Cultural Center in Argentan, by ARCHITECTURE PATRICK MAUGER

This new hub provides a space for all the town’s cultural events. Stripped of any pretentiousness, the building defines itself as a metal-clad cultural hall. With its hangar-like appearance, the architecture withdraws, handing the space over to the cultural events taking place. The foyer with its glazed façade provides passers-by with views over the activities…

Nièvre's Departmental Archives, by ARCHITECTURE PATRICK MAUGER

The rundown building housing Nièvre’s departmental archives has undergone rehabilitation and been provided with an extension. Two new buildings are positioned in parallel with the existing rehabilitated building. The first, giving onto the street, is slightly stepped back to create an esplanade marking the public nature of this institution. The façades are formed from screen-printed…

Cafeteria Mabillon, by ARCHITECTURE PATRICK MAUGER

Sixty years after it was first built, the CROUS Mabillon student restaurant has been restructured and renovated, and its façade cleverly utilised. The concrete frontage walls have been covered by split chestnut poles that allow the penetration of a filtered light that can be dimmed during the summer. This rough-finished material successfully provides a solution…

Bus Station, by ATELIER TARABUSI ARCHITECTURE

The program concerns the construction of a cover structure for a bus terminal with management of waiting areas for passengers. It is connected to the existing train station to form a real multimodal transit hub. The site is characterized by the presence of a planted slope between the railway line and the bus station that…

Cultural Center in Sedan, by RICHARD ET SCHOELLER

The cultural center occupies a privileged site in the center of the northern French town of Sedan along the banks of the Meuse River. Attched to the central space of the theater, four suspended parallelepipedic volumes frame the landscape. All in glass, some announcing their purpose via vertical letters in concrete, it is easy to…