Working differently
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 fourth category to be examined is the one rewarding the best productive workplace.
Created in 1984 (one year after the creation of the Architecture et Maîtres d’ouvrage association), the AMO Prize has been awarded since its re-launch 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?
Award for the best productive place, tracing the contours of a more humane workplace
The current industrial revolution is unlike any previous one. It is no longer measured solely in terms of speed or raw performance, but in terms of quality of life, environmental impact and the ability to make the workplace a place of balance and innovation. The Best Productive Workplace Award recognises this shift.
Offices, shops, workshops, farms, logistics platforms: some places are seizing on the transformation of work as an opportunity. They reconcile economic activity with sustainability, efficiency with attention to bodies, rhythms and the environment. These places show that producing more intelligently starts with thinking about space differently.
This award recognises projects that invent new ways of working. Where natural light becomes a performance tool. Where air, temperature and acoustic comfort are designed to promote well-being. Where the materials chosen contribute to the health of both users and the local environment.
But beyond comfort, these places embody a strategy: local roots, short circuits, co-activities, pooling of resources. They are part of a collective dynamic, based on networking, reciprocity and a balance between inside and outside.
Working differently is no longer just an HR ambition: it’s an act of architecture. And what if the productive places of tomorrow were also places of repair? The prize for the most productive place rewards those who believe that performance and care for the living world can – and must – go hand in hand.
Find out more below about the winning project in 2024 for the Best Productive Place Award (the Pavillon Jardins designed by Atelier du Pont for the Établissement Public du Parc et de la Grande Halle de la Villette) and follow this link to the booklet containing all the 2024 prize-winners.
