graal is a firm founded by Carlo Grispello and Nadine Lebeau dedicated to architecture and urban strategies. The firm’s projects are developed through an analytical and sensitive approach to give a real place to the role of public space, the construction process and the economics of construction throughout the design phases. graal aspires to render the specific features of a site and a commission through a sober, independent and contemporary language. Through an aesthetic coherent with local specificities and an investigation on the relational space, the project have a positive social and environmental impact. graal is committed to dealing with every scale, from interior design to the regional project. The office’s practice encompasses France and abroad in close collaboration with multidisciplinary consultants in order to guarantee intelligent and feasible projects. graal has been distinguished on several occasions. In 2016, the office was a prizewinner of the ADC Awards and received the Europe 40 under 40 award attributed by the Chicago Athenaeum and the European Urban Centre for Architecture, Art Design and Urban Studies.