Lacaton & Vassal's 'housing transformation' in Bordeaux wins 2019 Mies van der Rohe Award News


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Transformation de 530 logements - Grand Parc Bordeaux. Placement. Prize Winner. Prize year. 2019. Location. Bordeaux, France. Year completed. 2017 (Year began 2014) Studios. Lacaton & Vassal architectes; Frédéric Druot Architecture; Christophe Hutin Architecture. Authors. Anne Lacaton (1955 France); Jean Philippe Vassal (1954 France.


a+t Transformation of Cité du Grand Parc. Lacaton & Vassal, Druot, Hutin. Bordeaux. France

Lacaton and Vassal transformed the Cité du Grand Parc housing estate, in Bordeaux, by adding extended winter gardens and balconies to each apartment. victortsu / Flickr, CC BY-ND.


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When architects Anne Lacaton and Jean-Philippe Vassal received the commission to redesign a small, triangular plaza in a residential district in Bordeaux, France, in the mid-1990s, they decided.


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Pôle Universitaire de Sciences de Gestion, Bordeaux: Paillote, Niamey: Palais de Tokyo, site de création contemporaine: Pavillon de verre, Montréal - Lacaton & Vassal, Frédéric Druot architectes associés à FABG: Place Léon Aucoc, Bordeaux: PLUS - Les grands ensembles de logements - Territoires d'exception - Druot, Lacaton & Vassal


Lacaton & Vassal's 'housing transformation' in Bordeaux wins 2019 Mies van der Rohe Award News

Read the Housing Estate typology here. Lacaton & Vassal has become famous for the practice's sensitive approach to estate refurbishment. Rather than continuing with the wasteful demolition of postwar grands ensembles, its interventions have proven that even towers regarded as unliveable and hopelessly decrepit can be given a new life - and crucially, this prevents the displacement of.


Lacaton & Vassal a f a s i a

Tue 16 Mar 2021 10.00 EDT W hen Lacaton & Vassal were commissioned to redesign a public square in Bordeaux, their response was unusual. The French architects told the client to leave it.


a+t Transformation of Cité du Grand Parc. Lacaton & Vassal, Druot, Hutin. Bordeaux. France

The Transformation of the 530 dwellings in Bordeaux, 3 modernist residential buildings, reflect Lacaton & Vassal's sensitivity towards understanding existing structures. It also highlights how.


Lacaton & Vassal a f a s i a

Lacaton & Vassal Have Pioneered a Strategy for Saving France's Social Housing Social housing is threatened with demolition nearly everywhere it exists. Two architects have pioneered a strategy for saving these important public assets and the communities that live in them. By: David Huber


Retrospective Lacaton & Vassal Architectural Review

Obra Work Transformación de 530 viviendas, Burdeos (Francia) Transformation of 530 dwellings, Bordeaux (France). Arquitectos Architects Anne Lacaton & Jean-Philippe Vassal, Fréderic Druot, Christophe Hutin. Colaboradores Collaborators Julien Callot, Marion Cadran, Vincent Puyoo, Marion Pautrot.


Lacaton & Vassal in Bordeaux Arquitectura Viva

Lacaton & Vassal is an architecture agency founded by Anne Lacaton and Jean-Philippe Vassal in 1987. Their projects include private and social housing, cultural and academic institutions and public spaces.. as a researcher and architect for the laboratory and the educational workshop of Arc en rêve center for architecture in Bordeaux. Jean.


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Lacaton & Vassal, with Frédéric Druot Architecture and Christophe Hutin Architecture, won the 2019 Mies van der Rohe Award with their renovation of three blocks of a 1960s slab estate in Bordeaux with the addition of an outer skin of winter gardens, writes Catherine Slessor.. Photography Philippe Ruault


Anne Lacaton and Jean Philippe Vassal The Architectural League of New York

Retrospective: Lacaton & Vassal - Architectural Review Since 1896, The Architectural Review has scoured the globe for architecture that challenges and inspires. Buildings old and new are chosen as prisms through which arguments and broader narratives are constructed.


Lacaton&Vassal a f a s i a

Lacaton & Vassal Frédéric Druot Christophe Hutin France 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


Cité du grand parc Bordeaux Lacaton & Vassal

T he French architects Anne Lacaton and Jean-Philippe Vassal are famous for their belief in keeping existing buildings whenever possible, no matter how unpromising or unloved they may be. They.


Retrospective Lacaton & Vassal Architectural Review

Site : Bordeaux, France Dates : concours 2011, livraison 2016 Client: Aquitanis O.P.H. de la communauté Urbaine de Bordeaux (CUB) Architectes : Anne Lacaton & Jean-Philippe Vassal associés à Fréderic Druot et Christophe Hutin architectes Paysagiste : Cyrille Marlin ingénieurs :


Grand Parc in Bordeaux, France by Lacaton & Vassal Architectural Review

Lacaton & Vassal Frédéric Druot Christophe Hutin France 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

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