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


Lacaton y Vassal, una dirección contraria que seguir All arquitectura

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

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.


Retrospective Lacaton & Vassal Architectural Review

Their renovation project of the Grand Parc housing estate in Bordeaux exemplifies this method on a grand scale, in which 530 apartments were extended with big glassed-in balconies and new facades. It gained lots of interest and the architects received the EU Mies Award in 2019 for that project. Lacaton & Vassal's work is underpinned by the.


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

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


Retrospective Lacaton & Vassal Architectural Review

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)


Anne Lacaton et JeanPhilippe Vassal Pole universitaire de gestion Bordeaux

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.


Cité du grand parc Bordeaux Lacaton & Vassal

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

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 Curry Stone Foundation

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

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 a f a s i a

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.


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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.


Lacaton&Vassal a f a s i a

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.


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

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


Retrospective Lacaton & Vassal Architectural Review

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.

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