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09-05-2018

Dominique Coulon: a residential and office building in Strasbourg

Dominique Coulon won a competition launched by the municipality of Strasbourg in 2009 for the self-production of a mixed use sustainable building. Today the tower block in the Krutenau area is his home and the office of Dominique Coulon Architects.

28-03-2018

Dominique Coulon: Théodore Gouvy theatre in Freyming-Merlebach

After two years of work, Théodore Gouvy theatre, a new performing arts centre designed by Dominique Coulon & associés, opened in Freyming-Merlebach, in the Grand Est region. Théodore Gouvy theatre stands in a strategic location in the French town.

28-02-2018

Dominique Coulon & associés Human Rights Sports Centre Strasbourg

The name of the sports centre recently designed and built by Dominique Coulon & associés is a direct reference to Strasbourg’s role as home to the European Parliament and the European Court of Human Rights.

27-09-2017

Dominique Coulon: Third-Place Mediatheque in Thionville

An ambitious programme for the new mediatheque in Thionville by Dominique Coulon & associés. A multimedia library with artists’ studios, audiovisual rooms, an auditorium and much more: this is why Dominique Coulon calls the Thionville mediatheque a “third place”.

07-03-2017

Rafael Aranda, Carme Pigem and Ramón Vilalta win the 2017 Pritzker Prize

It was announced on March 1 that the 2017 Pritzker Prize, the Nobel Prize of architecture, will go to Spanish architects Rafael Aranda, Carme Pigem and Ramón Vilalta, founders of RCR Arquitectes.

04-11-2016

Dominique Coulon and Buhl nursery school in Alsace

Dominique Coulon, an architect renowned for his experience designing school buildings, has built a nursery school in Buhl, Alsace. The Buhl nursery school reflects elements common to many of Dominique Coulon’s previous projects, such as use of colour, references to local history, and the importance of perspective.

11-07-2011

Dominique Coulon: Josephine Baker school

In La Courneuve, a Paris suburb undergoing social renewal under a new urban planning scheme, Dominique Coulon has designed a nursery school and elementary school over the ruins of a decaying apartment block which was demolished in 2004. The new project does not deny the history of the place but carries it forward in a design which draws on the memories of the site to give it is present orangey hue.