The Architects’ Journal Architecture News & Buildings
Chipperfield completes three buildings in new quarter of Lyon
The buildings, delivered with AIA Architectes, consist of a social housing block, mixed-use tower and office building and form part of three urban blocks grouped around garden courtyards
Tag: France
Alta Tower rises up over Le Havre’s postwar Modernism
The 64-apartment building by Hamonic+Masson & Associés stands out against the horizon in Le Havre – a city that was rebuilt, postwar, to Auguste Perret’s Modernist vision, writes Fran Williams. Photography by Takuji Shimmura, Clément Bonnérat and Hamonic+Masson & Associés
RSHP reveals proposals for £32m Bayeux Tapestry Museum overhaul
RSHP has revealed the first images of its proposed overhaul of the Bayeux Tapestry Museum in northern France
Greenhouse effect: Duncan Lewis Scape Architecture’s Bordeaux housing
At the Bastide Niel eco-district in Bordeaux, Duncan Lewis Scape Architecture has created Ekko, an innovative apartment block that takes the winter garden to extremes
PRIMA International 2024
An international student contest is being held for a series of three landmark new architectural installations at the Carrières du Boulonnais quarry in northern France [Deadline: 15 March 2024]
RSHP wins contest to overhaul Bayeux Tapestry Museum
RSHP has been announced winner of a competition to redesign the Bayeux Tapestry Museum in northern France
Holocaust memorial, Lyon
An open international contest is being held for a new Holocaust memorial in Lyon, France [Deadline: 31 July 2023]
Populous 10,000-seat arena bowl opens in French city of Orléans
The practice was the designated sports architect for the seating bowl and interiors of Arena Du CO'Met, which will host sporting and cultural events
The Cabins Festival 2023, France
An international postgraduate student contest is once again being held for a series of 12 timber huts beside France’s picturesque Lake Annecy [Deadline: 20 March 2023]
Stanton Williams wins approval for 157-home residential quarter in Nantes
A Stanton Williams-led team has won approval to build 157 homes on the site of the former Nantes School of Architecture in France