Haute Agora, a study carried out by the architect Jean-Christophe Quinton (1) with engineers from the Bollinger + Grohmann office, proposes an exhibition that explores the potential of large structures to accommodate human activities. The project simultaneously combines and imagines new technical systems that are more virtuous, more economical in terms of materials, and more efficient.
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More than ever, our societies need to look towards the future. These projections towards a world in the making must allow us to move towards a construction that is desirable and meaningful for the greatest number of people. The 8th edition of the Jacques Rougerie Foundation 2018 international architecture competition traces its
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France has set itself the ambitious goal of tripling the share of cycling in mobility by 2024 and has adopted a National Plan to achieve this. The elected representatives gathered within the Club of Cycling Cities and Territories and the members of parliament mobilised within the Club of National Elected Officials
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The energy transition, fostered by renewable energies, should in theory enable States to be "less dependent on a limited circle of resource providers". In practice, the acceleration of the transition to a low-carbon energy system is accompanied by new vulnerabilities linked to the availability of so-called "renewable" resources.
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The Yellow Vests crisis has brought to light a deep divide between town and country. The inhabitants of the cities would be opposed to the inhabitants of the fields by different, even antagonistic, lifestyles and socio-economic levels. But does this cleavage correspond to a reality? For Eric Charmes, sociologist
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In 2015, the then Minister of the Environment, Energy and the Sea set up a committee to assess projects and compliance with the carbon budget and low-carbon strategy, multi-year energy programming projects for metropolitan France, etc. to support this assessment mission,
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Bruno Le maire change d’avis : Après avoir annoncé ce 8 janvier qu’il ne voulait pas suspendre le E171 présent dans de nombreux produits alimentaires, le ministre de l’Economie et des Finances revient sur ses propos et s’engage à bel et bien signer l’arrêté tant attendu pour rendre effective la suspension
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La transition énergétique est souvent un thème de discorde. Tout le monde admet la nécessité de changer nos modèles énergétiques ; il en va de notre survie sur cette planète. Les solutions existent, souvent en nombre et anarchiques. Elles possèdent toutes plus ou moins d’externalités négatives avec lesquelles il faut faire
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Le ministre de l’économie Bruno Lemaire a annoncé ce 8 janvier, contre toute attente, son intention de ne pas interdire l’additif alimentaire E171 plus communément connu sou le nom de dioxyde de titane. La décision est reportée à plus tard, quand les preuves scientifiques seront réunies de la dangerosité de
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Augustin Berque is an eminent French geographer and philosopher, who has made a major contribution to the revival of landscape thinking. He has made his own research and suggestions on the harmonious coexistence between nature and man, based on the concept "the Earth as our environment fūdo". This year, the
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Artists/Architects tandems: the first works of art for the future Grand Paris Express stations unveiled Building a major collection of public art, architecture and urban innovation on a metropolitan scale is the aim of a major programme to highlight "alliance projects between artists and architects in several dozen of
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When a city architect, coming from the North, and a Mediterranean landscape gardener, rooted in his Provençal land, compare their visions of the garden, what elements and lessons can we draw from them? First of all, a book, "Minéral-Végétal - Deux visions du jardin" in which for Jean Mus as for Jean-Michel Wilmotte, it is
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Food safety issues are increasingly on the minds of consumers when they shop. They want to be increasingly informed about the content, quality and source of the products they buy. A plethora of applications has emerged in recent years, independent of the industry and the consumer.
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68 years after the Schuman declaration made in the Salon de l'Horloge, the Quai d'Orsay hosted the JANUS label award ceremony of the French Institute of Design on 17 December 2018, which celebrated its 65th anniversary this year. 76 projects were awarded this label of excellence, which recognises the "5E's".
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They grow French 100 % cotton in the heart of the Gers When people ask you what the Gers has in store for you - especially at this time of year - what do you think about? Well, make no mistake, the Gers, from now on it will also be ... cotton. Yohan de Wit,
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On en parle en bien depuis plusieurs années déjà , mais le phénomène des cryptomonnaies fait aujourd’hui débat. Ces monnaies, de plus en plus utilisées par tous dans le monde entier, sont accusées d’êtres énergivores. En effet, afin de « débloquer » des bitcoins, les mineurs doivent résoudre des problèmes complexes nécessitant l’utilisation
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A citizen lobbying action to put pressure on the numbers and get out of the standstill in the face of the climate emergency An unofficial COP 24 appeared in parallel to the COP 24 in Katowice. A COP fuelled by a powerful lobby, that of citizens. In spite of the climate emergency and all
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The plant, a social project or the delicate art of reconciling town planning and landscape In the relationship of cities to landscape, it is the status of architecture as an object, i.e. independent of the landscape context, that has dominated from the modern movement and still dominates the majority of the
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Research inspired by 3.8 billion years of living R&D Biomimicry is a fast-growing approach, at the heart of the breakthrough innovation strategies of research centres, large companies and start-ups, on many subjects, including the energy transition. The approach makes it possible, in particular, to break out of the
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En plein conflit social avec les « gilets jaunes » contre la hausse des taxes sur le carburant et le manque de pouvoir d’achat, Emmanuel Macron a présenté ce mardi matin 27 novembre devant les membres du Conseil national de la transition écologique (CNTE) un projet de mesures, sans changement
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