Four days after Beaujolais Nouveau, Equerre d’argent arrived. This is the chestnut tree of the architectural year. Certainly not the only prize in the discipline, but the most established, since its creation in 1960 by the journal French architectureit was then relaunched in 1983, after a nine-year hiatus, by the press group Le Moniteur which has been responsible for its organization since then. Candidates pay a fee to participate (which is often criticized by institutions). Pre-selection is guaranteed by the journal’s journalists Monitor And AMC. And the prizes – the Silver Square, the prize for the first entry and five additional awards, each corresponding to a “category” of activity – are awarded by a professional jury.
By awarding the Simon-Veil school group, in Tremblay-en-France (Seine-Saint-Denis), the jury of 43e edition that met on Monday, November 24, on Maison de la radio highlights a trend occurring over several years that sees architects, encouraged by the relatively loose design standards in this field, taking advantage of the school subject to rethink its operations. He wanted to distinguish a very fruitful alliance between the project management of the city of Tremblay-en-France and the architect Gaëtan Le Penhuel and his partner agencies, which allowed him to go further in the reinvention of the way of teaching, learning and more generally living in schools. In fact, this project is part of a call for projects launched by the Créteil academy among teachers “thinking about school differently”.
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