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Project • By Christian Tezza Architect • Apartments
Mansarda A2CP
This is a revenge story.
Antonio and Chiara, together with their sons, are the main characters.
Everything started with their wedding and their dream to star a family more than ten years ago.
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They searched for their love nest and they found it a three-room apartment placed at the last floor of a building under construction; that apartment had also an attic directly connected with a stair.
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Thirteen years have passed since the day they found their nest, but their attention concentrated just on the bottom level of the house: the attic was used only as storage room.
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But in the meantime, they had children and they began to feel the necessity of having more space without le... More
Project • By Reichen et Robert & Associés • Offices
The Grands Moulins de Pantin
The imposing silhouette of Grands Moulins de Pantin (the large Pantin windmills) dominates the East Paris cityscape between Porte de la Villette and Porte de Pantin. Their neo-regional architecture with its three towers is a powerful symbol of the industrial past of the Ourcq Canal.
This heritage will be protected when the entire sited is modernized to develop a service-sector complex over 50,000 sq m in area.
Contemporary buildings will be used to rebuild the site's North and East sides, forming a coherent whole with the silos and the old windmill.
This project is part of the quarter's large-scale redevelopment plan. The link between the past and modernity will be retained in each section of the site, not through an obsessive desire for... More