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L'Étincelle Cultural Center / atelier d'architecture King Kong

Paula Pintos — Tue, 20 Feb 2024 03:00:00 +0000

The cultural center, which includes two theaters and a media library, is located in one of the town's activity zones currently in redevelopment. This new public facility, together with the transformation of the RD 96 road bordering the plot into a boulevard, will create a new urban dynamic in the south of Venelles.

Pierre Veilletet Library / atelier d'architecture King Kong

Paula Pintos — Tue, 11 Feb 2020 10:00:00 +0000

The new Pierre Veilletet Library is part of an urban landscape redevelopment programme for the Stéhélin neighbourhood of the Bordeaux Caudéran area. The project aims to ‘redefine the boundaries between sports, recreational activities and town through a number of interconnected programmes designed to transform the Stéhelin neighbourhood into a major hub for the people of Caudéran’.

l’Étoile, Scène de Mouvaux / atelier d'architecture King Kong

Pilar Caballero — Tue, 04 Dec 2018 12:00:00 +0000

The town of Mouvaux first created an urban hub where a school, housing units and sports hall were built. A cultural centre was subsequently added, erected on a plot of land conferring optimum visibility and bringing the urban development zone to fruition. The aim of this project was to create a cultural instrument including a performance hall, premises for associations, a venue for symposiums and conferences and workshops for artistic practices such as theatre, music and the visual and plastic arts.

Chapelle Corneille / atelier d'architecture King Kong

Cristobal Rojas — Thu, 21 Jul 2016 04:00:00 +0000

Respect for the past and innovation go hand in hand in this atypical design whose urban vocation is eminently symbolic.

Design revealed for NH hotel in Toulouse Blagnac airport / atelier d'architecture King Kong

Inez Vilar — Sat, 18 Jun 2016 13:00:00 +0000

Bordeaux-based atelier d’architecture King Kong has unveiled their design for the new NH hotel at the Toulouse Blagnac airport in France. Both elegant and inviting, the hotel's warm atmosphere is achieved through the acoustic and thermal qualities of the sweeping ground floor area, which opens onto the exterior spaces.

La Source / atelier d’architecture King Kong

Cristobal Rojas — Mon, 18 Apr 2016 03:00:00 +0000

La Source, media library and centre for eco-citizenship in Le Bouscat (France)

Atelier King Kong Unveils Designs for Grand Paris Express Metro Station

Sabrina Santos — Thu, 29 Oct 2015 06:00:00 +0000

Atelier King Kong has unveiled the design of the new Vitry-Centre metro station in Vitry-sur-Seine, part of the Grand Paris public transport network. The station, located in the southeast portion of the red line of the Grand Paris Express, is a town center station that provides access to the Town Hall and sports and cultural facilities, “links to existing above-ground transport networks (buses) and services to come (tramway), and connects with the RD5, one of the main north-south highways of the southeastern Paris region." Learn more about the design after the break.

La Quintaine / atelier d'architecture King Kong

Cristian Aguilar — Sun, 02 Aug 2015 08:00:00 +0000

The town of Chasseneuil-du-Poitou wished to build a new hall for festivities and cultural events in a redevelopment area centred around the railway station. Designs for the new Hall had to respect the Technological Risks Prevention Plan implemented in the area. The building designed by King Kong was therefore positioned at a tangent to the outer perimeter demarcating this zone, oriented so as to limit noise pollution for those living in housing to the south of the plot. The Hall serves as a shield for the residential neighbourhoods beyond it, while to the north it provides open access to a landscaped area designed in close connection with the specific function of the building itself.

The Flow / atelier d'architecture King Kong

Cristian Aguilar — Tue, 21 Apr 2015 03:00:07 +0000

In its cultural development policy framework and renovation of the Moulins neighbourhood, the City of Lille started in 2009 the building of a new cultural equipement that could enable the development of Moulins's existing Maison Folie, that lacked specific spaces to carry out all of its projects, and to create a Euroregional Center of Urban Cultures (The Flow – House of Hip-Hop), a structure made necessary by the importance of activities linked to that practice that had until then no place to unfold. The importance of this project justified its integration in a site close to the town center. The will to unite these two equipments in a same place presented numerous advantages for both structures, including the possibility to ensure de facto synergy, their objectives being common. The Maison Folie, that had already conquered its own public in five years of existence, was forced to refuse or postpone numerous projects (dance, theatre, plastic and visual arts) due to lack of space.

Médiathèque grand M / Atelier d'architecture King Kong

Jonathan Alarcón — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 01:00:00 +0000

The new Médiathèque and the esplanade unfolding before it are integral parts of a vast urban redevelopment project (ANRU project) currently implemented by the City of Toulouse. The multiple aspirations of this new multimedia library logically include the rehabilitation of unoccupied urban spaces and the creation of a strong, purposeful architectural symbol. The Médiathèque stands in the Le Mirail suburb of the city, laid out between 1961 and 1971 by Georges Candilis and whose urban fabric today is largely fragmented. Additions down the years to Candilis’s original work of Modernist beauty have undermined the area’s structure and the role of this new public building was to reinforce the neighbourhood’s identity, along with other recently rehabilitated or completed constructions.

Seeko'o Hotel / atelier d’architecture King Kong

Nico Saieh — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 01:00:00 +0000

The Seeko'o hotel is positioned on Bordeaux's waterfront at the intersection of the Quai de Bacalan and of the Cours Edouard Vaillant in a neighbourhood situated between the Chartrons and Bacalan, to the north of the city.