The Grand Prize for Architecture was awarded to the architects of the DATA agency for their exemplary transformation of an RATP office building into 52 housing units, the Abel Hovelacque building. While keeping the metro line 5 command post in the basement, they notably managed to add 2 levels of housing without weighing down the building through subtle work to lighten the existing structures. The jury also selected the quality and originality of the apartment plans.
10 other architectural achievements received the Architecture Prize. The current challenges of housing, and in particular its role in the climate crisis, led the jury to select 5 housing operations including 3 rehabilitations out of the 10 distinguished projects. At the time of the Climate Plan and the ecological and aesthetic disaster that it causes by the mediocrity of the renovations mostly implemented, the jury underlined the exemplary nature of two operations to transform social buildings from the XNUMXs.
The jury also wanted to show that if architectural excellence was expressed in prestigious operations such as the restructuring of the National Library of France or the Grasse media library, it could also happen even in the smallest towns in France with extremely modest.
DATA architects for the Abel Hovelacque building, rehabilitation-transformation of offices into social housing and command post for metro line 6 in Paris.
Contracting authority: RATP and Logis-Transports
The 10 winners of the “2022 Architecture Prize”
Bruno Gaudin & Virginie Brégal for the renovation and restructuring of the Quadrilatère Richelieu, National Library of France in Paris.
Client: Ministry of Culture, Ministry of National Education, Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Innovation, OPPIC
Ivry Serres and Beaudouin architects for the Charles Nègre media library in Grasse.
Client: City of Grasse
Collet Muller Architectes for 26 social housing units in Dammartin-en-Goële.
Client: I3F
Barrault Pressacco for the 18 social housing units rue Thiers in Raincy.
Client: I3F
Régis Roudil for 8 intermediate social housing E in solid stone in Gignac-la-Nerthe.
Client: 3F Sud
François Brugel Architectes Associés and Marc Dujon for the rehabilitation of 106 Montera-Gabon social housing units in Paris.
Client: Paris Habitat OPH
Robain-Guieysse and bmc2 for the rehabilitation of the Mounier housing towers in the Maurepas Gros-Chêne district in Rennes.
Client: Archipel Habitat
BRA for the rehabilitation of the old school and extension for an associative and civic hall in Tréméven in the Côtes d'Armor.
Client: Municipality of Tréméven
Debarge Bellaigue Ordynski architects for the redevelopment of the battery site in Longues-sur-Mer.
Contracting authority: Bayeux Intercom, the department of Calvados, the Conservatoire du Littoral and the commune of Longues-sur-Mer
EGR for the extension of the town hall of Biot.
Contracting authority: municipality of Biot