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With its aesthetics inspired by nearby houses, the Styléa building blends into its environment to offer housing that adapts to each living situation and needs. Flats have been designed to adapt themselves to the changing needs of its inhabitants. Their combinations make it possible to modulate each apartment, thanks to their particular distribution in the floors and the positioning of fuse walls or staircases in strategic places. The accommodations can thus go from studio to T5 duplex typologies.

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Launched less than a year ago, Younight Hospitality, a subsidiary of VICARTEM group, has distinguished itself with an offer combining financial engineering, hotel management and design expertise. The young company draws up a positive balance assessment: as of December 31, it operates 12 hotels in 8 cities in France (Rennes, Nantes, Saint-Malo, La Rochelle, Laval, Angers, Bordeaux and Marseille) and is preparing for a new rich in projects year! Several openings are indeed planned: Marty Hotel in Bordeaux, Solly Hotel (formerly Little Palace) in the 3rd district of Paris.

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While less than a year ago, all hotel market experts were wondering about the pace of the end of the crisis, anticipated between 2023 and 2024, 2022 has exceeded expectations and the best predictions, and dare to compare with the historic 2019 period, which has become a reference year on the market.

Despite a context of economic hardening and extremely tense geopolitics, 2022 is also the year of the sector renewal with seasonality and greater market respite.

Find all the results of the European hotel industry barometer, carried out by EXTENDAM and its partners, in Luc-Etienne Rouillard Lafond’s article for Business Immo

La Tribune reviews real estate projects that will mark the North of Bordeaux in 2023 and beyond. Among them, Noème project provides between 500 and 600 new housing units in Bordeaux Lac.

Located on avenue des 40 journaux, Block 6 designed by Maud Caubet will offer a new way to live together. The project is designed to encourage encounters through the experience of a rich and rare natural setting, embellished with roof gardens, vegetable gardens and large terraces.

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 As a social and solidarity economy company, Le Jardin est la recette works to improve food resilience, regenerate biodiversity in our gardens and to support the transition by creating a channel for harvest and wild plants of the garden. Actually, the structure allows individuals, whether they are diligent or occasional gardeners, to use their vegetables, fruits, spices and wild plants overporductions if and only if, these have been cultivated without any pesticide and fertilizer. A great encouragement to go back to gardening and the restore nature in our gardens!

How does it work? The member gardeners work on gardens and prepare their harvest according to the specifications of Le Jardin est la recette. Their practice is controlled to guarantee the organic quality of the harvests. The hervested ingredients are transformed by le Jardin est la recette, and then distributed by a network of supplier’s collaborators. We love the idea!

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The Unisson(s) movement encourages the emergence of a new low-carbon architecture while preserving living environments. How to link climate issues and biodiversity issues in real estate projects and urban development projects? For Pierre Darmet, founding member of the scientific committee of the movement, it is necessary to bring a global vision of the project, to consider the site’s local context and the relevance of the scale of the district!

Discover his interview for Actu Environnement

Launched in March 2022 and part of Vicartem group, the hospitality management company managed to propose an original offer. On December 31, 2022, Younight Hospitality operates 12 hôtels in 8 cities in France and enjoy working on numerous projects to open in the next days and months.

2023 calls for being a passionated year indeed, with reopenings like: the ex-Le Chantry, renamed Marty Hotel Bordeaux Tapestry by Hilton, Bristol Union Hotel in Saint-Malo, Univers Hotel in Angers, or even the on-going refurbishment of the Little Palace in Paris.

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Unisson(s) movement has chosen to meet in the exceptional place of the Architecture to present the work of a first design thinking workshop that took place last November. Indeed, if awareness has spread in recent years, issues on the real implementation of measures in favor of low carbon remain. To try to answer this questions, Unisson(s) movement brought together players from design, construction, planning, landscaping and industry during a first brainstorming session on November 16.

Among the first conclusions of this workshop, we observe a real desire to integrate the RE2020 challenges in a holistic approach and to systematize the calculation of the carbon weight of the project.

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Since 2019, Zac has saved several thousand glasses. Founded in 2019 by Ophélie Vanbremeersch, the company recovers eyeglass frames to recondition them. Its objective: to offer eco-responsible glasses, at a lower cost and with a strong social impact!

Today, Zac promotes social inclusion by working with AlterEOS and entrusting the refurbishment of glasses to people with disabilities. Each recovered frame is inspected and then sorted according to its condition: 40% of the glasses are reconditioned, 30% are donated to humanitarian missions and the remaining percentage is used to train people working at Zac.

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For the 10^th edition of les puces de l’illu, organized on December 3rd and 4^th, Campus Fonderie de l’Image published a book retracing 10 years of contemporary art. Illustrators, drawers, graphic designers, publishing houses, passionated expert cross path with their thoughts on illustration and highlight the abundand nature of this practice that decompartemntalizes art.

L’Alsace wrote a great article on this book to give a voice to numerous artists educated at Strasbourg.

Go on L’Alsace website to discover the portrait of this collective adventure