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PRIMA International 2024
An international student contest is being held for a series of three landmark new architectural installations at the Carrières du Boulonnais quarry in northern France [Deadline: 15 March 2024]
Tag: France
RSHP wins contest to overhaul Bayeux Tapestry Museum
RSHP has been announced winner of a competition to redesign the Bayeux Tapestry Museum in northern France
Holocaust memorial, Lyon
An open international contest is being held for a new Holocaust memorial in Lyon, France [Deadline: 31 July 2023]
A research lab connecting ecology and construction
With its food and soil research centre at Arras in northern France, Atelier Téqui Architectes has pioneered prefabricated timber frame construction at an industrial scale, says Andrew Ayers. Photography Nicolas da Silva
Populous 10,000-seat arena bowl opens in French city of Orléans
The practice was the designated sports architect for the seating bowl and interiors of Arena Du CO'Met, which will host sporting and cultural events
The Cabins Festival 2023, France
An international postgraduate student contest is once again being held for a series of 12 timber huts beside France’s picturesque Lake Annecy [Deadline: 20 March 2023]
Stanton Williams wins approval for 157-home residential quarter in Nantes
A Stanton Williams-led team has won approval to build 157 homes on the site of the former Nantes School of Architecture in France
AJ Climate Champions podcast: Philippe Madec on sustainable development
‘All architecture is political,’ says architect and urban designer Philippe Madec, a co-founder of France’s growing ‘frugal’ architecture movement
AJ Climate Champions podcast: How France is pioneering contemporary architecture built from straw, hemp and thatch
Natural materials expert Dominique Gauzin-Müller describes France’s growing movement to build in straw, hemp and thatch with a contemporary aesthetic
PRIMA International 2022
An international student contest is being held for a series of three landmark new architectural installations at the Carrières du Boulonnais quarry in northern France [Deadline: 15 March 2022]