Tolila + Gilliland Atelier d'Architecture

Name

Tolila + Gilliland Atelier d'Architecture

Legal name

Tolila+Gilliland Atelier d'Architecture

Website

https://tolilagilliland.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2011

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Tolila+Gilliland is a Paris-based architecture firm founded in 2011 by Gaston Tolila and Nicholas Gilliland, delivering urban planning, housing, healthcare, and rehabilitation projects across France using low-carbon and bio-based construction methods.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Architectural Services

NAICS

Architectural Services (54131), Architectural Services (541310), Architectural, Engineering, and Related Services (5413)

SIC

Services-Engineering Services (8711)

akta.pro primary industry

Landscape Architecture & Site Design (BPAHAKAC)

Keywords

• Architectural design services
• Urban planning
• Healthcare architecture
• Sustainable construction
• Social housing design

Headquarters

HQ city

Paris

HQ country

France

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Architecture and Design Services: The firm earns revenue through professional architecture and design fees for commissioned projects, including urban planning, building construction, rehabilitation, and specialized healthcare facility projects. Fees are generated across the full project lifecycle from competition/concept through construction supervision.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Tolila + Gilliland is an architecture firm providing comprehensive architectural design, urban planning, and project management services across multiple program types including social housing, healthcare facilities, offices, commercial buildings, urban regeneration, and rehabilitation. The firm operates across the full project lifecycle from competition/concept through construction supervision, with particular expertise in healthcare/therapeutic architecture and low-carbon sustainable construction. Founded in 2011, the firm has completed 20+ projects spanning from 400 m² to 90,000 m² SDP across France and one project in Miami, USA.

Product overview

Tolila+Gilliland Atelier d'Architecture is a Paris-based architecture firm (established 2011 by Gaston Tolila and Nicholas Gilliland) offering architectural and urban planning services. The firm operates as a single integrated practice rather than a platform-plus-modules architecture, delivering projects across multiple program types: urban planning, housing (social, intermediate, and ownership), offices/commercial, healthcare facilities (therapeutic workshops, psychiatric day hospitals, medicalized reception homes), and equipment/cultural facilities. The portfolio includes notable healthcare projects for psychiatric care (Hôpital de jour pour enfants, Centre Gilbert Raby, Hôpital l'Eau Vive, Maison de l'Avenir), social housing (L'îlot Poreux winner of 2024 Équerre d'Argent), mixed-use urban developments (L'îlot Culturel des Batignolles, Orly Pont de Rungis), and rehabilitation projects (Gare de l'Est, Hôtel Ruysdaël, Hôtels Très Particuliers). The firm also conducts research on Architecture and Psychiatry through a dedicated research pole established in 2024 in partnership with PRSM-HP.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• L'îlot Poreux
• Centre Gilbert Raby
• Les Ateliers
• Hôpital l'Eau Vive
• Hôpital de jour pour enfants
• L'Horizon d'Issy
• Le Nouveau Monde
• L'îlot Culturel des Batignolles
• Mosquito Coast Factory
• Hôtel Ruysdaël
• Hôtels Très Particuliers
• Gare de l'Est Rehabilitation
• L'îlot Willy Brandt
• Les Messageries - Daumesnil
• Orly Pont de Rungis
• Architecture et Psychiatrie Research Program
• Maison de l'Avenir
• Paradise Plaza
• Le Pavillon d'été

Quantifiable outcome

• Won the Équerre d'Argent 2024 (Habitat category) for L'îlot Poreux, Bagneux — France's most prestigious architecture award in the housing category
• +5 more outcomes

Named customers14 records

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature4 records

Partnerships

Ten partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• PRSM-HP (Plateforme de Recherche sur la Santé Mentale et le Handicap Psychique)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2024Formal research partnership initiated in 2024 between the Atelier Tolila+Gilliland and PRSM-HP (a team of researchers in human and social sciences). The program explores the relationship between architectural forms and mental healthcare practices, combining theoretical and ethnographic research methods. The partnership is co-funded by the Fondation l'Élan Retrouvé, which also provides the project sites for study. Research outputs inform the firm's healthcare architecture practice and have been documented in the 2025 book 'Architecture patiente. Lieu de soin et soin du lieu' (Éditions deux-cent-cinq). The PRSM-HP team includes Stéphane Aymard, Jad Sammouri, and Alain Léplege.
• Fondation l'Élan RetrouvécoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2024The Fondation l'Élan Retrouvé is both a repeat client and research co-funder. It initiated the Architecture et Psychiatrie research program in 2024, providing partial funding and access to therapeutic project sites for empirical study. The foundation has commissioned at least three built projects from the atelier: Hôpital de jour pour enfants (Chevilly-Larue, 2020), Centre Gilbert Raby (Meulan-en-Yvelines, 2023), and serves as the operational client for the broader research programme.
• Éditions deux-cent-cinqminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPublisher of 'Architecture patiente. Lieu de soin et soin du lieu' (2025), the research monograph co-authored by Bérénice Bourgoin, Pascale Jeanneau-Tolila, Bruno Voillot, Dominique Gauzin-Müller, Elke Krasny, and François Géraud. The book documents the firm's research on therapeutic architecture.
• RSHP (Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerAssociate architect on the Les Messageries - Daumesnil urban redevelopment project (6.7 hectares, Paris XII), working alongside Tolila+Gilliland, Michel Desvignes, Ingérop, and Franck Boutté on the reconversion of a former railway freight area into a mixed-use low-carbon neighbourhood.
• ArteliaminorImplementation/ SI/ Consulting PartnerEngineering consultancy partner on multiple projects including Gare de l'Est (Paris X) and L'îlot Willy Brandt (Saint-Nazaire), providing structural, mechanical, and electrical engineering services as part of the multidisciplinary project team.
• Igrec IngénierieminorImplementation/ SI/ Consulting PartnerEngineering partner on L'îlot Poreux (Bagneux) and Hôpital l'Eau Vive (Soisy-sur-Seine) projects.
• Troisième paysageminorImplementation/ SI/ Consulting PartnerLandscape architecture partner on multiple residential and urban projects including Résidence Marie-Cessette Dumas (Villejuif), Centre Gilbert Raby (Meulan-en-Yvelines), and other schemes, providing landscape design services as part of the multidisciplinary team.
• Tracks, ABF Lab, Atelier de Midi, BaseminorImplementation/ SI/ Consulting PartnerMultidisciplinary urban planning and landscape team assembled by Tolila+Gilliland as coordinating urbanist for the Orly Pont de Rungis 'Parcs en Scène' project (22 hectares, 2017-2029), a major urban regeneration of former logistics platforms near the Rungis wholesale market.
• La Galerie d'Architecture ParisminorGTM or Marketing PartnerArchitecture gallery that hosted the 'In Between Places: Potentiel de l'entre-deux' exhibition in 2021, presenting the firm's work and research on transitional spaces and therapeutic environments.
• Pavillon de l'Arsenal ParisminorGTM or Marketing PartnerParis municipal exhibition venue for architecture and urbanism that hosted the 'Habiter Mieux Habiter Plus' exhibition in 2018, featuring the firm's work on housing.

Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Broad incumbents

• Dominique Perrault Architecture: Major established French architecture firm with a portfolio of large urban, cultural, and public projects — relevant benchmark for the upper trajectory of Tolila+Gilliland's urban regeneration ambitions.
• Architecture-Studio: Major French architecture firm with a global portfolio spanning urban masterplans, housing, cultural, and healthcare projects — comparable to Tolila+Gilliland's urban regeneration and mixed-use work but operating at materially larger scale.
• Jean-Paul Viguier et Associés: Established French architecture firm with a large portfolio of office, mixed-use, and urban projects — relevant comparator for the scale trajectory of Tolila+Gilliland's commercial and urban commissions.

Direct peers

• ChartierDalix: French architecture firm known for housing, educational, and public-equipment projects — closely comparable in scale, typology mix, and focus on innovative materials and sustainability.
• Édouard François: French architect recognized for vegetation-integrated, bio-based, and innovative-material architecture — directly comparable to Tolila+Gilliland's low-carbon and natural-material specialism.
• Atelier Philippe Madec: French architecture and urbanism practice specializing in sustainable, ecological urban design — closely aligned with Tolila+Gilliland's porous urbanism and regenerative urban planning approach.
• Biecher Architectes: French architecture firm with a comparable housing-led, mixed-use practice and similar engagement with low-carbon construction methods.
• LAN Architecture: Paris-based architecture firm working on urban renewal, housing, and cultural projects in France and internationally — overlapping with Tolila+Gilliland's mixed-use and urban regeneration portfolio.
• Atelier Barani: Paris-based architecture practice of comparable size delivering residential, healthcare, and public projects in France with a similarly design-led, research-informed approach.

Emerging players

• Muoto: French architecture practice of similar scale working on housing, public, and experimental projects — comparable as a similarly positioned emerging French practice with research-driven methodology.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles7 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

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M&A

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