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Process mock-up for Mixed-Use Blocks in Bordeaux, showing two-storey facade with prefabricated concrete, red brick, metal frame loggia and large openings.
Construction site of the Mixed-Use Blocks in Bordeaux, with concrete frames, tower cranes and open ground foreground showing the urban redevelopment phase.
Perspective of an outdoor basketball court in the Mixed-Use Blocks, Bordeaux, framed by metal fencing with timber-clad housing blocks in the background.
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Apr 2026

In Bordeaux Euratlantique, in the Armagnac Sud district, the façade prototype for mixed-use plot 8.10 is being finalised, while the timber structure of the facility and the first timber-framed façade units are arriving on site.

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Axonometric drawing of Tectoniques’ university facilities in Vaulx-en-Velin, showing two low wings around a planted courtyard with external stairs and glazed facades.
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Mar 2026

In Vaulx-en-Velin, the construction site of the Assia Djebar campus complex, whose woven-beam structure is currently being assembled, is the subject of an exhibition at ENSAL until 3 April 2026.

Site plan of the Pompidou Mourguet School Complex in Lyon, showing the new right-angled elementary wing, retained nursery, enclosed playgrounds and block-scale landscape.
Axonometric drawing of the Pompidou Mourguet School Complex in Lyon, showing L-shaped masonry volumes enclosing planted playgrounds and covered walkways.
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Feb 2026

In Lyon’s 3rd arrondissement, just a few hundred metres from our office, work has just begun on the Pompidou-Mourguet school complex. A large site will accommodate the rebuilt elementary school, while the adjacent nursery school is being retained and renovated.

Archival photo of children in the Menpenti school courtyard in Marseille, showing the original plaster façades, timber-framed windows and central plane tree.
Jan 2026

In Marseille, we have been selected – alongside contractor Fayat – for the design-build contract to rehabilitate the Menpenti school. In the heart of the city, our intervention on this late-19th-century school heritage is approached with respect and a subtle touch.

Process model of the Lyon tramway maintenance center by Tectoniques, showing a transverse section of the maintenance hall: rammed-earth base and retaining wall, steel portal frames, prefabricated floor slabs with integrated tracks, and a folded timber roof structure supporting a ventilated metal façade and roof build-up, illustrating the structural hierarchy and material interface between earth, steel, and timber.
Aerial view of the Tramway Maintenance Center in Lyon, showing a large rectilinear industrial complex integrated into a dense urban fabric, with extensive flat roofs partly covered by photovoltaic panels, open maintenance yards organized in orthogonal grids, and long, low technical buildings aligned along the tram tracks. The ensemble is framed by planted strips and tree-lined streets that buffer the facility from surrounding mid-rise residential blocks and mixed-use buildings, with the wider city and hills forming the background.
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Dec 2025

In Lyon 7th arrondissement, on the former Fagor-Brandt factory site, studies are ongoing for the construction of a tram depot and maintenance centre for SYTRAL, in collaboration with our colleagues at BLP and Ingerop.

Wood-clad stepped volumes of the 142 Residential Units in Cognin, with staggered terraces and flat roofs facing a natural foreground and distant hills.
View from the 142 Residential Units in Cognin: metal parapet in the foreground, open fields and village, with snow-lined mountains under an overcast sky.
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Nov 2025

In Cognin, Savoie, work is in progress on the 142-housing units in the Grand Chambéry metropolitan area for Icade. The stepped massing is taking shape, and the six buildings open onto the park and the wider landscape.

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