Article source: LAN Architecture

In 1990, in his preface titled “Quantum Leap” for the work presenting the Euralille project[1], Rem Koolhaas wrote: “In our contemporary world, programs become abstract in the sense that they are no longer tied to a specific place or city. They float and gravitate opportunistically around those places that provides them with the most connections.” And then, “All these facts describe a new condition that is at once local and global, as important for the “Japanese” as it is for the “Lillois.”

Image Courtesy © Julien Lanoo

• Architects: LAN Architecture
• Project: Offices Lille
• Location: Euralille, France
• PROGRAM: Construction of an office and retail building
• PLANNER: SPL EURALILLE
• PROJECT MANAGER: Sogeprom, Projectim
• INVESTOR: Groupe IRD
• BUDGET: EUR 5.9 M (TAXES NOT INCLUDED)
• NET SURFACE AREA: 3 486 m²
• PROJECT TIMELINE: 2010 -2014
• TEAM: LAN Architecture (Commissioned architects), Egis (Project supervisor), Act Environnement (Environmental consultant), IOSIS (All trades engineering), Elioth (facades), Flandres Acoustique (Acoustics).
• BUILDER: SPIE (General Contractor)

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