Hamonic+Masson & Associés

The agency came to the attention of the general public in 2003 with the design of the Maison Métal, exhibited in the Parc de la Villette. This event placed it at the confluence of art and architecture, a flexible space that allowed for some exciting adventures and inaugurated a series of exhibitions and scenographies: co-curator of the French Pavilion at the Venice Biennale in 2008 as part of the French Touch collective, Cité de l’Architecture et du Patrimoine, etc. In 2012, the agency was awarded the special AMO Saint-Gobain prize for its 62-home project on rue Villiot in Paris XII. Hamonic+Masson & Associés works with public and private clients in all types of contexts and logics (housing, facilities, commercial property). It currently employs over 20 people and has some forty projects under way or completed.

For several years now, Hamonic+Masson & Associés has been one of the players in the current debate on high-rise residential buildings in France - as with the design of the Home building, ZAC Masséna Bruneseau, in Paris 13 - and is continuing its reflections on the scale of Greater Paris, initiated with its proposal for the Avenue Foch, which became one of the major projects of the City of Paris during Anne Hidalgo’s 2014 municipal campaign. The agency is also questioning our relationship with history and our heritage, with the Alta project in Le Havre, overlooking the Bassin du Roy and the Bassin du Commerce, in the heart of Auguste Perret’s rebuilt centre and close to Niemeyer’s Volcano. In 2018, the agency won the international Imagine Angers consultation, with its Métamorphose project: a mixed-use programme of offices, co-living, block rooms, fitness, spa, public passageway and restaurant. It has also won «large-scale» consultations such as Inventons la Métropole du Grand Paris II in 2019, with the mixed-use High Garden program for the Arsenal eco-district in Rueil-Malmaison.

Today, Hamonic+Masson & Associés is invited to take part in various international consultations and conferences to share its expertise on living well at height and new ways of living in changing cities.