Located at the entrance to the Brazza area of Bordeaux, this sports center has built area exceeding 15,700 square meters and rises 20 meters. The exterior spaces are superimposed like urban squares and streets protected against wind. The building’s m
This facade-less building imitates the urban logic by superposing the exterior spaces as if they were town squares; and it has a minimum ecological impact because it heats only one third and does not include air extraction systems in the open areas..
Located in the city of Bordeaux, the project renovates an old warehouse with vaulted spaces that were once cellars for storing fish and supplies. The intervention seeks to reactivate the area by making the most of its central location and the existen
The building completes the first stage of ‘Ecoparc,’ a large-scale sustainable industrial project. The internal distribution, with green cross axes that separate the storage areas, give the volume a compact but porous double nature... [+]
The housing crisis of the 1960s led to the construction in the northen part of the city of Bordeaux of the Cité du Grand Parc, a large-scale urban project that addressed the growing demand for dwellings in the aftermath of World War II. Now, in the f
As in a classical temple, a curtain of columns on a plinth rises on the plain of Bordeaux. But unlike ancient temples, this stadium turns its podium into a very emphatic stairway, and the result is a blurring of the lines between interior and exterio
A gentle topography between the lower floor – which gives access to the center – and the upper level, open to the sky through cloisters that favor introspection, generates the building’s shared spaces for gathering and meeting...
Located north of Bordeaux, across from the locks that close the canal of access to the city’s seaport from the Garonne River, this urban intervention spans a large dock whose port facilities, already obsolete, are replaced by a complex of mixed-use b
The Brazza area, north of Bordeaux, comprises old industrial terrains between the train tracks and the Garonne River, an area that is now undergoing an urban renewal process. The project, on a corner across from the train tracks, proposes a program o
Located in Lormont, in the metropolitan area of Bordeaux, the estate where this project goes up includes a large garden with tall trees and the Bois Fleuri manor house, a structure in the style of the small châteaux dotting the French countryside. Th
The building, known as ‘L’Ilot Plaza,’ takes up the west part of an urban block in the neighborhood of Mérignac, on the outskirts of Bordeaux. Addressing a complex urban situation and a diverse environment – including, to the north, Mérignac church a
Located in the old district of Bordeaux, the project proposes renovating an old structure used originally as a warehouse and that offers beautifully vaulted spaces that were once cellars to store fish and supplies. The intervention tries, furthermore
Located in the French region of Médoc, Château Margaux is a Premier Cru and one of the world’s leading wine producers. Since it was built in the early 19th century, the Bordeaux estate has evolved to meet changing operational requirements, but no lon
Located in the quarter of Bordeaux-Lac to the north of Bordeaux, the new stadium – which will become the home of the FC Girondins – seats a maximum of 42.000 spectators, with a football pitch of 68 x 105 meters that can be extended for rugby games, c
In a developing urban context, the university campus is a dense islet delimited along the perimeter by the regulations regarding facade alignments. Four buildings are raised around a square, with passageways and interior courtyards at different level
The project for the expansion of the facilities of Château Margaux, one of the most important producers of wine in the world, included the design of a new building for the handling, mainly, of varieties of white grape. The new construction extends fr
Located by the Garonne River as it flows through the city of Bordeaux, the new center for contemporary art MÉCA, which stands for Maison de l’Économie Créative et de la Culture en Aquitaine, unites in one single venue of more than 12,000 square meter
The new Bordeaux Stadium is an expression of a fundamentally new architecture. The pure shape of the volume, by contrast to its light and open structure, creates an at once monumental and graceful architectural piece suited to the landscape of Bordea
Foster + Partners será el equipo encargado de rehabilitar y ampliar las prestigiosas bodegas Château Margaux en Burdeos, una propiedad de más de 200 años de antigüedad —la finca, sin embargo, ya se dedicaba a la elaboración de vino desde el siglo XVI
A simple, dismountable, modular, and itinerant volume that could well fit into a cube with five-meter sides contains a classroom-workshop conceived as a venue for educational activities involving thirty pupils.
Capital mundial del vino, Burdeos es, paradójicamente, una ciudad de agua. En el entorno de la desembocadura del río Garona, el primer puerto que tuvo Francia ha completado en años recientes diversas obras de renovación urbana. La homogeneidad clásic
Within the plan to contain its sprawling suburbs, Bordeaux has started a program of urban renovation that, on the one hand, aims at recovering traditional neighborhoods such as Saint Jean Belcier, Bordeaux Nord and La Bastide, and on the other, at re
El neoclásico Palacio de Justicia de Burdeos se encuentra en el centro histórico de la ciudad, junto a la muralla y cerca de la catedral de Saint André. El Departamento de Justicia de la Región de Burdeos pedía que el proyecto de ampliación del mismo
One associates Norman Foster with elegance and finesse, which in one sense would seem to make the decision by the proprietors of Château Margaux, one of the most revered wines in the world, to retain Foster + Partners seem altogether natural, a match
Few architectural types have evolved as little, in the course of history, as stadiums have. When certain sporting activities began to become mass phenomena early in the 20th century, the answer was to erect buildings which to a great extent were simp
La ‘gran elegancia’ de su arquitectura ha sido, según el alcalde de Burdeos, lo que ha seducido al jurado del concurso para el estadio Girondins en el proyecto de Herzog & de Meuron, que además cumple otros requisitos como la eficiencia energética y
¿Nuevas formas de filmar obras de la arquitectura contemporánea? Ila Bêka y Louise Lemoine proponen en Koolhaas Houselife una particular aproximación a la Casa de Burdeos de Rem Koolhaas: a través del día a día de la señora de la limpieza, la extreme
