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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: Marc Mimram
Marc Mimram, the award-winning Paris based architecture and engineering practice, has
completed the first phase of Strasbourg School of Architecture (Ecole Nationale Supérieure
d’Architecture de Strasbourg).
Design: h2o architectes. The EPF Normandie and the commune of Pont-Audemer wanted to convert the industrial site of an ancient paper factory into offices/workshops for different companies
The ancient paper factory is a symbol of an important part of the local working class memory. The architectural conversion suggested by the agency had three principle axis of development.
Design: S333 Architecture + Urbanism
S333 has been announced as finalists in a competition to design a cluster of residential towers in OMA’s masterplan for Bègles, Bordeaux. S333 worked with landscape architect Rémi Salles to transform a 1.5ha industrial site into a new residential neighbourhood with 175 units, recreational areas and local amenities.
Design: archi5
On an abandoned suburb, the project made waking up every day to attend school under an outstanding green-roofed structure as a child’s right. The Marcel Sembat High School offers technical education about motors and vehicle mechanics. It demands vast spaces with high ceilings and large surfaces. It’s located in a declining industrial suburb of the port of Rouen, France.
Design: Zaha Hadid Architects. The first part of this initiative was the development of Line ‘A’ that ran east to west across Strasbourg. A parallel initiative to the design of the transport system was the inclusion of a number of artists, such as Barbara Kruger and Mario Mertz, to make specific installations at key points of the line.
Design: Multipod – four days and a wireless screwdriver are all you need to build your very own Pop-Up House. The structure, compiled of insulating blocks and wooden panels, delivers affordable thermal insulation like you’d never believe.
Housing Tower for Montpellier, ‘L’Arbre Blanc’ – ‘White Tree’ – exclusive video of three architecture agency’s interview about the architectural contest for a housing Tower in Montpellier-France. Sou Fujimoto Architects ; Nicolas Laisné Associés ; Manal Rachdi Oxo architects.
Design: h2o architectes. The Familistère is a vast housing complex founded by Jean-Baptiste André Godin in 1859 in relation with the stove manufacturing business. Until 1968, this Social Palace was the theatre of a unique social experimentation in the industrial world
Design: NBJ architects. Situated in a pine forest on a plot with a steep, the first job was the creation of an enabling environment for the establishment of a home. The slope is both the first constraint and the major asset of the place to embrace an open landscape on the horizon.
Design: ANRU
At the core of the urban renewal project for the Mireuil district of La Rochelle, “La Queue du Lézard” (“The Lizard’s Tail”) is a complex of local community amenities which is part of a plan proposed by ANRU (the French National Agency for Urban Renewal) developed together with landscape designers from the In Situ firm. A community centre, city sports grounds and a games library are grouped together in a 200 m long narrow strip made up of alternating built elements and voids.
Design: DATA
Mixed-use leisure building, containing a 1,000 sqm casino, a restaurant, a 100-seat conference room, bowling, bar, brewery, night club, several multimedia rooms, offices and workshops, parking for 250 cars.
Composed of six blocks containing the different entities of the program and arranged mainly on a single level, this new complex offers a clear and simple internal route through the large glass-roofs taken between these six volumes.
Design: be baumschlager eberle
Ardeko won pre-certification “LEED-Platinum”
The internationally active architectural firm be baumschlager eberle, the client Hines and the investor Ivanhoé Cambridge are pleased to receive the pre-certification “LEED Platinum” for the recently opened office building “Ardeko” in Boulogne-Billancourt (F). Tested according to the standards of the U.S. Green Building Council, Ardeko gained the highest rating level. Location, concept, water consumption, energy consumption, protection of the atmosphere, use of building materials and interior design were all evaluated.
Design: Agence Jouin Manku, Architectes. This project comprises a four star hotel and the Michelin 3-starred chef Marc Haeberlin’s first brasserie. Les Haras allies architectural creativity and technological innovation, two particular areas of French expertise, with philanthropy, an unprecedented mix for a historic redevelopment project in France.
Design: Jean-Charles Covarel. Location: Val d’Isere, Espace Killy mountain range, French Alps. A brand new 7 bedroom chalet, with 609 sqm (6,555 sq ft) of living space, designed and built by Jean-Charles Covarel, complete 32 sqm swimming pool and full array of wellness facilities.
Design: Tectoniques Architectes. A new building on the site of the former Drocourt Coking Plant Building, northern France. After a call for ideas addressed to the local residents, the Maison de l’Environnement et du Développement Durable (Centre for the Environment & Sustainable Development) of the Hénin-Carvin Joint Urban Authority adopted the name Aquaterra.
BIG + A+Architecture + Egis + Base + L’Echo + Celsius Environnement + CCVH have been announced winner of the international design competition for the new Cité du Corps Humain (Museum of the Human Body) in Montpellier, France.
FRAC Centre Orleans, France building, architect, events info & images – by Jakob+MacFarlane – Le Frac Centre et la Maison de l’Architecture du Centre architecture exhibition designs