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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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Residence in Catelnau Le Lez, French Architecture, Images, Architect Maison Spirale in Montpellier Private Residence in Catelnau Le Lez – design by Portal Thomas Teissier Architecture 29 Sep 2014 Maison Spirale Location: Catelnau Le Lez, Montpellier, France Design: Portal Thomas Teissier Architecture Private Residence in Catelnau Le Lez The ground surface represents 750m², with a triangular … Read more
Lafayette Department Store, Metz Shopping, France Retail Architecture Images, Architect Lafayette Department Store Metz Retail Facade, France – design by Manuelle Gautrand Architecture 22 Sep 2014 Lafayette Department Store, France Design: Manuelle Gautrand Architecture Location: Metz, France The renewal of a department store in the heart of Metz Located in Place de la République, the Galeries … Read more
The obsession to always be able to see the sea from where we live on the coast guides our pens from the first sketches and never fails to inspire another way of building
Nièvre’s Departmental Archives in France. The rundown building housing Nièvre’s departmental archives has undergone rehabilitation and been provided with an extension. Two new buildings are positioned in parallel with the existing rehabilitated building.
Design: Architecture Patrick Mauger
This new hub provides a space for all the town’s cultural events. Stripped of any pretentiousness, the building defines itself as a metal-clad cultural hall. With its hangar-like appearance, the architecture withdraws, handing the space over to the cultural events taking place.
Design: Vincent Coste Architecte. Drawn for a gallery owner and her husband, this house finished in 2013 in Saint-Tropez becomes established on a very narrow ground.
Design: archi5 studio
Situated between the Mediterranean Sea and the mountain overlooking the City, the Léo Lagrange stadium stands on a 8 ha site, limited to cover all the required functions, but with limitless views to the beautiful natural landscape of the French Riviera.
Design: Vincent Coste Architecte. This house is located next to Saint Tropez on a steep terrain with a panoramic sea view. A composition of independent volumes offset allows a set of frames and perspectives on sight
Design: Vincent Coste Architecte. L2 House is the result of a reflection on the envelope and how to develop outdoor spaces that change the perception of volumes of an existing structure.
Design: Firefly Collection
With the height of this luxury, you may find it hard to pull yourself away when it’s time to go home. Chalet Baltoro will astound you with its interior design, and pampers you with personal service. If only life was this good at home. One of five independent chalets managed by the five star K2 hotel in Courchevel 1850, the Baltoro has superb views over the Vanoise valley has ski-in-ski-out convenience.
Design: h2o architectes
The unique domaine La Cabotte is located on a hillside surrounded by vineyards and woods looking at the Mont Ventoux appearing on the horizon.
Design: Sou Fujimoto Architects + Nicolas Laisné Associates + Manal Rachdi Oxo Architects. The architects Sou Fujimoto Architects + Nicolas Laisné Associates + Manal Rachdi Oxo Architects associated to the developers Promeo Patrimoine + EVOLIS promotions, have won the competition for the construction of the second “Architectural Folie of the XXIth century” in Montpellier.
Design: archi5. The Media Library is a strong cultural symbol for the Marsan urban area. It is a visible, distinctive building without being overpowering. The building stands in the middle of the Bosquet barracks, with its clean envelope of pure geometric lines
Design: NBJ Architectes
The project is an interior renovation of an existing building and seeks to establish a coherent whole operation by adapting the program to the needs and uses of new users. The intervention is essentially a reorganization of interior spaces, limiting interventions on buildings and ensuring optimization of quality and comfort of use. The general principles of circulation of the old building are maintained and adapted to the standards required by the change of destination.
Architects: ANMA/Agence Nicolas Michelin & Associés. The Grand Large district has been designed to take into consideration a special urban context: inserted between the city and the sea, between seaside resort aesthetic and port aesthetic, and between typological variation and collective spaces.
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.