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
Jean-Claude Carrière Theatre Proposal / A+ Architecture
The renowned Montpellier architecture firm A+ Architecture has been entrusted with the project of building a new site at the domaine d’O, the Jean-Claude Carrière theatre. A unique and environmentally friendly project, the project is based on a global environmental approach aiming for general energy efficiency and for environmental quality standards. Other than the slab that supports it, the entire structure could be dismantled and rebuilt on a different site. The unique design is enhanced by a light wooden lozenge structure recovering the entire building. More images and architects’ description after the break.
Collective Eco-Housing La Canopée / Patrick Arotcharen Architecte

Architects: Patrick Arotcharen Architecte
Location: Bayonne, France
Project Architects: Patrick Arotcharen and Carole Magot
Area: 3,800 sqm
Year: 2011
Photographs: Vincent Monthiers , Mathieu Choiselat
Zaha Hadid Architects’ First Built Tower: CMA CGM Headquarters

Zaha Hadid Architects’ first built tower, the CMA CGM Headquarters in Marseille, France, is most immediately notable for its vertical form.
As the stunning images from Hufton + Crow show, the tower’s disparate volumes (generated from gradual centripetal vectors) gently converge towards each other and then bend apart to create an elegant “metallic curving arc that slowly lifts and accelerates skywards into [...a] dramatic vertical geometry.”
Read More about CMA CGM Headquarters, after the break…
Lille Modern Art Museum / Manuelle Gautrand Architecture

Architects: Manuelle Gautrand Architecture
Location: Villeneuve d’Ascq, France
Architect In Charge: Roland Simounet
Project Manager: Yves Tougard
Area: 11,600 sqm
Year: 2010
Photographs: Max Lerouge – LMCU, Philippe Ruault, Vincent Fillon
Lycée Régional René Goscinny / José Morales & Rémy Marciano

Architects: Rémy Marciano, José Morales
Location: Alpes, Maritimes
Architects In Charge: José Morales, Rémy Marciano
Assistant Architects: Mathieu Barbier-Bouvet, Jean-Luc Fugier
Area: 9200.0 sqm
Year: 2012
Photographs: Philippe Ruault
Cite Des Affaires in Saint-Etienne / Manuelle Gautrand Architecture

Architects: Manuelle Gautrand Architecture
Location: Saint-Etienne, France
Project Manager: Thomas Daragon
Studies Project Manager: Yves Tougard
Year: 2010
Photographs: Vincent Fillon, Philippe Ruault
The Beam / MVRDV and de Alzua+
Development corporation ADIM Nord with MVRDV and de Alzua+ have been announced the winners of an urban renewal competition in the French town of Villeneuve d’Ascq. Dubbed ‘The Beam’, the winning proposal will transform a cluster of disused parking lots and a former petrol station into a dense, pedestrianized haven, whose 15,000 square meters of offices, retail space and lodging will hover over the adjacent motorway as a icon of a larger urban regeneration effort for the town center.
More information on The Beam after the break…
Les Grands Moulins-Sport Complex / Ligne 7 Architecture

Architects: Ligne 7 Architecture
Location: Ville d’Epernon, France
Architect In Charge: Bernard Ritaly & Dominique Lardeau
Engineering: EGIS Centre Ouest
Landscape: TN+
Client : City of Epernon
Area: 2,400 sqm
Year: 2012
Photographs: Stéphane Chalmeau
The extension of the Montreuil Polytechnic / Ateliers 2_3_4_

Architects: Ateliers 2/3/4/
Location: Paris, France
Architect In Charge: Olivier Arene, Jean-François Patte, Emilie Sopena
Design Team: Elie Marçais, Hélène Arligui, Olivia Medot, Nicolas Guillaume, Fabrizio Glorioso, Guilio Tarquini, Tae Hyung Kim
Area: 4,400 sqm
Year: 2012
Photographs: Juan Sepulveda, Nicolas Fussler
51 Logements in Viry-Châtillon / Margot-Duclot architectes associés
Architects: Margot-Duclot architectes associés
Location: Viry-Châtillon, France
Area: 4870.0 sqm
Year: 2010
Photographs: Jean-Michel Landecy
Electric / Mathieu Lehanneur

Architects: Mathieu Lehanneur
Location: Porte de Versailles, 75015, Paris, France
Collaborating Architect: Ana Moussinet
Associated Authors: John Michael Ramirez and Romain Dian (Régine, Schmuck and Hippodrome de Longchamp)
Client: Viparis
Area: 1380.0 sqm
Year: 2013
Photographs: Felipe Ribon
Aires Mateus Architectes Lecture

Aires Mateus Architectes will be delivering a lecture on March 28th at 7:00pm at the Pavillon de l’Arsenal. Manuel Aires Mateus will be presenting one of their well-known projects, the Alcacer do Sal Residence, located in Alcacer do Sal, Portugal. Based on an attentive reading of the life of a very specific kind of community, this beautiful project is a sort of micro-society designed with its own rules. The reduct mobility of those who will live in the building suggests that any displacement should be an emotive and variable experience. For more information, please visit here.
Mosquito Coast Factory / Tolila+Gilliland

Architects: Tolila+Gilliland
Location: Campbon, France
Client: Mosquito Coast Factory
Area: 517.0 sqm
Year: 2012
Photographs: Philippe Ruault
Reception Center and Social Reintegration, Residence Henri Durand / Hélène Fricout-Cassignol Architects

Architects: Hélène Fricout-Cassignol Architects
Location: Louviers, France
Area: 2,200 sqm
Year: 2011
Photographs: Hélène Fricout-Cassignol Architects
Buckminster Fuller’s 50-Foot “Fly’s Eye” Dome to be Restored

Noted architectural historian and preservationist Robert Rubin has purchased the largest of Buckmister Fuller’s ”Fly’s Eye” domes and plans to reopen it to the public this summer for the first time in 30 years.
More on Fuller’s dome and its new owner after the break…
Transition Centre of 24 housing in Rambouillet / Benjamin Fleury

Architects: Benjamin Fleury
Location: Rambouillet, France
Area: 1,020 sqm
Year: 2013
Photographs: David Boureau
Development Banks of the Meurthe / Atelier Cite Architecture

Architects: Atelier Cite Architecture
Location: Raon L’Étape, France
Landscape: ARPAE
Light Designer: Scene Publique (Agathe Argod)
Structure: Groupe Alto
Hydraulic: SINBIO
Area: 20,000 sqm
Year: 2012
Photographs: Michel Denancé

































































