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
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 Selected Sites – in the categories of Airports, Campuses, Passenger Stations, Sports, Museums, Emporiums, 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
GEOGRAPHY
2017 - 2024
Number of World Titles per country (Top 20):
1 – United States
2 – China
3 – France
4 – Australia
4 – United Kingdom
4 – Qatar
7 – Japan
8 – United Arab Emirates
9 – Republic of Korea
9 – Mexico
9 – Singapore
12 – Brazil
12 – Italy
14 – Switzerland
14 – India
14 – Morocco
14 – The Netherlands
14 – Sweden
19 – Germany
19 – Indonesia
22
18
13
9
9
9
7
6
5
5
5
4
4
3
3
3
3
3
2
2
2017 - 2024
World Titles – Countries of architects (head offices - Top 20):
1 – United States
2 – France
3 – United Kingdom
4 – Japan
5 – Australia
6 – China
6 – The Netherlands
8 – Mexico
9 – Brazil
9 – Switzerland
11 – Canada
11 – Germany
11 – Denmark
11 – Republic of Korea
11 – Sweden
11 – Singapore
11 – South Africa
18 – Spain
18 – Indonesia
18 – Italy
26
25
24
11
10
8
8
5
4
4
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
2
2
2
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.”
VIDEOS
2024 Prix Versailles World Ceremony / Cérémonie mondiale du Prix Versailles 2024
2024 Prix Versailles World Ceremony / Cérémonie mondiale du Prix Versailles 2024
Ernesto Ottone Ramírez - Paris, UNESCO - 15 December 2021 Ernesto Ottone Ramírez - Paris, UNESCO - 15 décembre 2021
2019 Prix Versailles World Ceremony / Cérémonie mondiale du Prix Versailles 2019
Jérôme Gouadain - Paris, UNESCO - 12 September 2019 / Jérôme Gouadain - Paris, UNESCO - 12 septembre 2019
CONTACT
SECRETARIAT OF THE PRIX VERSAILLES