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“Its conception is one of the most ambitious and comprehensive assertions of our will to create dynamic and fluid spaces. It blends formal geometric complexity with bold structures and an innovative use of materials. Architectural creation involves pushing the boundaries”
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: Stephane Malka Architecture. OxyGen is the winning project for the development of La Défense’s Vignes area. OxyGen is a door ,a physical and visual input penetrating from the tracks and the banks of Neuilly sur Seine.
“One of the most ambitious architectural projects of the decade”: the heart of the city has never fully recovered from the demolition of the 19th-century wrought-iron market pavilions at Les Halles.
Design: Malkan Architects. Nested on the edge of La Seine river in Paris, thoses housing units are now possible thanks to “la Loi Alur”, a new legislation that allows urban enheightement.
Design: AZC. The exceptional natural setting of Suresnes – an undulating landscape, like an amphitheatre – orientates the town towards the river Seine and the Bois de Boulogne.
Architects: Mikou Design Studio. Aquazena Pool features a fluid design both on plan and in the form of openings: windows and skylights have rounded corners. The solarium on the roof is described as a ‘fifth facade’.
Design: Encore Heureux Architects. A singular building, the Circular Pavilion has nothing round. The name describes the process, which follows the circular economy principles, according to which ones’ waste become others’ resources.
Design: Studio Janréji. With his signature technique of juxtaposing and overlapping contrasting eras and styles, interior designer and founder of Studio Janréji, Régis Conseil, revives The Moulin de la Galette using contemporary design codes to respect but not erase not the restaurants’ colourful past.
Climate deal reached in Paris. Over 30% of global greenhouse gas emissions are buildings-related, and emissions could double by 2050 if we don’t change. Cooperative climate action is essential to keep the global average temperature rise below 2°C degrees.
Design: Tetrarc Architects. Ile Seguin-Rives de Seine: a major urban renewal project in the heart of Greater Paris, spread over 74 hectares on the site of the former Renault factories, including the Ile Seguin.
Tomás Saraceno’s artistic project Aerocene is a series of air-fuelled sculptures that will float in the longest, most sustainable journey around the world without engines, becoming buoyant only by the heat of the Sun and infrared radiation from the surface of Earth.
Design: Glenn Medioni, Architect. In this apartment every “distribution” spaces were suppressed in order to open up the living room as much as possible, as well as the bathroom and the two bedrooms.
Design: Agence RVA. The Serpentin housing complex was built by the architect Émile Aillaud during the 1950’s and 1960’s. At the turn of the twentieth century, the Courtillières neighbourhood was in decline and suffered from a degraded image.