Tognella Architectes

What Tognella Architectes does

Tognella Architectes is a privately held French architecture and urban planning firm founded in 1996 by Ivan Tognella (Architecte DPLG / Urbaniste, Gérant). The practice operates from offices in Narbonne (headquarters, 12 Rue Denfert-Rochereau) and Montpellier (8 place du Marché aux Fleurs), with additional geographic reach into the Gard département and Sardinia, Italy. Over 26 years of continuous operation, the firm has built a portfolio concentrated in healthcare facilities (EHPADs, hospitals, psychiatric units), educational institutions (lycées, schools, nurseries), cultural and heritage buildings, residential developments, and municipal / administrative infrastructure.

Core services are architectural design, urban planning, and landscape architecture delivered on a project basis. The firm does not sell a software product; revenue derives entirely from professional services fees structured as a percentage of construction cost per French professional standards, with multi-year contracts tied to individual project delivery. Projects won span small public-space competitions (e.g., €800,000 pedestrian bridge) up to large institutional mandates such as the €25,000,000 Lycée Louise Michel restructuration and a multi-phase hospital restructuring for the Centre Hospitalier Général de Narbonne exceeding €12,900,000 for the imaging platform alone.

The go-to-market is sales-led and procurement-driven: the firm primarily wins work through French architectural competitions (concours) and public tenders for municipalities, hospitals, regional councils, and government agencies across southern France, supplemented by direct commissions. The client base is essentially 100% public-sector or public-adjacent, with no disclosed private-developer commercial anchor. All listed customers — including the Ville de Narbonne, Commune de Gruissan, Centre Hospitalier Général de Narbonne, and various EHPAD operators — are governmental or quasi-governmental entities. The firm is founder-owned and operated, has no disclosed external investors, parent entity, or subsidiaries, and discloses no AI, software, or proprietary technology layer.

Name

Tognella Architectes

Legal name

Tognella Architectes

Website

https://tognella-architectes.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1996

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Tognella Architectes is a privately held French architecture, urban planning, and landscape firm founded in 1996, operating from Narbonne and Montpellier. It serves public-sector clients — municipalities, hospitals, EHPADs, and educational institutions across southern France — through concours-based project commissions.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Architectural Services

NAICS

Architectural Services (54131), Architectural Services (541310), Landscape Architectural Services (54132)

SIC

Services-Engineering, Accounting, Research, Management (8700)

akta.pro primary industry

Architectural Design Services (BPAHAKAA)

Keywords

• Architectural design services
• Urban planning services
• Healthcare facility architecture
• Educational facility design
• Cultural heritage restoration

Headquarters

HQ city

Narbonne

HQ country

France

HQ region

Europe

Offices2 records

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: Professional architecture services charged as a percentage of construction costs, following French architecture fee scales. Projects include public buildings, healthcare facilities, educational institutions, and residential developments.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels2 records

Core offering

Tognella Architectes is an architecture, urban planning, and landscape design firm offering professional design services for new construction, renovation, and rehabilitation projects. The firm specializes in healthcare facilities (EHPADs, hospitals, psychiatric units), educational institutions (schools, lycées, nurseries), cultural and heritage buildings, residential developments, and public infrastructure across southern France, charging fees as a percentage of construction cost per French professional standards.

Product overview

Tognella Architectes is an architecture and urban planning firm operating from offices in Narbonne and Montpellier, France. The firm operates as a single integrated practice offering architectural design, urban planning, and landscape services rather than a modular software product. Their portfolio spans multiple building typologies including healthcare facilities (EHPAD, hospitals, psychiatric units), educational institutions (schools, lycées, nurseries), cultural and heritage buildings, residential projects (individual villas, collective housing), and administrative/tertiary buildings. The firm also provides specialized services for public infrastructure including sports facilities, police/gendarmerie stations, and urban requalification projects.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Architectural Design Services Comprehensive architectural design services for new construction, renovation, and rehabilitation projects across residential, commercial, healthcare, educational, and public sectors in southern France. Services are delivered under multi-year contracts with fees calculated as a percentage of construction cost per French professional standards.
• Urban Planning and Landscape Architecture Services Urban planning and landscape architecture services including master planning, public space design, and urban requalification projects. Integrated with architectural design as inseparable elements of the creation and construction process.
• Healthcare Facility Architecture

Named customers7 records

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

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Has API

No

API docs

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AI maturity

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Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• KLD DesignminorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 November 2012Associated with KLD Design for the Place des Menhirs redesign project in Gruissan, a public space competition in November 2012.

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• ECDM Architectes: Paris-based mid-sized French architecture practice with broad public-sector portfolio including housing, education, and cultural projects. Comparable as a French architecture firm operating through public competitions with comparable scale and scope to Tognella.
• Dominique Coulon et Associés: Strasbourg-based architecture firm known for cultural, educational, and public-sector commissions. Comparable to Tognella in that both are mid-sized French practices winning concours for public clients in regional markets, though Coulon's reputation skews toward cultural buildings.
• CALQ Architecture: French architecture practice with public-sector commissions including healthcare and educational buildings. Comparable as a mid-sized French architecture firm competing for the same public-sector concours as Tognella.
• Atelier 2A / Atelier Architecture Anthony Amarena: Southern French architecture practice with healthcare, residential, and public-sector projects. Comparable as a regional French firm winning healthcare and public concours in southern France with similar team size.
• Atelier Zündel Cristea: Paris-based architecture firm with public-sector, housing, and cultural commissions across France. Comparable as a mid-sized French architecture practice active in concours for public clients with comparable portfolio diversity.
• Atelier Milou architecture: French architecture firm known for heritage restoration and cultural projects including museums and historic monuments. Comparable as a French architecture firm with strong heritage restoration credentials overlapping Tognella's cultural/heritage specialization.
• ANMA Architectes: French architecture firm with strong public-sector portfolio in healthcare, education, and cultural buildings. Comparable as a mid-sized French architecture practice competing for the same public commissioning pipeline as Tognella.

Broad incumbents

• Jean-Michel Wilmotte & Associés: Established Paris-based architecture firm with strong portfolio in cultural, institutional, and luxury sectors across Europe. Comparable as a French architecture firm active in concours for cultural and institutional buildings, though operating at a much larger scale.
• A+ Architecture: French architecture firm with significant public-sector work in education, healthcare, and administrative buildings. Comparable as an architecture firm that competes in French public procurement, though with a more national footprint.
• Architecture-Studio: Large Paris-based architecture practice with extensive public-sector and cultural portfolio across France and internationally. Comparable as an established French architecture firm competing in concours-driven public procurement, though much larger and broader in scope than Tognella.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks7 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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