Balthazar Hôtel & Spa MGallery (Vicartem) gets involved in Pink October campaign to fight against breast cancer. During all the month, the hotel endows a pink colored façade and collects funds to fund the League against cancer. On October 29th, flowers composition, yoga and cosmetology workshops will take place while cancer raising awareness sessions will be organized in the hotel lobby.
Commune was born from the analysis of a gap between the pace of change in our way of life and the evolution of the way we occupy an accommodation. The model of the nuclear family and a single household for several decades is no longer the norm and single-parent families are often left behind.
21st century families are multiple and unique at the same time, and face very specific needs at certain times in their lives. Commune thus offers a turnkey housing and service solution, accessible to single-parent families, residences offering private living spaces and meeting spaces designed so that single parents and their children can live and grow up peacefully!
Extendam and Mont-Blanc Collection acquire Hôtel des Gourmets in Chamonix Mont-Blanc
The 38-room hôtel will encounter some refurbishment to reach a fourth star. Anchored in his territory, the hotel will stay a human scale place, trademark of Mont-Blanc Collection group. Martin Devictor, founder of the group said: “Eric and I are talking about this project for a long time. We are both convinced they will always have appeal for a human scale accomodation. Mont-Blanc Collection create this typology of hotels in the Mont-Blanc region, by creating synegies with a strong will of local anchorage”.
In charge of investment for EXTENDAM, Caroline Betemps and Bertrand Pullès underlined : “We are pleased to invest with Mont-Blanc Collection. The group is really deep-rooted in Chamonix and have a great expertise of montain hospitality. Our commun goal consist in valorizing all the ideally settled asset potential, while repositioning it in a unique boutique-hôtel 4*”.
How to build in a world that changes so quickly and whose future design seems increasingly complex to guess? What are the questions that architects and urban planners are asking themselves today, in a climate and way of life’s changes context ?
For Dominique Boré, Honorary President of the Maison de l’architecture d’Île-de-France and Commissioner of Unisson(s) movement, we have to get out of the experimentation stage. Project owners must integrate regulations into their programs and budgets in order to industrialize processes. The RE2020 sets thresholds to be reached, leaving the architect free to choose his path to reach them. For the first time, a French law takes into account territories, geography, climate and resources all together to adapt housing. The architect must therefore come to terms with this new palette, making it a new basis for creativity and creation.
Organized by the Campus Fonderie de l’Image, a school of graphic and digital design located in Bagnolet, the Puces de l’Illu will welcome around a hundred exhibitors with various specialties. For its 10th edition, the festival will offer conferences, workshops. Special workshops led by the Musée en Herbe will take place for young audiences and exhibitions will spread within the Campus and in various cultural venues all the way to the heart of Paris. This year, press illustration will also be at the heart of debates with round tables and signing sessions.
Prizes will be awarded at the end of the event: At the Grand Prix for Contemporary Illustration is added the Prize for Youth Illustration.
While the summer performance of the French hotel industry was very satisfactory, the sector continued this momentum in September, according to the EXTENDAM barometer.
In this new school year, France is posting a sharp increase in RevPAR (Revenue Per Available Room): it has now reached € 94, i.e. +12 % compared to 2019 references.
Despite the very slight decline in the occupancy rate, the industry was stimulated by the presence of international tourists and a dynamic corporate segment in Paris with a rate reaching 83 % compared to 69 % the previous month in Île-de-France.
In terms of regions, the month of September ended with an occupancy rate of 74 %, an increase of +1 point compared to August.
In December 2022, Vicartem and Maisons du Monde will complete their offer and propose 16 suites at their 5-star Maisons du Monde Hôtels & Suites in Marseille. The latter will bring the same quality of services and comfort as the room, with a focus on the brand “like at home but in a better way” identity of the two houses”.
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UNISSON(S) movement is committed to uniting and promoting all city stakeholders involved in an active and radical change for low-carbon architecture and living things. While the Earth has experienced many climate changes, the one it is currently experiencing is the result of human activity. It is thus possible to act actively by changing collective and individual habits. It is then necessary to invent an architecture of the ecological shift in order to respond to these challenges.
For Dominique Boré, Honorary President of the Maison de l’Architecture Île-de-France and General Commissioner of UNISSON(S) movement, this new architecture must “be humble while being ambitious”. It is an architecture that shows boldness in the use of materials, reinvents uses and habits, that takes into account comfort of the livings. It is an architecture taking the new standards and regulations as a new basis for creation and creativity allowing to design new desirable imaginaries that our society needs in order to accelerate the shift.
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Thibaut Manent and Loïc Guichaoua created Papa Outang. The company produces a chocolate spread which is committed to preserve the rainforest and its hosts: the orangutans. Every day, 25 orangutans die because of deforestation. To fight against this scourge, Papa Outang’s team has developed a palm-oil-free spread formula in an infinitely refillable container. The company finances Kalaweit, an association that buys up plots of forest with the help of locals, to create nature reserves and preserve ecosystems.
Mouvement Impact France reasserts its commitment to the economic and social transition and hopes that the Finance Bill 2023 (PLF 2023) will be the cornerstone of the government’s ecological planning.
Following PLF 2023 introduction by government, the movement recognizes the positive impact of a number of new legislations such as the end of export guarantees in the fossil fuel sector but regrets a very small consideration of climate issues.
Mouvement Impact France said: “With a view to a better management of public funds and prevention of social and environmental risks inherent to the current economic situation, it is necessary that the amounts injected by the State to support French companies also lead them to align their strategy towards less carbon and fairer business models”.