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 - 2025
Number of World Titles per country (Top 25):
26
21
18
10
9
9
8
6
6
5
5
5
4
3
3
3
3
3
3
2
2
2
2
2
2
1 – United States
2 – China
3 – France
4 – Australia
5 – United Kingdom
5 – Qatar
7 – Japan
8 – United Arab Emirates
8 – Republic of Korea
10 – Italy
10 – Mexico
10 – Singapore
13 – Brazil
14 – Switzerland
14 – India
14 – Morocco
14 – Netherlands
14 – Saudi Arabia
14 – Sweden
20 – Spain
20 – Germany
20 – Denmark
20 – Indonesia
20 – Norway
20 – Thailand
2017 - 2025
World Titles – Countries of architects (Top 20):
1 – France
1 – United States
3 – United Kingdom
4 – Japan
5 – China
6 – Australia
7 – Netherlands
8 – Mexico
9 – Brazil
9 – Switzerland
9 – Denmark
9 – Spain
13 – Canada
13 – Germany
13 – Republic of Korea
13 – Sweden
13 – Singapore
13 – South Africa
19 – Indonesia
19 – Italy
30
30
28
13
11
10
8
5
4
4
4
4
3
3
3
3
3
3
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
2025 Prix Versailles World Ceremony / Cérémonie mondiale du Prix Versailles 2025
2025 Prix Versailles World Ceremony / Cérémonie mondiale du Prix Versailles 2025
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
CONTACT
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