October 9, 2023

Miscellaneous

Like major companies in the tech, media and banking sectors, international law firms are confronted with a profound rethinking of the work environment and its uses. They are doing so, however, with strong professional and cultural specificities: individual work, face-to-face (and sometimes informal) and remote collaborative work, confidentiality of reception [...].
Concorde F, Madeleine D, Opéra E... the Collines de l'Arche buildings in La Défense, owned by Cofia, offer vast reception areas. This was not the case, until recently, for the last of the four, Opéra C. The challenge presented to Chambers Architects was therefore simple: to magnify the [...]
Over the past decade, and sometimes even before, Chambers has designed the French offices of Proskauer Rose, DLA Piper, K&L Gates, McDermott Will & Emery, Paul Hastings, Morgan Lewis & Bockius... and right now of Norton Rose Fulbright, Hogan Lovells and Pinsent Masons. All among the major international Anglo-Saxon law firms. The trust [...]
Mac Arthur Glen, Europe's leading outlet retailer, has added a highly original Maison des Métiers d'Art to its latest outlet village, Paris Giverny. Designed in partnership with the Portes de Normandie Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCI) and the Eure Chamber of Trades and Crafts (CMA), this vast [...]

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Already present at La Défense in the Promenade and the Paroi Nord of the Grande Arche, IÉSEG, an internationally-renowned management school, will soon be taking over most of Les Collines de l'Arche. Designed in the 90s by @Jean-Pierre Buffi, the building, which is currently being renovated, will house 25 students over 8 floors and 6,200 m² [...].

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220 meters high, 45 floors of offices, services and business premises, topped by a rooftop... the Tour Hekla, designed by @Ateliers Jean Nouvel, will be one of the most striking new silhouettes on the La Défense skyline. What about the interior? In a recent consultation, @Chambers architects proposed to fit out five levels of the tower for [...].
The first 160 employees of some of the WPP Group's nineteen advertising agencies have just taken possession of their new Parisian workspaces. The campus brings together on a single site, 145-149 rue Anatole France in Levallois-Perret - where the Citroën 2CV was produced - these entities previously scattered across the Paris region. [...]
Chambers Architects has just delivered the new French headquarters of Australian investment bank Macquarie Group. The 1,700 m2 building boasts one of the most exceptional addresses in Paris, with windows opening directly onto the Rond-point des Champs-Elysées. Naturally, this extraordinary view is showcased at the entrance, as you exit the elevators and in the [...]
Just over ten years after opening its Paris office, McDermott Will & Emery France - a firm of over 1,000 corporate lawyers worldwide, including around 100 in Europe - is revolutionizing its reception concept with a "client space" designed by CHAMBERS architects in the spectacular [...].
For over 20 years, long before any other company, SACD has been using coworking as a model for the creators and theater companies it hosts at the Maison des auteurs, rue Ballu (Paris 9e). Here, they can find the space and atmosphere they need for writing, filming, recording and rehearsing. At the end of [...]