European Architecture
Applications for the Prix AMO 2025 award are open until 30 June 2025 (follow this link to find out more). Since 2019, L’Architecture d’Aujourd’hui has been a partner of the award, and are now presenting a series of articles to explore the six categories that have established this award’s reputation. The third category to be examined is the one TransEuropArchi Award.
Created in 1984, the AMO Prize has been awarded since its revival in 2018 not only for the most inspiring collaborations between decision-makers and designers, but also for the most beautiful metamorphoses, the boldest implementations, the best urban catalysts, the most productive locations, the most creative typologies and the most instructive Franco-European collaborations.
In 2025, the co-presidents of the AMO association, Céline Bouvier and Matthias Navarro, would like to see the winning projects make a further commitment to ecological, social, economic and territorial transition. So what can we expect from the AMO 2025 Awards?
The TransEuropArchi Award, between local practices and shared ambitions
Architecture is a universal language, but it speaks with different accents. At a time when the challenges are global – climate, migration, resources – sharing experiences is becoming essential. The TransEuropArchi Award celebrates the circulation of ideas, methods and perspectives on a European scale.
It highlights projects born of cross-border dialogue: between a French project manager and a foreign team, or vice versa. Between different but complementary building cultures. Between local practices and shared ambitions.
This prize recognises the ability to combine local sensitivity with European openness. It highlights hybrid, cosmopolitan projects that draw on a wide range of approaches. Where the technical expertise of one country meets the analytical finesse of another. Where confrontation becomes fertilisation.
But it also expresses a strong conviction: faced with environmental, social or economic emergencies, the most powerful responses emerge from cooperation. What each country tries on its own, sometimes groping for answers, can be made clearer and more effective through exchange, cross-fertilisation and mutual learning. Together, Europeans are inventing solutions that are fairer, more appropriate and more sustainable.
The TransEuropArchi Award celebrates architecture without borders, but not without roots. An architecture that learns from others to better respond to here. An architecture of exchange, of nuance, of connection. Because inventing tomorrow also means recognising that Europe builds stronger when it builds together.
Find out more about the winning project in 2024 for the TransEuropArchi Prize (the Live residence designed by IT'S Tank for Master Engineering Sarl) and following this link, the booklet containing all the 2024 prize-winners.
