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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.
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Design: Manuelle Gautrand Architecture. Located in Saint-Louis, Alsace, in the “Three Borders” region and in the inner suburb of Basel, the “Forum” dedicated to replace the old “Palais des fêtes” of the town, is a cultural facility designed to host associative, sporting and cultural events.
Design: Jean Nouvel architecture. The renovation project of the City of Montpelier, designed by architect Jean Nouvel internationally in collaboration with François Fontès, has already become something of a badge of the French city.
Design: Tolila+Gilliland. Ceci n’est pas un hangar. Ceci est une île. This is not a shed. This is an island. The question posed by the client/artist was the possibility of a cultural island in an industrial site, the concrete fabrication of a utopic site for living, research and production.
Design: Frédérique Pyra Legon architecte
Purchasers of this small villa of 80 sqm modern style about 1960 are a couple with two young children ages, living in Paris and who want a second home by the sea.
Design: Sou Fujimoto Architects + Nicolas Laisné Associates
Canopia, as the development is known, aims to become a focal point within the city. It is an urban landmark which, come nightfall, becomes a lighthouse or a star in the skyline of this regional city.
Design: Patrice Bideau, Architect. It was through searching the web for information on passive buildings with arched roofs that the project manager chose an architect who also aims to create healthy living conditions in a natural environment.
Design: PlayTime / AA Architects. How to extend a large 19th century house without betraying its character or resorting to imitation or superficial stylistic effects, whilst keeping the right distance?
La Grande Mosaïque, MVRDV Architects’ urban planning project in Caen, France, has been in development for two years and has already seen a series of projects under construction within the masterplan.
Design: PERIPHERIQUES Architectes / MARIN + TROTTIN Architects
Building a cultural space in Beaumont-Hague, in Cotentin, means to integrate an architectural project that takes benefits from the landscape qualities of this piece of peninsula.
Design: OMA, Architects. The Bibliothèque Multimédia à Vocation Régionale (BMVR) is located at the tip of the peninsula, a focal point of the new development in Caen, states OMA
Design: LAN . The Euravenir Tower project occupies the last free parcel of Phase One of the Euralille Area, which began in 1998 with OMA’s project built in association with François Delhays.
Design: Chevallier Architectes. Located on a natural promontory in the lower Valley, surrounded by rock faces giving it the appearance of a natural fortress, Solelyâ boasts a superb site and orientation
Design: Patrice Bideau. In buying this house in BADEN, the owners wanted to adapt to a new life in the Morbihan by converting an existing dwelling into an energy efficient home using ecological building materials.
Design: Hérault Arnod Architectes. Electronic music is a new subject for architecture. The aim was to invent a specific architectural system for a new type of spectacle and relationship with the public, whilst allowing concerts with a more traditional configuration.
Design: AZC
The Neudorf area of Strasbourg is undergoing a major programme of redevelopment to fill the void that currently separates the city centre from its southern neighbourhoods.
Design: Dietmar Feichtinger Architectes. The new headquarters for the social housing organization affirms its presence in the urban context by its dimension but the architectural expression is searching for lightness and transparency and avoids any monumentality.
Design: Nicolas Laisné Associés
The office building with terraces sets a new standard for bio-climatic offices. The project is rooted in the idea of flexible work spaces. Its composition sets it apart from traditional offices blocks, and it is part of a strongly eco-conscious approach.