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Antonini Darmon's housing in Nantes presents a patchwork of solids and voids
Solid panels, perforated screens and recessed balconies create a patchwork of varying transparency on this tower that rises up from one side of a mixed-use development in Nantes, France, by Antonini...
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Nantes house extension contrasts blackened wood facades with pale window frames
Pale wooden window frames contrast with the black-stained cedar facades of this extension to a detached house in Nantes by French studio Bertin Bichet Architectes (+ slideshow). The client asked Bertin...
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Lakeside boathouse by Guinée*Potin Architectes features a green roof and...
This water sports centre with a green roof was designed by Guinée*Potin Architectes and is set into a grassy bank by a lake in western France (+ slideshow). Photograph by Nicolas Pineau The concrete...
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Mabire-Reich's Landscape House features metal walls and a sloping roof terrace
Corrugated aluminium clads this extension to a house in Nantes, France, by local studio Mabire-Reich, which also boasts a decked terrace covering its entire roof (+ slideshow). The extension was...
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Christophe Rousselle's Inoxia apartments feature jagged wraparound balconies
Angular balconies edged with bands of reflective steel surround this apartment building in the French city of Nantes, providing occupants on each level with unobstructed views of the sky (+ slideshow)....
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Manny by Tetrarc
Architectural photographer Stéphane Chalmeau has sent us his photos of a building covered in aluminium bars in Nantes, France, by French architects Tetrarc. Called Manny, the building will house...
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Bottière Chenaie by Block Architects
French studio Block Architects have completed a building Nantes, France, clad in multi-coloured stripes derived from the aesthetics of vegetable farms. Called Bottière Chenaie, the block is...
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Les Ti’Canailloux by Topos Architecture
French studio Topos Architecture have completed a nursery in Nantes where the gabled ends are clad in red polycarbonate, engraved with floral patterns. Called Les Ti’Canailloux, the project features...
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Tour Végétale de Nantes by Edouard François
Plants adapted to thrive in rocky crevices will take over the facade of this tower for Nantes by French architect Edouard François. Plants will grow inside stainless steel tubes on the Tour Végétale...
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Pradenn Social Housing by Block Architects
Balconies shaped like greenhouses project from the facades of these apartment blocks in Nantes by French studio Block Architects (+ slideshow). The trio of seven-storey concrete buildings form a new...
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Okko hotel rooms by Patrick Norguet feature bathrooms hidden behind louvred...
French designer Patrick Norguet has created the interior for a hotel in Nantes featuring compact rooms with wavy white louvred walls enclosing en suite bathrooms (+ slideshow). Norguet was invited by...
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Guinée*Potin Architectes creates "footcheball" playground inside a thatched shed
This wooden shed with one thatched wall and one metal-mesh wall is designed by Guinée*Potin Architectes to host a newly invented sport that borrows from football, table football and squash (+...
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Stanton Williams completes renovation of Beaux-Arts museum in Nantes with...
London firm Stanton Williams has renovated and extended the Musée d'arts de Nantes, adding a series of extensions including a monolithic structure wrapped in stone and translucent marble to the...
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Titan reinstates visitor centre at George Clemenceau's coastal home
French architecture firm Titan has built a sand-coloured concrete pavilion to welcome visitors to the former home of French prime minister Georges Clemenceau, in western France. Nantes-based firm...
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Franklin Azzi Architecture converts Nantes warehouses into art school
A pair of former warehouses topped with saw-toothed roofs have been transformed into a school for fine arts by Franklin Azzi Architecture, in the French city of Nantes. The Nantes Saint-Nazaire Higher...
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Jean Jullien creates line-drawn sculptures for Nantes' Le Jardin des Plantes
The characteristically gangly doodles of French illustrator Jean Jullien come to life as flat sculptures in Le Jardin des Plantes in Nantes, France, as they playfully navigate the garden's ponds and...
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Spiral staircase twists through Zellige apartment complex by Tectône and...
Zellige is a social housing complex in Nantes, France, designed in a collaboration between French architecture studios Tectône and Tact Architectes. The 100-home housing project has been shortlisted...
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