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  • House of Ile-de-France by ANMA

    House of Ile-de-France by ANMA

    ANMA designed the first 100% solar-powered positive energy collective housing, located in  Paris, France. Take a look at the complete story after the jump. More

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    St Tropez Residence by SAOTA

    SAOTA designed this St Tropez residence, a modern interpretation of Côte d’Azur living. The contemporary, rectilinear, cubic design was carefully considered to blend in with the more traditional residences that are prevalent in the area. Take a look at the complete story after the jump. More

  • Lorient Multimodal Hub by AREP

    The Lorient multimodal hub is part of the “Bretagne à Grande Vitesse” project (“High-speed for Brittany”), a high-speed line which is expected to allow a three-hour total travel time between Quimper, Brest and Paris by 2017. The station is being rebuilt on the south, close to the city centre and in the heart of the […] More

  • Congress Center of The Haute Saintonge by TETRARC

    First, the location was selected. A hole was excavated in the limestone, a cellar open to the sky, then a cave was created, a fissured limestone karst landscape, soft steps with worn treads, then the blinding light, and a return to the caves to marvel at the organ pipe stalactites… More

  • La Barquiere by PietriArchitectes

    La Barquière is a 62 housing project located in the 9th district of Marseille (France). The urban neighborhood offers to the project a unique setting. Drawn in keeping with its context, this project respects all the family owner wishes. The owner wanted to keep the old building dated from the 18th century. The existing old […] More

  • Headquarters of Métropole Rouen Normandie by Jacques Ferrier Architecture

    The headquarters of Métropole Rouen Normandie are a unique, memorable and fitting image on the banks of the Seine in Rouen. What makes it so unique is how the new building fits in with the surrounding landscape of Rouen. The building’s dynamic profile contrasts with the omnipresence of horizontal designs found along the major port, […] More

  • La Forêt Urbaine by Matteo Cainer Architects

    This renovation and transformation of a Parisian top-floor apartment is surrounded by the magnificent Bois de Boulogne and the Jardin du Ranelagh, with 360-degree views of the city’s historic monuments, from the Tour Eiffel to La Défense, Les Invalides, and Longchamp. Originally split between two floors and fragmented by countless rooms, bathrooms, walk-in closets, kitchens […] More

  • Poix-Terron Cultural and Sport Centre by Philippe Gibert Architecte

    This double request for a media library and a gymnasium allowed us to explore this programmes diversity and to offer a single building, a cultural and sports centre, instead of two different buildings. This hybrid equipment takes place in the landscape, between a multipurpose room and a business incubator, and communicates with its environment, including […] More

  • Skylight Tower by Louis Paillard

    The tower is located in the heart of the district of La Défense, willed into existence in the 1960’s by Général de Gaulle to show the world that France was entering into the modern world of finance and business. It’s a curious above-ground urban mixture, an artificial island, veritable realm of “corporate architecture”. More

  • Vincent Leroy’s Gigantic Mirror Proposal in Grand Palais

    Discover the gigantic elliptical mirror conceived by French contemporary artist Vincent Leroy. The mirror floats within space without a connection to the ground, making the impression that the ground and horizon move slowly until they disappear. See more of his Grand Palais example after the jump: More

  • Doppelgänger by KARST architecture

    Located in a tiny village facing salt marshes on the French Atlantic coast, this wooden house extension is a modest holiday home and a writer’s retreat. The client idea for this project was born several years ago when saving a few old, massive oak beams from the demolition of a neighboring farm. The idea appealed […] More

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