MARSEILLE - projects

[Douly]

1/



2/



3/



4/



More renders should come soon.

[Douly]

1/





2/ Sextant almost done:



3/ Plein Ouest on its way:





4/ CMA CGM Tower:















first cladd:





New Park in the North of the city (in the famous quarter of the Estaque (famous for Cezanne, Van Gogh, Gauguin, Matisse paintings etc etc...))

5/

[Minato Ku]

Sas Suede towers 135m 113m and 99m







Rendering of the 99m H99 residencial tower

[Nightsky]

I was recently in Marseille (August 2008) and took these pics of Tour CMA.

[Fabb]

I've seen it in person.
It's quite impressive.

[Fabb]

Completed !

Photo : january 2nd, 2010

[mousquet]

Over the area encompassed by the giant Euroméditérraneé master plan, they're going to build these soon.

Residential developed by BNP Paribas Immobilier.







Some better renderings here: https://logement.bnpparibas.fr/fr/pr...lle/my-liberty

And this by Vinci Immobilier.





The site is being prepared. It all seems on a same lot they call 3C, within a neighborhood called Parc Habité. That particular lot is just surely large and divided in smaller sub-lots.
The smaller components on the renderings may be some offices, so it'd be a little mixed-use. Expected to be completed in 2018.

This is what the biggest bit of Euroméditérraneé is supposed to look like someday.



As seen in the thread of the highrises to build.

http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=194981

Should be skillfully planned and stunning, but it's taking long to have it all done.

[mousquet]

Over the same new neighborhood as that of the post above, Parc Habité, lot 2B.

















All renderings on hostingpics.net

This is mainly residential with some retail at street level. The sale of the apartments is supposed to start as of May, and construction a few months later.

So Parc Habité is promising to be a dense showcase of European contemporary architecture locally. The height of the 2 tallest buildings in the post above is of 60m (200ft), that of the 2 tallest here of 70m (230ft). So the effect of urban density should well be there, still managing some room for a bit of greenery so dwellers can breathe.

[mousquet]

You'll be fascinated by this British article...

Corrupt, dangerous and brutal to its poor – but is Marseille the future of France?

Being from Paris, I'm too familiar with this shit, tired of commenting.

All I got to say is Zidane is a huge gentleman who once literally cleaned his crampons on a Saudi player. Lol. He was suspended for a couple of games for that. That was during the 1998 World Cup (which France eventually won).
He is a living legend both as a player and as a coach. He's currently coaching Real Madrid, and locals from Madrid just can't stop loving him.

While Gaudin is a total old fart that should've been retired for so long already... I mean, that guy alone embodies the violent conflict of the generations over here.
He simply doesn't get a fucking thing of what's in the brain of a guy like myself.

[mousquet]

Some raw modernism recently developed over the "Docks Libres", which is around the same area as the couple of high-rises recently built over the city on the seaside.

Pictures are by Carta Associés, an architecture firm quite active over Marseille.





























Of course it will shock or make laugh those still hating modernism, but this is actually more subtle and contemporary than old brutalism.
I can appreciate the consistency of the whole thing. It will age well if they keep it clean and free from any ghettoization.

[mousquet]

Still some latest housing currently U/C.





Inside the lot...







http://projets-architecte-urbanisme....ust-marseille/

This is designed by starchitect Jean Nouvel and kinda crazy.
They are building this thing for real.

By Istres in August.



Marseille's latest stuff is both looking like some Martian base and some tropical jungle.