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The Prix d'architecture de l'Équerre d'argent (The Silver
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Prize) is a French
architecture Architecture is the art and technique of designing and building, as distinguished from the skills associated with construction. It is both the process and the product of sketching, conceiving, planning, designing, and construction, constructi ...
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 Jean Nouvel (; born 12 August 1945) is a French architect. Nouvel studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris and was a founding member of ''Mars 1976'' and ''Syndicat de l'Architecture'', France’s first labor union for architects. He has ob ...
and Architecture Studio for the
Institut du Monde Arabe The Institut du Monde Arabe (, ''Arab World Institute''; abbr. IMA) is an organisation founded in Paris in 1980 by France with 18 Arab countries to research and disseminate information about the Arab world and its cultural and spiritual values. ...
* 1988 –
Christian de Portzamparc Christian de Portzamparc (; born 5 May 1944) is a French architect and urbanist. He graduated from the École Nationale des Beaux Arts in Paris in 1970. His projects reflect a sensibility to their environment and to urbanism that is a found ...
for the Dance school for the Paris Opera, Nanterre * 1990 –
Dominique Perrault Dominique Perrault (born 9 April 1953 in Clermont-Ferrand) is a French architect and urban planner. He became world known for the design of the French National Library, distinguished with the Silver medal for town planning in 1992 and the Mies v ...
for the Hôtel industriel Berlier, Paris * 1991 –
Renzo Piano Renzo Piano (; born 14 September 1937) is an Italian architect. His notable works include the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris (with Richard Rogers, 1977), The Shard in London (2012), Kansai International Airport in Osaka (1994), the Whitney ...
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 Jean Nouvel (; born 12 August 1945) is a French architect. Nouvel studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris and was a founding member of ''Mars 1976'' and ''Syndicat de l'Architecture'', France’s first labor union for architects. He has ob ...
and Emmanuel Cattani for the Lyon Opera House * 1994 – Henri and Bruno Gaudin for the
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in Paris. * 1995 –
Christian de Portzamparc Christian de Portzamparc (; born 5 May 1944) is a French architect and urbanist. He graduated from the École Nationale des Beaux Arts in Paris in 1970. His projects reflect a sensibility to their environment and to urbanism that is a found ...
for the
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in Paris. * 1996 – Pierre-Louis Faloci for the Museum of Celtic Civilisation in Mont Beuvray * 1997 – Jean-Marc Ibos and Myrto Vitart for the
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. * 1998 –
Rem Koolhaas Remment Lucas Koolhaas (; born 17 November 1944) is a Dutch architect, architectural theory, architectural theorist, urbanist and Professor in Practice of Architecture and Urban Design at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, Graduate School of ...
for a house near
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. * 1999 – Marc Mimram for the Solférino Bridge * 2000 – Philippe Gazeau for the extension to the Centre Sportif Léon Biancotto in Paris. * 2001 –
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for
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in Rue des Suisses, Paris. * 2002 – du Besset
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for the médiathèque at
Troyes Troyes () is a Communes of France, commune and the capital of the Departments of France, department of Aube in the Grand Est region of north-central France. It is located on the Seine river about south-east of Paris. Troyes is situated within ...
. * 2003 –
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and Claire Piguet for the French Embassy in
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. * 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
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* 2011 – Frédéric Druot,
Anne Lacaton Anne Lacaton (born 2 August 1955) is a French architect and educator. She runs the architectural practice Lacaton & Vassal, with Jean-Philippe Vassal. The pair were jointly awarded the 2021 Pritzker Prize. Early life and education She was b ...
,
Jean-Philippe Vassal Jean-Philippe Vassal (; born 22 February 1954) is a French architect and academic. He runs the architectural practice Lacaton & Vassal, with Anne Lacaton. The pair were jointly awarded the 2021 Pritzker Architecture Prize. Early life and edu ...
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
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Museum *2014 – RDAI ArchitectureRDAI Architecture
/ref> for the Cité des métiers Hermès in Pantin *2015 – Bernard Quirot architecte + associés for the Maison de santé de
Vézelay Vézelay () is a Communes of France, commune in the Departments of France, department of Yonne in the north-central French region of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté. It is a defensible hill town famous for Vézelay Abbey. The town and its 11th-century Ro ...
(
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) in the Avallon-Vézelay-Morvan *2016 – Muoto architecte + for the "Lieu de vie", campus universitaire Saclay, in the Essonne


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