A PRIX VERSAILLES INITIATIVE:
RECOGNISING THE “WORLD'S MOST BEAUTIFUL” ACHIEVEMENTS
The "World's Most Beautiful” Achievements recognition, granted by the Prix Versailles, highlights the primary role of the Laureates in beautifying and improving the living environment.
These achievements, awarded each year by the Prix Versailles, are examples presented to the world, signs of exceptional architecture and design.
#BeautyEverywhere
AIRPORTS
CAMPUSES
PASSENGER
STATIONS
SPORTS
SHOPS
& STORES
SHOPPING
MALLS
HOTELS
RESTAURANTS
ABOUT THE PRIX VERSAILLES
Architecture and intelligent sustainability
Announced each year at UNESCO since 2015, the Prix Versailles is a series of architectural competitions that shine a light on the finest contemporary projects worldwide.
At the intersection between multiple disciplines, the members of the Prix Versailles World Jury are tasked with awarding twenty-four World Titles from among the ninety-six projects named Selected Sites (in the categories of Airports, Campuses, Passenger Stations and Sports) or Continental Laureates (in the categories of Shops & Stores, Shopping Malls, Hotels and Restaurants).
The Official List – which pays tribute to innovation, creativity, reflections of local heritage, ecological efficiency and the values of social interaction and participation, which the United Nations holds in high regard – is in line with the principles of intelligent sustainability, taking the projects’ ecological, social and cultural impacts into consideration.
“Dialogue and interconnections between the different aspects of the human environment – from ecology to social relations to culture – pave the way for intelligent sustainable development.
More than a mere goal, this offers a wonderful promise of the ability to meet the latest challenges facing the world today.”
Jérôme Gouadain
Secretary General of Prix Versailles
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2023 SUBMISSIONS
01/02/2023 – 14/04/2023
[Closed]
GEOGRAPHY
2017 - 2022
Number of World Titles per country (Top 15):
1 – United States
2 – China
3 – France
4 – Australia
4 – United Kingdom
6 – Japan
6 – Qatar
8 – Brazil
8 – Italy
8 – Mexico
8 – United Arab Emirates
12 – Singapore
12 – South Korea
12 – Sweden
15 – Germany
15 – Indonesia
15 – Morocco
15 – Netherlands
17
14
8
6
6
5
5
4
4
4
4
3
3
3
2
2
2
2
2017 - 2022
Number of World Titles per Region:
AWA
Africa
and West Asia
CASC
Central America,
the South
and
the Caribbean
NA
North America
CAN
Central Asia
and
the Northeast
SAP
South Asia
and
the Pacific
EUR
Europe
2017 - 2022
World Titles – Countries of architects (head offices):
1 – United Kingdom
1 – United States
3 – France
4 – Japan
5 – Australia
6 – China
7 – Netherlands
8 – Brazil
8 – Mexico
10 – Germany
10 – Denmark
10 – Sweden
10 – Singapore
10 – South Africa
15 – Canada
15 – Switzerland
15 – Spain
15 – Indonesia
15 – Italy
15 – South Korea
16
16
15
8
7
6
5
4
4
3
3
3
3
3
2
2
2
2
2
2
VIDEOS
INTERNATIONAL APPEAL
TOWARDS A CULTURAL RENAISSANCE OF THE ECONOMY
June 2020
With the Prix Versailles, architects, chefs, Nobel laureates in Economics, heads of international organisations call for a cultural renaissance of the economy.
“Architecture and design can help to reinvent an urbanized world which espouses ecology, sociability and beauty.”