area 103 – Paris

presentazione/introduction extra ordinario il contract nella sua dimensione migliore text by Marco Casamonti Contract reale o Contract virtuale? text by Simone Micheli intervista/interview l’esperienza del Contract secondo Antonio Citterio l’esperienza…

The term Contract is used to indicate projects which comprise the supply of products that are not part of a company’s standard catalogue, works defined by a specific contract, which…

Laura Andreini: On the basis of your experience as architect and designer, in what does the added value which a project may benefit from by the fact that every part…

 M.C.: Lately, there has been much talk of Contract, but we would like to gain a better understanding of what it is about, and above all when we can talk…

M.C.: Contracts are often confused with supplies. However, a true contract is based on the presupposition that a company possesses the know-how and ability necessary to manage every aspect of…

Inside the famous Hotel Exedra Nice in Nice, property of Boscolo Hotels, in the basement ground rises the amazing wellness centre, signed by the architect Simone Micheli. “Planning a space…

“Hotels today make you feel like you’re living in the previous century. That’s the last thing I wanted to do” – Karim Rashid. The new Semiramis is a 52-room boutique…

Trailblazers Peter Lute and Marcel Wanders, pioneers in hospitality and design, have come up with an innovative and unparalleled concept: Lute Suites. It is the first ‘urban’ project of this…

Seventy years ago, the area around Milan’s via Tortona was one of the city’s many grimy, noisy heaìvy industrial settlements. After a period spent down-at-heel following the demise of the…

CitizenM is a new Dutch hotel group that opens their first hotel at Schiphol Airport in the second quarter of 2008. The concept of the hotel is to cut out…

We live in a world where everything seems to have a price. Every social, racial, religious or sexual group is placed in a particular category that can be assessed in…

The new extension of the Starhotel Rosa in Piazza Fontana, designed by Studio Arassociati, is a very particular intervention involving re-stitching the historical urban fabric in a strategic point for…

The new Gallery of Modern Art inside the former Baker’s is the most important, most complex intervention of the entire district of the Manifattura delle Arti/Parco del Cavaticcio in Bologna,…

Welcome to the world of Miss Sixty. Here you can find a glamorous world of fantastic scenery and an imaginary reality. An organic space designed with curved walls, sculptured counters,…

The Camper shop was a chance to merge different elements of two very strong personalities, Camper‘s and my own, without sacrificing either. The intention was to give an absolute yet…

Going by the name of Meltin’ Pot and thinking of opening a showroom in New York in the dark years of the Bush administration has made me reanalyze the American…

Milan is an anything but colourful city. Its chromatic range is often reduced to  scale of shades of grey, which identify it as a place of maturity. The moment manifestations…

F12 took the opportunity for expansion within its existing premises in The Fine Arts Academy in Stockholm for a complete refurbishment and spatial organisation by Lomar Arkitekter. The additional area…

This table was designed for the exhibition of drawings and models presented in Palladio’s Basilica in Vicenza, and was built by Unifor. The extremely detailed definition of this item has…

After Amsterdam, Berlin and London, after Beijing and Shanghai in the issue titled China Overview, Tokyo and Barcelona, and the last, complex and debated study on Moscow, Area continues its…

What architecture for the Metropolis of the 21st century? In Paris, where there is a museum for everything, architecture has found one in the Cité de l’Architecture, Palais de Chaillot,…

The Greater Paris International Consultation The last transformation of Paris took place in 1860 and was the work of Baron Haussmann, then prefect of the Seine Department. At that time…

Stefano Fera: The international consulting for Greater Paris seems intent on challenging the very idea of capital city. A typically Nineteenth-century idea, linked to a centralist concept of the State…

Some reflections on the “new” Grille Royale at Versailles. The invitation to put forward some considerations regarding the restoration of the historical gate, the Grille Royale, in the Castle of…

Rising on a former industrial site in the Montmartre area, the scheme is composed of two small restored buildings and four new buildings positioned around a central garden and linked…

The pedestrian bridge with a length of 304 meters links the new districts of Paris-Bercy and Tolbiac – and at the same time the new national french library with the Park Tolbiac….

The design of the building housing the Hotel Fouquet by architect Edouard François is based on the ”shell & core” procedure. Shell, or in other words the external volume, the…

The building on the Jussieu university campus, near the historic center of Paris, extends and completes the grid plan that architect Edouard Albert designed in the 60s to serve 45,000…

This project concerns the rebuilding of “Cognacq-Jay”, a private hospital with a history of over 100 years. The site is located in the 15th district in Paris near the Eiffel…

This project is not an isolated architectural mission, it contributes to the urban ambitions of the Masséna district in the 13th arrondissement of Paris. Each new construction is an additional…

In Evry, perhaps more than elsewhere due to the separation between pedestrians and vehicles, the works of art become part of the urban layout, serving as landmarks in the public…

The block of houses is not situated in Haussmannian Paris with chic boulevards as is the Fouquet’s Barrière that I designed at the same time. Vignoles is situated in a picturesque and popular…

Given the reduced program size and the location of the land parcel, the idea was to insert most of the program elements in a high vertical volume. Which set on…

The Docks of Paris is a long, thin building built in concrete at the turn of the last century. It was a depot for goods brought up the Seine by…

The program is for a combination of different-sized apartments, the ground floor being designed for handicapped persons, and some shops at street level. In this project we had to create three…

The project is located in the Marais district, and consists of the renovation of a building in rue Saint Antoine no. 76 and the adjacent lot in rue de Turenne…

Covering the Visconti Court with a glazed structure would be a solution typical for the national 20th century architecture for this area which has been left open until now. To…

La posizione dello stadio di rugby è fondamentale dato che si trova nel XVI arrondissement in un quartiere pieno di complessi sportivi di alto livello (Parco dei Principi, Ippodromo di…

Harmonies, accords… The word philharmonic embodies the concept of “love for harmony”. We “play” a succession of urban harmonies. The philharmonic represents a prestigious element which maintains harmonious relationships with…

A general metropolitan plan for the area already exists; it is a matter of the junction connecting the RER (rapid underground of Paris) and the ordinary underground. And this is…

Synthesizing Idiosyncrasies to Mend a Site Drawing on the power of parametric scripting, the design of the Phare Tower gathers disparate programmatic, physical, and infrastructural elements from the requirements of…