Architecture Medal

In 2021, TITAN was awarded the Delarue Prize Medal by the Académie d’Architecture. Presented by one of France’s oldest institutions dedicated to architecture, this distinction ranks among the profession’s most respected honours. The Delarue Prize recognises an outstanding built work or exemplary architectural approach, celebrating architecture that serves everyday life, supports social dynamics and contributes to the transformation of territories.

Receiving this award represented significant institutional recognition of the rigour, sensitivity and consistency of TITAN’s work and of its approach to designing and shaping places for people. It highlights an engaged architectural practice, firmly rooted in the realities of each context while remaining open to collective imagination.

AJAP

Organised by the French Ministry of Culture, the Albums des Jeunes Architectes et Paysagistes, known as the AJAP, distinguish promising young architects and landscape architects every two years for the quality and innovative character of their built work and ongoing projects.

TITAN was named an AJAP laureate in 2018. This national recognition marked an important stage in the studio’s development and reinforced its commitment to contemporary architecture that is rooted in its context and attentive to the ways in which places are used.

Acting as a genuine springboard, the award gives its laureates greater visibility through exhibitions, publications and initiatives promoting their work in France and internationally.

40 Under 40 Awards

In 2017, TITAN was selected as a laureate of the European 40 Under 40 Awards, presented by the Chicago Athenaeum in collaboration with the European Centre for Architecture.

The award honours forty architects and designers under the age of forty who are identified as emerging figures on the European scene. It recognises their creativity, committed vision and ability to renew contemporary architectural and design practices.

Équerre d’Argent

In 2021, TITAN received the Équerre d’Argent in the Workplaces category for the Nantes railway signal control centre. Presented by Le Moniteur and AMC magazine, the Équerre d’Argent is one of the most prestigious distinctions in French architecture. It recognises exemplary buildings that combine construction quality, carefully considered uses and a sensitive relationship with their surroundings.

The award acknowledged TITAN’s commitment and rigour in transforming a highly technical facility into a genuine place for working and living. The project reflects a precise and engaged architectural approach, rooted in the realities of its uses while opening new perspectives for the architecture of infrastructure.

In 2023, TITAN was nominated for the Équerre d’Argent in the Culture, Youth and Sport category for the Nantes Saint-Nazaire School of Fine Arts.

The nomination recognised the quality and ambition of a project in which built heritage and contemporary creation come together to provide students, artists and local residents with a shared place dedicated to learning, exchange and collective imagination.

Mies van der Rohe Award

In 2022, the Clemenceau Visitor Pavilion in Saint-Vincent-sur-Jard was nominated for the European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture – Mies van der Rohe Award.

Created by the European Commission and the Fundació Mies van der Rohe, the prize is one of Europe’s most prestigious distinctions for contemporary architecture. Every two years, it recognises the continent’s most outstanding built works.

Selected from more than five hundred European projects, the pavilion was included among the eighty-five works nominated by the international jury.

This recognition highlights both the symbolic significance and the architectural quality of the intervention. Conceived as a discreet concrete monolith, the pavilion sits carefully within the coastal landscape while enhancing the legacy of Georges Clemenceau. The project embodies TITAN’s ambition to combine respect for heritage with contemporary architectural expression, creating sensitive and exemplary buildings that are precisely rooted in their setting.

AMO Awards

In 2025, TITAN received the AMO Award in the Urban and Rural Catalyst category for the Museum of Fine Arts located at the heart of the Maurepas district in Rennes.

Organised by Architecture et Maîtres d’Ouvrage, the award recognises projects that bring about lasting change in their territories through the quality of the relationship between the client and the design team.

The jury praised a cultural facility capable of playing an active role in the transformation of a changing neighbourhood. The Maurepas Museum of Fine Arts offers an open architecture that is attentive to its uses, its residents and its social context, reaffirming culture as a driver of social cohesion and urban renewal.

The award recognises TITAN’s commitment to an attentive and contextually grounded architecture, in which every project becomes a means of revealing the potential of a place and strengthening the relationship between people and their environment.

In 2023, TITAN was nominated for an AMO Award for the Nantes Saint-Nazaire School of Fine Arts. The distinction celebrates exemplary projects resulting from a successful collaboration between client and architect, with particular attention given to uses, innovation and context.

The nomination recognised the quality of TITAN’s work on a major cultural project. The School of Fine Arts embodies a sensitive and rigorous architectural approach, combining the reinterpretation of a historic industrial site with the ambition to create an open and inclusive place for students and local residents.

In 2019, TITAN received the AMO Award in the Most Audacious Implementation category for the Clemenceau Visitor Pavilion in Saint-Vincent-sur-Jard.

The award highlighted TITAN’s commitment to ambitious architecture that responds sensitively to its context and to the challenges of welcoming visitors and conveying heritage. The Clemenceau Pavilion establishes a meaningful relationship between the coastal landscape, the visitor experience and the history of the site.

AR Public Space Awards

In 2022, TITAN was recognised by The Architectural Review’s AR Public Awards for Versus, a temporary installation designed as part of Le Voyage à Nantes.

This international award celebrates interventions that transform public space and create new forms of collective experience, revealing the essential role that architecture can play in everyday life.

Installed on Place Graslin in Nantes, Versus formed a monumental roller-skating track shaped by the existing topography of the square. The temporary installation reinvented one of the city’s most emblematic public spaces, transforming it into an inclusive and shared urban stage. It illustrates TITAN’s ability to design playful and sensitive structures that reactivate public uses and enrich the experience of the city.

AR Emerging Architecture Awards

In 2018, TITAN was a finalist in the AR Emerging Architecture Awards, organised by The Architectural Review.

Established in 1999, this international award is one of the leading distinctions for emerging architectural practices. It highlights studios whose work stands out for its creativity, rigour and ambition.

TITAN was shortlisted for the Clemenceau Visitor Pavilion, which was presented to the jury during the World Architecture Festival. The nomination recognised an architecture that is both precise and poetic, capable of asserting its presence within the landscape while revealing the memory of a heritage site.

Architizer A+Firm Awards

In 2021, TITAN received a Special Mention at the Architizer A+Firm Awards, one of the leading international programmes recognising architectural practices.

Selected from more than four hundred entries from fifty countries, TITAN was distinguished for the creative ambition and consistency of its architectural approach.

This international recognition highlights the studio’s ability to develop a sensitive and engaged architecture that responds carefully to its context while addressing contemporary challenges.

EMYA European Museum of the Year Award

In 2020, the Musée national Clemenceau-de-Lattre, including TITAN’s intervention at Georges Clemenceau’s birthplace in Mouilleron-en-Pareds, was nominated for the European Museum of the Year Award.

The nomination placed the museum among approximately sixty European institutions recognised for the excellence of their museographic approach and their ability to establish a meaningful dialogue with visitors.

This international recognition celebrated the work undertaken to bring new life to a place of national remembrance by combining architectural precision, respect for the historic fabric and contemporary exhibition design. The project reflects TITAN’s commitment to transforming sites charged with history into living, accessible and meaningful cultural spaces.

Barbara Cappochin International Architecture Award

In 2022, TITAN received an Honourable Mention at the Barbara Cappochin International Architecture Award for Versus.

Organised in Italy, this international prize recognises meaningful architectural projects that are rooted in their territory and attentive to the human dimension.

It celebrates works demonstrating a high level of architectural quality, sustainability and sensitivity to the landscape. This Honourable Mention highlights TITAN’s commitment to a restrained, contextual and carefully considered architecture.

Green Good Design Awards

In 2016, TITAN received a Green Good Design Award for the Innovation and Research Centre offices at the University of Nantes.

The award recognised an architectural approach attentive to use, environmental performance and contextual integration, combining restraint with constructive ambition.

Presented by the Chicago Athenaeum Museum of Architecture and Design, the Green Good Design Award is a major international distinction for sustainable and responsible architecture. It celebrates exemplary projects from around the world for their innovative and environmentally engaged approach to design.

YEA! Young European Architects

In 2020, TITAN was named a laureate of YEA! Young European Architects, organised by CA’ASI as part of the 17th Venice Architecture Biennale.

The Venice Biennale is one of the world’s most significant architectural events, bringing together innovative practices and projects that reflect the ongoing evolution of contemporary architecture.

The distinction recognised TITAN’s sensitive and innovative approach, attentive to context and use. It reflects the studio’s ambition to create distinctive and meaningful architecture that engages with European territories, while establishing its presence at a major international architectural event.

Architecture of Necessity

In 2022, Versus, installed on Place Graslin in Nantes as part of Le Voyage à Nantes, was selected for the international Architecture of Necessity exhibition, organised by Virserum Konsthall in Sweden during the WOOD 2022 triennial.

Based on a manifesto first published in 2009, the programme promotes responsible, sustainable and inclusive architecture designed to respond to the needs of territories and their inhabitants.

The selection recognised TITAN’s approach to creating a temporary installation in precast white concrete that was simultaneously functional, welcoming and responsive to Nantes’ classical urban fabric. Versus transforms public space into a collective stage, generating shared uses and social interaction through a simple and contemporary architectural language.

Façades2Build Awards

In 2020, the Clemenceau Visitor Pavilion in Saint-Vincent-sur-Jard received a Special Jury Mention in the Public Buildings category at the Façades2Build Awards.

The award recognises exemplary projects that demonstrate innovation and architectural quality in the design and construction of building envelopes.

The jury praised the precision and restraint of the architectural intervention. Conceived as a sand-coloured concrete monolith, the pavilion sits delicately within the coastal landscape. It reflects TITAN’s attention to materiality, landscape integration and the memory of the site, while asserting a distinctly contemporary architectural expression.

PARI Award for Resilient and Innovative Architecture

In 2020, the visitor pavilion of the Georges Clemenceau House and Gardens in Saint-Vincent-sur-Jard received the PARI Award for Resilient and Innovative Architecture, presented by the Maison régionale de l’architecture des Pays de la Loire.

The award recognises exemplary projects that fully integrate the challenges of sustainability, adaptability and environmental responsibility.

It highlights TITAN’s approach to the project, based on a restrained and contemporary architecture that responds carefully to its natural setting of woodland and dunes while respecting the heritage of the site. The Clemenceau Pavilion embodies an engaged architectural approach in which the intervention accompanies the landscape and addresses its cultural and ecological challenges.

Bauwelt Award

In 2019, the Clemenceau Visitor Pavilion in Saint-Vincent-sur-Jard was shortlisted for Das Erste Haus, organised by the German architecture magazine Bauwelt.

This international recognition highlighted the architectural quality of the project, the precision of its concrete construction and its sensitive integration into the landscape.

Conceived as a monolith emerging from the dunes, the pavilion was recognised for its formal subtlety and its meaningful dialogue with the site. It illustrates TITAN’s ability to combine contemporary architectural expression with the enhancement of historic and landscape heritage.

Trophée Béton

In 2019, the Clemenceau Visitor Pavilion in Saint-Vincent-sur-Jard received the Trophée Béton Pro, organised by Bétocib and CIMbéton under the patronage of the French Ministry of Culture.

Presented every two years, the award recognises outstanding concrete buildings completed in France. Projects are selected for their construction quality, their intelligent use of the material, their durability and their integration within their setting.

The award celebrated the strength and precision of TITAN’s approach. Discreet and contemporary, the pavilion was conceived as a concrete monolith that sits sensitively within the coastal landscape while revealing the historic memory of the site. It demonstrates the studio’s ability to combine construction innovation with architectural rigour.

Geste d’Or

In 2018, TITAN received the Geste d’Or for the Clemenceau Visitor Pavilion in Saint-Vincent-sur-Jard.

Presented by the Académie d’Architecture and the Geste d’Or association, the award celebrates excellence in interventions on existing buildings, the quality of the craftsmanship involved and the care given to preserving and enhancing architectural heritage.

The award recognised the precision and sensitivity of TITAN’s intervention within an emblematic heritage site. The project demonstrates an approach in which contemporary architecture accompanies and reveals the legacy of a major figure in French history.

Geste de Bronze

In 2018, TITAN received the Geste de Bronze for the transformation of Georges Clemenceau’s birthplace in Mouilleron-en-Pareds.

Presented by the Académie d’Architecture and the Geste d’Or association, the distinction recognises exemplary interventions on existing buildings, celebrating the precision of the expertise involved and the attention given to protecting and transmitting architectural heritage.

The award recognised TITAN’s ability to intervene sensitively in a place of national remembrance, combining respect for its history with a contemporary perspective. The project reflects an attentive and engaged architectural approach dedicated to transmitting a major part of France’s cultural heritage.

CAUE Aperçus Architecture Awards

In 2018, TITAN’s two projects relating to Georges Clemenceau were recognised by the CAUE de la Vendée as part of the departmental Aperçus Architecture Awards.

The Clemenceau Visitor Pavilion in Saint-Vincent-sur-Jard and the transformation of Georges Clemenceau’s birthplace in Mouilleron-en-Pareds each received an award.

The French Councils for Architecture, Urban Planning and the Environment, known as the CAUE, support local authorities, professionals and residents in the development of architectural and landscape projects. Their awards recognise exemplary buildings that demonstrate a sensitive approach to heritage and respond carefully to contemporary challenges.

This double recognition highlighted the precision and sensitivity of TITAN’s interventions, which combine the memory of historic places with contemporary architectural expression and give them renewed relevance and purpose.

Première Œuvre Award

In 2019, TITAN was nominated for the Première Œuvre Award for a housing project in Saint-Vincent-sur-Jard.

Presented by Le Moniteur and AMC magazine, the award highlights the first completed works of emerging architectural practices and recognises the quality of promising new approaches.

The nomination marked an important stage in TITAN’s development. It acknowledged the precision and sensitivity of a project rooted in its territory and designed to respond to everyday uses with clarity and simplicity.

JAPL

In 2011, TITAN was named a laureate of the Jeunes Architectes et Paysagistes Ligériens, known as the JAPL, a regional award organised by Ardepa.

The programme highlights emerging and engaged approaches developed by young architects and landscape architects through projects rooted in the Loire region. It recognises architectural quality, the relevance of contextual responses and the inventiveness of the approaches developed by the selected teams.