The Norwegian firm Snøhetta has been chosen to refurbish and enlarge the Natural History Museum of Lille in northern France, close to the Belgian border. The idea is to revitalize the 19th-century building through sustainable solutions while preservi
With room for 360 children, the school complex built by Paris-based SAM Architecture is located in a neighborhood designed for railway workers in the 1970s, in the Epine district south of Hellemmes. It is also to serve as a public facility, with func
This new complex acts as a transition between a motorway built over the historical Vauban fortification and the Eurartisanat Campus of Lille, which the same architects designed. Coexisting in the building are the emphatic boldness of its geometry, th
The proposal for the New High Court of Lille, designed by Sou Fujimoto Architects with Coldefy, welcomes citizens beneath a tent-like, transparent canopy that fills the interior spaces with natural light... [+]
This building for office and retail spaces occupies the last free lot of phase one of Euralille, the urban project that Rem Koolhaas designed in the 1990s, coinciding with the French high-speed railway line’s arrival in the city, and which started to
Pre-oxidized copper is the solution adopted for the various elements of the building’s facade, from the mullions of the window frames to the lattices and the opaque panels that cover the edges of the slabs.
The Lévi-Strauss school is settled in the heart of an urban growth district, in a residential area filled with old buildings and the port district of Lille, dotted with warehouses. The main building is settled on the urban boulevard, to which it open
