The AFEX 2023 Grand Prize was awarded to Agence Michèle & Miquel for “The Dark Line” in Taiwan.
Marc Mimram received the Special Jury Prize for his entire export work.
GRAND PRIX AFEX 2023
Michèle & Miquel - The Dark Line - Taiwan
This recognition rewards the work of a Franco-Catalan team of architects and landscape architects* for The Dark Line, an “eco-historical route” on a 3km section of a disused railway line. This cultural and hiking route, pedestrian and cyclist, connects old historic trails and industrial sites in a tropical mountainous region near Taiwan.
Concrete Iron shapes a new “railway”
“Some 500,000 concrete reinforcing steel bars follow one another, all parallel, to create a ground that is more empty than full, allowing the rocks and silt to be seen transparently in the tunnels and the luxuriant vegetation in the gorges. They gradually give shape to all the elements of furniture and signage, bend to draw the railings, benches, bicycle racks, small amphitheatres. The two old railway tunnels form long mysterious galleries which lead to the void of the gorges. Escaping to the side, a footbridge continues the route, in a long sinuous balcony corbelled over the gorges, revealing the landscape and a succession of distant reliefs »
*MICHELE&MIQUEL Michèle ORLIAC & Miquel BATLLE, Jerôme LANCHE architects and landscape architects & daVISION Chung-Hsun WU landscape architect
© Michèle & Miquel
Marc Mimram Special Jury Prize for his INTERNATIONAL work
Marc Mimram - Pont de Linz - Linz Bridge - Autriche - Austria
This Prize recognizes the important international work of an agency that has just delivered the Linz Bridge in Austria, whose diversity of productions AFEX has wanted to highlight for many years.
Awarded as part of the AFEX Grand Prix 3 times previously (2010, 12 and 14), Marc Mimram thus joins in 2023 the club of architects who have received the same distinction in the past: Paul Andreu, Jean Nouvel and Christian de Portzamparc, respectively Special Prizes of the AFEX Grand Prix in 2014, 2018 and 2021.
© Erieta Attali © Agence VU © Agence Marc Mimram
© Hannah Assouline
GRAND PRIX AFEX 2023 AWARDS
And Studio - Thangka Art Museum - Lhasa - Tibet
AREP - Sports Tower - Hangzhou - China
Barthélémy Griño - Glenmorangie Distillery - Tain - Scotland
Brunet Saunier Architectes - Cancer Centre - Bruxelles - Belgium
Coco Architecture - French Highschool - Rabat - Morocco
Croixmariebourdon architectes associés - Library - Casamance - Senegal
Kanopea Architecture studio - Coconut Club & Parc - Phnom Penh - Cambodia
Mathieu Forest Architecture + Zone of Utopia - The Ice Cube - Xinxiang - China
Michèle & Miquel - The Dark Line - Taiwan / Grand Prix AFEX 2023
Marc Mimram - Linz Bridge - Austria
And Studio - Musée d’art Thangka - Thangka Art Museum - Lhassa -Tibet
© ArchExist
AREP - Tour des sports - Sports Tower - Hangzhou - Chine - China
© Rudyku
Barthélémy Griño - Distillerie Glenmorangie - Glenmorangie Distillery - Tain - Écosse - Scotland
© Mel Yates
Brunet Saunier Architectes - Centre de cancérologie - Cancer Centre - Bruxelles - Belgique - Belgium
© Georges de Kinder
Coco Architecture - Lycée Français - French Highschool - Rabat - Maroc - Morocco
© Edouard Decam
Croixmariebourdon architectes associés - Bibliothèque - Library - Casamance - Sénégal - Senegal
© Sabine Crouzet-Bourdon
Kanopea Architecture studio - Coconut Club & Parc - Phnom Penh - Cambodge - Cambodia
© Bruce Vincentiis
Mathieu Forest Architecture + Zone of Utopia - Centre culturel The Ice Cube - Cultural Centre - Xinxiang - Chine - China
© ArchExist
AFEX 2023 GRAND PRIX JURY
Animated by Madeleine HOUBART, AFEX Secretary General
1. Réda AMALOU, Architect, AW², AFEX, President, du Jury President
2. Roueida AYACHE, Architect, Architecture Studio
3. Hervé BOISGUILLAUME, Ministry of Ecological Transition
4. Franck BOUTTÉ, Ingeneer, Franck Boutté Consultants, Urbanism 2023 Grand Prix
5. Julien BROUSSART, Architect, Mars
6. Jacob CELNIKIER, Architect, Celnikier & Grabli
7. Catherine CHEVILLOT, Cité of Architecture and Heritage President
8. Anne DÉMIANS, Architect, Architectures Anne Démians,
Member of French Fine Arts Academy
9. Lucie ELGOYHEN, Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs
10. Frédéric HABOURY, Ministry of Culture
11. Jan HORST, Architect, Chaix et Morel & Associés
12. Nahla JAJO-LEGRAND, Architect, Arte Charpentier
13. Pablo KATZ, Architect, Architecture Academy President
14. Christine LECONTE, Architect, National Council of Architects President
15. Caroline LECOURTOIS, Architect, Paris La Villette National Superior
School of Architecture Director
16. Matthieu LEFORT, Business France
17. Renaud LIEVRE, IGuzzini, Lighting Professional
18. Jean-Claude MARTINEZ, Architect, French Architects Mutual President
19. Nathalie ROZENCWAJG, Architect, Name Architecture
20. Sumaya AL-SULAIMAN, Head of Architecture and Design Commission,
Saudi Arabia Ministry of Culture
21. Peter TERRELL, Ingeneer, Terrell Group
