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The French are formative cultural leaders in lots of respects — from delicacies to artwork tp trend. They’re considered as international front-runners in a number of disciplines, and structure is undeniably considered one of them. Once we consider France, we frequently 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 surroundings is swimming in architectural historical past, however equally so in up to date triumphs. It’s not solely the Gothic and Renaissance châteaux that make this paysage français so thrilling to discover, it is usually the architectural innovation happening at the moment. Revolution is rooted within the French DNA, and the dedication to reworking and creating is just not misplaced in its architectural neighborhood. Whether or not they’re reinventing established architectural typologies like college design or invigorating their public areas by way of inexperienced structure, the French stay governors of structure incroyable.

With so many structure companies to select from, it’s difficult for shoppers to establish the trade leaders that might be an excellent match for his or her mission wants. Thankfully, Architizer is ready to present steerage on the highest design companies in France primarily based on greater than a decade of information and trade information.

How are these structure companies ranked?

The next rating has been created based on key statistics that exhibit every agency’s degree of architectural excellence. The next metrics have been amassed 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, considering new achievements of France structure companies all year long.

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

30. BFV ARCHITECTES

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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 thought of making a brand new follow 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 embody:

• PULSE, Saint-Denis, France
• A MIXED USE PROGRAM: 132 housing items + 1 spiritual 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 Finest Structure Companies in France:

29. Structure Patrick Mauger

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The company contributes to the transformation of town, designing buildings that enrich life by multiplying their doable makes use of. The fields of exercise are extremely diversified, starting from city areas with research to change 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 way of their makes use of, contexts and budgets, the initiatives reveal a powerful character and are characterised by the emphasis on supplies, akin 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 embody:

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

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

28. A+Structure

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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 crew of architects, city planners and designers with numerous backgrounds and cultures. Design is all the time the results of a collective work. Certainly, sharing a big open area favors group dynamics.

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

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

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

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

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

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

• 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 Finest Structure Companies in France:

26. PETITDIDIERPRIOUX

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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 presently in improvement and in development. By way of 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 mission delivers considerate consideration of typological variations and the notion of consolation, by way of explicit consideration to context, orientation, supplies and power use. PPX makes understanding any new scenario the start line of its course of, and approaches every mission freed from preconceptions, all the time with a contemporary, but seasoned perspective.

A few of PETITDIDIERPRIOUX’s most outstanding initiatives embody:

• 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 Finest Structure Companies in France:

25. PCA-STREAM

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

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

• 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 Finest Structure Companies in France:

24. NZI Architectes

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

We’re fortunate to have the ability to work on atypical packages that vary from participatory housing to straw development, but additionally from wooden development 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 progressive strategies.

A few of NZI Architectes’ most outstanding initiatives embody:

• Transformation of an workplace constructing right into a wooden and straw 139 pupil rooms, Paris, France
• Store to Loft Conversion, Paris, France
• Levallois Condo, 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 Finest Structure Companies in France:

23. GARDERA-D

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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 diversified demand for initiatives, starting from structure (housing, workplaces, educating, tools …) to inside design and object design.

Every mission is approached and studied in a particular approach, based on 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 placement.

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

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

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

22. STUDIO 02

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Primarily based 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 Middle, Romain Grégoire and Thomas Collet, set their enthusiastic imaginative and prescient of modernity, of a rational structure, elegant and complex made to please the shopper.

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

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

• 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 Finest Structure Companies in France:

21. Taillandier Architectes Associés

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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 facet by facet with non-public and public companions. The folks at TAA give their finest to develop architectural options aimed to reinforce the final expertise: whatever the nature of the mission, the reply has to enhance the standard of lifetime of the top person and the direct surroundings.

To achieve this aim, the method must be properly designed and properly constructed. Each step have to be taken very fastidiously inside a structured {and professional} group. Way more than a mere architectural momentum, each mission designed by Taillandier Architectes Associés solves a sequence of equations mixing program, person and environmental specifics.

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

• Païcherou Aquatic Middle, 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 Finest Structure Companies in France:

20. Atelier Stéphane Fernandez

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The studio relies 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 sector of structure to a way more advanced 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 mission that’s as full as doable, however above all as delicate as doable.

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

• 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 Finest Structure Companies in France:

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 crew of architects, engineers, graphic artists, scenographers and city planners from very totally different cultural backgrounds.

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

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

• 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 Faculty Jean Lurçat, Saint-Denis, France

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

18. studio razavi structure

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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 know-how and architectural sensitivity. Our method to area is therefore decided by a rigorous understanding of current 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 shoppers 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 consists of residential, company, hospitality, civic, transportation, and mixed-use initiatives.

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

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

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

17. designbuildLAB

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The design/buildLAB is a project-based experiential studying program centered on the analysis, improvement and implementation of progressive development strategies and architectural designs. College students collaborate with native communities and trade specialists to conceive and notice constructed works of structure which are each instructional and charitable in nature. The aspirations of this system are concurrently to bolster the information and expertise essential to the scholars’ profitable and significant follow of structure and to assist improvement efforts in distressed communities by enriching the standard of their constructed surroundings.

A few of designbuildLAB’s most outstanding initiatives embody:

• 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 Finest Structure Companies in France:

16. Nomade Architectes

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Raphaël Chivot, Matthieu Laviolle and Vincent Le Garrec – open-neck shirts and no Rolexes – are self-made males. An early schoolboy encounter was necessary; 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 suggests, no borders. Between Paris and Vannes (its two places) the company focuses on 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 laptop science.

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

• Janine Jambu Gymnasium, Bagneux, France
• Valerie Nicolas Gymnasium, Cancale, France
• “Maison air et lumière” an Lively 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 Finest Structure Companies in France:

15. AUM Pierre Minassian

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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 akin to motels, firm headquarters, artwork galleries, cultural facilities, instructional buildings, sports activities amenities and even multi-unit housing. There are nonetheless frequent factors between all of the initiatives designed by Pierre Minassian and his crew: the minimal design that integrates discreetly and effectively into the panorama, using uncooked supplies akin to concrete, metal, wooden, stone and glass, the precedence given to pure mild by way of the presence of very large-scale glazed façades, and the concept any constructing designed by the agency ought to present the residents and guests with a singular residing expertise.

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

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

14. LCR ARCHITECTES

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

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

• 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 Finest Structure Companies in France:

13. Atelier Roberta

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

Each mission is new. Roberta has no preconceptions, and hates recipes. She all the time asks herself the query of practicality, tips on how to convey a designed mission to life, and tips on how to make it her personal. She can be delicate to new supplies and applied sciences, and to improvements happening on the opposite facet of the border.

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

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

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

12. Franklin Azzi Structure

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

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

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

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

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

11. Coldefy

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

A few of Coldefy’s most outstanding initiatives embody:

The next statistics helped Coldefy obtain eleventh place within the 30 Finest Structure Companies in France:

10. Dietmar Feichtinger Architectes

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

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

• 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 Finest Structure Companies in France:

9. LAN Structure

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

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 popularity and gained competitions each in France and overseas.

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

• 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 Finest Structure Companies in France:

8. Hamonic+Masson & Associés

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Hamonic+Masson & Associés is Gaëlle Hamonic, Jean-Christophe Masson and, since 2014, Marie-Agnès de Bailliencourt. The follow 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 of the 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 permits for some adventurous undertakings. We’ve since staged occasions akin to co-curating the French Pavilion on the 2008 Venice Biennial, and opened a sequence of exhibitions at venues such because the Cité de l’structure et du patrimoine.

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

• HOME , Paris, France
• New’R, Nantes, France
• The Docks Dombasles: 25 flats 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 Finest Structure Companies in France:

7. PPA architectures

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PPA architectures relies in Toulouse, France is dedicated to fabricating urbanity by way of initiatives whose packages and contexts are analyzed and questioned from the standpoint of use and development. 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 up to date situations of a helpful urbanism and structure.

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

• 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 Finest Structure Companies in France:

6. H2O Architectes

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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 impartial 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 embody:

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

5. NBJ architects

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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 numerous scales, whether or not architectural or city. Invested within the diffusion of architectural tradition, they arrange 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 embody:

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

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

4. FREAKS freearchitects

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

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

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

• SAMMODE analysis & improvement 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 Finest Structure Companies in France:

3. Atelier Zündel Cristea

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Formally established in January of 2001, at the moment AZC consists of round thirty folks organized into 4 areas: design, analysis, development 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 technique 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 embody:

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

2. archi5

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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 location, the programme, the social and cultural challenges are all examined, analyzed and in contrast. These knowledge are then reworked into questions.

The initiatives provide a dynamic and complete response to these points to the very best normal 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’ purposes, areas and environmental affect. It’s the essence of our confidence in structure, its capability to reinforce human varieties’ surroundings. 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 embody:

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

High picture: Familistère dwellings, Montreuil, France 

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

1. Dominique Coulon & Associés

© 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 popularity for the standard of the general public amenities it designs. It has labored on a large and diversified vary of programmes, together with a media library, music college, auditorium, college advanced, swimming pool, sports activities amenities, a residential residence for the dependent aged and housing. Dominique Coulon and his affiliate Steve Lethos Duclos enable their instinct to paved the way as they search to develop contextual initiatives that mix distinction and complexity, the place the outer envelope hints at inside richness.

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

• Housing for aged folks, 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-Technology Centre in Venarey-Les Laumes, Venarey-les-Laumes, France

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

Why Ought to I Belief Architizer’s Rating?

With greater than 30,000 structure companies and over 130,000 initiatives inside its database, Architizer is proud to host the world’s largest on-line neighborhood of architects and constructing product producers. Its celebrated A+Awards program can be the biggest celebration of structure and constructing merchandise, with greater than 400 jurors and tons of of hundreds of public votes serving to to acknowledge the world’s finest structure annually.

Architizer additionally powers agency directories for a variety of AIA (American Institute of Architects) Chapters nationwide, together with the official listing of structure companies for AIA New York.

An instance of a mission web page on Architizer with Venture Award Badges highlighted

A Information to Venture Awards

The blue “+” badge denotes {that a} mission has gained a prestigious A+Award as described above. Hovering over the badge reveals particulars of the award, together with award class, 12 months, and whether or not the mission gained the jury or standard alternative award.

The orange Venture of the Day and yellow Featured Venture badges are awarded by Architizer’s Editorial crew, and are chosen primarily based on a variety of components. The next components enhance a mission’s chance of being featured or awarded Venture of the Day standing:

• Venture accomplished inside the final 3 years
• A properly written, concise mission description of not less than 3 paragraphs
• Architectural design with a excessive degree of each useful and aesthetic worth
• Prime quality, in focus images
• At the very least 8 images of each the inside and exterior of the constructing
• Inclusion of architectural drawings and renderings
• Inclusion of development images

There are 7 Initiatives of the Day every week and an additional 31 Featured Initiatives. Every Venture of the Day is printed on Fb, Twitter and Instagram Tales, whereas every Featured Venture is printed on Fb. Every Venture of the Day additionally options in Architizer’s Weekly Initiatives E-newsletter and shared with 170,000 subscribers.

We’re consistently search for the world’s finest architects to hitch our neighborhood. If you want to know extra about this rating checklist and find out how your agency can obtain a presence on it, please don’t hesitate to succeed in out to us at [email protected].