62 Housing Units in the Mozart ZAC / Tectoniques Architects
Architects: Tectoniques Architects
Location: Saint-Priest, France
Engineers: Quadriplus
Environment: Etamine
Area: 6,479 sqm
Photographs: Renaud Araud
Gymnasium Régis Racine / Atelier d’Architecture Alexandre Dreyssé
Architects: Atelier d’Architecture Alexandre Dreyssé
Location: Drancy, France
Project Director: Alexandre Dreyssé
Architectural Assistant: Sébastien Muller
Area: 1,581 sqm
Year: 2011
Photographs: Clément Guillaume
Dortoir Familial / NADAAA
The Dortoir Familial, designed by NADAAA, focuses on merging with the landscape as the slipped court provides simultaneous interiority and exteriority—protected and private as well as extroverted and engaged. The most significant result of this integration of landscape and house is the production of a monumental vaulted threshold to a central courtyard. More images and architects’ description after the break.
Maison 2G / Avenier Cornejo Architectes
Architects: Avenier Cornejo Architectes
Location: Orsay, France
Area: 216.0 sqm
Year: 2012
Photographs: Cristobal Palma, Stephane Chalmeau, Courtesy of Avelier Cornejo
Public Toilets in the Tête d’Or Park / Jacky Suchail Architects
Architects: Jacky Suchail Architects
Location: Lyon, France
Design Office: E2CA
Photographs: Franck Fleury
Daycare Center for Disabled Children / Atelier d’Architecture Laurent Tournié
Architects: Atelier d’Architecture Laurent Tournié
Location: Cahors, France
Associated Architect: F. Martinez
Assistants Architects: S. Nichele, A Tajerrashti
Collaborators: J.Avignon, P.J.Artins, Y.Chereau, I.Roig, N.Arnal
Engineers: IES
Client: APAJH
Area: 1,390 sqm
Year: 2011
Photographs: Courtesy of Atelier d’Architecture Laurent Tournié
Cultural Center Pontault Combault / Archi5
Architects: Archi5
Location: Pontault Combault, France
Project Year: 2008
Photographs: Thomas Jorion
Sloping House / Atelier 37.2
Architects: Atelier 37.2
Location: Paris, France
Collaborators: Anna Checchi, Christophe Bernard
Year: 2012
Photographs: Courtesy of Atelier 37.2
Gymnasium and Town Hall Esplanade / LAN Architecture
Location: Place de l’Hôtel de Ville, Chelles, France
Project Manager: Chelles Town Council
Contractor: BETEM
Heq Engineering Consultant: Isabelle Hurpy
Budget: 3.85M € excl. VAT
Area: 2,200 sqm
Year: 2012
Photographs: Julien Lanoo
European International Trade Centre / McAdam Architects
McAdam Architects recently unveiled their plans for a major Chinese trading and expo center in the city of Metz in Northern France. This feasibility study and outline concept will be an integrated trading complex with a total area(GBA) of over 6 million sqm. The EITC will include up to 3 million sqm of fixed frontage and flexible retail space,with additional hotel accommodation for up to 40,000 visitors and staff, 500,000 sqm logistical storage and customs clearance terminal facilities, to process up to 500 containers per day with warehouses for up to 64,000 pallets, and customer parking for over 80,000 cars. The development is divided into 4 potential construction phases, of approximately 1.5 million sqm per phase. More images and architects’ description after the break.
Arteology / Atelier 37.2
Architects: Atelier 37.2
Location: Auvergne region, France
Collaborators: Anna Checchi, Giorgio Davi’, Pascal Schaller, Christine Vergez
Year: 2012
Photographs: Courtesy of atelier 37-2
Water Treatment Plant / AWP
Architects: AWP
Location: Évry, France
Design Team: Marc Armengaud, Matthias Armengaud, Alessandra Cianchetta
Collaborators: Miguel La Parra Knapman, Joseph Jabbour, David Perez
Client: Communauté d’agglomération
Area: 6,000 sqm
Year: 2012
Photographs: Anna Positano
Irene Joliot Curie Residences / BE Hauvette + DATA [Architectes]
Architects: BE Hauvette + DATA [Architectes]
Location: Maison Blanche, France
Economist: Cabinet Lemonnier
Structural Engineering: Malishev-Wilson Ingénieries
Fuids Engineering: Icofluides
Landscape: David Besson
Year: 2010
Photographs: Courtesy of DATA [Architectes]
Etoile Lilas Cinema / Hardel et Le Bihan Architectes
Architects: Hardel et Le Bihan Architectes
Location: Paris, France
Architect In Charge: Magali Lamoureux
Area: 5,527 sqm
Year: 2012
Photographs: Vincent Fillon
Saint-Nazaire Theatre / K-architectures
Architects: K-architectures
Location: Saint-Nazaire, France
Design Team: Karine Herman, Jérôme Sigwalt, Olivier Jonchère, Alexandre Plantady
Consultants: Changement à Vue (stage design), Altia (acoustics), Alto (fluids), Khephren (structure), Bougon (economist)
Budget: 16.4 M€ of works, including tax
Area: 3,900 sqm
Year: 2012
Photographs: Luc Boegly, Patrick Miara
Films & Architecture: “Paris, I Love You”
This week’s film isn’t actually a movie in itself, but rather a lot of little films merged into one: “Paris, I Love You”. Twenty shorts, each representing the 20 arrondissements – districts – of Paris were filmed to show the French capital in its multiple identities (in the end, only eighteen made the cut). The work is an interesting attempt to use film to represent the many facets of a metropolitan urban area; it is also an exploration of the different ways we can see a city, depending on our perceptions and experiences within it.
Have you ever walked through Parisian streets? Does “Paris I Love You” capture your experiences of Paris’ districts? Let us know in the comments below.
ITEP Le Home / Laurens & Loustau Architects
Architects: Laurens & Loustau Architects
Location: impasse de la glacière, Toulouse, France
Collaborator: Laurent Didier
Client: APEAJ
Area: 883 sqm
Year: 2012
Photographs: Stephane Chalmeau
Proposal for an Urban Itinerary / Comac Architects
The proposal for an urban itinerary, designed by Comac Architects, presents an urban path to extend “Marseilles 2013″ European Capital of Culture throughout the entire city. A total of 13 key-districts will be connected by the path and interspersed with urban pavilions, each focused on a famous artist from Marseilles. Each unit will offer a certain perspective of Marseilles, and will offer tourists a new way to discover our city and its emblematic districts. More images and architects’ description after the break.
Aalta / Debarre Duplantiers Associés
Architects: Debarre Duplantiers Associés
Location: Cenon, France
Design Team: Martin Duplantier, Laurent Duplantier
Area: 1,117 sqm
Year: 2012
Photographs: Arthur Péquin
Lascaux IV: International Cave Painting Center Competition Entry / Mateo Arquitectura
Designed by Mateo Arquitectura, the proposal for the Lascaux IV: International Cave Painting Center competition speaks to us of its history and woven of enigmas that humankind seeks to solve. It tells us that there are individuals who think, who prove, who suppose and interpret. Right beside, their virtual doubles welcome us in small theatres sunk into the ground, facing the hill. The gentle slope of the entryway leads you to a space of darkness, which awakens a unique experience. More images and architects’ description after the break.
