L’arbrisseau Neighborhood Centre / Colboc Franzen & Associés

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Text description provided by the architects. It’s impossible not to notice the L’Arbrisseau neighborhood centre in the southern suburbs of Lille. Its helical shape, the staircase that winds itself up around the sides of the building and its aluminium cladding, like a space vessel’s, all make it stand out. They create a contrast with a rather disjointed and sometimes deprived urban environment that nonetheless holds some pleasant surprises, including a sunflower swimming pool around the back that is straight out of the Seventies.