Strasbourg: The Latest Architecture and News

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• Architects

  AZC Architectes, Michel Spitz

• Location

  Strasbourg, France

• Category

  Educational Architecture

• Lead Architects

  AZC Architectes + Michel Spitz

• Area

  5760.0 m2

• Project Year

  2016

• Photographs

  Sergio Grazia

In a design proposal for Soprema’s new company headquarters in Strasbourg, France, Vincent Callebaut Architectures envisions an 8,225 square-meter ecological utopia. The building, called Semaphore, is described in the program as a “green flex office for nomad co-workers” and is dedicated to urban agriculture and employee well-being.

An eco-futuristic building, Semaphore is inspired by biomimicry and intended as a poetic landmark, as well as aiming to serve as a showcase for Soprema’s entire range of insulation, waterproofing, and greening products. The design is an ecological prototype of the green city of the future, working to achieve a symbiosis between humans and nature.

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• Architects

  Dominique Coulon & associés

• Location

  9 Rue Peter Schwarber, 67000 Strasbourg, France

• Category

  Recreation & Training

• Architects in Charge

  Dominique Coulon, Benjamin Rocchi

• Architects Assistants

  Thibaut Muller, Fanny Liénart, David Romero-Uzeda, Diego Bastos-Romero

• Area

  2660.0 m2

• Project Year

  2017

• Photographs

  Eugeni Pons, David Romero-Uzeda

The mayor of Strasbourg, Roland Ries, has announced the winner of the architectural design competition for a residential tower. The site is located near the Rhine, within the ‘Strasbourg, Presqu’ile--Citadelle’ neighborhood -- dense with low-rises, not exceeding five levels. The winning design by KCAP Architects & Planners and OSLO Architectes is commended for its contextual sensitivity and formal relationship with Germany which sits just on the other side of the Rhine river.

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• Architects

  Dominique Coulon & associés

• Location

  13 Rue de la Tour des Pecheurs, 67000 Strasbourg, France

• Category

  Offices Interiors

• Architect in Charge

  Dominique Coulon, Olivier Nicollas, Benjamin Rocchi, Steve Letho Duclos

• Area

  500.0 m2

• Project Year

  2015

• Photographs

  Eugeni Pons, David Romero-Uzeda

UNESCO’s World Heritage Committee, currently holding its forty-first annual session in the Polish city of Krakow, inscribed twenty new cultural sites on its World Heritage List, including the historic city of Ahmedabad in India, archaeological sites in Cambodia and Brazil, and a “cultural landscape” in South Africa. The Committee also added extensions to two sites already on the list: Strasbourg in France, and the Bauhaus in Germany. On the other hand, the historic center of Vienna was inscribed on the List of World Heritage in Danger as the Committee examined the state of conservation of one-hundred-and-fifty-four of its listed sites.

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• Architects

  Weber + Keiling Architects

• Location

  Strasbourg, France

• Category

  Adaptive reuse

• Architect in Charge

  Patrick Weber

• Area

  6700.0 m2

• Project Year

  2015

• Photographs

  Florian Tiedje, Dorian Rollin

Concealed behind an 18th century Baroque façade in Strasbourg’s Place Kléber, the Café L’Aubette is a dazzlingly incongruous expression of the 1920s De Stijl movement. Designed by Theo van Doesburg, one of the movement’s founders and leading lights, the Aubette’s minimalist, geometric aesthetic was heavily influenced by the work of contemporary artists such as Piet Mondrian. In designing the café’s interiors, Van Doesburg sought to do more than simply place viewers before a painting; he wanted to envelop them in it.

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• Architects

  Nicola Spinetto, Stephane Raza

• Location

  Strasbourg, France

• Category

  Offices Interiors

• Collaborators

  Daniele Mainetti

• Area

  250.0 sqm

• Project Year

  2015

• Photographs

  Sergio Grazia

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• Architects

  Heintz-Kehr architects

• Location

  Strasbourg, France

• Category

  Adaptive reuse

• Architect in Charge

  Georges Heintz, Anne-Sophie Kehr

• Design Team

  Pascal Philbert, Marc Rickling

• Area

  11600.0 sqm

• Project Year

  2014

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• Architects

  ANMA

• Location

  Place de la République, 67000 Strasbourg, France

• Category

  Restoration

• Area

  18800.0 sqm

• Project Year

  2014

• Photographs

  Vincent Fillon