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Designed in 2006, the Ginko eco-district is laying its last stone in Bordeaux. On 32 hectare, Ginko is a succession of heterogeneous blocks with collective and individual housing, silo parking lots with shared hanging gardens and shops on the ground floor.

This eco-district will be extended with the Noème operation, reproducing the qualities of its predecessor by improving them. Composed of nine blocks, including one block entrusted to Maud Caubet Architects, the work will begin in November.

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At 57 years old, Jean-Marc Palhon drives the investment company EXTENDAM and owns a portfolio of 259 establishments in France and Europe. Julie Le Bolzer went to meet him for Les Echos, resulting to a portrait faithful to the convictions of this man of numbers and words.

Born in the South of France and then moved to Paris, Jean-Marc Palhon defines himself as a “man of mission”. He is committed to weaving the future of the hotel industry, in particular by adapting its hotels to new uses and current challenges, whether they are environmental or social.

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Today, groups of employees and managers committed to ecological and social transition are meeting at the COP26 to transform businesses.

For the occasion, Mouvement Impact France, carrying the voices of 7,500 leaders and entrepreneurs committed to ecological and social transition, has joined forces with Les Collectifs, a network of employee collectives mobilized for ecology.

“The leaders have the strategic vision, the employees have the vision of the field. We must encourage them to bring it up” explains Eva Sadoun, chairwoman of Mouvement Impact France.

An article by Joël Cossardeaux to read in Les Echos

In 2019, Priscillia Routier Trillard had the idea of creating a tool to help women. In 2020, The Sorority was born. Its goal: to enable women and people from gender minorities to never feel alone again!

Already bringing together 16,000 verified and certified profiles in 5 countries, the application makes it possible to find people ready to act and to come to the aid in real time, whether in the street, public transportation, at work or at home.

The Sorority community offers support, listening, advice and solutions to people who need it.

A wonderful idea that goes in the direction of living together!

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While the social and ecological emergency calls for a change in the business model, Mouvement Impact France brings together a community of pioneers who have demonstrated that another model was possible and that businesses could bind growth, social impact, ecological impact, sharing value and power sharing.

Thus, Mouvement Impact France wants to defend and encourage recognition that companies have already adopted this model, but also to accelerate the social and ecological transformation of all companies in France.

Therefore, Mouvement Impact France has a dual entrepreneurial and political project, which it intends to place in a European and international perspective.

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“Each time, I take the measure of the architect responsibility. It required to make ‘beautiful’ creations which will perhaps still be there in a century, but which also has to integrate into the city as into daily life” , explains Maud Caubet to Julie Le Bolzer.

From a discussion around the role and responsibility of the architects, arises an honest portrait, tinged with feminism, retracing the various projects of Maud Caubet. Described as “faithful, sincere and hostile to borders”, Maud Caubet wishes to decompartmentalize architecture, interior design, landscapes and typologies. An invitation that makes you want to follow her!

A beautiful portrait to be found in Les Echos

Located in front the Halles de Bacalan and a few meters from the Cité du Vin and the Bassin des Lumières, the two hotels are operated under Marriott International brands.

Composed of a Renaissance Hotels (4*) and a Moxy Hotels (3*) with 143 and 133 rooms, the combo takes place in the trendy district of the old docks of Bordeaux. In total, the surface area of the two hotels is 11,628 sqm.

A value-add transaction, faithful to EXTENDAM’s investment strategy

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Archistorm magazine reviews the project’s specificities designed by Maud Caubet Architectes, in association with Quadri Fiore Architecture.

Awarded at the Global Architecture & Design Awards, this office program imagined as a plot, leaves plenty of room for urban nature.

A project to discover in the next issue of Archistorm

While Mouvement Impact France is deploying its Universités de l’économie de demain throughout France, which have become essential for the leaders and committed players, The Good, media partners of these regional Universities, looks back on the Grand Est edition of the event.

Thus, 8 masterclasses were organized there by and for business leaders with the objective of initiating concrete transformation actions towards a model that combines performances of social and ecological sustainability. This event also brought together the region’s economic and institutional players around the challenges of transforming the economy.

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The AJDB organization is working towards improving living together in Bagnolet (France) by encouraging young people to be a part of the change by giving them self-confidence.

Created in 2014, the organization supports Bagnolet’s inhabitants around five areas: childhood and youth, family, integration and training, events and local/international solidarity.

Through its actions, the AJDB wishes to end isolation and exclusion by organizing outings, cultural activities or even social monitoring to help the homeless. The organization also offers workshops for young people looking for a job, allowing them to be supported in their process.

A great initiative that encourages everyone to find their place

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