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La Manufacture Cultural Center / MARS Architectes

Hadir Al Koshta — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 12:00:00 +0000

The creation of this cultural center stems from the need for a functional facility capable of bringing together services currently scattered throughout the town in order to better serve local residents. Located in a historic bastide now identified as an area facing social and economic challenges, the project represents a first step in the renewal of Villefranche-de-Rouergue's town center. It is conceived as an inclusive place, particularly attentive to disadvantaged populations, dedicated to sharing, education, and cultural life.

Middle School Cafeteria in Gonesse / MARS Architectes

Hadir Al Koshta — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 07:00:00 +0000

Building the places where our children are educated is a demanding task. Too often, these spaces suffer from obsolescence, both functional and symbolic. School architecture in France is strongly marked by two major eras: the nineteenth century with the Jules Ferry school model, and the post war period with the Pailleron model. While new schools continue to be built, many existing ones are renovated, extended, or transformed from these earlier models in order to meet contemporary educational and environmental expectations.

Anne Frank Middle School Renovation / MARS Architectes

Andreas Luco — Fri, 20 Oct 2023 03:00:00 +0000

Contextual updating of twentieth-century heritage. The original 1980 project, a manifesto denouncing the way schools were designed in the 70s and 80s (generic "Pailleron" type colleges), by virtue of its critical function conceals an intangible heritage at least as important as its tangible heritage.

12 Social Housing Units / MARS Architectes

Andreas Luco — Mon, 17 Oct 2022 01:00:00 +0000

The boulevard Poniatowski establishes itself inside the former city wall of Thiers, one of the reasons allowing the creation of a way at this scale. The quality of the boulevard Poniatowski lies in its clarity: alignment of the building, large and wooded sidewalk linked with commercials ground floors allowing a direct connection between the public and private space, between solid and void. An urban continuity emanating from guidelines of classic urbanism widely resumed by Haussmann which made and is still making the quality of a city like Paris.

Paris XII Apartments / MARS Architectes

Paula Pintos — Mon, 11 Jul 2022 01:00:00 +0000

The project is located in the twelfth district of Paris, completed in October 2020 for the real estate company GECINA, enclosed at the heart of a block, surrounded by an apartment complex built in the 1970s.