Award. Opal Award, Hermès Workshops.

We are delighted and honored that our Hermès Workshops project has won the Opal Award in the Architectural Design / Historical category. Based in London, the Opal Award recognizes excellence in design and creativity in the built environment.

This project was born of an ambition to design the first low carbon energy positive building in France with a reflection on the history and values of Hermès. Craftsmanship was both a starting and end point for the project: it was unravelled with our research into the history of the site, its local resources, the particularities of this environment, the soil of the place with its damp, clayey earth, ready to be molded into bricks.

Photo © Iwan Baan

Academic. Kenzo Tange Professor, Harvard GSD.

This spring 2024, Lina Ghotmeh is appointed as Kenzo Tange Professor Design Critic in Architecture at Harvard University Graduate School of Design. In her studio, entitled "Long Living Spolia", she focused on stone construction as a sustainable material and a program for the elderly. The semester was inspired by the ancient practice of spolia, integrating it seamlessly into contemporary architecture.

Photo © Kimberly Lloyd

Exhibition. Stone Garden Model

From the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum in New York to the Museum of Craft and Design in San Francisco, the Stone Garden project model traveled with the "Designing Peace" exhibition.

Through the presentation of 30 proposals, initiatives and interventions from over 20 countries, visitors were able to discover a wide range of design responses to the underlying causes of conflict and division, such as socio-economic inequality, competition for resources and environmental degradation.

Photo Stone-Garden Project © Laurian Ghinițoiu, photo model © Dallis Willard

Opening. Artists résidence.

Our workshop is pleased to announce the delivery of the residency project for multidisciplinary artists and creators for the Kadist foundation on rue des Archives in Paris.

The building, Hôtel de Tallard, is the result of a historical sedimentation of the constitutive periods of the Marais, an emblematic district of Paris. 

The project reconnects with the history of the place, rediscovering the depth and complexity of the original building. This residence is a unique experience of space and light dedicated to inspiring those who live there.

Photo © Takuji Shimmura

Award. Great Arab Minds.

We are very honored for Lina Ghotmeh to receive the Great Arab Minds award 2023. Compared to the Nobel Prize but for the Arab World, this Award is offered to individuals who contribute to making breakthroughs in their field, paving the way for paradigm shifts.

Our sincere gratitude to his highness Sheikh Mohamad bin Rashid Al Maktoum, to his excellency Mohammad Abdullah Al Gergawi, to the jury and the great minds of this esteemed award, all for acknowledging the central role Architecture plays in our societies.

Publication. “A Table!”, Serpentine.

Titled “A Table!” this book was created in tandem with the Serpentine Pavilion 2023, echoing and expanding on the ideas and design of Lina Ghotmeh and Lina Ghotmeh—Architecture. The volume brings together textual and visual narratives from contributors drawn from the fields of architecture, art, photography, cuisine and fiction.
We conceived this book as a space to reflect on our relationship with land and nature through our design of the 22nd Serpentine Pavilion.

Photo of the book © Les Graphiquants. Photos of the pavilion © Iwan Baan

Event. Herald Design Forum 2023.

Lina Ghotmeh invited to give a talk in Seoul at the Herald Design Forum, Asia's largest design festival, on the theme "Design for Coexistence".

Moderated by architect Hyunjoon Yoo, Lina Ghotmeh shared the stage with Diébédo Francis Kéré, winner of the Pritzker Prize 2022, for an in-depth discussion on architecture for coexistence. 

Photo Lina Ghotmeh © Hannah Assouline, Photo Francis Kéré © courtesy Lars Borges.