The project stretches alongside the railway line in the small village of Venarey-Les Laumes, in Burgundy. The building contains a number of different initiatives, including a tourist office, a conference and culture hall, a day nursery, and areas for older people. Our task was to bring all these very different initiatives together in a single…
This project responds to the desire for “urban acupuncture”, i.e. targeted interventions in line with the continuity of the seaside and maritime history of the town. The Saint-André bridge is the symbol of the reconstruction of the city. It was photographed by Raymond Depardon for the exhibition 36 vues de la France. The urban staircase…
La Grande Motte has long, and unfairly, been regarded as a symbol of the concretisation of the coastline, a hub of package tourism. However, the ambitions initially underpinning the project were entirely different. The “Florida of the Future” was designed as a new Eldorado for millions of holidaymakers for whom paid leave had become a…
Planning and architectural design of the historic headquarter of Sanofi. From 1997, SLA Architecture developed the masterplan and designed this site building by building. We’ve designed six buildings in total, representing more than 800,000 sqft, in a 68 hectares operating site. This construction called “Azur” has been nominated at the SIMI Award 2010 in the Research…