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Located in 8 countries of France (Rennes, Nantes, Saint-Malo, La Rochelle, Laval, Bordeaux and Marseille), the Vicartem group’s hospitality management company, has distinguished by its offer combining property investments, design expertise and hospitality know-how.

This alliance comes from a meeting between Céline, Sébastien Meslin and Romain Gowhari. The latter is recognized specialist in hotel investment. This is how they master every aspects of hotel and para-hotel management. Taking advantage of the expertise of each one allows them to develop further, as in hospitality heritage and additional activities from hospitality. At the end of 2022, the company has a 12-hotel portfolio and 40 apartments under management.

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Producer of the documentary Towards a low-carbon and living architecture, Maud Caubet returns to the raison d’être of such a film.

“The idea is to popularize the role of the architect in society, in particular its investment in the sustainable and ecological aspect of projects. How can an architect be part of this positive approach to renewing its profession and its practices? How can we reclaim environmental issues by creating a new approach?”, specifies the architect, who also lends her voice to the narration of the film. Questions that the short documentary film answers over the course of 26 minutes.

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Founded in 2020 on the basis of decades of pioneering research on biofuel cells, BeFC develops an organic and ecological energy solution at the service of the future generation of responsible electricity. While batteries are difficult to recycle, BeFC offers a light, flexible and totally biodegradable alternative, made from paper and sugar! A solution that could allow us to replace the single-use lithium battery.

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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!

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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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