30 Best Architecture and Design Firms in Paris

Paris is arguably one of the most romanticized cities in Europe and potentially the world. Its architectural history is rich, influenced by an array of architectural styles — from being the birthplace of Gothic structures to the renowned Belle Époque and the Art Deco movement. During the 19th century, one of the biggest urban planning programs was initiated by Napoleon III and directed by architect Georges-Eugène Haussmann: the city’s medieval neighborhoods were demolished, creating wider boulevards, new infrastructural systems as well as uniform façades aimed at dealing with Paris’s overcrowding, diseases and criminality rates.

In the 1980s, the “grands travaux” concept reimagined the city once more by introducing contemporary landmarks that have “moved” Paris to the next millennium, turning it into a hub of architectural innovation. Today, by blending historic preservation with contemporary design, famous architects like Frank Gehry and Herzog & de Meuron have added new, modern landmarks, including the futuristic Fondation Louis Vuitton and the strikingly modern Tour Triangle, that respond to the current architectural, social and environmental setting.

With so many architecture firms to choose from, it’s challenging for clients to identify the industry leaders that will be an ideal fit for their project needs. Fortunately, Architizer is able to provide guidance on the top design firms in Paris based on more than a decade of data and industry knowledge.

How are these architecture firms ranked?

The following ranking has been created according to key statistics that demonstrate each firm’s level of architectural excellence. The following metrics have been accumulated to establish each architecture firm’s ranking, in order of priority:

• The number of A+Awards won (2013 to 2025)
• The number of A+Awards finalists (2013 to 2025)
• The number of projects selected as “Project of the Day” (2009 to 2025)
• The number of projects selected as “Featured Project” (2009 to 2025)
• The number of projects uploaded to Architizer (2009 to 2025)

Each of these metrics is explained in more detail at the foot of this article. This ranking list will be updated annually, taking into account new achievements of Paris architecture firms throughout the year.

Without further ado, here are the 30 best architecture firms in Paris:

30. Mikou Design Studio

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Mikou Design Studio is a place of creation and experimentation in architecture and its inter-disciplinary cross-fertilization. We work in a continuous workshop spirit with a multidisciplinary team of architects, engineers, graphic artists, scenographers and town planners from very different cultural backgrounds. Every project is an excuse for re-questioning and redefining the meaning of a brief, a function, and an urban, social and human context, in order to invent new ways of living, places for sharing and gathering that are more sensitive and more sensual, and which stimulate feelings. Our aim is to get away from preconceptions of form and function in order to transmit more and better.

Some of Mikou Design Studio’s most prominent projects include:

• Balsanéo Aquatics Centre, Châteauroux, France
• Swimming Pool Feng Shui , Issy-les-Moulineaux, France
• Olympic Swimming Pool Tourcoing, Tourcoing, France
• House of Art and Culture, Beirut, Lebanon
• High School Jean Lurçat, Saint-Denis, France

The following statistics helped Mikou Design Studio achieve 30th place in the 30 Best Architecture Firms in Paris:

29. GRAAL ARCHITECTURE

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Graal is an architecture and urban strategies agency founded by Carlo Grispello and Nadine Lebeau in 2011.

Graal considers architecture to be a catalyst for the interaction between public space and the built environment and favours the exploration of an architecture that is constantly attentive to the emergence of new functions in their precise context. Guided by a spirit of creative pragmatism, the agency uses negotiation as an architectural and urban design tool in order to optimize constructive exchange throughout each stage of the project.

In pursuit of this quest, Graal dissects problematics encountered on site by interrogating program and revealing intrinsic potentialities in order to offer each project an approach that privileges the logic of a particular urban context rather than seeking to follow a rigid design process.

Some of GRAAL ARCHITECTURE’s most prominent projects include:

• NURSERY SCHOOL EXTENSION, Mantes-la-Ville, France
• Leisur activity center, Athis-Mons, France
• Community Center in Orly , Orly, France
• University Refectory in Cergy-Pontoise, IDF, France
• PEDAGOGIC FARM, Janville-sur-Juine, France

The following statistics helped GRAAL ARCHITECTURE achieve 29th place in the 30 Best Architecture Firms in Paris:

28. SCHEMAA

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Diagram: traced showing the essential elements of a concept. Main lines & main points to understand a work.

This term embodies a starting point but also a guideline to follow. More than a name, it reflects the way we conceive architecture. A free and frank architecture, making the understanding of an idea obvious, immediate. Our projects tend towards this search for radicality. Sculpted by their environment and specific needs, they highlight strong and assumed ideas, for the benefit of functionality and sensitive experiences.

This conceptual approach, combined with a fine work of details, materials and atmospheres, reflects the rigor and architectural requirement of schémaa. Our role must be foreruning and creative and beyond the needs expressed. Beyond any prejudice, propose, imagine, develop always renewed solutions.

Our always optimistic and responsible approach aims to seek the right balance between the rational and the sensitive, the insertion and creation with the ambition, the improvement of the built environment.

Some of SCHEMAA’s most prominent projects include:

• Nathalie Mauclair Gymnasium , Champagné, France
• Appartement C – Avenue de Clichy, Paris, France
• Recreation Center for Elementary School, France
• Sport Equipment & Tribune – Robert Gazzi Stadium, Bondy, France
• 4 Nurseries, Sartrouville, France

The following statistics helped SCHEMAA achieve 28th place in the 30 Best Architecture Firms in Paris:

27. Wilmotte & Associés SAS

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Wilmotte & Associes SAS, the architectural practice founded by Jean-Michel Wilmotte, currently employs 270 staff of 25 different nationalities and operates in 28 countries. Work is carried out in five key areas — architecture, museum design, interior design, urban planning and industrial and object design — with an attention to detail facilitating interventions from the smallest to the largest of scale. Whether for a villa or a high-rise building, a shop or company headquarters, an art gallery or a tramway, a museum or a new town, every project incorporates the highest of standards with the greatest respect for integration into context and for the environment.

Some of Wilmotte & Associés SAS’ most prominent projects include:

• Station F, Paris, France
• The New Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
• Metz Congress Robert Schuman, Metz, France
• Allianz Riviera Stadium, Nice, France
• EFB – The Lawyer School, Issy-les-Moulineaux, France

The following statistics helped Wilmotte & Associés SAS achieve 27th place in the 30 Best Architecture Firms in Paris:

26. Chatillon Architectes

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Chatillon Architectes was founded by François Chatillon in 1986. Today, it is composed of a multi-disciplinary team of 45 associates spread across two offices: one in Ferney-Voltaire near Geneva, the other in Paris.

Our experience, skills, and means enable us to design and carry out projects of all kinds in France and abroad, in the field of new constructions, renovation, restoration, as well as interior design. The quality of our completed projects has been recognised through national and international prizes, including that of the Geste d’Or for the redevelopment of Le Corbusier’s Cité de Refuge in Paris, and the Europa Nostra prize.

Some of Chatillon Architectes’ most prominent projects include:

• GRAND PALAIS, Paris, France
• STRASBOURG MUNICIPAL BATHS, Strasbourg, France
• VERDUN BATTLEFIELD, Douaumont-Vaux, France
• CARNAVALET MUSEUM, Paris, France
• CAFETERIA OF THE “MAISON DE LA RADIO ET DE LA MUSIQUE”, Paris, France

The following statistics helped Chatillon Architectes achieve 26th place in the 30 Best Architecture Firms in Paris:

25. Ameller Dubois & Associés

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Without falling into a specialization that might narrow architecture down to a routine, our firm developed over time its expertise in six broad areas.

Offices and business premises have been our primary activity, with the development of Eurotunnel headquarters in Paris, and the design of Motorcycle Center in Trappes. Then, in 1990, Philippe Ameller and Jacques Dubois – guests and winners of their first common public competition (a kindergarten) – initiated more than two decades of designing educational buildings, from early childhood to university.

Chosen by the Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris for the restructuring of the geriatric hospital René-Muret, the firm addressed the health sector, which is now an important skill of its architects.

Some of Ameller Dubois & Associés’ most prominent projects include:

• Housing and medical care in Paris, Paris, France
• Market Hall in Marly-le-Roi , Marly-le-Roi, France
• Université de Technologie de Compiègne (UTC), Compiègne, France
• Les Mureaux police station, Les Mureaux, France
• Piere-Perret schools, Serris, France

The following statistics helped Ameller Dubois & Associés achieve 25th place in the 30 Best Architecture Firms in Paris:

24. Architecturestudio

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Architecturestudio is an international architecture, urban planning and interior design practice founded in 1973, with offices in Paris, Shanghai and Zug. It brings together, around 13 partners, a multidisciplinary team of 150 people of 25 different nationalities. Its commitment to promoting architecture is reflected in a collective work that has won numerous distinctions. Architecturestudio is founded on shared knowledge and dialogue to increase the creative potential of a collective design. This approach promotes a plural understanding of the world, which achievements for more than forty years on 5 continents allow it to respond to the major challenges of the 21st century.

Architecturestudio relies on a wide expertise of projects carried out to develop its conceptual approach, responding to specific challenges for each case study.

Some of Architecturestudio’s most prominent projects include:

• Onassis Cultural Centre, Athens, Greece
• Extension of exhibition hall, Villepinte, France
• City of Science and Techniques, Chongqing, China
• Summers office building, Buenos Aires, Argentina
• University Hospital Center in Tangier, Tangier, Morocco

The following statistics helped Architecturestudio achieve 24th place in the 30 Best Architecture Firms in Paris:

23. Antonini Darmon Architects

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We founded the agency Antonini Darmon Architects in Paris in 2006. Our creative system was born from the partnership of two complementary yet different personalities. We aim to propose an original architectural interpretation, where each project follows a path having its own identity and dynamics. Our architecture is contextual: functionality, rigor and sobriety are combined in order to transform the project into an object of beauty. We are more especially dedicated to the new architectural and urban stakes involved with sustainable development.

Some of Antonini Darmon Architects’ most prominent projects include:

• Ile de Nantes – Oiseau des Iles, Nantes, France
• Voltaire Building
• Centre Technique du Livre de l’Enseignement Supérieur, Bussy-Saint-Georges, France
• Researchers residence & 33 housing, Paris, France
• 12 Housings, Houilles, France

The following statistics helped Antonini Darmon Architects achieve 23rd place in the 30 Best Architecture Firms in Paris:

22. Avenier Cornejo Architectes

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Miguel Cornejo was born in Santiago, Chile and studied architecture in France (Paris Malaquais). He worked for Mathias Klotz (Santiago, Chile), Francois Roche (R & Sie (n)) and with other agencies such as XTU Paris, Jacques Ferrier and Galiano and Simon. Christelle Avenier, graduated from the School of Architecture Malaquais Paris and subsequently worked in various agencies including Deremer Architect Douglas (San Francisco, USA) and Mathias Klotz (Santiago, Chile).

After graduating with honors, they were short listed for the Robert Auzelle prize «Lumières de la Ville» and won funding from Electra (EDF) in 2000 for a project in Valparaiso, Chile. Christelle Avenier and Miguel Cornejo founded an architecture agency (SARL) together in 2008. Their approach is inventive, without preconceptions or prejudices.

Some of Avenier Cornejo Architectes’ most prominent projects include:

• Day Care Orteaux, Paris, France
• 113 RUE LEGENDRE, Paris, France
• Day-Care and Young Workers Hostel, Paris, France
• MAISON 2G, Orsay, France
• 38 Housing units, Clichy, France

The following statistics helped Avenier Cornejo Architectes achieve 22nd place in the 30 Best Architecture Firms in Paris:

21. Chartier Dalix

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Since its creation in 2008 by Frédéric Chartier and Pascale Dalix, ChartierDalix has delivered around thirty buildings. All these projects have been compiled in a two-volume monograph entitled ChartierDalix. Built Work, Archives 2008-2022, published by Park Books in 2023.

A dozen projects are currently under construction, and the office has recently delivered: a logistics centre support of urban agriculture, with a green belt in Vitry-sur-Seine (94); a residential and commercial project in the Olympic Village in L’Ile-Saint-Denis (93); a timber-framed building for the Grenoble Ecole de Management in Pantin (93); the AP-HP headquarters in Paris (12th); two residential complexes in Paris (18th) and Bussy-Saint-Georges (77); a school complex in Lille (59); a tertiary campus in Saint Ouen (93); the metamorphosis of the Lourcine barracks in Paris (13th) into the University of Law Paris I.

Some of Chartier Dalix’s most prominent projects include:

• University of Law-Paris I, Modernisation of the Lourcine Barracks, Paris, France
• Day-Care and Young Workers Hostel, Paris, France
• School and student housing, Ivry-sur-Seine, France
• Secondary school, sport hall and cultural center, Lille, France
• Les Simonettes | A New Public Realm, Champigny-sur-Marne, France

The following statistics helped Chartier Dalix achieve 21st place in the 30 Best Architecture Firms in Paris:

20. CoBe Architecture & Paysage

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CoBe combines architecture, urban planning, landscaping, construction management and design, integrates in the creations, draws the ability to correct ruptures, to create new links, to look to the future through its cross skills with benevolence and confidence.

Created in 2002 by Alexandre Jonvel, Raphael Denis and Martin Lemerre, CoBe has expanded with a landscape partner, Luc Moneger in 2011, and a construction managing partner, Fabrice Taillandier in 2017. In 2021 CoBe is expanding its field of action even further by celebrating the opening of its design division. CoBe creates links: designing the city is about freeing up space, optimizing its use, recycling and reusing.

Some of CoBe Architecture & Paysage’s most prominent projects include:

• Host Differently, Social Residence, Paris, France
• Laherrère Center, Pau, France
• Athletes Village Lot E2B, Saint-Ouen-sur-Seine, France
• Empalot district – lot MG3, Toulouse, France
• Tri Postal Bordeaux 77 housing units, Bordeaux, France

The following statistics helped CoBe Architecture & Paysage achieve 20th place in the 30 Best Architecture Firms in Paris:

19. BFV ARCHITECTES

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BFV Architectes is an architecture studio funded by Jean Bocabeille, Olivier Fassio and Jean-Brice Viaud. This acronym stands for more than 20 years of experience. It embodies both a historical continuity and a strong desire to grow together and broaden the scope of action. The idea of creating a new practice was obvious to the three men, as much as their will to keep building a consistent, efficient and meaningful kind of architecture. Bocabeille, Fassio and Viaud’s projects have been carried out either as collective journeys ([BP] Architectures, Plan01 or Fassio-Viaud Architectes) or individual adventures (Jean Bocabeille Architecte).

Some of BFV ARCHITECTES’ most prominent projects include:

• PULSE, Saint-Denis, France
• A MIXED USE PROGRAM: 132 housing units + 1 religious center + 2 retail businesses, Paris, France
• NURSERY SCHOOL, Épinay-sous-Sénart, France
• HOUSING PROJECT (& Rooftop), Pontoise, France
• MORE WITH LESS, Paris, France

The following statistics helped BFV ARCHITECTES achieve 19th place in the 30 Best Architecture Firms in Paris:

18. Architecture Patrick Mauger

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The agency contributes to the transformation of the city, designing buildings that enrich life by multiplying their possible uses.

The fields of activity are highly varied, ranging from urban spaces with studies to modify the reception areas in the Cité des Sciences et de l’Industrie and the northern Vilette esplanade (definition study) to interior architecture and design for the new layouts of the Louvre museum restaurants and delivery of the first “monolith”, inspired by an lfood on the terraces of the Richelieu wing. Through their uses, contexts and budgets, the projects reveal a strong personality and are characterized by the emphasis on materials, such as marble powder on a honeycomb structure and Corian for the Louvre, or The Arte Povera treated wood for the CROUS centre in Mabillon.

Some of Architecture Patrick Mauger’s most prominent projects include:

• Cultural Center, Auneau, France
• Nièvre’s Departmental Archives, Nevers, France
• IGN and Météo France Geosciences centre – Saint-Mandé, Saint-Mandé, France
• Secrétan covered market, Paris, France
• Center for Research and Interdisciplinarity, Paris, France

The following statistics helped Architecture Patrick Mauger achieve 18th place in the 30 Best Architecture Firms in Paris:

17. PCA-STREAM

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The PCA-STREAM agency brings together 90 architects, urban planners, designers, and engineers, capable of responding to the complex challenges of the contemporary world. PCA is the architecture and urban planning agency, STREAM, a unique transdisciplinary research program to which more than 150 researchers from around the world contribute, and whose work is widely disseminated and applied in PCA’s large-scale projects.

Some of PCA-STREAM’s most prominent projects include:

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

The following statistics helped PCA-STREAM achieve 17th place in the 30 Best Architecture Firms in Paris:

16. Dubuisson

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Dubuisson is an architecture agency, based in Paris, Nice and Nantes. With an international and multidisciplinary team, it has around fifty employees: architects, interior des igners and engineers.The complementarity and transversality of its skills guarantee a project of high architectural quality, integrated and sustainable. Dubuisson designs and supports projects in all environments — tertiary, housing, retail, facilities — and in all dimensions of architecture: from town planning to furniture.

Some of Dubuisson’s most prominent projects include:

• Community Swimming Pool, Châteaulin, Châteaulin, France
• “New”, Asnières, Asnières-sur-Seine, France
• Deloitte University EMEA, Bailly-Romainvilliers, France
• Campus, Rocquencourt, Rocquencourt, France
• Sports and Leisure Center, Val Thorens, Les Belleville, France

The following statistics helped Dubuisson achieve 16th place in the 30 Best Architecture Firms in Paris:

15. NZI Architectes

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We founded the agency NZI ARCHITECTES in 2012. Our association is based on a project approach by creative, complementary and participatory experimentation. Fervent activists for environmental innovation, our work is based on the search for contextual urban insertions, paying constant attention to sustainable development.

We are lucky to be able to work on atypical programs that vary from participatory housing to straw construction, but also from wood construction to office recycling into housing. This course, enriched by the diversity of solutions that we experiment on the programs, forces us to be combative to get out of pre established standards. Our work is oriented towards the exploration of other and innovative techniques.

Some of NZI Architectes’ most prominent projects include:

• Transformation of an office building into a wood and straw 139 student rooms, Paris, France
• Shop to Loft Conversion, Paris, France
• Levallois Apartment, Levallois-Perret, France
• PARTICIPATORY HABITAT IN MONTREUIL, Montreuil, France
• Wood and Stone Early childhood home, Vauréal, France

The following statistics helped NZI Architectes achieve 15th place in the 30 Best Architecture Firms in Paris:

14. GARDERA-D

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GARDERA-D is a pluridisciplinary architecture agency established in Paris and Biarritz, France. The agency explores a wide scope of investigation and responds to a varied demand for projects, ranging from architecture (housing, workplaces, teaching, equipment) to interior design and object design.

Each project is approached and studied in a specific way, according to an approach based specifically on a particular attention to usages of buildings and the search for an optimum level in the relationship between architecture and location.

Some of GARDERA-D’s most prominent projects include:

• ACBA, Agglomération Côte Basque Adour, Bayonne, France
• House R, Anglet, France
• 145 Student Housing, Bordeaux, France
• AZALA, 20, Avenue du Sabaou, Biarritz, France
• H+L House, Biarritz, France

The following statistics helped GARDERA-D achieve 14th place in the 30 Best Architecture Firms in Paris:

13. LAN Architecture

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LAN Architecture was founded by Benoit Jallon and Umberto Napolitano in 2002. The agency’s name echoes the partners’ intentions directly. LAN is precisely the acronym of Local Architecture Network and it refers to the local design network applied and developed through specific field skills, experts and authors attending on the projects. The double nationality of LAN enables to bridge different European countries.

In 2004 LAN architecture work was selected by the French Culture Minister for the “Nouveaux Albums des Jeunes Architectes” for its potential and talent. In six years time, the agency has earned a reputation and won competitions both in France and abroad.

Some of LAN Architecture’s most prominent projects include:

• Hotel Residence in Atacama, Atacama Region, Chile
• Children’s Toy Library, Bonneuil-sur-Marne, France
• COMPANY HEADQUARTERS MARCHESINI FRANCE, Saint-Mesmes, France
• Sprengel Museum extension, Hanover, Germany
• 30 passive housing units, Paris, France

The following statistics helped LAN Architecture achieve 13th place in the 30 Best Architecture Firms in Paris:

12. PETITDIDIERPRIOUX

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Cédric Petitdidier and Vincent Prioux founded Petitdidierprioux Architectes in 2004. With more than forty staff and two offices in Paris and Lyon, PPX has completed more than forty projects, with just as many currently in development and in construction. Through its work, PPX has garnered expertise in residential housing, consistently striving for social mixing and ‘pleasurable density’ in an effort to reconcile individual and collective housing, including for high-rise buildings. Each project delivers thoughtful consideration of typological variations and the notion of comfort, through particular attention to context, orientation, materials and energy use.

PPX makes understanding any new situation the starting point of its process, and approaches each project free of preconceptions, always with a fresh, yet seasoned perspective.

Some of PETITDIDIERPRIOUX’s most prominent projects include:

• TALE OF TRANSFORMATION LA FANTAISIE HOTEL, Paris, France
• 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

The following statistics helped PETITDIDIERPRIOUX achieve 12th place in the 30 Best Architecture Firms in Paris:

11. Moussafir Architectes

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Born on October 15, 1957 in Katanga (Ex-Belgian Congo) to an architect father. Family from Rhodes and Thessaloniki. First architectural memories in the family home in Elisabethville designed by Julian Elliott in 1957 and published in “New Architecture in Africa” by Udo Kultermann.

Studies of architecture and then art history under the aegis of Roland Schweitzer, Yves Lion and Alain Pélissier at the School of Architecture of Paris-Tolbiac and Daniel Arasse at the University of Paris I Sorbonne. DPLG in 1993, founded the Moussafir Architectes agency the same year, after 10 years of training and practice in the agency with Christian Hauvette, Henri Gaudin, Dominique Perrault and Francis Soler.

First interior design achievements (headquarters of the Apostrophe company and IGAS, administrative services of the Council of State), then participation in many culturally dominant competitions, alone or in association.

Some of Moussafir Architectes’ most prominent projects include:

• 5 Vertbois, Paris, France
• 105 Social Dwellings + 18 SOHOs, Paris, France
• Maison Escalier
• La Luciole, Alençon, France
• PARIS 8 UNIVERSITY ARTS DEPARTMENT, Paris, France

The following statistics helped Moussafir Architectes achieve 11th place in the 30 Best Architecture Firms in Paris:

10. Nomade Architectes

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Raphaël Chivot, Matthieu Laviolle and Vincent Le Garrec — open-neck shirts and no Rolexes — are self-made men. An early schoolboy encounter was important; a sail together across the Atlantic, decisive. An agency was born first from camaraderie, then friendship:

“Nomade… all clear on the horizon and open-mindedness at a maximum”, which means, no borders. Between Paris and Vannes (its two locations) the agency specializes in all projects. And it works everywhere. Nomade moves and grows.

Ideas swarm in the inventive minds of some thirty faithful co-workers who have taken to organizing themselves around centers of interest, from design to the worksite via research, communication and even computer science.

Some of Nomade Architectes’ most prominent projects include:

• Janine Jambu Gymnasium, Bagneux, France
• Valerie Nicolas Gymnasium, Cancale, France
• “Maison air et lumière” an Active House by Nomade, Verrières-le-Buisson, France
• Delegation of the vineyard, Clisson, France
• St Brieuc’s Elderly Establishment, Saint-Brieuc, France

The following statistics helped Nomade Architectes achieve 10th place in the 30 Best Architecture Firms in Paris:

9. Atelier Roberta

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Roberta is a three-headed creature. Three paths, three skills, three landscape practices brought together in the same vision of the project. Roberta pays a very specific attention to sites and territories. She relies on her intuition and a great practice of the field to open project tracks to deepen.

Every project is new. Roberta has no a priori, she hates recipes. She always asks the question of practice, the birth of a designed project and appropriation by users. She is also sensitive to new materials and technologies, to ongoing innovations on the other side of the borders.

Some of Atelier Roberta’s most prominent projects include:

• Jean Louis Étienne school, Coupvray, France
• P+R park and ride, Vertou, France
• ESIEE-IT school of engineering and digital expertise’s, Pontoise, France
• Théâtre d’eau, Fumel, France
• BAT – 170 housing units and shops, Paris, France

The following statistics helped Atelier Roberta achieve 9th place in the 30 Best Architecture Firms in Paris:

8. Franklin Azzi Architecture

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Franklin Azzi and his practice, founded in 2006, develop a transversal approach stimulated by the intertwining of different views and disciplines. In constantly working on architecture, interior architecture, design and contemporary art, he develops a way of designing and building that is applicable to all scales and typologies of space.

From urban micro-architecture such as embodied by the Eiffel Kiosque and its prefabricated structure, to towers in Dubai and Paris, via conversions of existing buildings such as the Alstom market buildings in Nantes, his interventions are based on a quest for sustainability to meet the needs of all users.

Some of Franklin Azzi Architecture’s most prominent projects include:

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

The following statistics helped Franklin Azzi Architecture achieve 8th place in the 30 Best Architecture Firms in Paris:

7. STUDIO RAZAVI + PARTNERS

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Our work rests on a fundamental principal: the mediation between engineering and architectural culture. It is our belief that successful designs can only materialize by fully synthesizing building technology and architectural sensitivity. Our approach to space is hence determined by a rigorous understanding of existing relationships between technique and culture, free of stylistic limitations, open to context.

Our designs cover a wide spectrum or architectural services from interiors to master planning services for clients in both the public and private sectors. Operating as one firm with two offices (Paris and New York) our portfolio of works spans from Europe to the Americas and includes residential, corporate, hospitality, civic, transportation and mixed-use projects.

Some of STUDIO RAZAVI + PARTNERS’ most prominent projects include:

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

The following statistics helped STUDIO RAZAVI + PARTNERS achieve 7th place in the 30 Best Architecture Firms in Paris:

6. Hamonic+Masson & Associés

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Hamonic+Masson & Associés is Gaëlle Hamonic, Jean-Christophe Masson and, since 2014, Marie-Agnès de Bailliencourt, partner. The firm was founded in 1997, and was nominated for the Mies van der Rohe award in 2001 and awarded the Nouveaux Albums de la Jeune Architecture (Naja) in 2002.

The agency came to the attention of the general public in 2003 with the design of the Maison Métal, exhibited in the Parc de la Villette. This event placed it at the confluence of art and architecture, a flexible space that allowed for some exciting adventures and inaugurated a series of exhibitions and scenographies: co-curator of the French Pavilion at the Venice Biennale in 2008 as part of the French Touch collective, Cité de l’Architecture et du Patrimoine, etc.

Some of Hamonic+Masson & Associés’ most prominent projects include:

• HOME , Paris, France
• New’R, Nantes, France
• The Docks Dombasles: 25 apartments and offices, Le Havre, Le Havre, France
• Centre des Archives Contemporaines, Fontainebleau, France
• Urban Dock, Bordeaux, France

The following statistics helped Hamonic+Masson & Associés achieve 6th place in the 30 Best Architecture Firms in Paris:

5. Atelier Zündel Cristea

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Officially established in January of 2001, today AZC includes around thirty people organized into four areas: design, research, construction and administration of projects. Our teams are made up of young architects from all over the world, as the diversity of our own respective Swiss-American and Romanian origins has brought us to an understanding of the interest in crossing cultures and transgressing boundaries. Consequently, the efficiency and creativity of our firm are bolstered by a constant effort in observing what’s going on elsewhere, in striving to work outside our country, in taking an interest in differences.

Each of our projects are embodied by a strategy of qualitatively occupying sites, without preconceptions regarding their geographic location, their programmatic requirements or their scale.

Some of Atelier Zündel Cristea’s most prominent projects include:

• Bouncing Bridge
• Grenelle tower
• Office building in Vevey, Vevey, Switzerland
• Treasury office, Muntzenheim, France
• Medical care center Limay, Limay, France

The following statistics helped Atelier Zündel Cristea achieve 5th place in the 30 Best Architecture Firms in Paris:

4. h2o architectes

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h2o architectes is an office of creative architectural design also specializing in the restoration of ancient monuments. It is lead by three architects: Charlotte Hubert architect dipl. DPLG and historical preservation architect, Jean-Jacques Hubert architect dipl. DPLG founder of the office and Antoine Santiard architect dipl. EPFL who joined in 2008.

Established as a firm in 2005, the leading architects have had multiple collaborations since 2000. They have executed projects and won international competitions both as independent architects as well as for other major architects (Bruno Decaris, Jakob+MacFarlane, Bernard Tschumi).

h2o works on a wide scope of projects and scales including historical monuments and sites, urban planning, architecture and design.

Some of h2o architectes’ most prominent projects include:

• Chatou, Chatou, France
• The Cabin French Alps, Saint-Martin-de-Belleville, France
• “Front and back” Apartment, Paris, France
• Eva’s Bed
• 20 social housing and 3 commercial spaces, Paris, France

The following statistics helped h2o architectes achieve 4th place in the 30 Best Architecture Firms in Paris:

3. Ferrier Marchetti Studio

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Ferrier Marchetti Studio seeks to develop a sensitive, humanist approach to the city, combining sustainable development and new technologies in the quest for innovation and urban delight. The result is a preliminary analysis, procedure and stance which informs the architectural design process. We are innovative and idealistic in our approach to what architects can and should be capable of.

Since 1993, we have believed that architecture should be a radical agent of change and reinvention. The studio has dedicated itself to the production of innovative projects and concepts with a commitment to sustainable development as a backdrop. There are philosophical roots to this approach.

Some of Ferrier Marchetti Studio’s most prominent projects include:

• Aqualagon, Paris, France
• The French International School of Beijing, Beijing, China
• Headquarters of Métropole Rouen Normandie, Rouen, France
• Hachette Livre Headquarters, Vanves, France
• Bridge in Choisy-Le-Roi, Choisy-le-Roi, France

The following statistics helped Ferrier Marchetti Studio achieve 3rd place in the 30 Best Architecture Firms in Paris:

2. FREAKS freearchitects

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freearchitects is a Paris-based architecture firm lead by three architects favoring prospection, research and experimentation through projects and building process practices from small scale art installations to large scale architecture competitions.

Although nowadays their built projects are mostly located in France, FREAKS’s partners have lived and experienced a wide range of abroad working contexts such as San Francisco, Tokyo, Beijing, Berlin, Mumbai, Singapore, Istanbul and more.

Some of FREAKS freearchitects’ most prominent projects include:

• SAMMODE research & development center, Lamotte-Beuvron, France
• Refurbishment of the historical Strasbourg zoo’s pedagogical farm and new visitor center, Strasbourg, France
• SUR MESURE, Paris, France
• Pavillion in a garden, Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France
• Tribal Act Historical Tattoo and Piercing Parlor in Paris, Paris, France

The following statistics helped FREAKS freearchitects achieve 2nd place in the 30 Best Architecture Firms in Paris:

1. Atelier du Pont

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Established in 1997, Atelier du Pont is an architecture and interior design firm of some 45 professionals from all walks of life who work alongside the studio’s founders, Anne-Cécile Comar and Philippe Croisier. The studio works on a wide variety of projects, from hotels to facilities, housing, offices, private residences, boutiques, and restaurants.

Each one explores new ways of living, working and relaxing to create sites that are well-suited to their purpose, creative and inspiring, in France and abroad. It uses a comprehensive approach.

Some of Atelier du Pont’s most prominent projects include:

• Holiday house with swimming pool, Le Cap Ferret, France
• Pavillon Jardins, Paris, France
• 25 rue Michel le Comte, Paris Le Marais, Paris, France
• Offices for the Community of Municipalities, Les Herbiers, France
• Woody – Office building, Saint-Maurice, France
• Top image: Bienvenüe – the new headquarters of RATP Habitat, Paris, France

The following statistics helped Atelier du Pont achieve 1st place in the 30 Best Architecture Firms in Paris:

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