Prix de l'Équerre d'Argent facts for kids

The Prix d'architecture de l'Équerre d'argent (The Silver Prize) is a French architecture award. This prize was launched in 1960 by "Architecture Française" magazine and its director Michel Bourdeau.

It is given annually by Le Moniteur group for a French building, completed in the past year. The prize is divided equally between the architect and the building owner.

Award winners

The award winners were:

• 1983 – Henri Ciriani for the Crèche, Saint-Denis
• 1984 – Christian Devillers for the Parking des Chaumettes, Saint-Denis
• 1985 – Roland Simounet for the National Picasso Museum, Paris
• 1986 – Adrien Fainsilber for the Cité des Sciences, la Villette, Paris
• 1987 – Jean Nouvel and Architecture Studio for the Institut du Monde Arabe
• 1988 – Christian de Portzamparc for the Dance school for the Paris Opera, Nanterre
• 1990 – Dominique Perrault for the Hôtel industriel Berlier, Paris
• 1991 – Renzo Piano for the 64 rue de Meaux apartments, Paris
• 1992 – Denis Valode and Jean Pistre for the L’Oréal factory, Aulnay-sous-Bois
• 1993 – Jean Nouvel and Emmanuel Cattani for the Lyon Opera House
• 1994 – Henri and Bruno Gaudin for the Stade Charlety in Paris.
• 1995 – Christian de Portzamparc for the Cité de la Musique in Paris.
• 1996 – Pierre-Louis Faloci for the Museum of Celtic Civilisation in Mont Beuvray
• 1997 – Jean-Marc Ibos and Myrto Vitart for the Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille.
• 1998 – Rem Koolhaas for a house near Bordeaux.
• 1999 – Marc Mimram for the Solférino Bridge
• 2000 – Philippe Gazeau for the extension to the Centre Sportif Léon Biancotto in Paris.
• 2001 – Herzog & de Meuron for social housing in Rue des Suisses, Paris.
• 2002 – du Besset-Lyon for the médiathèque at Troyes.
• 2003 – Yves Lion and Claire Piguet for the French Embassy in Beirut.
• 2004 – Antoinette Robain and Claire Guieysse for the Centre National de la Danse de Pantin.
• 2005 – Florence Lipsky and Pascal Rollet for the Science Library at Orléans-la-Source.
• 2006 – Franck Hammoutène for the extension to Marseille City Hall.
• 2007 – Nathalie Franck and Yves Ballot for the restructuration-extension of the Nuyens school in Bordeaux
• 2008 – Marc Barani for the Tramway stations, Nice
• 2009 – Bernard Desmoulin for the conservatory Léo-Delibes in Clichy
• 2010 – Pascale Guédot for the public library of Oloron-Sainte-Marie
• 2011 – Frédéric Druot, Anne Lacaton, Jean-Philippe Vassal for the rehabilitation of the Tour Bois-le-Prêtre, Paris
• 2012 – Jean-Patrice Calori, Bita Azimi, Marc Botineau (agence Cab) for the Childhood Centre, La Trinité
• 2013 – Kazuyo Sejima + Ryue Nishizawa, SANAA and Celia Imrey + Tim Culbert, Imrey Culbert for the Louvre-Lens Museum
• 2014 – RDAI Architecture for the Cité des métiers Hermès in Pantin
• 2015 – Bernard Quirot architecte + associés for the Maison de santé de Vézelay (Yonne) in the Avallon-Vézelay-Morvan
• 2016 – Muoto architecte + for the "Lieu de vie" , campus universitaire Saclay, in the Essonne

See also

In Spanish: Premio de la Escuadra de Plata para niños