Stone House / Carl Fredrik Svenstedt Architect
Architects: Carl Fredrik Svenstedt Architect
Location: Luberon, France
Year: 2011
Photographs: Hervé Abbadie
Farshid Moussavi Architecture Wins Jardins de la Lironde Competition
This unconventional stack of shifting floor plates forms what will soon be a new, 36-unit apartment block in French city of Montpellier. City officials released the news this week, naming Farshid Moussavi Architecture as winner of the Jardins de la Lironde competition.
The 11-story tower’s unique shape will offer residents expansive balconies with coastal views and a ground level restaurant. Construction is expected to begin in 2014, marking the first phase of a master plan to construct 12 new buildings in the Port Marianne district.
More images and plans of the Jardins de la Lironde tower after the break…
OMA to Masterplan Southern Neighborhood of Bordeaux
In order to accommodate the expansion of the local tram system, La Fabrique Métropolitaine de la Communauté Urbaine de Bordeaux has commissioned OMA to design a new major urban development in the southern district of Bordeaux, France. Over the next five years, the masterplan will regenerate the neighborhoods of Bègles and Villenave d’Ornon by forging new connections to Bordeaux’s central station and unlocking the potential for both city development and public space.
This project is part of the new identity for the “Porte Sud de Bordeaux” (Bordeaux south gate) and continues OMA’s intensive recent engagement in Bordeaux, as the office has been working since 2010 on the masterplan for 50,000 new housing units in the city.
More on OMA’s Bordeaux masterplan after the break…
Social Housing Units in Saint-Denis / Atelier du Pont
Architects: Atelier du Pont
Location: Saint-Denis, France
Architects In Charge: Anne-Cécile Comar, Philippe Croisier, Stéphane Pertusier
Project Managers: Luc Pinsard and François Kharrat
Area: 2,815 sqm
Year: 2013
Photographs: Luc Boegly
Logements Marnes-la-Coquette / LEM+ architectes
Architects: LEM+ architectes
Location: Saint-Cloud, France
Engineers: Scoping
Contractor: TMCR
Area: 3,338 sqm
Year: 2013
Photographs: Julien Lanoo
Herzog & de Meuron Breaks Ground on ‘Grand Stade de Bordeaux’
Nearly two years after unveiling the design to the public, Herzog & de Meuron broke ground this morning on the new ‘Grand Stade de Bordeaux’ in France. Surrounded by lush vegetation typically found in this green belt district, the stepped concourse transitions visitors through a forest of slender white columns to the stadium’s bowl, whose form ensures maximum flexibility and optimal visibility for all 43,000 spectators.
Completion is set for 2015, just in time to host the Euro 2016 football championship.
The architect’s description after the break…
BIG Wins Europa City Development in Paris
Danish architecture firm, BIG - led by Bjarke Ingels – has been announced as the winner of an international invited competition for the design of Europa City, a 800,000 square meter cultural, recreational and retail development in Triangle de Gonesse, France. Combining city development with an open landscape, Europa City creates a dynamic center of activity for visitors and residents, appealing to the variety of functions of city life. Europa City is situated along the route from Charles de Gaule Airport to Paris and has a wide range of programs that is part of a larger initiative to attract international tourism into the northern parts of Paris.
More on the project after the break…
Louviers Music School Rehabilitation and Extension / Opus 5 Architectes
Architects: Opus 5 Architectes
Location: Rue Des Pénitents, Louviers, France
Architect In Charge: Bruno Decaris, Agnès Pontremoli, Pierre Tisserand
Area: 2,000 sqm
Year: 2012
Photographs: Luc Boegly, Bruno Decaris
Library in Anzin / Dominique Coulon & Associés
Architects: Dominique Coulon & Associés
Location: Anzin, France
Architect In Charge: Dominique Coulon
Design Team: Steve Letho Duclos, Sarah Brebbia
Project Director: Olivier Nicollas
Structural Engineer: Philippe Clément, BATISERF
Mechanical Engineer: G. Jost
Cost Calculation: E3 Economie
Area: 1,750 sqm
Photographs: Eugeni Pons
AD Classics: Swiss Pavilion / Le Corbusier
In 1930, Le Corbusier was tasked with designing a dormitory that would house Swiss students at the Cité Internationale Universitaire in Paris. At first the architect and Pierre Jeanneret, his partner at the time, refused to take on the project due to tensions with the Swiss after their handling of the architects’ proposal for the League of Nations competition. Eventually, however, they agreed to see it through and worked on a very limited budget, which led the building to become a summation of Le Corbusier’s modern principles, forcing him to focus on dwelling before all else.
Maison A+C / atelier alassoeur
Architects: atelier alassoeur
Location: Saint Marcel, Indre, France
Architect In Charge: emmanuel alassoeur
Mechanical Consultant : Combiosol / sébastien rogala
Area: 273 sqm
Year: 2011
Photographs: Brice Desrez
Le Corbusier’s Cité Radieuse Rooftop to Host Contemporary Art Center
When the gym and solarium on the 20-century’s most famous rooftop terrace – elevated 18-stories above Le Corbusier’s Cité Radieuse - went up for sale in 2010, French designer Ito Morabito of Ora-ïto immediately jumped on the opportunity and purchased the space. With the support of the Foundation Le Corbusier, Ora-ïto initiated a campaign to restore the 1950‘s structure to its original state, by removing an addition that blocked the spaces 360-degree views of the city, and transform it into a contemporary art center, named the MAMO for “Marseille Modulor” – as a nod to New York’s MOMA.
More about MAMO after the break…
‘Panta Rhei’ Exhibition / Mateo Arquitectura
On view until this Saturday, April 13th, at the Galerie d’Architecture in Paris, the ‘Panta Rhei’ exhibition by Josep Lluís Mateo of Mateo Arquitectura is a tour through time: the past, present and future of the practice’s work. Highlighting projects, materials and moments that tend to be concealed from view, their ‘everything flows’ themed exhibit forms part of the agency’s praxis. Mateo displays how the present leads us to the future, and projects that are already being transported to reality. Also, the present of that which is clearly finished, and a trace of the past that has brought us to this point. An exhibition allows us to salvage, for a moment, materials produced in different contexts, to support ideas, explain stories or understand a world. For more information, please visit here. More images of the exhibition can be viewed after the break.
Maizières Music Conservatory / Dominique Coulon & Associés
Architects: Dominique Coulon & Associés
Location: Maizieres-les-Metz, France
Architect In Charge: Dominique Coulon
Project Directors: Steve Letho Duclos, Sarah Brebbia
Project Architects: Arnaud Eloudyi, Olivier Nicollas, Eun chu Park
Area: 3,400 sqm
Year: 2009
Photographs: Eugeni Pons, Guillaume Wittmann
Video: Basket Apartments / OFIS architects
Located on a long and very narrow site, on the edge of Parc La Vilette in Paris’s 19th district, the major objective of the Basket Apartments was to provide students with a healthy environment for studying, learning and meeting. Designed by OFIS architects, their video gives viewers a look at the surrounding urban context, including the new Paris tram route passing along the site. The open corridor, gallery, and studio spaces are all illustrated here as the film takes you through a typical experience by its users.
AD Classics: Maison Louis Carré / Alvar Aalto
In the commune of Bazoches-sur-Guyonnes, about 40 kilometers southwest of Paris, sits one of the most important private houses designed by Alvar Aalto: Maison Louis Carré. The client, Louis Carré, was a prominent French art dealer who was also very interested in architecture. He desired a house that would be able to accommodate many guests for art viewings, but also incorporated a private component. He commissioned Aalto to design his house in 1956, and Louis Carré and his wife, Olga, were able to move into their new home three years later.
Das Band meiner Stadt (The Band of My City) Winning Proposal / da architecture
Designed by da architecture, their first prize winning proposal in the IBA Basel 2020 competition, Das Band meiner Stadt (The band of my city), is a new dynamic that is brought to the Eastern railway station district of Quartier du Lys, which becomes the new landmark of the city of Saint-Louis. The development of this new district on the western side of the station area is characterized by a well-mixed, multi-use business district with offices, commercial and residential programs. This will benefit Saint-Louis train station and help the stream of travellers to further increase. More images and architects‘ description after the break.
Groupe Scolaire Joséphine Baker / Dominique Coulon & Associés
Architects: Dominique Coulon & Associés
Location: La Courneuve, France
Architects In Charge: Dominique Coulon, Olivier Nicollas
Assistant Architects: Sarah Brebbia, Benjamin Rocchi, Arnaud Eloudyi, Florence Haenel
Area: 6,500 sqm
Year: 2010
Photographs: Eugeni Pons, Olivier Nicollas
Villa C / Studio Guilhem
Architects: Studio Guilhem
Location: Cannes, France
Architect in Charge: Denis Bodino
Structural Engineering: Daniel Manguin
Landscape Architects: Atelier François Navarro
Area: 480 sqm
Year: 2012
Photographs: Olivier Amsellem
INRA Research Laboratories / Tectoniques Architects
Architects: Tectoniques Architects
Location: Lorraine region, France
Architect In Charge: Tectoniques Architects
Landscape Designer: Itinéraire Bis
Engineers: Anglade Bois, Sechaud & Bossuyt Fluides, Inddigo Environnement
Area: 1,440 sqm
Photographs: Inra
