Concept Stadium / DCA
Concept Stadium by DCA (Design Crew for Architecture) is an exercise of reflection willing to propose an unconstrained answer, free from whether economic or programmatic concerns, in order to provide a prospective vision of what could be, in their opinion, the ideal rugby stadium. Today, stadiums are iconic shapes answering to the representation stake, as they are bearing the image of a club, a city, a region. But paradoxically, these formal thoughts are concerning the shell and therefore establish the singular stadium status as autonomous object, disconnected from its environment. Their designs aims to become a useful object with urban concerns. More images and architects’ description after the break.
Europa City / Manuelle Gautrand Architecture
Parisian architect, Manuelle Gautrand, has shared her massive cultural, recreational and retail center for Triangle de Gonesse, France with us. The competition proposal intends to showcase a variety of European countries’ features – with regard to retail, leisure and cultural amenities – by organizing specific areas for designated countries.
More about the proposal after the break.
Troyes Business School Proposal / SCAU Architectes
The winning proposal for the extension project for the Ecole Supérieure de Commerce de Troyes (Troyes Management School) by SCAU Architectes provides a new image, thanks to a highly pertinent concept that marries convivial spaces, clear circulation, modern energy and, above all, a great simplicity of architectural style. The extension, necessitated by its exceptional growth, is a real opportunity to confirm the establishment’s image and assert its identity at a national and international level, among the diverse colleges in this field. In this respect, the building’s architectural expression has today become the flagship of the Troyes ESC’s dynamism and energy. More images and architects’ dsescription after the break.
Water Centre / SCAU
Architects : SCAU
Location: Colombes, France
Client: SIAAP
Area: 15,000 sqm
Cost: 28 M°€ before tax
Photographs: Bruno Delamain
Update: Villiot-Rapée Apartments / Hamonic + Masson
Architects: Harmonic + Masson
Location: Paris, France
Client: Paris Habitat OPH
Project Manager: Marie-Agnès de Bailliencourt
Green Building Adviser: Franck Boutté
Project Year: 2011
Project Area: 5,120 sqm (GFA)
Photographs: Sergio Grazia
Citylights / Dominique Perrault Architecture
Dominique Perrault Architecture shared with us their winning proposal in the international architecture competition launched by General Electric Capital Real Estate for the requalification of the Pont de Sèvres Towers. Their design response, which could at first appear minimalist, proposes a luminous landmark for one of the most ambitious programs in the service sector of the Western Paris area. More images and architects’ description after the break.
Stanzes / La Ville Rayee
Architects: La Ville Rayée
Location: La Défense, Paris, France
Year: 2012
Client: Defacto, for « Forme Publique », La Défense Urban Furniture Biennial
Development: JC Decaux
Touch-screen Public Phone: Orange
Fabrication of Concretepieces: Escofet
Material: Escofet fibered ultra-high performance concrete
Photographer: JC Decaux
Eco-Sustainable House / Djuric Tardio Architectes
Architects: Djuric Tardio Architectes
Location: Paris, France
Completion: 2012
Surface: 246 sqm SHAB
Photographs: Clément Guillaume
Leisure Center / Jean-Paul Viguier et Associés
Architects: Jean-Paul Viguier et Associés
Location: Lyon, France
Developer: SEM Lyon Confluence
Contractor: Unibail
Photographs: Renaud Chaignet, Renaud Araud
Family Creche in Drulingen / Fluor Architecture
Architects: Fluor Architecture
Location: Strasbourg, France
Completion: 2012
Photographs: Fluor Architecture
New Building for the Nantes’ Conservatory & the Pole of Higher Learning Performing Arts / RAUM + l’Escaut
The proposal for the New Building for the Nantes’ Conservatory & the Pole of Higher Learning Performing Arts by RAUM + l’Escaut proposes to open the different practices to the city. Dance studios and music classrooms create a perception of artistic practices from the outside and make it readable within this new cultural center of the Nantes Island. Beyond the shared nature of the equipment, transdisciplinary practices will be offered by a set of situations that offer the linking of different disciplines and will thus create a direct link between the building and operation of contemporary pedagogies relating to higher education. More images and architects’ description after the break.
Institute of Marine Genomics / Barré Lambot Architectes
Architects: Barré Lambot Architectes - Philippe Barre, Agnès Lambot
Location: Roscoff, France
Project Manager: SARL Barré-Lambot, ISATEG (BET Structures, BET Fluides)
Contractor: Université Pierre et Marie Curie
Program: Biologic Station
Cost: 2,229,500 € HT
Surface: 1,486 sqm
Mission’s Architects: Architect agent
Photographs: Philippe Ruault
Albi Major Theatre / Dominique Perrault Architecture
The winning proposal for the Albi Major Theatre, designed by Dominique Perrault Architecture, aims at transforming the texture of the city as well as its cultural influence. Appearing as an outstanding architectural symbol, on the outskirts of the historic center, the architects gave priority to the presence of the Major Theatre instead of the cinemas, in order to organize around it a network of public spaces and of cultural facilities. Therefore, the Major Theatre will be its center. More images and architects’ description after the break.
Commissariat of Police in France / X-TU
Architects: X-TU – Anouk Legendre & Nicolas Desmazieres
Location: Saint-Denis, France
Design Team: Roel Dehoorne, Gaelle Leborgne, Melanie Bury, Ingrid Manger
Client: Ministery of Interior
Cost: 5,790,000 € TTC with tax
Total Floor Area: 3,857 sqm shon
Engineering: Estair L. Labrousse
Photographs: JM Monthiers
La Grande Motte / N+B Architectes
Architects: N+B Architectes - Elodie Nourrigat, Jacques Brion
Location: La Grande Motte City, Montpellier, France
Project Manager: Representative
Associated Architect: Julien Wafflart
Client: La ville de la Grande Motte
Site Area: 1,515 sqm
Building Scale: RDC
Cost: 835,000 € HT
Photographs: Paul Kozlowski
Jean Cocteau Museum / Rudy Ricciotti
Architects: Rudy Ricciotti
Location: Menton, France
Year: 2006
Area: 2,700 sqm
Photographs: Agence Rudy Ricciotti, Lisa Ricciotti, Olivier Amsellem
Ville de Nantes / TETRARC
Architects: TETRARC architectes mandataires
Location: Nantes, France
Client: Ville de Nantes
Cast Client: SAMOA (Société d’Aménagement de la Métropole Ouest Atlantique)
Engineering: CMB economist, SERBA structure, AREA fluids, AREA CANOPÉE consultant HQE,
ATELIER ROUCH acoustician, Architecture & Technique scenography
Surface: 6,800 sqm
Cost: 16,2 M€ HT
Completion: 2010
Photographs: Stephane Chalmeau
Playtime / TETRARC
Architects: TETRARC
Location: Nantes, France
Client: Lamotte Construction, IRSS
Design Team: Michel Bertreux, Patrick Moreuil, Daniel Caud, Louise Follin, Frédérique Raynal
Plan Area: 3,800 sqm
Total building cost: 8,2 M€ TTC
Photographs: Stéphane Chalmeau
Hanging Hotel: A Suspended Campsite for Climbers / Dr. Margot Krasojevic
Dr. Margot Krasojevic is known for using digital parameters to explore the psychological effects of architecture – materials and spatiality – on its inhabitants. The Hanging Hotel / Suspended Campsite is one such project that was completed in October 2011 for Holden Manz Wine Estate Cape Town in Massif de L’ Esterel, (Gorges Du Vedron) South of France. The project is an investigation in the choreography of perceptions of the environment around us. In this particular project, catering to rock climbers, Dr. Krasojevic uses compound glass and a prism louver system to alter how the climbers see their environment and stimulates different psychological experiences based on these subtle shifts in vision.
More on this project after the break.
