Place: France

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Musée des Confluences, Lyon, France, Coop Himmelb(l)au

Musée des Confluences

Right from the 2001 international competition for a natural history museum in Lyon, the museum was envisioned as a “medium for the transfer of knowledge” and not as a showroom for products. The building ground of the museum is located on a peninsula that was artificially extended 100 years ago […]

Zac Claude Bernard Multifunctional Building, Paris, France, AZC Atelier Zündel Cristea

Zac Claude Bernard Multifunctional Building

The urban development zone (ZAC) Claude Bernard is situated in the 19th arrondissement of Paris, on a 3.6ha vast area, between the boulevard Macdonald in the south and the highway in the nord. Four blocks of 43x48m, facing the boulevard Macdonald, were chosen in order to create different programs of […]

Private Clinic in Champigny, Champigny-sur-Marne, France, AZC Atelier Zündel Cristea

Private Clinic in Champigny

The construction site is located at 34, rue de Verdun in Champigny-sur-Marne, France. The Hospital accommodates 90 beds with 10 additional beds for day patients. Developed to a length of 75m by a 17,5m width, the project is composed of four floors and a partial basement. The building is situated […]

Monconseil Retirement Home, Tours, France, AZC Atelier Zündel Cristea

Monconseil Retirement Home

This retirement home is being built in Monconseil’s Urban Development Zone (ZAC in France), in the northern suburbs of the city of Tours, where this building will be one of the first footprints in the area. The project, which consists of 81 beds spread across three units, was defined from […]

Binet Business Hotel, Paris, France, AZC Atelier Zündel Cristea

Binet Business Hotel

A building that is part of its neighborhood To the north-west of Paris, the Porte de Montmartre district is a sector of economic and social recon quest, through a Great Urban Renovation Project (GPRU). The new business building is located in this ambitious development project, which is eagerly awaiting the […]

ZAC du Port Housing, Paris, France, AZC Atelier Zündel Cristea

ZAC du Port Housing

The creation of block 04, made up of 60+60 housing units, is the result of a joint workshop of two architectural firms: AZC and Cantin Planchez. This collaboration allowed us to approach the issue of housing in a free and insightful way. We were able to propose in consequence a […]

Optique Ampère, Grenoble, France, Cyrille Druart

Optique Ampère

The shop is located in a new residential building. One starting point was found in an existing oblique beam made of exposed concrete. The overall formal concept ensued, and is echoed in all the slanted walls. The guiding principle inside is easily noticeable, with a glasses display shelving that runs […]

I-Way, Lyon, France, Cyrille Druart

I-Way

Inaugurated in July 2008 in Lyon, France, I-WAY is an international first. This exclusive building is entirely dedicated to automobile simulations (simulator technology offering 6 degrees of freedom inspired by the aeronautics industry), providing the public with access for the first time to eighteen machines. Organised around 3 simulation zones […]

UNIC, Paris, France, MAD Architects

UNIC

Located in Clichy-Batignolles, a newly developed neighborhood in Paris, UNIC is next to Martin Luther King Park and the currently-under construction courthouse designed by Renzo Piano. MAD won the project through an international design competition in collaboration with local French architects Accueil – Biecher Architectes. “We worked closely with the […]

Academy of Art Crafts (ESMA), Toulouse, France, LCR Architectes

Academy of Art Crafts (ESMA)

The campus includes the Academy of Art Crafts(ESMA), the Technical Academy of Photography and Game Design (ETPA) and a student housing (182units). It is located in Auzeville-Tolosane, 15 minutes from the centre of Toulouse. The school, overlaid with two levels of parking (55 spaces reserved for school and 60 for […]

EURALIS Headquarters, Lescar, France, LCR Architectes

EURALIS Headquarters

The renovation of headquarters of the group EURALIS had to integrate and represent the ambition of a total rehabilitation operation, affirming the identity of the group and providing an uncompromising functionality. The existing building covering an area of ​​8000 m² and dating from the 70s, has been completely renovated, redistributed […]

Middle School Of Labarthe-Sur-Lèze, Labarthe-sur-Lèze, France, LCR Architectes

Middle School Of Labarthe-Sur-Lèze

The aim was to create a school answering to the High Environmental Quality and educational standards. We tried to imagining the scale of the future equipment and to position it as a public building within a problematic empty space. The middle school arises from the convergence of two axes: The […]

PCA Agency, Paris, France, PCA - Philippe Chiambaretta Architecte

PCA Agency

56-58 rue Vieille du Temple is located in the heart of the Marais, in the 3rd arrondissement of Paris – a popular neighborhood of boutiques and galleries. PCA’s new agency replaced an old printing office that was located in a courtyard of a 1950’s building. The goal of the project […]

Bibliothèque Georges Perec, Marne-la-Vallée, France, Aldric Beckmann Architectes

Bibliothèque Georges Perec

Future heart and social area of the Marne-la-Vallée university campus, the new central library has the significant advantage of being located on an outstanding site: the Ferme de la Haute Maison. Dating from the 17th century, this “historic” site endows the building with a strategic role. Its identity does not […]

Évry Centre Urbain, Évry, France, Aldric Beckmann Architectes

Évry Centre Urbain

This project is part of the scheme to reconsider urban identity in the Centre Urbain, the new neighborhood that is the emblem of the future Évry. Rows, set back buildings, an interplay of terraces, and “urban windows” create an openness towards the heart of the small island. The heart of […]

Single Family House in Paris, Paris, France, Aldric Beckmann Architectes

Single Family House in Paris

This is a three-storey private house with basement, facing east/north-east on the rue de Nice and west/south-west across its courtyard. It is clad in putty colored concrete from top to bottom, which makes it look as if it is cut from a single block. Its color, echoing that of the […]

Bottière-Chênaie, Nantes, France, FRES Architectes

Bottière-Chênaie

The project reflects on the theme of density and the notion of urbanity, on the idea of relation to the landscape, and on the concept of “plus” spaces, in the large peri-urban developing sectors I. Situation. The Bottière-Chênaie concerted development zone (Z.A.C.) – An eco-neighborhood The Bottière-Chênaie Z.A.C. was created […]

Netter Social Housing, Paris, France, FRES Architectes

Netter Social Housing

How to build social housing on a contemporary way in a district of Paris with a strong Haussmann identity and at the same time how to answer the challenges of nowadays, and among them sustainability? The organisation of the dwellings inspires itself from Haussmann apartments principles with representative spaces […]

Montmarte Wintergarden Housing, Paris, France, FRES Architectes

Montmarte Wintergarden Housing

In January 2012, Atelier Kempe Thill in collaboration with Fres architects won the competition for fifty apartments, a dentists practice, a mother – child – care centre and an underground car park at the Porte de Montmartre in Paris for the public housing corporation Paris Habitat. The apartments are in […]

23 Dwellings in Béthune, Béthune, France, FRES Architectes

23 Dwellings in Béthune

The project is situated in Béthune, in the North of France, in a district registered on the program of the National Agency for the Urban Renovation. This project groups together 23 ‘semi-collective’ social housing units. The inspiration for the design came from research into new qualities developed at the interface […]

Paris La Défense Arena, Nanterre, France, Christian de Portzamparc

Paris La Défense Arena

Paris La Défense Arena, which stands at the foot of the Grande Arche, opened with a Rolling Stones concert that filled the 40,000 performance capacity stadium. The project was initiated and financed by Jacky Lorenzetti, President of Racing 92, who, following an architectural competition in 2010, chose Christian de Portzamparc […]

Rue des Suisses, Paris, France, Herzog & De Meuron

Rue des Suisses

Herzog & De Meuron team made this their first project in Paris on an unusual site in the 14th Arrondisement not far from Gare Montparnesse. The Paris public housing agency Régie Immobilière de la Paris (RVIP) sponsored a 1966 competition resulting to this project which is built on three interconnected […]

Gavroche Centre for Children, Saint-Ouen, France, SOA Architectes

Gavroche Centre for Children

A cultural and educational facility situated in the heart of the Victor Hugo development has been realized with the completion of the Gavroche Centre for Children. The latter is part of a large urban renewal scheme consisting principally of housing, offices and commercial buildings organized around the Victor Hugo Garden. […]

Villa Savoye, Poissy, France, Le Corbusier

Villa Savoye

Many consider Villa Savoye to be the seminal work of the Swiss architect Le Corbusier. International Style has found to this Villa one of its most recognisable architectural presentations. The Five Points The house was emblematic of Le Corbusier used to work in a system that he addressed “The Five […]

Maison La Roche, Paris, France, Le Corbusier

Maison La Roche

Maison La Roche in Paris is a classic work from Le Corbusier that was built as a home for Raoul La Roche, a Swiss banker and collector of avant-garde art. Among other things, The house was designed to serve as a private gallery to display La Roche’s extensive art collection, […]

National Institute for Territorial Studies, Strasbourg, France, AZC Atelier Zündel Cristea

National Institute for Territorial Studies

Located in Strasbourg, the school is responsible for the initial and continuing training of senior civil servants leading the major territorial authorities and their public institutions. INET is an organization that belongs to the National Center for the Territorial Public Service (CNFPT). The project’s configuration […]

Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris, France, Ateliers Jean Nouvel

Institut du Monde Arabe

Institut du Monde Arabe was established in 1980 in Paris, when an agreement with France was concluded from 18 countries 18 Arab countries concluded an agreement with France to establish the Institute with information about the Arab world and to start research to cover Arabic and the Arab world’s cultural […]