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ES3 Collective Housing / Lemoal Architectes + 2PM A

Hadir Al Koshta — Mon, 28 Jul 2025 06:00:00 +0000

ES3 is a 48-unit housing project located in Rennes, within the urban development of La Courrouze.

Beaumont Eurorennes Buildings / Atelier Kempe Thill + Atelier 56S

Hadir Al Koshta — Thu, 04 Jul 2024 12:00:00 +0000

Formal Urban Planning - Rennes, France, the capital of Brittany, has initiated several large urban development projects, the most spectacular of which is the reorganization of the entire train station area with the ZAC (Zone d’aménagement concerté) EuroRennes, including the completely new construction of the main train station. This development is the logical consequence of the connection of Rennes to the TGV high-speed railway network to Paris, 350 kilometers away, with a journey time of just 100 minutes and trains running every hour. The station area has therefore increased significantly in value and given a real boost to the city’s urban development. The French railway company SNCF has freed up a wide swathe of land along the tracks and is gradually selling it to the highest-bidding project developers. The city has founded a semipublic urban development company that links the allocation of land to competitions in which the design of the team of architects plays a decisive role. This is an attempt to ensure urban and architectural quality. The FGP team of Philippe Gazeau and Louis Paillard, in collaboration with Agence Ter, was chosen as the master planner of the entire area. The master plan assumes that individual buildings stand next to each other as loose volumes similar to urban villas and smaller high-rise buildings, thereby creating an open city impression despite high urban density. The buildings form classic streets and squares. In addition, the master plan requires all buildings to have façades that slope in both plan and section, including façades that are designed to overhang in a “rock-like” manner to create an organic and sculptural effect. Atelier Kempe Thill, together with the Rennes-based architectural firm Atelier56S, were invited by the client Legendre Immobilier to the competition for the Beaumont construction site directly opposite the train platforms.

Alma Street Housing / palast

Paula Pintos — Tue, 19 Dec 2023 02:00:00 +0000

The main urban challenge of the project lies in its ability to initiate a smooth transition and a fertile dialogue between the different neighboring urban forms with varying densities. To articulate the different built contexts present around our plot, we decided to stage a juxtaposition of varied modes of living, directly inspired by these neighboring urban forms.

Ascension Paysagère / MVRDV

Paula Pintos — Fri, 01 Dec 2023 15:00:00 +0000

MVRDV, along with co-architects ALL for real estate developer Groupe Giboire, has completed Ascension Paysagère, a residential complex at the confluence of two rivers in the west of Rennes, France. Occupying a crucial transitional space between the Rennes’ center and its outer reaches, the 12-storey, 8,200-square-metre complex brings much-needed density in the context of the city’s outward growth, providing 138 homes in a variety of sizes and price ranges – including 37 units of social housing – as well as commercial spaces and pleasant new public spaces in a green waterside environment.

Antipode Music, Youth and Cultural Center / Dominique Coulon & associés

Paula Pintos — Wed, 21 Jun 2023 03:00:00 +0000

The cultural hub Antipode is constructed in the new concerted development zone of the eco-district of La Courrouze, two kilometers away from the historic center of Rennes with very good tramways and soft mobility connections. Urban planners Secchi and Vigano organized various programs like large islets flooded by vegetation. The site is a vast territory on which were historically armament factories. To make its memory last, some walls have been preserved as well as large trees that punctuate the horizon.

Brasserie St Hélier Cultural Center / Guinée et Potin

Andreas Luco — Sun, 20 Nov 2022 09:00:00 +0000

The project aims at the rehabilitation of the Saint-Hélier Hall: implementation of a closed/covered by glass wall facades, resumption of the floor slab (and insulation under the slab), and installation of heating and fluid networks in order to make it multi-purpose cultural equipment.

8 Renowned Architects Design Birdhouses to Explore the Relationship between Architecture and Nature

Dima Stouhi — Thu, 20 Jan 2022 06:30:00 +0000

Muz Yer, a permanent public exhibition in Rennes, France, has invited 8 internationally-renowned architects to design birdhouses that highlight the relationship between contemporary architecture and nature. Each birdhouse serves as a response to one or more of the 13 bird species designated by the Birds Protection Committee (Ligue pour la Protection des Oiseaux - LPO), and raises awareness of the architectural heritage of Rennes and its urban ecology. The list of exhibitors includes Julien De Smedt Architects, ADEPT, a/LTA, Duncan Lewis, Marion Normand, Kengo Kuma & Associates, Tham & Videgard, and Dominique Perrault Architects & Gaëlle Lauriot-Prévost Design.

Additi Offices / Kraft Architectes

Pilar Caballero — Sun, 28 Nov 2021 02:00:00 +0000

As written press changes over time Ouest France decided to create its own digital factory called Additi project. The first French regional newspaper wanted a building capable of adapting to upcoming challenges while staying in their historical site.

Le One Apartments / Christophe Rousselle Architecte

Pilar Caballero — Sun, 10 Oct 2021 06:00:00 +0000

The design of “Le One” is conceptually a project that tries to be sensitive and respectful through sober and refined lines, standing out - in addition to its exceptional location in the historic center of the city of Rennes - for the discreetly imposing way in which it is inserted between his neighbors.

The Living Warehouse / Haddock Architecture

Valeria Silva — Fri, 25 Jun 2021 03:00:00 +0000

An agricultural shed built in the middle of fields quickly becomes an industrial shed in the middle of a residential area. The history of the building is linked to that the urbanization of the Rennes metropolitan area. When the owner retired, he wanted to enhance his former workplace by transforming it into housings.

L’Equatoria Apartments / Christophe Rousselle Architecte

Paula Pintos — Wed, 23 Dec 2020 12:00:00 +0000

This project was the winner of the competition looking for a response to the programmatic requests with certain rules: Area, typologies, and safeguard of the existing oak located in the center of the plot. During the competition, all the proposals were aligned only with the defined guidelines. The proposal presented by our office was really a contrast of two buildings shaped like "staggered pyramids".

Urban Quartz Office Building / Hamonic + Masson & Associés + a/LTA

Paula Pintos — Sun, 11 Oct 2020 06:00:00 +0000

Near the Multimodal Exchange Center (railway-bus-metro-bus station), "Urban Quartz" is initiating the urban invention of EuroRennes. It is therefore taking advantage of the efficient transport network which serves the sector. Its location, strategic for an office program, meets the conditions for an integrated and lively business sector.

Creative Campus / PHD Architectes

Valeria Silva — Mon, 05 Oct 2020 07:00:00 +0000

Fluctuating between the exceptional nature of the program and the urbanity of its outline, the agency has designed the 5th campus of the ICONES Group. The project contains a game-design school and a student’s residence of 219 units at the junction of the park, the “Rambla” and La Vilaine, which showcase the new landscape of the Baud-Chardonnet district of Rennes.

Extension in Burned Wood Shou Sugi Ban / Clément Bacle Architecte

Valeria Silva — Mon, 18 May 2020 01:00:00 +0000

Extension of a single house in burned wood Shou Sugi Ban. Design of three rooms spread over three levels. This extension takes place on an old building cut from the house already by a pedestrian dead end.

6 Social Housing Units / Atelier 56S

Pilar Caballero — Wed, 29 Jan 2020 01:00:00 +0000

This social housing building is built in a residential area in Rennes. Two out of six apartments, dedicated to more sensitive social tenants have individuals’ access, the four others have a common entrance. In order not to segregate the various social realities, we tried to unify the formal language of the 6 apartments.

Le Cours des Arts, Living Diversity in Beauregard / a/LTA

María Francisca González — Fri, 06 Sep 2019 03:00:00 +0000

Beauregard (beautiful outlook) takes its name from the vantage point on which it is located and which offers distant views between the valleys of the Ille and Vilaine rivers. To fully appreciate this, one need only climb to the top of the residential building located at the Southern tip of the triangle of the new Cours des Arts designed by the architect from Rennes, a/LTA. At such heights conducive to travel, the great landscape can be taken in from the back of this urban cockpit.

JDSA Wins Competition to Design New Fluted Tower in France

Eric Baldwin — Wed, 10 Jul 2019 05:00:00 +0000

JDS Architects have won the competition to design a new residential tower and mixed-use development in France. Located in Rennes, the project will include new buildings on the Blériot-Féval site to generate an inclusive neighborhood within the Eurorennes development. As the master plan's geographic centerpiece, the new Féval Tower will offer 188 new apartments to the city.

MVRDV to Transform Historic Palais du Commerce in Rennes

Niall Patrick Walsh — Tue, 12 Feb 2019 11:00:00 +0000

MVRDV has won a competition to renovate and extend the Palais du Commerce in Rennes, France. Developed in collaboration with co-architects Bernard Desmoulin and developers Frey and Engie Avenue, the transformation of the historic landmark will “signify a renaissance for both the building and its surroundings.”