Atelier Bettinger Desplanques

Overview

Atelier Bettinger Desplanques was set up in Le Havre in 2000 by architects Anne Bettinger and Pascal Desplanques, after about ten years working in Paris for practices including those of Franck Hammoutène, Jean Nouvel, Norman Foster and Paul Andreu. With a team of around ten, it works across Normandy on social housing, schools, crèches and public buildings, often in timber. Its Les Vernelles housing in Le Havre was nominated for the 2021 Équerre d'argent, and the scheme's participatory Pop Acte block won the 2022 national timber construction prize.

Founded

2000

Team

≈ 10

Projects

8

Awards

12

The firm says it was set up in Le Havre in 2000; the current company was registered in 2005.

Partners and founders

Fields of work

Social housing · Schools and childcare · Public and administrative buildings · Timber construction · Participatory housing

Built work

Prizes and awards

• 2025Normandy Regional Timber Construction Prize (Fibois Normandie), 1st prize, work and reception buildings (Pôle social départemental, Le Havre)
• 2023Calvados Architecture and Planning Awards (CAUE 14), culture and leisure (La Filature des possibles, Lisieux)
• 2022National Timber Construction Prize, laureate, Housing category (Les Vernelles – Pop Acte, Le Havre)
• 2021Équerre d'argent, nominee, Housing category (Les Vernelles, Le Havre)
• 2018Calvados Architecture and Planning Awards (CAUE 14), collective housing (Résidence Le Moulin, Verson)
• 2018Eure Architecture and Planning Awards (CAUE 27), collective housing (Résidence Le Bois de Revel, Beuzeville)
• 2018Grand Prix Architendance, La Tuile Terre Cuite (Résidence Le Carreau, Étainhus)
• 2016Haute-Normandie Grand Prize for Architecture and Urbanism (Pôle Molière, Le Havre)
• 2015Architecture of Transformation Prize, Caisse des dépôts (Les Vernelles – Pop Acte, Le Havre)
• 2014ANORIBOIS Haute-Normandie timber construction awards, 1st prize, collective and grouped housing (Les Charmilles, Sainneville)
• 2014ANORIBOIS Haute-Normandie timber construction awards, 1st prize, public education and culture buildings (primary school, Le Houlme)
• 2014Lauriers du bois, 1st prize, public buildings (primary school, Le Houlme)