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Les Fabriques School / Brenac & Gonzalez & Associés

Hadir Al Koshta — Wed, 24 Dec 2025 06:00:00 +0000

A Climatic Refuge in Stone: BGA's School Blossoms Like a Calanque in the City - The Les Fabriques school complex, designed by BGA in the heart of Marseille's Littorale urban development zone, brings together a nursery school and an elementary school, each with its own reception areas, circulation spaces, and generously lit and ventilated classrooms. On a highly constrained plot, the agency developed a compact, vertical project, freeing the center of the site for the preschool playground, while the elementary school playgrounds and educational gardens unfold in tiers up to the rooftop. At the request of the City, a rooftop sports facility — half a basketball court, an athletics track, and a catamaran sail-like mesh — completes the program and becomes a true gathering space for the neighborhood.

Jericho House / olivia fauvelle architecture

Hadir Al Koshta — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 06:00:00 +0000

Jericho House sits on a long and narrow plot, made up of a succession of 'layers' starting with the front courtyard and 1900s main house, followed by the back garden, and finally an old carriage house leading to an enclosed tiled terrace.

Gros Bao Marseille / Neri&Hu Design and Research Office

Valeria Silva — Thu, 01 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Located in the backdrop of the iconic Old Port of Marseille, the project inherited a beautiful historical building that is embedded in the urban fabric of the Canebière district. Occupying the first 3 storeys of the stone-clad landmark, Gros Bao, a Chinese canteen concept restaurant articulates and connects Cours Saint Louis, one of the symbolic squares of the Old Port, to the rue des Récolettes, an intimate street perpendicular to the Canebiere and a gate to the gentrifying rue d'Aubagne.

Joséphine Baker Middle School / Panorama Architecture

Paula Pintos — Thu, 11 Apr 2024 06:00:00 +0000

The middle school, built in 1966 and now renamed after Josephine Baker, just underwent a radical transformation. Replacing an aging building on the same site, the entirely new building provides students and teachers with greatly enriched surroundings and opens a new chapter in the school’s history. The new construction also has the capacity to receive 600 students and possesses an auditorium and a gymnasium.

Apartment S / Enzo Rosada architecte

Pilar Caballero — Sun, 10 Sep 2023 09:00:00 +0000

The project involves refurbishing and converting an 18th-century part of a warehouse in the port of Marseille into a flat. The palatial proportions of the stairwell corridors are a reminder of a time when animal-drawn loads were hauled upstairs.

How Neighborhoods Rely on Graffiti to Protest Gentrification

Paul Yakubu — Fri, 04 Aug 2023 07:30:00 +0000

Graffiti, as an art form, has a complex relationship with gentrification. On one hand, it has engaged the streets and urban fabric as a canvas for people to express themselves culturally and socio-politically. This expression could be a form of rebellion by ethnic minorities and disadvantaged groups in certain neighborhoods, or it can build up a sense of cultural uniqueness and social expression, giving a neighborhood a positive character and attracting newcomers. However, over the years, the latter has been an agent of gentrification, spiking up property values to accommodate richer residents and alienating the native communities of those neighborhoods.

The Myth of Pure White Architecture: How Architects of Modernity Used Color

Maria-Cristina Florian — Thu, 03 Aug 2023 07:30:00 +0000

Given that the architects of modernity were in search of purity of form, it stands to reason that the image of this modern architecture is almost inevitably rendered in white in the collective imagination. Relieved of superfluous decorations, modern architecture became associated with the predominant use of white surfaces to highlight the volumetric composition. Combined with the concept of “material truth” first articulated by Victorian critic John Ruskin, white-colored architecture is often understood as straightforward, clear, and sincere.

70 Years of Unite d'Habitation Captured by Paul Clemence

Nour Fakharany — Thu, 18 May 2023 05:30:00 +0000

The infamous Unite d' Habitation, the first in Le Corbusier's new line of housing projects that emphasized community living for all the residents, was completed in 1952. For its 70^th anniversary, world-renowned photo artist Paul Clemence reveals a unique photo series of the building as it stands today. The photographs honor the construction that initiated the brutalist movement and showcase the infamous project's current condition.

Architecture Classics: Unite d' Habitation / Le Corbusier

Andrew Kroll — Fri, 10 Feb 2023 05:30:00 +0000

After World War II, the need for housing was at an unprecedented high. The Unite d’Habitation in Marseille, France was the first large scale project for the famed architect, Le Corbusier. In 1947, Europe was still feeling the effects of the Second World War, when Le Corbusier was commissioned to design a multi-family residential housing project for the people of Marseille that were dislocated after the bombings on France.

LCG 40 Apartments in Marseille / PAN Architecture

Luciana Pejić — Sun, 11 Sep 2022 19:00:00 +0000

The site is a disjointed, heterogeneous, and generic peripheral city, the city of roundabouts, cars, and standardized “product” architecture. But it is also the territory open to the southwest towards the sea and the northeast towards the hills of the Etoile massif. The architectural context varies between suburbs, small uninteresting collectives and activity sheds. The middle of this territory of the 20th century resists "identity markers" linked to a historical agricultural activity of the site as well as to a strong landscape structure.

CIRM Extension / AWA Architectes

Luciana Pejić — Sat, 27 Aug 2022 13:00:00 +0000

The project had to meet several constraints: to renovate and partially elevate the existing accommodation of the "l'annexe" in order to increase the capacity of the hotel, to create a building to link this " l'annexe " to the Bastide, to design a training center with a conference room, a work room, and three offices and to carry out these works in the occupied site and more precisely by continuing the use of the sleeping premises. The construction site had to be governed and organized around this problem.

Antoine de Ruffi School / TAUTEM Architecture + bmc2 architectes

Paula Pintos — Sat, 21 May 2022 09:00:00 +0000

Housing 22 classrooms and common areas, this mineral monolith features strict geometry and spectacular volumes. Its light-colored concrete façades are sculpted, and the openwork of this thickness forms a colonnade on the port side and a grand staircase on the city side, creating the interplay of light and shadow in its embrasures. In contrast to the building’s envelope, the interiors are warm and comfortable thanks to the use of color and wood.

Two dwellings in Aix-en-Provence / PAN Architecture

Andreas Luco — Wed, 12 Jan 2022 10:00:00 +0000

« A roof for two » This is a project of two individual houses grouped. A family from Aix-en-Provence living abroad but very attached to its mother land wanted to build two contemporary houses able to accommodate all or part of this family. Two independent houses responding to a versatility of uses: partial occupation, partial or complete rent, permanent or seasonal, future extensions...

Pine Nut Cabin / daab design

Andreas Luco — Fri, 07 Jan 2022 10:00:00 +0000

Pine Nut Cabane by daab design is a timber-clad retreat hidden between a pine forest and olive grove in the South of France. Built in collaboration with French cabin company, Moustache Bois, daab design has elevated a simple eco retreat with quality materials and design interventions to create a serene space offering understated luxury. daab design conceived the cabin as a flexible guest studio or arts space for a multi-generational, international family, celebrating their clients’ favourite location on the large rural property through the trinity of light, views and materials.

MVRDV and Delft University of Technology Release "Le Grand Puzzle", an Urban Study of Marseille in the South of France

Christele Harrouk — Mon, 31 Aug 2020 06:30:00 +0000

MVRDV and The Why Factory (Delft University of Technology) revealed “Le Grand Puzzle”, a book that holds ambitious ideas for Marseille, in the south of France. In fact, the study, made from 2018 to the start of 2020, “proposes a methodology, an agenda, and an analysis to portray today’s Marseille”.

Place du Village House / Zakarian-Navelet Architectes

Paula Pintos — Mon, 11 May 2020 03:00:00 +0000

It’s the story of an inside / outside house on a peninsula. In the trees, around a square and towards the sea: the Mediterranean Sea. “La place du village” is the heart of the project. This square dominates the site, looks towards the sea, and articulates the places. We treated it like an urban plot: limestone pavers, concrete borders, a long bench, and in the middle, a very beautiful strawberry tree. Slightly offset, this tree is planted as if it had always been there.

Malpasse Stadium / Guillaume Pepin architect + Fabrice Giraud architect

Paula Pintos — Tue, 03 Mar 2020 12:00:00 +0000

The purpose of the program was the transformation of the existing stabilized soccer field into an approved turf pitch. Creation of a 900 m² building with 4 player changing rooms, 2 referee changing rooms, toilets, a delegate room and an infirmary, 4 additional changing rooms for schoolchildren, a clubhouse, accommodation and caretaker's office, refreshments, and premises annexes.

Le Monticole Housing / LAND + Bag Architecture

Pilar Caballero — Wed, 22 Jan 2020 10:00:00 +0000

Le Monticole is the name of a mixed project consisting in building on the same site: 36 social housing units, a media library, medical office spaces, a restaurant and a car park.