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


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

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


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

French architects Lacaton & Vassal have bucked the trend by renovating a 1960s apartment block rather than demolishing it Catherine Slessor Sun 12 May 2019 07.00 EDT T en minutes by tram from.


Retrospective Lacaton & Vassal Architectural Review

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


Cité du grand parc Bordeaux Lacaton & Vassal

Completed in 2016 in Bordeaux, France. Images by Philippe Ruault.. Cite: "Transformation of 530 dwellings / Lacaton & Vassal + Frédéric Druot + Christophe Hutin architecture" 18 Apr 2019.


Retrospective Lacaton & Vassal Architectural Review

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.


Lacaton & Vassal Curry Stone Foundation

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 :


Lacaton & Vassal in Bordeaux Arquitectura Viva

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.


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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


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

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.


Lacaton & Vassal a f a s i a

Anne Lacaton; Jean Philippe Vassal; Frederic Druot; Christophe Hutin Size : 23,745 square meters total (255,589 square feet); 81,000 square meters usable floor space (871,877 square feet) Cost : €50,000 per flat ($56,500 per flat)


Lacaton y Vassal, una dirección contraria que seguir All arquitectura

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.


Lacaton & Vassal a f a s i a

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, 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


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

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.


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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.


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

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.