Name

Tank Architectes

Legal name

TANK

Website

https://tank.fr

Company type

Private

Founded year

2005

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Tank Architectes is a privately held French architecture firm headquartered in Lille, founded in 2005, delivering sustainable building design across residential, educational, cultural, sports, and commercial typologies for public sector clients and housing associations in France, Belgium, and Luxembourg.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Architectural Services

NAICS

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

akta.pro primary industry

Architectural Design Services (BPAHAKAA)

Keywords

• Architectural design services
• Sustainable building design
• Educational facility architecture
• Residential architecture services
• Cultural building design

Headquarters

HQ city

Lille

HQ country

France

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Architecture Design Services: Tank Architectes generates revenue through professional architectural design services, including feasibility studies, schematic design, design development, construction documents, and construction administration for buildings across residential, cultural, educational, and commercial sectors.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

Tank Architectes is a French architecture firm providing comprehensive architectural design services across residential, educational, cultural, sports, and commercial building typologies. The firm delivers feasibility studies, schematic design, design development, construction documents, and construction administration, with particular expertise in sustainable building certifications including Passivhaus, HQE, BREEAM, and EFFINERGIE+ standards. Projects span from private villas to large-scale public infrastructure across France and Belgium.

Product overview

Tank Architectes is a French architecture firm (atelier d'architecture) offering comprehensive architectural design services across multiple building typologies. The firm operates as a single, unified practice rather than a platform with separate modules. Their portfolio is organized around six core service areas: residential architecture (individual houses, collective housing, student residences, social housing), educational facility architecture (schools, colleges, high schools, university buildings), cultural building design (libraries, museums, theaters), sports facility architecture (pools, gyms, sports halls), office and tertiary building design, and urban planning at the neighborhood scale. Projects span France and Belgium, ranging from small-scale private houses to large public infrastructure. The firm emphasizes environmental performance, with many projects pursuing high-performance building certifications such as HQE, Passivhaus, BREEAM, and BBC/Effinergie standards.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Residential Architecture Services

Quantifiable outcome

• Buildings achieving Passivhaus certification with high thermal performance
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers13 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

Seven partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• OMA (Office for Metropolitan Architecture)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerOMA served as architect coordinator and urbanist for the Pleyel district project in Saint-Denis. Tank participated as one of several architecture firms (BRUTHER, COSA, DATA, Explorations Architecture, h2o, Hardel et Le Bihan, Julien Beller Architecte, Tangram) contributing to the master plan.
• COSAcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCOSA collaborated with Tank as co-architects on the Ecole Supérieure de Physique et de Chimie Industrielles (ESPCI) project in Paris, a 26,317 m² educational facility.
• Bouygues Immobilier CommerceminorImplementation/ SI/ Consulting PartnerBouygues Immobilier Commerce was the developer client for the Quartier des Fabriques project in Marseille, a mixed-use cultural and sports facility.
• Sophie TrelcatminorOthersSophie Trelcat served as text author for project descriptions on multiple Tank projects including Médiathèque de Vieux-Condé, Médiathèque de Condé-sur-l'Escaut, and others.
• Julien LanoominorOthersJulien Lanoo is the primary architectural photographer documenting Tank's projects, contributing to the firm's visual identity and portfolio presentation.
• ArteliaminorImplementation/ SI/ Consulting PartnerArtelia provided BET HQE (environmental engineering) services for the Groupe Scolaire Buffon project, a Passivhaus-certified school in Roubaix.
• SAEM Val de Seine AménagementminorImplementation/ SI/ Consulting PartnerSAEM Val de Seine Aménagement was the developer client for the Macro Lot B5 project in Boulogne-Billancourt, a 40,055 m² residential development.

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• Sauerbruch Hutton: Berlin-based firm comparable in scale and sustainability ethos, with deep experience in public-sector cultural and educational buildings across Europe.
• Dominique Coulon & Associés: Alsace-based French practice known for cultural and public buildings (libraries, schools, theatres) with a similar project-by-project public-tender model and comparable headcount.
• KAAN Architecten: Dutch practice of similar scale with strong cultural, educational and public-sector portfolio across Europe, comparable to Tank's mix of public tenders and cross-border work.
• LAN Architecture: Paris- and Boulogne-based architecture firm of comparable size focused on public, cultural and sustainable projects in France, sharing Tank's mid-scale, sustainability-oriented positioning.
• Coldefy & Associés: French practice with strong track record in cultural, educational and social housing projects delivered through public tenders, overlapping Tank's service mix.
• Hardel et Le Bihan: Paris-based French practice of comparable size focused on housing and public projects; listed alongside Tank on the OMA-coordinated Pleyel district master plan.
• Atelier Architecture King Kong: Bordeaux- and Paris-based French firm with comparable size and a portfolio spanning housing, schools, cultural and urban projects via public competitions.
• Bruther: French architecture practice of similar scale, recognized for research-driven public and cultural buildings; explicitly co-listed with Tank on the Pleyel district master plan led by OMA.

Broad incumbents

• Wilmotte & Associés: Established French architecture group with broader portfolio across cultural, commercial and residential work, providing a reference for what a scaled French practice can capture.
• BIG (Bjarke Ingels Group): Internationally recognized architecture practice operating at much larger scale, frequently shortlisted on the same concours and cultural commissions Tank targets.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/100063750035742
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/tank-architectes

Compliance13 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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