A very happy new year from Les Grandes Idées
Les Grandes Idées team wishes you a very sparkly and happy new year!
Today, more than ever, let’s imagine and draw the present and the future together.
Author: lgi
Spotlight on the Maison Colombes extension in Maison à part
45 sqm and lots of extra light for the Maison Colombes!
Rectoverso Architects designed thie extension as a project with contemporary codes, clean lines, which fits perfectly into its urban environment. The interior has been reorganized, in line with the needs of the family life of its inhabitants.
A particular care has been taken in the choice of materials. The architects have indeed chosen biosourced materials. Wood has also been favored inside the building for the parquet floors or the furniture. Andrius Queiroz, co-founder of the agency explains: “It is a warm material, but which above all has a good carbon footprint”.
The young generations want to act useful!
According to an Opinionway barometer for the Moovjee (movement of young entrepreneurs) 42% of students imagine one day creating or taking over a business, compared to 34% in 2015.
According to Jean Moreau, co-chairman of the Mouvement Impact France, a network bringing together impactful companies in France, “there is a quest for meaning among the new generations, a desire for young people to direct their energy into impact”.
A desire to be an entrepreneur encouraged by the motivation to help people and create a new, more responsible economy!
EXTENDAM strengthens its team with the arrival of John Hewitt and Yves Marchal
EXTENDAM welcomes two new highly complementary profiles to its management team. John Hewitt thus joins the team as Manager to support the development of hotel and para-hotel real estate funds. Yves Marchal becomes Senior Advisor Investment and Asset Management. The latter joined the EXTENDAM investment committee in 2019 as an expert. Seduced by the quality of his analysis, EXTENDAM offered him this year to join its team as a senior advisor.
Let’s give a more important place to architects
Speaker at a roundtable at SIMI, Maud Caubet returned to the various elements constituting the roadmap of Greater Paris, thus addressing the various opportunities existing in the region.
She also recalled the weak voice given to architects in real estate projects and pleaded for a more important place to be left to architects who “can play an essential role in rethinking the way of building the city today”.
Social entrepreneurs want to weigh in 2022!
On the Montpellier edition of the Universités de l’économie de demain, Caroline Neyron, Managing Director of the Mouvement Impact France and Luis Uribe, CEO of Nutrition Santé review the latter’s objectives for Touléco.
As a counterpoint to the Medef Summer Universities, the Universités de l’économie de demain wish to show that a new generation of entrepreneurs exists and that they are building a strong voice on social and ecological transition. A true meeting place for the impact economy, this event aims to help companies that want to transform to do so in terms of climate, inclusion, sharing of values, sharing of power, etc.
By deploying this format in the regions, the Movement wants to connect with entrepreneurs engaged in the territory and thus expand its collective.
Vilaj: a new concept of accommodation and conviviality
Matthieu Chavanel is launching Vilaj, a new hotel concept wishing to reinvent the conviviality of a village square in the heart of the territories by mixing different types of activities within the same place.
It is about (re)creating an innovative living space in the heart of the city, where residents and travellers can meet. Each Vilaj will be the ambassador of local identity through its activities, its local supply strategy and the very appearance of each of the buildings which will take on the specific heritage of the territory. Accompanied by EXTENDAM, the initiators of the concept are betting on a daring renewal of the French accommodation offer, adapted to changing public expectations.
A Rectoverso Architects extension for La Maison Colombes
Located at the crossroads of the two residential districts of Les Vallées and Petite Garenne in Colombes, La Maison Colombes has undergone a great transformation and extension on the garden side thanks to Rectoverso Architects. Julien Combot, Andrius Queiroz and their team have chosen a contemporary and timeless architecture in line with the existing three-storey house.
Large openings offer a bright and comfortable interior leading onto an outdoor wooden terrace. The living spaces are enlarged with new bedrooms on the first floor and a basement converted into a games room. The ground floor reveals a beautiful open kitchen and a living room opening onto the garden.
SSE companies are more resilient!
Companies of the social and solidarity economy are more resistant to the health crisis. This resilience can be explained by their economic model which attempts to combine profitability, social and environmental utility.
If their governance model, associating managers, employees and shareholders is a bulwark against economic instability, this resilience also comes from the profile of the employees: “They are more committed talents, with a strong determination for the causes defended by their employer” specifies Jean Moreau, co-president of the Mouvement Impact France.
This economic viability leads SSE actors to advocate a paradigm shift in France’s economic policies.
EXTENDAM invests in the conversion of obsolete hotels
European leader of the hotel industry private equity, EXTENDAM is broadening its scope of intervention in early 2022 and will invest in a margin of obsolete hotels that will be converted into other uses. Often with an insufficient number of rooms for good hotel operations and small or non-existent common areas, these hotels will be renovated and transformed into housing, managed residences or other types of innovative housing.
In a desire to offer small living and functional areas, EXTENDAM will focus its FCPI ConvertHotel mainly on areas where the housing crisis is most acute.
Find the full article by Gaétan Pierret in Agefi Actifs