22/05/26

Our nursing home Sara Weill-Raynal in Paris has been nominated for the Brick Award 26, in the category « Working Together ».

Located on Rue Pelleport in the 20th arrondissement, the project involved the restructuring and extension of a 1970s care facility into a 94-room nursing home, clad in Kolumba brick. The design seeks to restore both programmatic coherence and urban legibility to a dense and constrained site, while placing the well-being of residents at the heart of its approach.

Selected from a record 849 submissions across five continents, the 50 nominated projects will be featured in the official Brick 26 book. The award jury is comprised of Gabriela Carrillo (Colectivo C733), Christine Conix (Conix RDBM), Jens Linnet (BOGL), Traudy Pelzel (MAP studio) and Eduardo Mediero (HANGHAR). The award ceremony will take place on the 11th of June 2026, in Vienna.

We are delighted to have been invited to give a lecture entitled « Triangle of Happiness » at the École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Nantes, as part of the 2024–2025 lecture series. 

« Triangle of Happiness » is a figure illustrating a process in which architecture, nourished by context, construction, and the human, generates an impact on emotions. 

The conference will take place on Thursday the 6th of March 2025, at 6:30pm, in the auditorium.

We are pleased to announce that Christelle Avenier has been invited as a visiting professor at ENSA Nantes [Mauritius] for the 2024–2025 academic year.

Opened in 2016 as the international campus of the École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Nantes, the school welcomes some 150 students from France, Mauritius and beyond, at the crossroads of Africa, Asia and Oceania.

04/11/24

Our project rue Dareau, Paris has been nominated for the Équerre d’Argent, in the category “Habitat”!

The award jury is comprised of: Iwona Buczkowska (Architect and urban planner, president of the jury), François Brugel (Associate, FBAA, Laureate of the Équerre d’Argent 2023), Jean-Jacques Hubert (Associate, H20 architectes, Laureate of the Équerre d’Argent 2023), Claire Schorter (Architect and urban planner, LAQ, Laureate of the Grand prix de l’urbanisme 2024), Charlotte Ameglio-Brion (Head of Real Estate, Hermès International), François Chaslin (Architect, author and radio producer), Catherine Sabbah (delegate of IDHEAL, High Studies Institute for action in housing), Hugh Dutton (Architect, Hugh Dutton associés), Charlotte Belval (Architect, Belval & Parquet architectes), Anna Cremnitzer (Architect and urban planner, Une Fabrique de la Ville), Arthur Harari (Director and screenwriter), Fabien Renou (Chief editor, le Moniteur) and Olivier Namias (Chief editor, AMC)

The award ceremony will take place on the 18th of November 2024, in Paris.

04/09/24

Séance d’Installation d’un nouveau membre titulaire, Christelle Avenier.

Hommage à Adrien Fainsilber (Architecte et urbaniste) par Christelle Avenier présentée par Sophie Berthelier et Martin Robain (Architecture studio).

29/11/23

We are pleased to be part of the 2023 edition of “L’Architecture Manifeste”, organized by La Plateforme and taking place in the ENSAB in Rennes. The exhibition invites 12 architects each year to express their approach, their practice, their train of thought, inside a defined volume. Only the volume is given, without any medium restrictions. This years’ edition features several French and European architectural practices such as Tact (Nantes), GENS (Nancy), Générale (Brussels), Atelier Fezi (Rennes), Guillaume Appriou (Plouguerneau); and will last until the 20th of December.

05/07/23

The final jury of the spring semester entitled “Old is the new Eco: Re-Used density” took place the 4th of July in the Technical University of Wien. For a period of four months, students of the research unit “Architectural Typology and Design” have been working on the transformation an office building into housing in the 19th district of Paris; under the supervision of visiting professors Christelle Avenier and Miguel Cornejo, and coordinating professor Katharina Hohenwarter. The final jury was comprised of Tina Gregoric, Wilfried Kuehn, Michael Obrist, Christian Kühn, and Umberto Napolitano.

23/09/22

Christelle Avenier has been awarded the 2022 Prize of the Woman Architect (Prix Femme Architecte 2022). The ceremony took place in the Pavillon de l’Arsenal, the 22nd of September. The prize is awarded yearly since 2013 by the ARVHA and Women In Architecture, aiming to underline the work and careers of woman architects, to inspire the next generations and thus encouraging the gender parity in an essentially masculine work field.

 

08/09/22

It is with great honor that we have received the 2022 Order of Architects’ Housing Prize (Prix du Logement de l’Ordre des architectes). The ceremony took place in l’Académie d’Architecture in Paris, the 7th of September 2022. The award has been presented by Marjan Hessamfar, vice-president of the national council of the order of architects, who saluted the work of “a young office, that rapidly grasped the housing challenge, with great courage, attention, and exigency”

10/06/22

We are delighted to announce that our housing project in rue Danton, Pantin has been selected as the winner of the category “Living together” in the Brick Award 22! The award jury, comprised of Brigitte Shim (Shim Sutcliffe Architects), Tina Gregoric (Dekleva Gregoric Architects), Ingrid van der Heijden (Civic Architects), Jesper Gottlieb (Gottlieb Paludan Architects) and Wilfried Kuehn (Kuehn Malvezzi Architects); has appreciated the project’s ability to manipulate the properties of the brickwork to address the different urban situations it faces.