Discover the winners of the 2025 National Timber Construction Award

Its ambition: to promote the know-how of the sector and its actors – architects, project owners, design offices, manufacturers, construction companies, craftsmen –, to encourage the use of certified, traceable, sustainable and primarily local wood, and to reveal the full potential of this material of the future, in order to strengthen its use and to actively contribute to the decarbonization of the construction sector.

The competition pays particular attention to architectural quality and landscape integration, environmental and energy performance, technical innovation, the use of French resources and the reproducibility of solutions.

It also values ​​territorial diversity, distinguishing achievements from all regions of France, both metropolitan and overseas, illustrating the richness of architectural and cultural approaches to wood as a material.

Placed under the theme “Sources and Resources”, the PNCB has set itself the objective this year of exploring how architecture returns to its fundamentals and values ​​the origins of the material and its know-how.

The jury

Chaired by architect Baptiste Manet, the 2024 winner for his project "La Petite Maison Noire" (The Little Black House), the jury is distinguished this year by its great diversity. Composed of companies, transformation stakeholders, engineers, researchers, builders, and also architects, it reflects a true cross-pollination of perspectives, mirroring the 634 applications received.

What the jury praised about them...

• Category "Learning and having fun": Early childhood center, Paris Périchaux (75)
  • Architect: Guillaume Ramillien Architecture (75)
• Category "Work, Host": Pavillon Jardins in Paris
  • Architect: Atelier du Pont Architectes (75)
• Category "Rehabilitating a facility": James Baldwin Media Library and Refugee Center in Paris
  • Architect: associate (75)
• Category “Living together”: Terra & Sylva Boïoennes in Biganos (33)
  • Architect: Dumont Legrand Architects (33-75)
• Category "Living in a house": The Kiosk in Caen (14)
  • Architect: Arba: Jean-Baptiste Barache & S. Lamine (75)
• Category "Rehabilitating a dwelling": Moulin du bois in Saint-Herblain (44)
  • Architect: Floret-Scheide Architecture (75)
• Category "Interior Design": Restoration of the Ursuline Chapel in Guingamp (22)
  • Architects: Lead architect: Dominique BONNOT (22), Partner: SABA Architectes - Julien Patard Architecture (22)
• Category “Outdoor landscaping”: Viewpoint overlooking the vineyard slopes of Côte-Rôtie in Tupin and Semons (69)
  • Architect: Architects Collection (38)
• Grand Jury Prize: Rosa Bonheur School Group in Aucamville (31)
  • Architect 360° architecture (31)
• Special Mention: Tea Time in Vannes (56)
  • Architect: Le Local d'architecture (56)