Tag Montpellier, France

08-08-2022
Festival des Architectures Vives 2022, Impermanence
The Festival des Architectures Vives in Montpellier, one of the highlights for lovers of ephemeral urban installations that have enlivened the French city and its rich architectural heritage since 2006, was dedicated to impermanence. The 16th edition took place under the banner of the awareness that everything is unstable and nothing immutable.

25-01-2021
Winners of the 2021 CTBUH Best Tall Building Awards
The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat recently announced the annual Best Tall Building Award of Excellence Winners in a number of categories. Koichi Takada Architects’ Arc in Sydney, Sou Fujimoto, Nicolas Laisné and Oxo Architects’ White Tree in Montpellier, France, Heatherwick Studiop’s Eden in Singapore, Studio Gang’s MIRA Tower in San Francisco, WOHA’s Sky Green in Taichung, Taiwan, Zaha Hadid Architects Leeza SOHO in Beijing and One Thousand Museum in Miami, and Safdie Architects’ Raffles City Chongqing in the Chinese city of the same name are only a few of the skyscrapers selected by CTBUH that have been described in Floornature.

03-11-2020
I-Park, a green apartment building by NBJ Architectes
With I-Park, NBJ Architectes proposes an apartment building with a faceted and partly planted facade. The greenery on the architecture connects with the adjacent parkland and gives the city of Montpellier a green landmark.

11-03-2019
Lez-in-Art by NBJ Architectes, a sustainable apartment building in Montpellier
With the Lez-in-Art apartment building in Montpellier, French studio NBJ Architectes headed by Elodie Nourrigat and Jacques Brion has designed sustainable architecture that elegantly responds to the masterplan for the Port Marianne-Rive gauche area.

04-01-2019
AREP expansion of Montpellier railway station using ETFE
The expansion of Montpellier railway station spans the tracks with pointed arches covered with ETFE

05-07-2017
FAV 2017 all about emotion
The twelfth Festival des Architectures Vives (FAV) has opened the various spaces in the town centres of Montpellier and La Grand Motte showcasing the temporary works of eleven groups of young designers.

15-01-2014
A+Architecture: Jean-Claude Carrière Theatre in Montpellier
The monuments in Domaine d’O in Montpeiller include Jean-Claude Carrière Theatre designed by A+Architecture. Built in a 23 hectare park, the project is intended to be a visual landmark, a work of contemporary architecture inspired by Harlequin’s mask. Built entirely out of recyclable materials of certified origin, it is an outstanding example of a sustainable building.

11-12-2013
BIG The Museum of the Human Body, Montpellier, France
A team consisting of BIG + A+Architecture + Egis + Base + L'Echo + Celsius Environnement + CCVH has won the international design competition for the new Museum of the Human Body (Cité du Corps Humain) in Montpellier, France.

07-11-2013
A+Architecture Jean-Claude Carrier Theatre, Montpellier
In an area of great spatial, natural and historic value in Montpellier, the architects of A+Architecture designed a theatre made entirely out of wood that can be taken apart and rebuilt elsewhere.