Major surgery was prescribed for an ailing 1870’s building in the heart of Paris before Sanofi, a pharmaceutical conglomerate, could move in. Good design being the best medicine, Studios Architecture and local firm Juan Trindade began by soliciting diagnostic input from a focus group of 60 of the 750 employees who would occupy what became the company’s 250,000-square-foot headquarters. +back to all winners+back to main article