Biodiversarium in Banyuls-Sur-Mer
The port of Banyuls-Sur-Mer provides a unique setting for the building, designed by Tectoniques exploring and learning to understand the marine biodiversity of the Pyrénées Orientales region.
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A major work you should check out is Project Europa, Levallois-Perret, Paris design by Baumschlager Eberle Architekten.
A 1980s property set at the boundary of a historic town centre and the River Seine was to be brought up to date whilst retaining the particular cachet of its location. The renovation proved extremely demanding.
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The port of Banyuls-Sur-Mer provides a unique setting for the building, designed by Tectoniques exploring and learning to understand the marine biodiversity of the Pyrénées Orientales region.
In the midst of Nîmes’s exceptional vestiges of antiquity, architect Elizabeth de Portzamparc has set up a unique architectural dialog between the ancient heritage and contemporary architecture.
New school building by Vincent Parreira Atelier Architecture – AAVP: once past the threshold, the child comes out of his family cocoon to walk into a non-standard world, dappled with reflections, rustling with echoes, a world of oddities, an unexpected blending and surprising collapsing of spaces.
The Hellin-Sebbag office began work in 2004 on the Saint-Charles Hospital site at Montpellier. Delivered in 2011, the first phase converted the general hospital into university buildings for graduates and researchers in the Faculty of Humanities.
The challenge for NBJ architectes when designing the building the Sports Hall Jean-Louis Trintignant in Uzès was to suggest a project that can work perfectly with the existing environment while creating optimal conditions allowing sports practice.
There were many constraints with this project, but the Chevallier Architectes team studied the file and proposed solutions that would make it possible to successfully complete the construction, including optimization of the space.
Architects: MVRDV
Designed to fully exploit this exceptional location, Ilot Queyries’ facades adapt to their opposite views towards the River Garonne and the historic city. The plan aims to reflect the qualities of Bordeaux World Heritage Site city centre whilst adding new qualities.
Design: BuzzoSpinelli Architecture. Wrapped by the beautiful mineralogy of the area, the construction is intended to be rough in its context. The choice of the cast concrete carries proudly the scares of the process.
Design: ELLENA MEHL Architects. Although built less than 40 years ago, the main house is typical of provençal houses: rectangular, compact, and symmetrical with a stone framed entrance at the centre, and with small windows and terracotta tiles.
Architects: ARTELABO
The land on which it fits, of very small size, is located between a vineyard shed in operation to the West, the parking of a neighbour to the East, surrounded by their access road, a main street to the south.
Design: Hérault Arnod Architectes. This Contemporary Music Centre is a musical complex consisting of two auditoriums of very different kinds and recording studios, linked by a public space called the deck, running from one side of the building to the other
Design: Snøhetta and Casson Mann
The new International Centre for Cave Art in Montignac, France welcomes visitors to an immersive educational experience of the prehistoric Lascaux cave paintings.
Design: JUNG Architectures & Simon Buri. The Gatehouse of the former hospital hosts the Tourist Information Office, while the Poor Hall and the Chapel, with its own access to the piazza, comprise temporary exhibition areas.
Design: Hérault Arnod Architectes. The plot is located at the interface between two very different urban logics: on one side, a modern district made up of wide public spaces and large-sized buildings, on the other, the historical town-centre consisting of smaller slate-roof buildings.
A show addressing one of the most important archives of architectural experiments worldwide: it opens a reflection on the operative value of museums and collections for the contemporary discourse and practice of architecture.
Design: Chevallier Architectes
This cottage was originally a summer residence, like many others in Chamonix, and was therefore not insulated for winter use. No upgrades had been done since its construction approximately 70 years ago.
Design: Hérault Arnod architectes
Electronic music is a new subject for architecture. Most of the times electro nights take place in spaces that were not specially designed for them: clubs or night clubs, warehouses, fields, stadiums.
Design: NBJ Architectes. The restructuration and expansion of the helicopter base for civil security in Nimes Garons is a relatively complex project, under two major constraints.