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Du Jardin au grand paysage: territoires en projet 

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Espaces communs, les conférences de la culture du bâti - Lausanne - Guidle

A new territorial strategy in Bologna, Italy.

What is the landscape and biodiversity potential of the changing areas?

From the perception of the existing landscape structure to the relationship between the city and its territory.

The elaboration of pilot projects carried out through different stages will be the basis of the spatial strategy applied by mdp on the city of Bologna.

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Winner of the "Réinventer Paris competition" in 2016, the Morland Mixité Capitale project aims to rehabilitate the former administrative site of the Paris prefecture. Conceived and designed by David Chipperfield Architects, CALQ Architecture and Michel Desvigne Paysagiste, it will reveal an original programme open to all publics. The project involves the structural and architectural rehabilitation of the former municipal administrative site, including the cleaning and rehabilitation of the existing building, the creation of two basement levels and the construction of new buildings on the Seine side and on the boulevard Morland side. On the ground floor, its paved courtyard and arches form a contemporary square, with active, inhabited streets and planted spaces.

The lighting project of the Girodet park was awarded on January 19 for the category :

 “outdoor lighting and landscape design”

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https://www.lightzoomlumiere.fr/article/prix-de-lacetylene-2022-la-conception-lumiere-en-europe/

Photo : © Scene Publique Parc de l’île Girodet,  Bourg-Les-Valence, Drome 

2022-23 Seminar series, Role of sections and models in landscape architecture.
TU Delft, Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment,
Department of Urbanism, Section of Landscape Architecture

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Walking through the legacy from the United States to Europe 

École nationale supérieure de paysage

Dans les pas de Frederick Law Olmsted@ecolenationalesuperieurede4087 - YouTube

Conférence de presse, mardi 28 juin 2022

Présentation du projet de parc de l'Esplanade, dans les traces de Dan Kiley.

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Exposition au Pavillon de l'Arsenal.
Restitution des travaux des quatre équipes de maîtrise d'oeuvre ayant participé à la consultation internationale.

Inauguration le lundi 27 juin 2022 à 19h.
Entrée libre du 28 juin au 28 aout 2022, du mardi au dimanche de 11h à 19h.

Site du Pavillon de l'Arsenal

May 17, 2022

Inauguration of Tour Morland, of its gardens and its planted rooftops. Situated between the Ile Saint-Louis and the Marais neighborhood, this exceptional site has been transformed as a part of “Reinvent Paris” project's call for submissions

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La 2° édition de la Biennale d’Architecture et de Paysage d’Île-de-France se tiendra à Versailles du 13 mai au 13 juillet 2022. Neuf expositions seront présentées au grand public dans des lieux prestigieux de la ville de Versailles, qui interrogeront la place et l’usage des terres dans nos modes d’occupation et de construction de nos territoires urbanisés.

Le lien entre terre et villes sera envisagé sous toutes ses formes : socle paysager, support du vivant, terres nourricières, terroirs regorgeant de ressources naturelles, aménagement circulaire, construction en terre.

« La disparition de grandes surfaces de terres agricoles, la préservation des écosystèmes dans les tissus urbanisés, le recyclage des terres d’excavation dans le cadre notamment des grands chantiers, sans comp­ter le retour de la terre comme matériau de construction sont autant de sujets d’actualité, de débats et d’interrogations. La recherche d’un nouveau paradigme permettant de concilier la préservation des terres avec une ambition architecturale et urbaine renouvelée apparait, dès lors, comme un enjeu majeur des politiques d’urbanisme. »  
François de Mazières, Commissaire général de la Biennale, Maire de Versailles.

Dans ce cadre, l’agence Michel Desvigne Paysagiste présentera l’exposition « Territoire en transformation » dans la halle de l'ancienne caserne Pion, futur quartier Gally.

A travers une sélection de projets emblématiques de l’agence, cette exposition explorera les enjeux urbains et paysagers des grandes transformations topographiques, héritées de la mutation historique de territoires dans le cas des anciens bassins miniers de l’Artois, de Meurthe-et-Moselle et de la vallée de la Meuse, ou induites par le projet dans le cas de la Lisière du campus Paris-Saclay.

L’exposition exposera les démarches de projet menées sur les bassins miniers, français et belges, où les friches des exploitations minières, les terrils et les cavaliers, sont transformées en autant de « lieux » et de « liens » pour former de vastes Chaines de parcs. Ces nouvelles aménités paysagères de grande échelle s’appuient autant sur la valeur symbolique et patrimoniale des lieux, que sur l’extraordinaire richesse écologique et paysagère acquise par ces sites durant leur transition à l’état de friches.

L’exposition présentera par ailleurs le projet de Lisière du campus de Paris-Saclay, qui a pour ambition d’articuler un ensemble de systèmes hydrauliques, d’aménagements écologiques, de parcelles expérimentales et agricoles, d’équipements sportifs et récréatifs au profit de l’invention d’un espace public d’un genre nouveau, à même de qualifier la relation entre le campus urbain et le territoire agricole du plateau. Plus généralement, l’exposition explicite le caractère pilote du projet de lisière, un modèle potentiellement diffusable et transposable pour penser la transformation de nombreuses situations urbaines contemporaines.

Pour s’y rendre :
101 rue de la Division Leclerc, 78 000 VERSAILLES.
Accès depuis la D10. Parking visiteurs à proximité de la halle.
Arrêt de bus Gally. Lignes 11/40

Jours et horaires d’ouverture de la halle :
du 13 mai au 13 juillet,
du jeudi au dimanche,
de 12h à 18h.

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Site officiel de la BAP!

Moscow, Russia
Decembre 03rd 2021

GES-2 House of culture opening: a former thermal power plant transformed by the architect Renzo Piano, on the banks of the Moskova River. The garden designed by MDP is partitioned into two distinct entities: a large lawn, functioning as a sort of forecourt to the museum; and a wooded area of birch trees, whose dense planting recalls traditional Russian landscapes.

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Thursday, November 11, 2021 / 13h45
Grand Council Hall, Sion, Switzerland

Territorial perspectives and food: from global to local, from rural to urban, from field to plate.

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Friday October 15^th, 10 am

On the occasion of the Journées Nationales de l'Architecture 2021, Architecturestudio continues the cycle of AS mornings with an event dedicated to heritage buildings of the 20th century.

Michel Desvigne will address the scale of major facilities, their relationship to the city and territories, notably through the redevelopment of the Southampton quay that he recently completed in Le Havre.

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Paris, France

The four teams selected to work on the redevelopment of the cathedral's surroundings were announced on September 27 by the Mayor of Paris, following an international consultation launched in the spring of 2021.

The project team led by MDP Michel Desvigne Paysagiste includes the agencies Grafton Architectes and h2o, Urban Eco, Ingérop, Cronos conseil, BMF, 8'-18'', Casson Mann, Vraiment Vraiment, Des Signes Graphiques, Mosaic.

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ONLINE OPENING

September 16 th – 5:00 pm - 5:30pm (Korea Standard Time)
September 17 th – 5:00 pm – 8:00pm (Korea Standard Time)

The Opening will be held online via SBAU2021 Youtube channel and website. Following the event, the Seoul Biennale will open with six exhibitions. MDP project “Euralens centrality and Chain of parks” will be part of the “Cities Exhibition”.

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SBAU2021 YouTube Channel 

Principality of Monaco
June 03, 2021

The new Larvotto Beach facilities were inaugurated today in the presence of His Serene Highness Albert II of Monaco. (Lead consultant : Renzo Piano Building Workshop)

Pavillon de l'Arsenal, Paris, France
May 26 - September 26, 2021

How climate, epidemics and energy have shaped cities and buildings.

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Annual symposium of Landscape and energy Chair
ENSP Versailles | Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Paysage

Lecture & discussion online / 14h

Renzo Piano Building Workshop group is the winner of the architectural competition for the future university hospital campus Saint-Ouen Grand Paris-Nord.⁠

Project Team : RPBW Renzo Piano Building Workshop, Brunet Saunier Architecture, Ingérop, SLETEC Ingénierie, MDP Michel Desvigne Paysagiste (image: RPBW, rendering Artefactory)

The Esplanade, a major public space in La Défense business district, is part of the historic axis linking the Louvre, the Tuileries garden (Le Nôtre), the Champs Elysées and the Great Arche. One of the challenges of its requalification as a park will be to preserve the classical character that Dan Kiley gave it in 1972, when he proposed a modern reinvention of the French garden.

Project Team : MDP Michel Desvigne Paysagiste, Urban Eco, Arcadis, Ville Ouverte, JML, 8‘18”

INTERNATIONAL ONLINE CONFERENCE AND EXHIBITION
Promossa della Fondazione Annali dell'architettura e delle città 
a cura del Dipartimento di Architettura Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II

11 Dec 2020 / online / 11 h

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The Southampton Quay (Le Havre), is awarded the Equerre d’argent 2020 Prize, in Public and Landscaped Spaces category.

Team : MDP Michel Desvigne Paysagiste, IHA Inessa Hansch Architecte, Artelia, SNAIK, Pro Développement

What the jury thought: "A powerful statement about the dimension of the landscape. Without any anecdotal development. With a few lines and very few elements, this incredibly powerful project succeeded in transforming a place of waste. The public space catches the poetry of the void, the city, the ocean and the rough modernity of the Perret brothers' architecture".

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Moscow, Russia

Images from the construction site

NAL Norvegian Association of Landscape Architecture
Bergen, Norway
October 30, 2020 / 15h50 online

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Faculty of Architecture, University of Manitoba
Winnipeg, Manitoba, R3T 2M6, Canada 

October 23rd 2020
Location : Zoom , Time: 12pm (Canada) 19h (Paris)

For close to thirty years, MDP has designed and implemented numerous major projects in France and around the world. Michel Desvigne will present, during this lecture, a selection of these territorial scale operations.

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Paris, France

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Cité de l'architecture et du patrimoine
Paris, France

September 8, 2020
Michel Desvigne : Round Table discussion 2, 11:45-12:30 pm

The 3rd National meeting dedicated to the "Action Cœur de Ville" program will be held on the theme "Recovery and Resilience". This event will be chaired by Jacqueline Gourault, Minister of Territorial Cohesion and Relations with Local Authorities.

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Liege, Belgium

MDP Michel Desvigne Paysagiste has been announced as the winner of the international competition for urban and territorial expertise to contribute to the City of Liège's territorial project, in Belgium.

Publication director: Françoise Fromonot

Birkhäuser, Basel. 2020

For close to thirty years, Michel Desvigne has designed and implemented numerous major projects in France and around the world. This book presents in detail ten of these territorial scale operations. What intentions, strategies and professional culture underscore their design process? What landscapes and uses are produced by these projects that mature over a long period of time? In this book, Michel Desvigne reflects on these questions, which are central to his practice, and on the main themes that run through his work. His insights and analysis are complemented by the observations of architecture critic Françoise Fromonot, landscape historian Dorothée Imbert, philosopher Gilles A. Tiberghien and photographer Patrick Faigenbaum.

Hardcover / livre relié

ISBN : 978-3-03821-982-8 (English)
ISBN : 978-3-03821-983-5 (Français)

PDF

ISBN : 978-3-0356-0997-4 (English)
ISBN : 978-3-0356-0998-1 (Français)

Liège University

Web Lecture_ live or replay
13 May, 2020 - 18h15

Michel Desvigne will explore the social dynamics of the territory and the urban regeneration of the mining basin through the projects of Euralens and Chain of Parks.

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MDP Michel Desvigne Paysagiste has asked, since March 12th, all staff to work from home and to limit all visits to the office to a minimum.

The office's ability to operate remotely has been tested and we are confident that we will continue to work as a team, to collaborate and to ensure the continuity of our various projects.

We stay in contact with you by phone on our direct lines, by e-mail, and possibly via video-conference.

AHO Oslo School of Architecture and Design
Maridalsveien 29, 0175 Oslo, Norway

13 February 2020, 17 h

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Paris, France

Paris & Métropole Aménagement has selected the urban and landscape team led by the MDP Michel Desvigne Paysagiste for the development of the Gare des Mines-Fillettes (20 ha), Paris.

Project team: MDP Michel Desvigne Paysagiste for, LIN / Particules, Une Fabrique De La Ville, Ingerop, Urban Eco, 8’18’’, J-P. Lamoureux

Launch of preliminary design studies on 89 kilometers of European scale canal.
Sectors 2 (from Passel to Allaines) and 4 (from Etricourt-Manancourt to Aubencheul-au-Bac) have been assigned to the ONE Group of Companies, led by EGIS International in partnership with INGEROP Engineering, ISL Engineering, SBE, MDP Michel Desvigne Paysagiste and NEY Partners.

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Faculty of Architecture CTU
Thákurova 9, Prague 6-Dejvice
November 25th, 2019
18 h, Gočár Hall 155 

This year, the November discussions by international architects, urban planners and landscape architects at the Faculty of Architecture at the CTU (Prague) will address the changing boundaries of these professions and the tasks assigned to them in today’s rapidly changing world.

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Moscow, Russia

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Le Havre, France

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Bourg-Lès-Valence, France
July 8th, 2019

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Antica Locanda Solferino
Via Castelfidardo 2, 20121 Milano, Italia
20 june 2019

The Landscape Architecture Series: Water cycle, organised by Fondazione Ordine Architetti di Milano and curated by Nina Bassoli - Lotus international, brings the protagonists of contemporary landscape design to Milan, offering a close look at some of the most important landscape projects carried out in recent years in Europe.

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Salone d’Onore e Teatro Agorà. Viale Alemagna, 6, Milano, Italia
20 june 2019

City_Brand & Tourism Landscape, International Symposium is back in its fifth edition, emphasizing once again that the landscape today plays important functions of general interest, on a cultural, ecological, environmental and social level, constitutes a resource favorable to the activity economic, and it is also an important element of the quality of life of the populations, of the urban areas and in the countryside, in degraded territories as in those of great quality.

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Arc-en-rêve, Bordeaux, France
June 19^th – November 03^rd 2019

Inservitude (“Inservity”) brings together a collection of works of international reference, as well as experiences of thought and architectural creation that express a vision of the world. Projects that take us back in time (from 1980 to 2020) and into space, from Bordeaux or elsewhere, mark this exhibition, which invites landscape designers and architects.

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The requalification of the Lys quays in Kortrijk won the 2019 Infopunt Public Ruimte prize for the best public space in Flanders and Brussels. For the first time, the votes of the jury and the public consultation have chosen the same winning project.

Infopunt Public Ruimte represents 150 Flemish cities and municipalities, provincial and regional government institutions, as well as private companies and organisations active in the field of public space.

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Ecole Nationale Supérieur d'Architecture de Paris-Belleville, Paris, France

Thursday 8.11.2018 | Amphi Huet | 19:00

Lecture series with the support of the Sto-Stiftung Foundation

This year, the "November Talks" invite three international practitioners to talk about the relationship that representation has with the project in their practices, whether they take place on a landscape, city or architectural scale. Lectures organized and led by Françoise Fromonot.

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Le Garance project is awarded « Défis Urbains 2018 » Prize,
catégory : functional mixity
Team : Métra+Associés, Michel Desvigne Paysagiste, Arcoba, Eiffage Construction

Paris, France
Press Day for the delivery of the Beaupassage project: an island of shops and housing in the heart of the 7th district of Paris, next to the Maillol Museum, at the crossroads of rue du Bac, Boulevard Raspail and rue de Grenelle.

Opening: August 25, 2018 

Cité de l’architecture et du Patrimoine, Paris, France
Wednesday April 11th, 19h

For thirty years, Montpellier's urban policy has created the conditions for one of the strongest demographic growth in the country. Conducted in continuity, but reconfigured mandate after mandate, it will be analyzed through the Port-Marianne district.

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MDP wins the Alzette-Belval cross-border landscape redevelopment project. The project will set up a global and structuring landscape vision for the 8 French communes within the perimeter of the National Interest Operation.
Team: MDP Michel Desvigne Paysagiste (lead consultant), Ville Ouverte, Egis

Saturday, March 24th, Kortrijk, Belgium

Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, MA, US
March 8, 2018, 7pm, Calderwood Hall

The Landscape Lectures are annual series of engaging and inspirational presentations from leading voices in the field of landscape architecture. Internationally renowned designers present their recent work articulating landscape as a medium of design for the social, cultural, and ecological life of the city.

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