examine) to inside structure and design for the brand new layouts of the Louvre museum eating places and supply of the primary “monolith”, impressed by an lfood on the terraces of the Richelieu wing.

By their makes use of, contexts and budgets, the initiatives reveal a powerful character and are characterised by the emphasis on supplies, similar to marble powder on a honeycomb construction and Corian for the Louvre, or The Arte Povera handled wooden for the CROUS centre in Mabillon.

A few of Structure Patrick Mauger’s most outstanding initiatives embrace:

• Cultural Heart, Auneau, France
• Nièvre’s Departmental Archives, Nevers, France
• IGN and Météo France Geosciences Centre, Saint-Mandé, France
• Secrétan coated market, Paris, France
• Heart for Analysis and Interdisciplinarity, Paris, France

The next statistics helped Structure Patrick Mauger obtain twenty ninth place within the 30 Greatest Structure Corporations in France:

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28. A+Structure

A+Structure, leaded by 9 companions, Philippe Bonon, Philippe Cervantes, Gilles Gal, Issis Raman, Christophe Aubailly, Vincent Nogaret, Julie Carayon-Couderc, Fabien Thuile et Clément Rabourdin is a group of architects, city planners and designers with numerous backgrounds and cultures. Design is at all times the results of a collective work. Certainly, sharing a big open house favors group dynamics.

A few of A+Structure’s most outstanding initiatives embrace:

• A+Company, Montpellier, France
• NEW NATIONAL STADIUM TOKYO 2020, Shinjuku, Japan
• Jean-Claude Carrière Theatre, Montpellier, France
• Cultural Centre , Agde, France
• Port Marianne Secondary College, Montpellier, France

The next statistics helped A+Structure obtain twenty eighth place within the 30 Greatest Structure Corporations in France:

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27. Dorell.Ghotmeh.Tane / Architects (DGT)

DORELL.GHOTMEH.TANE / ARCHITECTS is a partnership based in January 2006 in Paris and practising Structure, Urbanism and Area Design.

A few of Dorell.Ghotmeh.Tane / Architects (DGT)’s most outstanding initiatives embrace:

• THE BUMP, Paris, France
• LIGHT IS TIME, Milano, Italy
• NEW NATIONAL STADIUM TOKYO 2020, Shinjuku, Japan
• Estonian Nationwide Museum / “Reminiscence Discipline”, Tartu, Estonia
• A HOUSE FOR OISO, Naka District, Japan

The next statistics helped Dorell.Ghotmeh.Tane / Architects (DGT) obtain twenty seventh place within the 30 Greatest Structure Corporations in France:

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26. PETITDIDIERPRIOUX

Cédric Petitdidier and Vincent Prioux based Petitdidierprioux Architectes in 2004. With greater than forty employees and two places of work in Paris and Lyon, PPX has accomplished greater than forty initiatives, with simply as many at the moment in growth and in building. By its work, PPX has garnered experience in residential housing, persistently striving for social mixing and ‘pleasurable density’ in an effort to reconcile particular person and collective housing, together with for high-rise buildings.

Every undertaking delivers considerate consideration of typological variations and the notion of consolation, by explicit consideration to context, orientation, supplies and vitality use. PPX makes understanding any new scenario the place to begin of its course of, and approaches every undertaking freed from preconceptions, at all times with a contemporary, but seasoned perspective.

A few of PETITDIDIERPRIOUX’s most outstanding initiatives embrace:

• 152 HOUSING UNITS, Villeurbanne, France
• 71 HOUSING UNITS IN A SOCIAL RESIDENCE, Paris, France
• SOCIAL RESIDENCE, Bordeaux, France
• ATHLETES’ VILLAGE OLYMPIC GAMES 2024, L’Île-Saint-Denis, France
• 30 SOCIAL HOUSING UNITS, Villefranche-sur-Saone, France

The next statistics helped PETITDIDIERPRIOUX obtain twenty sixth place within the 30 Greatest Structure Corporations in France:

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25. PCA-STREAM

The PCA-STREAM company brings collectively 90 architects, city planners, designers and engineers, able to responding to the complicated challenges of the modern world. PCA is the structure and concrete planning company, STREAM, a novel transdisciplinary analysis program to which greater than 150 researchers from all over the world contribute, and whose work is broadly disseminated and utilized in PCA’s large-scale initiatives.

A few of PCA-STREAM’s most outstanding initiatives embrace:

• LABORDE, Paris, France
• 175HAUSSMANN, Paris, France
• PCA-STREAM’s CLUSTER, Paris, France
• TALLEYRAND, Paris, France
• #CLOUD.PARIS, Paris, France

The next statistics helped PCA-STREAM obtain twenty fifth place within the 30 Greatest Structure Corporations in France:

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24. NZI Architectes

We based the NZI ARCHITECTES company in 2012. Our affiliation is predicated on a undertaking method by inventive, complementary and participatory experimentation. Fervent activists for environmental innovation, our work is predicated on the seek for contextual city insertions, paying fixed consideration to sustainable growth.

We’re fortunate to have the ability to work on atypical packages that vary from participatory housing to straw building, but in addition from wooden building to the recycling of places of work into housing. This journey, enriched by the range of options we expertise on packages, requires us to be combative to get out of the pre-established requirements. Our work is oriented in the direction of the exploration of different and revolutionary methods.

A few of NZI Architectes’ most outstanding initiatives embrace:

• Transformation of an workplace constructing right into a wooden and straw 139 scholar rooms, Paris, France
• Store to Loft Conversion, Paris, France
• Levallois House, Levallois-Perret, France
• PARTICIPATORY HABITAT IN MONTREUIL, Montreuil, France
• Wooden and Stone Early childhood residence, Vauréal, France

The next statistics helped NZI Architectes obtain twenty fourth place within the 30 Greatest Structure Corporations in France:

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23. GARDERA-D

GARDERA-D is a pluridisciplinary structure company established in Paris and Biarritz, France. The company explores a large scope of investigation and responds to a various demand for initiatives, starting from structure (housing, workplaces, educating, gear …) to inside design and object design.

Every undertaking is approached and studied in a particular approach, in keeping with an method primarily based particularly on a selected consideration to usages of buildings and the seek for an optimum degree within the relationship between structure and site.

A few of GARDERA-D’s most outstanding initiatives embrace:

• ACBA, Agglomération Côte Basque Adour, Bayonne, France
• Home R, Anglet, France
• 145 Pupil Housing, Bordeaux, France
• AZALA, Biarritz, France
• H+L Home, Biarritz, France

The next statistics helped GARDERA-D obtain twenty third place within the 30 Greatest Structure Corporations in France:

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22. STUDIO 02

Based mostly in Vannes since 2007 and claiming the ocean surroundings as an inspiration, Studio 02 has discovered its place among the many most prolific architect duos from the brand new technology. From the Binic nautical pole and the Plomodiern city corridor to the overlays on the Baud Cultural Heart, Romain Grégoire and Thomas Collet, set their enthusiastic imaginative and prescient of modernity, of a rational structure, elegant and complex made to please the consumer.

Confronted with the context of every undertaking, Studio 02’s fashion feeds itself from successive transformations, affirming the concept that no building can merely simply be summary or monumental. Their structure has clearly chosen a playground: clear strains, shades and frails… of those residing buildings with hung pictures.

A few of STUDIO 02’s most outstanding initiatives embrace:

• Metropolis Corridor, Plomodiern, France
• LOTUS, Rennes, France
• Monterblanc, Monterblanc, France
• PLUMERGAT, Plumergat, France
• Cultural middle, Baud, France

The next statistics helped STUDIO 02 obtain twenty second place within the 30 Greatest Structure Corporations in France:

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21. Taillandier Architectes Associés

Based in 1993 by Pierre-Louis Taillandier, Taillandier Architectes Associés (TAA) is an structure and urbanism company primarily based in Toulouse, France. TAA is an open-minded organisation, working aspect by aspect with personal and public companions. The individuals at TAA give their finest to develop architectural options aimed to reinforce the overall expertise: whatever the nature of the undertaking, the reply has to enhance the standard of lifetime of the top consumer and the direct setting.

To achieve this objective, the method must be nicely designed and nicely constructed. Each step should be taken very rigorously inside a structured {and professional} group. Rather more than a mere architectural momentum, each undertaking designed by Taillandier Architectes Associés solves a collection of equations mixing program, consumer and environmental specifics.

A few of Taillandier Architectes Associés’s most outstanding initiatives embrace:

• Païcherou Aquatic Heart, Carcassonne, France
• Campus Vidal & Discussion board des Arènes, Toulouse, France
• ZAC Niel, Toulouse, France
• Cour Saint Cyp, Toulouse, France
• INFINITY, Toulouse, France

The next statistics helped Taillandier Architectes Associés obtain twenty first place within the 30 Greatest Structure Corporations in France:

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20. Atelier Stéphane Fernandez

The studio is predicated in Aix en Provence within the south of France, not removed from Marseille. The studio’s work focuses on panorama points. From the city panorama to the historic panorama, from the constructed to the unbuilt, our method being the sphere of structure to a way more complicated actuality.

With this in thoughts, the studio works in collaboration with quite a lot of disciplines (panorama architects, designers, photographers and writers) to supply an method to the undertaking that’s as full as attainable, however above all as delicate as attainable.

A few of Atelier Stéphane Fernandez’s most outstanding initiatives embrace:

• Ecole Communale Jacqueline de Romilly, Cannes, France
• Worldwide Lodging Centre for the Oceanological Observatory, Banyuls-sur-Mer, France
• Cour et Jardin, Vertou, France
• Espace Arbois Duranne, Aix-en-Provence, France
• Logements Monfleuri social housing, Carnoux-en-Provence, France

The next statistics helped Atelier Stéphane Fernandez obtain twentieth place within the 30 Greatest Structure Corporations in France:

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19. Mikou Design Studio

Mikou Design Studio is a spot of creation and experimentation in structure and its inter-disciplinary cross-fertilization. We work in a steady workshop spirit with a multidisciplinary group of architects, engineers, graphic artists, scenographers and city planners from very totally different cultural backgrounds.

Each undertaking is an excuse for re-questioning and redefining the which means of a quick, a operate, and an city, social and human context, as a way to invent new methods of residing, locations for sharing and gathering which can be extra delicate and extra sensual, and which stimulate emotions. Our goal is to get away from preconceptions of type and performance as a way to transmit extra and higher.

A few of Mikou Design Studio’s most outstanding initiatives embrace:

• Balsanéo Aquatics Centre, Châteauroux, France
• Swimming Pool Feng Shui, Issy-les-Moulineaux, France
• Olympic Swimming Pool Tourcoing, Tourcoing, France
• Home of Artwork and Tradition, Beirut, Lebanon
• Excessive College Jean Lurçat, Saint-Denis, France

The next statistics helped Mikou Design Studio obtain nineteenth place within the 30 Greatest Structure Corporations in France:

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18. studio razavi structure

Our work rests on a basic principal: the mediation between engineering & architectural tradition. It’s our perception that profitable designs can solely materialize by totally synthesizing constructing expertise and architectural sensitivity. Our method to house is therefore decided by a rigorous understanding of present relationships between approach and tradition, freed from stylistic limitations, open to context.

Our designs cowl a large spectrum or architectural providers from interiors to grasp planning providers for purchasers in each the private and non-private sectors. Working as one agency with two places of work (Paris and New York) our portfolio of works spans from Europe to the Americas and contains residential, company, hospitality, civic, transportation, and mixed-use initiatives.

A few of studio razavi structure’s most outstanding initiatives embrace:

• August Debouzy, Paris, France
• Concrete City Home, New York, New York
• Mountain Home, Manigod, France
• House XVII, Lyon, France
• House XVI, Paris, France

The next statistics helped studio razavi structure obtain 18th place within the 30 Greatest Structure Corporations in France:

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17. designbuildLAB

The design/buildLAB is a project-based experiential studying program targeted on the analysis, growth and implementation of revolutionary building strategies and architectural designs. College students collaborate with native communities and business consultants to conceive and understand constructed works of structure which can be each academic and charitable in nature. The aspirations of this system are concurrently to strengthen the information and abilities essential to the scholars’ profitable and significant observe of structure and to assist growth efforts in distressed communities by enriching the standard of their constructed setting.

A few of designbuildLAB’s most outstanding initiatives embrace:

• Smith Creek Park, Clifton Forge, VA, United States
• Maison Pour Tous, 4, France
• Sharon Fieldhouse, Alleghany County, VA, United States
• Sharon Fields, Alleghany County, VA, United States
• Nomad Shelters, Villard-de-Lans, France

The next statistics helped designbuildLAB obtain seventeenth place within the 30 Greatest Structure Corporations in France:

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16. Nomade Architectes

Raphaël Chivot, Matthieu Laviolle and Vincent Le Garrec – open-neck shirts and no Rolexes – are self-made males. An early schoolboy encounter was vital; a sail collectively throughout the Atlantic, decisive. An company was born first from camaraderie, then friendship: Nomade… all clear on the horizon and open-mindedness at a most. Which implies, no borders. Between Paris and Vannes (its two areas) the company makes a speciality of all initiatives. And it really works all over the place. Nomade strikes and grows.

Concepts swarm within the creative minds of some thirty devoted co-workers who’ve taken to organizing themselves round facilities of curiosity, from design to the worksite through analysis, communication and even pc science.

A few of Nomade Architectes’s most outstanding initiatives embrace:

• Janine Jambu Gymnasium, Bagneux, France
• Valerie Nicolas Gymnasium, Cancale, France
• “Maison air et lumière” an Energetic Home by Nomade, Verrières-le-Buisson, France
• Delegation of the winery, Clisson, France
• St Brieuc’s Aged Institution, Saint-Brieuc, France

The next statistics helped Nomade Architectes obtain sixteenth place within the 30 Greatest Structure Corporations in France:

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15. AUM Pierre Minassian

AUM Pierre Minassian is a agency that began its exercise by designing homes. Since then the agency has diversified and now offers with quite a lot of topics in numerous fields similar to accommodations, firm headquarters, artwork galleries, cultural facilities, academic buildings, sports activities services and even multi-unit housing. There are nevertheless frequent factors between all of the initiatives designed by Pierre Minassian and his group: the minimal design that integrates discreetly and effectively into the panorama, the usage of uncooked supplies similar to concrete, metal, wooden, stone and glass, the precedence given to pure mild by the presence of very large-scale glazed façades, and the concept that any constructing designed by the agency ought to present the residents and guests with a novel residing expertise.

A few of AUM Pierre Minassian’s most outstanding initiatives embrace:

The next statistics helped AUM Pierre Minassian obtain fifteenth place within the 30 Greatest Structure Corporations in France:

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14. LCR ARCHITECTES

LCR ARCHITECTES was based in 1992 by architects Philippe Lapeyre, Jean-Claude Coustillières and Xavier Ratynski. The group is principally made up of architects, but in addition graphic designers, draftsmen and a building economist amongst others. Accustomed to finishing up main operations in fields similar to tradition, schooling, the tertiary sector, scholar housing, well being, analysis, collective housing, transport, business and banking for probably the most half, this multidisciplinary and knowledgeable group ensures a contextual proposal in addition to an actual proximity with the contracting authority.

A few of LCR ARCHITECTES’s most outstanding initiatives embrace:

• SOUTHERN URBAN TELEPHERIC, Toulouse, France
• Public Faculty of Labarthe-sur-Lèze, Labarthe-sur-Lèze, France
• Academy of Artwork Crafts (ESMA), Auzeville-Tolosane, France
• EURALIS Headquarters in Lescar, Lescar, France
• Jean Jaurès subway station, Toulouse, France

The next statistics helped LCR ARCHITECTES obtain 14th place within the 30 Greatest Structure Corporations in France:

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13. Atelier Roberta

Roberta is a creature with three heads. Three backgrounds, three abilities, three panorama practices united in a single imaginative and prescient of the undertaking. Roberta pays very particular consideration to websites and territories. She depends on her instinct and in depth area expertise to open up new avenues for additional examine. She likes to journey, by practice or by street…

Each undertaking is new. Roberta has no preconceptions, and hates recipes. She at all times asks herself the query of practicality, the best way to convey a designed undertaking to life, and the best way to make it her personal. She can also be delicate to new supplies and applied sciences, and to improvements going down on the opposite aspect of the border.

A few of Atelier Roberta’s most outstanding initiatives embrace:

• Jean Louis Étienne faculty, Coupvray, France
• P+R park and trip, Vertou, France
• ESIEE-IT faculty of engineering and digital expertises, Pontoise, France
• Théâtre d’eau, Fumel, France
• BAT – 170 housing items and outlets, Paris, France

The next statistics helped Atelier Roberta obtain thirteenth place within the 30 Greatest Structure Corporations in France:

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12. Franklin Azzi Structure

Franklin Azzi and his observe, based in 2006, develop a transversal method stimulated by the intertwining of various views and disciplines. In continuously engaged on structure, inside structure, design and modern artwork, he develops a approach of designing and constructing that’s relevant to all scales and typologies of house.

From city micro-architecture similar to embodied by the Eiffel Kiosque and its prefabricated construction, to towers in Dubai and Paris, through conversions of present buildings such because the Alstom market buildings in Nantes, his interventions are primarily based on a quest for sustainability to satisfy the wants of all customers.

A few of Franklin Azzi Structure’s most outstanding initiatives embrace:

• Sasaek – Horizons, Seoul, South Korea
• EP YAYING, Xuhui District, Shanghai, China
• TOKO, WEBHELP’S HEADQUARTERS, Paris, France
• Alstom Warehouses, Nantes Increased College of Superb Arts, Nantes, France
• EIFFEL KIOSK, Paris, France

The next statistics helped Franklin Azzi Structure obtain twelfth place within the 30 Greatest Structure Corporations in France:

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11. Coldefy

Thomas Coldefy and Isabel Van Haute are the duo of Coldefy & Associates Architects Urbanists, main the varied worldwide group primarily based in Lille, France. The agency is characterised by their dynamism and creativity, animated by a world tropism that drives them to take part usually in skilled occasions all over the world in addition to in giant worldwide competitions.  Their originality and resourcefulness have introduced them success in a lot of entries, together with the Hong Kong Design Institute which they gained in 2006 towards 162 groups.

A few of Coldefy’s most outstanding initiatives embrace:

The next statistics helped Coldefy obtain eleventh place within the 30 Greatest Structure Corporations in France:

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10. Dietmar Feichtinger Architectes

Dietmar Feichtinger Architectes is an architectural studio primarily based in Paris and in Vienna. Based in 1993, the studio has constructed a powerful status for exploring the dynamics between structure and engineering.

A few of Dietmar Feichtinger Architectes’s most outstanding initiatives embrace:

• Monetary and industrial division of Voest Alpine Stahl, Linz, Austria
• Foot and Cyclebridge over the Rhein, Huningue, France
• Logistic Centre, Gennevilliers, France
• Sport Centre Ladoumègue, Paris, France
• LMH Headquarters, Tourcoing, France

The next statistics helped Dietmar Feichtinger Architectes obtain tenth place within the 30 Greatest Structure Corporations in France:

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9. LAN Structure

LAN Structure was based by Benoit Jallon and Umberto Napolitano in 2002. The company’s title echoes the companions’ intentions straight. LAN is exactly the acronym of Native Structure Community and it refers back to the native design community utilized and developed by particular area abilities, consultants and authors attending on the initiatives. The double nationality of LAN permits to bridge totally different European nations.

In 2004 LAN structure work was chosen by the French Tradition Minister for the “Nouveaux Albums des Jeunes Architectes” for its potential and expertise. In six years time, the company has earned a status and gained competitions each in France and overseas.

A few of LAN Structure’s most outstanding initiatives embrace:

• Resort Residence in Atacama, Atacama Area, Chile
• Kids’s Toy Library, Bonneuil-sur-Marne, France
• COMPANY HEADQUARTERS MARCHESINI FRANCE – SAINT MESMES, Saint-Mesmes, France
• Sprengel Museum extension, Hanover, Germany
• 30 passive housing items, Paris, France

The next statistics helped LAN Structure obtain ninth place within the 30 Greatest Structure Corporations in France:

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8. Hamonic+Masson & Associés

Hamonic+Masson & Associés is Gaëlle Hamonic, Jean-Christophe Masson and, since 2014, Marie-Agnès de Bailliencourt. The observe was based in 1997, was nominated for the Mies van der Rohe prize in 2001, and in 2002 was awarded the Nouveaux Albums de la Jeune Structure (NAJA).

The agency grew to become acknowledged by most people in 2003 by designing the Maison Métal in Paris’ Parc de la Villette. It was an occasion that positioned Hamonic+Masson on the crossroads of artwork and structure, a versatile place that enables for some adventurous undertakings. We’ve got since staged occasions similar to co-curating the French Pavilion on the 2008 Venice Biennial, and opened a collection of exhibitions at venues such because the Cité de l’structure et du patrimoine.

A few of Hamonic+Masson & Associés’s most outstanding initiatives embrace:

• HOME , Paris, France
• New’R, Nantes, France
• The Docks Dombasles: 25 residences and places of work, Le Havre, France
• Centre des Archives Contemporaines, Fontainebleau, France
• City Dock, Bordeaux, France

The next statistics helped Hamonic+Masson & Associés obtain eighth place within the 30 Greatest Structure Corporations in France:

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7. PPA architectures

PPA architectures is predicated in Toulouse, France is dedicated to fabricating urbanity by initiatives whose packages and contexts are analyzed and questioned from the perspective of use and building. The company tries to regulate to particular, beneficiant and cozy architectural and concrete proposals a impartial, constructively versatile and frugal formalization. This intention, formidable and pragmatic, depends on a collaborative, multidisciplinary and open work methodology to adapt to the modern situations of a helpful urbanism and structure.

A few of PPA architectures’s most outstanding initiatives embrace:

• 50 Modular Timber, Toulouse, France
• Salle des fêtes de Pratgraussals, Albi, France
• Barn in Pyrenees, Hautes-Pyrénées, Midi-Pyrénées, France
• Pavilion M, Seilh, France
• Martel Home, Toulouse, France

The next statistics helped PPA architectures obtain seventh place within the 30 Greatest Structure Corporations in France:

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6. H2O Architectes

h2o architectes is an workplace of inventive architectural design additionally specializing within the restoration of historic monuments. It’s lead by three architects: Charlotte Hubert architect dipl. DPLG and historic preservation architect, Jean-Jacques Hubert architect dipl. DPLG founding father of the workplace and Antoine Santiard architect dipl. EPFL who joined in 2008.

Established as a agency in 2005, the main architects have had a number of collaborations since 2000. They’ve executed initiatives and gained worldwide competitions each as unbiased architects in addition to for different main architects (Bruno Decaris, Jakob+MacFarlane, Bernard Tschumi). h2o works on a large scope of initiatives and scales together with historic monuments and websites, city planning, structure and design.

A few of H2O Architectes’s most outstanding initiatives embrace:

The next statistics helped H2O Architectes obtain sixth place within the 30 Greatest Structure Corporations in France:

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5. NBJ architects

Created in 2000 by Elodie Nourrigat and Jacques Brion, N+B architects grew to become NBJ Architectes in 2013. NBJ Architectes initiatives are inscribed in several scales, whether or not architectural or city. Invested within the diffusion of architectural tradition, they set up the annual Pageant des Architectures Vives which invitations younger architects to intervene within the courtyards of personal mansions in Montpellier and within the metropolis of La Grande Motte.

A few of NBJ architects’s most outstanding initiatives embrace:

• Home NB, Montferrier-sur-Lez, France
• City Area and Parking in Carros, Carros, France
• higth faculty in Morieres Les Avignon, Morières-lès-Avignon, France
• Workplace of Technical Heart, La Grande-Motte, France
• Lycée Paul Valéry, Menton, France

The next statistics helped NBJ architects obtain fifth place within the 30 Greatest Structure Corporations in France:

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4. FREAKS freearchitects

freearchitects is a Paris-based structure agency lead by three architects favouring prospection, analysis and experimentation by initiatives and constructing course of practices from small scale artwork installations to giant scale structure competitions.

Though these days their constructed initiatives are principally positioned in France, FREAKS’s companions have lived and skilled a variety of overseas working contexts similar to San Francisco, Tokyo, Beijing, Berlin, Mumbai, Singapore, Istanbul and extra.

A few of FREAKS freearchitects’s most outstanding initiatives embrace:

• SAMMODE analysis & growth middle, Lamotte-Beuvron, France
• Refurbishment of the historic Strasbourg zoo’s pedagogical farm and new customer middle, Strasbourg, France
• SUR MESURE, Paris, France
• Pavillion in a backyard, Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France
• Tribal Act Historic Tattoo and Piercing Parlor in Paris, Paris, France

The next statistics helped FREAKS freearchitects obtain 4th place within the 30 Greatest Structure Corporations in France:

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3. Atelier Zündel Cristea

Formally established in January of 2001, as we speak AZC contains round thirty individuals organized into 4 areas: design, analysis, building and administration of initiatives. Our groups are made up of younger architects from everywhere in the world, as the range of our personal respective Swiss-American and Romanian origins has introduced us to an understanding of the curiosity in crossing cultures and transgressing boundaries.

Consequently, the effectivity and creativity of our agency are bolstered by a continuing effort in observing what’s happening elsewhere, in striving to work exterior our nation, in taking an curiosity in variations. Every of our initiatives are embodied by a method of qualitatively occupying websites, with out preconceptions concerning their geographic location, their programmatic necessities, or their scale.

A few of Atelier Zündel Cristea’s most outstanding initiatives embrace:

The next statistics helped Atelier Zündel Cristea obtain third place within the 30 Greatest Structure Corporations in France:

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2. archi5

archi5 was based in 2003, the fruit of its founders’ frequent company expertise and the method they share to structure. A context-based method to initiatives is essential: the positioning, the programme, the social and cultural challenges are all examined, analyzed and in contrast. These knowledge are then remodeled into questions.

The initiatives provide a dynamic and complete response to these points to the very best commonplace that has come to be archi5’s trademark. This method is seen, legible in each constructing. It confers which means and type and is perceptible within the initiatives’ functions, areas and environmental impression. It’s the essence of our confidence in structure, its capability to reinforce human varieties’ setting. The company makes use of its acumen and know-how to instill this ethos all through and to ensure its continuity.

A few of archi5’s most outstanding initiatives embrace:

• The Marcel Sembat Excessive College, Sotteville-lès-Rouen, France
• Jean Louis Étienne faculty, Coupvray, France
• Angela Davis faculty, Bezons, France
• Louise Michel Excessive College, Gisors, France
• Mont de Marsan Mediatheque, Mont-de-Marsan, France

Prime picture: Familistère dwellings, Montreuil, France 

The next statistics helped archi5 obtain 2nd place within the 30 Greatest Structure Corporations in France:

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1. Dominique Coulon & Associés

Situated within the coronary heart of Strasbourg, Dominique Coulon & Associés is a agency of architects of nationwide and worldwide renown. For greater than 25 years, the company has earned a status for the standard of the general public services it designs. It has labored on a large and various vary of programmes, together with a media library, music faculty, auditorium, faculty complicated, swimming pool, sports activities services, a residential residence for the dependent aged and housing. Dominique Coulon and his affiliate Steve Lethos Duclos enable their instinct to cleared the path as they search to develop contextual initiatives that mix distinction and complexity, the place the outer envelope hints at internal richness.

A few of Dominique Coulon & Associés’s most outstanding initiatives embrace:

• Housing for aged individuals, Huningue, France
• ‘Pierre Bottero’ media library and park in Pélissanne, Pélissanne, France
• Multicultural centre in Isbergues, Isbergues, France
• Regional Courtroom and Industrial Tribunal in Montmorency, Montmorency, France
• Inter-Era Centre in Venarey-Les Laumes, Venarey-les-Laumes, France

The next statistics helped Dominique Coulon & Associés obtain 1st place within the 30 Greatest Structure Corporations in France:

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