In "Faire la Ville Autrement", architects Patrick Bouchain and Philippe Chiambaretta reflect on the need to reinvent architectural practices.

Readers will discover a "craftsman" and an "engineer" united in a collaborative vision of architecture, at the crossroads of science and arts, with a strong awareness of environmental issues.

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Léonie Debrabandère is the Director of the WAAO, Lille's architecture center, and curator of the exhibition "La ville tourne en rond?" How can we get away from anthropocentric, productivist logics and create a city that self-regulates, regenerates and recycles itself? The exhibition takes us on a semantic and tangible exploration of the circular city, allowing anyone to implement re-usable solutions on all scales.

As part of the Paris Animal exhibition currently on show at the Pavillon de l'Arsenal in Paris, the two curating architects, Léa Mosconi and Henri Bony, look back at the genesis of their project: to retrace the history that links animals to the capital's urban fabric.

Stéphane Lemoine is an architect and urban planner. He recently published the book Mix Urbains, which questions the nature of urban travel. By analyzing flows at eight intersections around the world, he studies speeds, rhythms, interactions and trajectories to determine what makes these urban squares special.

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Périg Pitrou is an anthropologist at the CNRS and head of the "Anthropology of Life" team at the Collège de France. He is Scientific Director of the City-Metabolism Chair, which brings together PCA-STREAM and PSL University (Paris Sciences et Lettres). The aim: to identify how interdisciplinary collaborations can help overcome the challenges of building the urban worlds of the future.

Landscape is not just a matter of shapes and colors. It also emanates from the sensitive perception of a sound environment, however urbanized it may be. This is what Sara el Samman defends in her diploma project, awarded by the Fédération Française du Paysage. Would La Défense be the same without the sound of heels on flagstones?

"Making a city that is livable during extreme heat is the great urban engineering project of our time." For the Yale School of the Environment bestselling author Jeff Goodell, draws a vivid (and deadly) portrait of Paris under the heat, urging for the capital's necessary adaptation to climate change. But how to make Paris a more desirable, livable and durable city in the future?

Initiatives to adapt Paris to the challenges of global warming include PCA-STREAM's project to reshape the Champs-Élysées, lowering the avenue's temperature by several degrees by adapting it to new ways of living, working and moving around the city, thus fostering a new relationship with the living.

We are honored to assist the Centre Pompidou and the Musée national Picasso-Paris in the creation of a new conservation center in Massy. A veritable tool-building dedicated to research and conservation of their collections, the Fabrique de l'Art is also a venue for artistic diffusion and mediation, offering an exhibition room, educational workshops and a speech-performance stage. Open towards the city and nature, it will become, in resonance with the Parisian institution, a new center of life for the people of Ile-de-France.

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François Taddei is a geneticist and co-founder, with Ariel Lindner, of the Learning Planet Institute (formerly known as CRI). Conceived as a school for the 21st century, the institute combines artificial intelligence and collective intelligence to reinvent ways of learning, teaching and doing research.

Following in the footsteps of the Avenue des Champs-Elysées, the Avenue de la Grande-Armée, on the other side of the Place de l'Etoile in Paris, is also undergoing a transformation.

On Tuesday, the Comité Grande-Armée presented its project for transforming the avenue, promising less space for cars and clearer sidewalks.

At the initiative of the Comité Grande-Armée, PCA-STREAM delivers "Grande-Armée 2030", a strategic vision for reintegrating the Avenue de la Grande-Armée into the urban dynamic of Paris's historic thoroughfare, and adapting it to the challenges of the 21st century city.

the Stream Building is a mixed-used structure based on sustainable architecture principles, housing office and commercial activities – the outcome of almost 15 years of studies by the studio's research arm, Stream Lab.
'What makes the Stream Building different is precisely that it is not just an office building,' says Philippe Chiambaretta, the Parisian studio's founder. 'The building is a mixed-use laboratory that stitches the city together.

Stream Building inaugurated on May 31.

Follow the Icône worksite on rue Marbeuf.

Follow the progress of the Versailles Tourist Office project.

La Source Vive: a new concert hall in Evian.
The result of a collaboration between architects Patrick Bouchain and Philippe Chiambaretta, La Source Vive is the result of an approach that combines sensitivity and science: its conch-shaped volume is the result of the search for exceptional acoustics and the desire to blend into a remarkable and preserved landscape.

Open to its territory, the project driven by Aline Foriel-Destezet is housed by the Évian Resort, in the immediate vicinity of La Grange au Lac. The two facilities complement each other and will be brought together within the same institution. They will offer a varied and continuous programme throughout the year, under the artistic direction of Renaud Capuçon.