# 3: Ameller-Dubois & Associés in Colmar, Manuelle Gautrand in Saint-Louis and more...
Colmar museum by Ameller-Dubois & Associés
The project was won by Ameller-Dubois & Associés, working with Stephan Manciulescu, architecte en chef des Monuments historiques. The cloister and the church were listed as Monuments historiques in 1948. For the city, the client, the aim of this conversion is to showcase some 1,200 manuscripts and 3,000 incunabula.
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Le Forum in Saint-Louis by Manuelle Gautrand Architecture
Open to the public since February, the Forum de Saint-Louis, designed by Manuelle Gautrand Architecture, is characterised by its play of juxtaposed volumes. The project stands on the site of the former sports hall and function hall, which has been demolished.
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Simone Veil school complex by Dominique Coulon & Associés
Won in December 2010 by the practice Dominique Coulon & Associés, the Simone Veil school complex was handed over at the start of the 2015 school year. Located in Colombes, on rue Marguerite Yourcenar, it houses 9 nursery classes and 12 primary classes, along with a canteen and a sports hall.
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Dock dock?! Philippe Dubus responds.
Le Courrier de l’Architecte looks back at a 2013 building in Le Havre designed by Philippe Dubus: a project wrapped entirely in metal to make it easier to read.
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20 social housing units by Fernandez et Serres in Carnoux-en-Provence.
The latest completion by the Aix-based practice Fernandez et Serres, the social housing scheme in Carnoux-en-Provence has a particular urban status, occupying the head of a block. Concerned with the materiality of their buildings and how they age, the architects chose white brick for the façade, punctuated by large windows of identical proportions.
Social services building in Voiron by Gilles Perraudin.
Gilles Perraudin’s practice has delivered this facility in the Isère. Its form is the product of the local planning rules (PLU) and a dense brief; the response is built in timber, with a concrete core for the circulation areas.
Renovation of the Théâtre Novarina in Thonon-les-Bains by Wimm et Silo.
Renovating the Théâtre Maurice-Novarina – a building glazed on three sides by a curtain wall, inaugurated in 1966 as France’s sixth maison de la culture – meant working on a building with a strong identity, but also restoring lost links with its audience and the town.
Offices converted into social housing in Charenton-le-Pont.
The practice Moatti-Rivière has just converted, on behalf of Immobilière 3F, 7,000 m² of 1970s offices in Charenton-le-Pont (Val-de-Marne) into a residence of 90 social housing units.
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Paulo Mendes da Rocha, winner of the Praemium Imperiale 2016.
Pritzker laureate in 2016, the architect, who has built mainly in Brazil, has won the Praemium Imperiale on the eve of his 90th birthday.
Alexandre Chemetoff: “How can we imagine the city without nature?”
In an opinion piece in Libération, the architect, urban planner and landscape architect Alexandre Chemetoff takes us on a stroll through a Paris that keeps its seeds and fills out when you turn your back on it.
Europacity, a colossus with feet of clay
The Europacity project is moving forward: the twenty or so consultations ended in July. A quick look at how the ideas are progressing, courtesy of Libération.