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Architects: Matthieu Place, Thomas Raynaud
- Area: 2000 m²
- Year: 2012
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Professionals: B52
Marseille: The Latest Architecture and News
Warehouse transformation into Visual Arts School / Matthieu Place + Thomas Raynaud
https://www.archdaily.com/515481/warehouse-transformation-into-visual-arts-school-matthieu-place-thomas-raynaudKaren Valenzuela
Le Coiffeur / Margaux Keller Design Studio + Bertrand Guillon Architecture
- Year: 2014
https://www.archdaily.com/511246/le-coiffeur-margaux-keller-design-studio-bertrand-guillon-architectureKaren Valenzuela
Results of the 2014 European Prize for Urban Public Space
The results of the 2014 European Prize for Urban Public Space have been announced. The prize organized by the Centre of Contemporary Culture of Barcelona (CCCB) rewards both the designers and the facilitators (such as councils or community groups) that have contributed to the best urban interventions of the year. The award is given for ingenuity and social impact, regardless of the scale of intervention, meaning that small, relatively unknown practices can rub shoulders with some of the best-known practices in Europe.
See the 2 Joint Winners and 4 Special Mentions after the break
https://www.archdaily.com/503099/results-of-the-2014-european-prize-for-urban-public-spaceRory Stott
The Marseille History Museum / Carta Associés
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Architects: Carta Associés
- Area: 6300 m²
- Year: 2013
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Manufacturers: Goppion
https://www.archdaily.com/437167/the-marseille-history-museum-carta-associesJonathan Alarcón
City Center Pavilion and Main Square / Comac
https://www.archdaily.com/429198/city-center-pavilion-and-main-square-comacDaniel Sánchez
Contemporary Art Center – FRAC / Kengo Kuma & Associates
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Architects: Kengo Kuma & Associates
- Area: 5757 m²
- Year: 2013
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Manufacturers: EQUITONE, AM Rhône-Alpes
https://www.archdaily.com/425028/contemporary-art-center-frac-kengo-kuma-and-associatesDaniel Sánchez
The House of Chutes-Lavie / Damien Fluchaire & Julien Cogne
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Architects: Damien Fluchaire & Julien Cogne
- Area: 835 m²
- Year: 2012
https://www.archdaily.com/421492/the-house-of-chutes-lavie-damien-fluchaire-and-julien-cogneJavier Gaete
Le Corbusier and Brutalism Exhibition
Opening October 11th to mark the re-opening of the J1 Maritime Hangar, Marseille-Provence 2013, European Capital of Culture, is presenting the Le Corbusier and Brutalism Exhibition in celebration of one of the most esteemed architects of the 20th century. The exhibition emphasizes the different facets of this unique artist-architect who along with his design work also pursued drawing, urbanism, painting, and sculpture.
Curated by Jacques Sbriglio, the renowned Marseille architect and realized in collaboration with the Fondation Le Corbusier, Le Corbusier and Brutalism covers the period from 1935 to 1965. It presents more than 250 of the architect’s works: 133 original blueprints, 54 drawings and sketches, 33 paintings, 14 sculptures, 10 enamels, 4 tapestries, and 19 architectural models, as well as close to 100 photographs taken at Le Corbusier’s building sites. The exhibition ends December 22. For more information, please visit here.
https://www.archdaily.com/419659/le-corbusier-and-brutalism-exhibitionAlison Furuto
AD Classics: Ville Radieuse / Le Corbusier
Ville Radieuse (The Radiant City) is an unrealized urban masterplan by Le Corbusier, first presented in 1924 and published in a book of the same name in 1933. Designed to contain effective means of transportation, as well as an abundance of green space and sunlight, Le Corbusier’s city of the future would not only provide residents with a better lifestyle, but would contribute to creating a better society. Though radical, strict and nearly totalitarian in its order, symmetry and standardization, Le Corbusier’s proposed principles had an extensive influence on modern urban planning and led to the development of new high-density housing typologies.
https://www.archdaily.com/411878/ad-classics-ville-radieuse-le-corbusierGili Merin
MuCEM / Rudy Ricciotti
https://www.archdaily.com/400727/mucem-rudy-ricciottiJonathan Alarcón
Vieux Port Pavilion / Foster + Partners, Photos by Edmund Sumner
Located at the mouth of Marseille’s World Heritage-listed harbor, the Vieux Port Pavilion, designed by Foster + Partners, provides a new sheltered events space on the eastern edge of the port. Bringing new focus to the city, these photographs by Edmund Sumner demonstrate the stainless steel canopy's ability to amplify and reflect the surrounding movement of the harbor, creating a spectacle that encourages pedestrians to linger. Since its opening early this year, the project is truly an invitation to the people of Marseille to enjoy and use this grand space for events, markets and celebrations once again. A complete gallery of Sumner's images can be viewed after the break.
https://www.archdaily.com/375336/vieux-port-pavilion-foster-partners-photos-by-edmund-sumnerAlison Furuto
Le Corbusier's Cité Radieuse Rooftop to Host Contemporary Art Center
When the gym and solarium on the 20-century’s most famous rooftop terrace - elevated 18-stories above Le Corbusier’s Cité Radieuse - went up for sale in 2010, French designer Ito Morabito of Ora-ïto immediately jumped on the opportunity and purchased the space. With the support of the Foundation Le Corbusier, Ora-ïto initiated a campaign to restore the 1950‘s structure to its original state, by removing an addition that blocked the spaces 360-degree views of the city, and transform it into a contemporary art center, named the MAMO for “Marseille Modulor” - as a nod to New York’s MOMA.
https://www.archdaily.com/357664/le-corbusier-s-cite-radieuse-rooftop-to-host-contemporary-art-centerKarissa Rosenfield
Zaha Hadid Architects' First Built Tower: CMA CGM Headquarters
Zaha Hadid Architects’ first built tower, the CMA CGM Headquarters in Marseille, France, is most immediately notable for its vertical form.
As the stunning images from Hufton + Crow show, the tower’s disparate volumes (generated from gradual centripetal vectors) gently converge towards each other and then bend apart to create an elegant "metallic curving arc that slowly lifts and accelerates skywards into [...a] dramatic vertical geometry.”
Read More about CMA CGM Headquarters, after the break...
https://www.archdaily.com/351657/zaha-hadid-architects-first-built-tower-cma-cgm-headquartersVanessa Quirk
Vieux Port Pavilion / Foster + Partners
Saturday in Marseille, France, pedestrians and city officials joined Foster + Partners to celebrate the completion of the Vieux Port Pavilion at the mouth of Marseille’s World Heritage-listed harbor. Minimal, yet effective, this “discreet” intervention provides a new sheltered events space on the eastern edge of the port. With six slender pillars supporting its razor-thin profile, the polished 46 by 22 meter stainless steel canopy amplifies and reflects the surrounding movement, creating a spectacle that encourages pedestrians to linger.
More on Foster’s Vieux Port Pavilion after the break...
https://www.archdaily.com/340004/vieux-port-pavilion-foster-partnersKarissa Rosenfield
Proposal for an Urban Itinerary / Comac Architects
The proposal for an urban itinerary, designed by Comac Architects, presents an urban path to extend “Marseilles 2013″ European Capital of Culture throughout the entire city. A total of 13 key-districts will be connected by the path and interspersed with urban pavilions, each focused on a famous artist from Marseilles. Each unit will offer a certain perspective of Marseilles, and will offer tourists a new way to discover our city and its emblematic districts. More images and architects’ description after the break.
https://www.archdaily.com/296247/proposal-for-an-urban-itinerary-comac-architectsAlison Furuto
La Grange de Mon Père / MJ Architectes
- Year: 2012
https://www.archdaily.com/292657/la-grange-de-mon-pere-mj-architectesJavier Gaete
Masterplan for Marseille’s Vieux Port / Foster + Partners
One of the greatest Mediterranean Ports is about to be transformed. Work has begun on the Old Port of Marseille as part of a series of regeneration projects to be completed in time for the city’s inauguration as European Capital of Culture in 2013. Based on French landscape architect Michel Desvigne’s and London-based architects Foster + Partners’ competition-winning master plan, the project will reclaim the quaysides as a civic space, creating new informal venues for performances and events, while traffic is relocating traffic to a safe, semi-pedestrianised public realm.
Lord Foster stated, “I know the harbor at Marseille well and it is a truly grand space. This project is a great opportunity to enhance it using very simple means, to improve it with small, discreet pavilions for events, for markets, for special occasions. Our approach has been to work with the climate, to create shade, but at the same time to respect the space of the harbor – just making it better.”
https://www.archdaily.com/216305/masterplan-for-marseille%25e2%2580%2599s-vieux-port-foster-partnersKarissa Rosenfield
Fire Update and Interior Tour of Le Corbusier's Unité d' Habitation in Marseille
In an article originally published on Plataforma Arquitectura, Guillermo Hevia Garcia describes his experience when visiting the Unité d’ Habitation in Marseille, France, also known as Cité Radieuse. On February 9th, the building was overcome by a large fire that was said to have been started due to a heating problem. The blaze took hundreds of firefighters nearly a day and a half to put it out. Eight residential units and four hotel rooms were destroyed, and approximately 35 other units were severely damaged by smoke or action relief. Most residents have returned home to the Unité d’ Habitation, Le Corbusier‘s thesis on domestic life, as they continue to live the communal life that the renowned architect dreamt up.
Read on for more after the break.
https://www.archdaily.com/209913/unite-dhabitation-marseille-le-corbusier-via-plataforma-arquitecturaIrina Vinnitskaya