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23.06.2024

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The French office of architects Nicolas Moreau and Hiroko Kusunoki, in collaboration with Mexican architect Frida Escobedo and France's AIA Life Designers, have been selected to renovate the Centre Pompidou, the iconic Parisian building designed by Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers in the 1970s.


John Hill | 08.02.2023

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Inside Outside has designed a four-story facade of curtains for Moussafir Architectes' renovation of a ten-story concrete building from the 1970s in Paris. A showroom, offices, and apartments sit behind the operable curtains that look face Rue du Vertbois in the 3rd arrondissement.


Ulf Meyer | 16.08.2021

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The new pedestrian promenade in Bastia, France, is a masterpiece of urban design and engineering. Designed by Dietmar Feichtinger Architectes, the corniche follows the rocky coastline of the Mediterranean Sea below the Corsican city. Ulf Meyer recently visited the path that has become a...


Les architectes FABG | 22.02.2021

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McGill University needed a new building to house three 1.5 MW emergency facilities, generators that will protect research activities in the event of a power outage.


Dietmar Feichtinger Architectes | 17.06.2020

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The focus of the new secondary school is on sports. The rooms adapted to the different activities – the common gymnasium, the gymnastics hall, the climbing wall – stretch over all levels, from its floor level in the basement to its roof terrace on the first floor.


John Hill | 07.05.2020

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The facade of 30 Warren Street, a 12-story residential building nearing completion in New York's Tribeca neighborhood, is covered in precast concrete panels with a corded texture formed from rolls of corrugated cardboard.


Chevalier Morales Architectes, DMA architectes | 09.01.2020

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Originating from an architectural competition, the Drummondville Library project transposes the historical, cultural and poetic essence of the region into a studied urban and architectural composition.


ADHOC Architectes | 12.03.2019

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The ADHOC architects' team is very proud to present Le Jardinier (“The Gardener”), a project accomplished in collaboration with the developer Knightsbridge.


Stendardo Menningen Architectes | 13.11.2018

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The newly constructed recreational center known as "Jardin Robinson" occupies a strategic position surrounded by the wooded banks of the Rhone on one side and the public facilities of the Lignon district with an emblematic expression of a 1960s concrete on the other side.


PietriArchitectes | 23.10.2018

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This program, featuring 58 apartments and 2 shops, forms part of the development of the ZAC des Bords du Lac, Quartier Nouvel Aix, an exceptional, 15-hectare site connecting the historic heart of Aix-les-Bains with Lac du Bourget.


PietriArchitectes | 19.09.2018

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At the foot of the Montagne de l’Aigle, Architect Jean-Baptiste Pietri’s studio has created a new program of 145 apartments, a stone’s throw from the coves of the Massif des Calanques that gave the project its name: La Crique.


meier + associés architectes | 21.08.2018

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The scheme for the planned new Sion media library has a very strong visual relationship with the surrounding architectural heritage. The contemporary element inserted between the two existing buildings provides a free-flowing link for access to both.


OPUS 5 Architectes | 20.03.2018

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The Paris office of OPUS 5 has delivered the third and final phase of the rehabilitation of the Abbey d'Ardenne in Normandy, France. To complete an investment of over 25 years, the former stables of this Gothic abbey are now home to an exhibition gallery.


NBJ Architectes | 13.03.2018

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Located next to an expressway, the Technical Center of Blagnac was built in the middle of a neighborhood characterized by a highly industrialized program. Nevertheless, a classified forest and a cemetery are located just next to the site.


Pietri Architectes | 05.10.2017

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MaisonA is nestled on the side of the hill on the plot. The building is discreet, but its pure lines show great strength of character. The materials used – wood and white concrete – are contemporary, but the whole fits in perfectly with the protected site.


NBJ Architectes | 08.09.2017

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The challenge of building the Sports Hall Jean-Louis Trintignant in Uzès is to suggest a project that can work perfectly with the existing environment while creating optimal conditions allowing sports practice. The main focus is spot on the utility of the interior areas, as well as the...


Martin Duplantier Architectes | 19.05.2017

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Located on the edge of the Saclay Plateau and the Bièvre Valley, the HEC campus has a privileged location. The 138-hectare park features prestigious sports facilities, a vast forest area and a plateau inhabited by buildings from 1962 and designed by the architect René Coulon. Martin...


Hérault Arnod Architectes | 19.04.2017

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This Contemporary Music Centre (SMAC) 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.


Dietmar Feichtinger Architectes | 24.03.2017

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Dietmar Feichtinger Architectes has completed the new headquarters for Veolia in Aubervilliers, in Paris's northeastern suburbs.


Hérault Arnod Architectes | 12.12.2016

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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…


Menkès Shooner Dagenais Letourneux Architectes | 30.03.2016

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The first edition of the Durabilys Awards was held on Wednesday, March 23rd at the Palais des congrès and on this occasion Menkès Shooner Dagenais Letourneux Architectes won the Award of Excellence for theMaison du développement durable in the LEED...


Chevallier Architectes | 12.01.2016

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This project started with a mountain guide’s home. Because the house was originally self-built, it had a unique soul.


NBJ Architectes | 17.09.2015

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The city of Jacou's wedding hall and municipal room project needed to be rethought at the crossroads of several axes and scales. The aim was to change the use of an existing building located in the town center.


Chevalier Morales Architectes | 11.09.2015

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Following an architectural competition in 2011, the firm Chevalier Morales Architectes received the mandate to expand, redesign and bring to compliance the old Lachine borough library, dating back to 1974.


h2o architectes | 30.07.2015

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The commission: a flat for a couple with two children. The place : last floor of a Hausmanian building; ancient servant’s bedrooms already transformed into a flat.


John Hill | 23.06.2015

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The jury for the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation's competition for a proposed Guggenheim museum in Helsinki, Finland, has chosen "Art in the City" by Paris's Moreau Kusonoki Architectes as the winner.


chartier dalix architectes | 07.01.2015

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The project presents a mixed program to build a school, a gymnasium, but also incorporate a third element: encouraging biodiversity.


TANK Architectes | 03.12.2014

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The deal is to restructure and extend a former police station that imposes on the Square des Fusillés et des Déportés but is disconnected from its urban environment.