Wednesday round-up #03
Contract signed for 49 homes in Nanterre.
The developer Nexity-Apollonia and EPADESA signed a sales agreement last December for the construction of 49 homes for private sale. The scheme forms part of the Hoche eco-district in Nanterre, on rue André Doucet and rue Germaine Tillion. The homes, ranging from one-bedroom flats to five-room units, are due for completion in the first quarter of 2015.
The ENS Cachan project at Paris-Saclay gets under way.
The École Normale Supérieure de Cachan has launched its competition for its new campus at Paris-Saclay. The submission deadline is noon on 12 February. The school will be built on the Moulon site in Gif-sur-Yvette, not far from the École Centrale Paris, designed by OMA.
The former Hôtel de la Région Rhône-Alpes to make way for 50,000 m² of development
Located in Charbonnières-les-Bains, this 10-hectare site has been entrusted to the developers Financière Rive Gauche and Brémond. François Leclerc is in charge of urban planning, while Clément Vergly and Tectoniques share the buildings, with ITF as environmental engineering consultant. Base will be tasked with integrating the scheme into its natural setting. The project totals 50,000 m² and includes housing for open-market sale and at affordable prices, social rented housing, offices, shops, a hotel, a conference centre, a restaurant, a nursery, a health centre, a retirement residence, sports facilities and a community space. The first phase will go on sale in the second half of 2014 and will be completed in 2017, at a cost of €30,000,000.
250 homes for Devilliers and SOA Architectes.
Les Nouveaux Constructeurs has just signed a preliminary sales agreement for a 250-home scheme on boulevard Salengro in the Mantes-Université district, which is eventually due to comprise 266,000 m² of new floor space. The first phase, comprising 150 homes, will start on site at the end of this year.
Frédéric Lenne leaves Le Moniteur
A journalist with the Groupe Moniteur since 1982, this Officier des Arts et des Lettres is leaving the company at the age of 59. He headed the Architecture, Urban Planning and Technical department, including his role as editor-in-chief of AMC. The post passes to Dominique Errard.