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Arc-en-rêve, Bordeaux, France

Opening: September 23, 2021 – 18h30
Exhibition:  September 23, 2021 – January 23, 2022

Arboretum presents a selection of projects and ideas from various areas and different locations, highlighting how trees can be architectural components and how they have been the object of architects’ speculation.

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Sainte-Adresse, France

Le groupement AUC - MDP a été désigné lauréat du concours pour la réhabilitation du site de l'ancien école nationale de la marine marchande en parc habité.

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)

SYMPOSIUM AND EXHIBITION OPENING
TU Delft, Netherlands | Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment

Lecture & discussion online / 05.02.21 - 16 h 30

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Publication director: Françoise Fromonot
Birkhäuser, Basel. 2020

The American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) has distinguished Transforming landscapes, Michel Desvigne Paysagiste as one of the best books on landscape architecture in 2020 (Top 10 !).

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Politecnico di Milano | Scuola di Architettura Urbanistica Ingegneria delle Costruzioni
Dipartimento di Architettura e Studi Urbani

Lunedì, 30 Novembre 2020
14:30 - 16:30 | Online

Hochschule München University of Applied Sciences 

Fakultät Architektur, Munich

Location : online  / Time : 19h

Paris, France

The UNESCO Building V (Miollis), built between 1966 and 1969 by architect Bernard Zehrfuss and the designer builder Jean Prouvé, will be the subject of a rehabilitation operation. On this occasion, the MDP Michel Desvigne Paysagiste agency will be in charge of requalifying the 5900 m² of outdoor spaces surrounding the cultural institution.

Project team : Agence Patriache (mandataire), MDP Michel Desvigne Paysagiste, Gilles Ragot (historien), Casso & Associés (sécurité et coordination), Omega Alliance BET, Cabinet Lamoureux (acoustique).

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ARCHIPEL
October 29^th, 2020
Location : Online , Time: 20 h

Michel Desvigne, author of the reconstruction of the quays of the Vieille Lys in Kortrijk (awarded the prize for the best public space in Flanders and Brussels during the Congress on Public Space in 2019), will discuss the place of landscape in public space during this lecture.

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La Seine Musicale, Ile Seguin
92100 Boulogne-Billancourt, France

19 octobre 2020
Intervention de Michel Desvigne : Table ronde, 13h55-14h40

The ecological transition will be at the heart of the Innovation Day Monitor debates. Michel Desvigne will discuss the place of vegetal in urban space.

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The project of urban requalification of Cité des sciences -Terrasse des Hauts Fourneaux, in Esch-Belval (Luxemburg) is awarded the Bauhärepräis OAI 2020 prize, category: Urban planning / urbanism / landscape.
Team : MDP Michel Desvigne Paysagiste, AREAL, IHA Inessa Hansch Architecte, Icone

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Bordeaux, France

MDP Michel Desvigne Paysagiste has been selected for the new framework agreement for the construction of public spaces in Brazza and the parkway of Bordeaux right bank.
Project team : Y. Tohmé architecte (lead consultant), MDP Michel Desvigne Paysagiste, INGEROP

Principality of Monaco
June 02nd 2020

The new Casino Square was inaugurated today in the presence of His Serene Highness Albert II of Monaco.

Plateau de Saclay, France

The Paris-Saclay Urban Campus construction sites are gradually returning to activity since the deconfinement plan announced by the Government came into place. Some sites had already resumed activity on 20 April.

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Transitons énergét(h)iquement

WEB – ROUND TABLE DISCUSSION  live or replay
07 May 2020 à 18h

Event organized by the Conseil régional de l'Ordre des architectes de Nouvelle-Aquitaine to lay the foundations for a constructive reflection on ecological transition.

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Liège University

Campus du Centre-ville, Complexe Opéra
Place de la République française, 35
4000 Liège, Belgium

04 March, 2020 - Salle Thiry – 18h15

Michel Desvigne will explore the urban and landscape regeneration of the mining basin through the Euralens and Chaîne des Parcs projects.

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OSKAR VON MILLER FORUM
Oskar-von-Miller-Ring 25
80333 München

30 January 2020
18 h 30 

Michel Desvigne will address the transformation of the profession of landscape architect and its challenges.

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Sion, Switzerland

Herzog & de Meuron and Michel Desvigne Paysagiste have been announced as the winners of the international urban design competition for a new master plan for Ronquoz 21, in Sion, Switzerland. The competition was organized by the Ville de Sion to find a gradual long-term vision for a 60 ha transformation area.

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Marseille, France

MDP Michel Desvigne Paysagiste is project leader of the team retained by the Euroméditerranée public development institution (EPAEM) for the requalification of public spaces (10 ha) along the Cap Pinède-Capitaine Gèze axis. This key area runs along a 1.6 km stretch of the northern border of the extension of the Euroméd urban development project (169 ha). Project team includes Ingérop (engineering) and Stoa (architect and urban planning firm).

Montpellier, France

Images from the construction site

Le Havre, France
September 28th, 2019, 11h.

Paris, France
11 July, 2019

The jury selected the project of the team led by Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners as the winner of the major urban planning consultation for the redevelopment of the Maine-Montparnasse districtin Paris.
Design team: Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners, Lina Ghotmeh, Michel Desvigne Paysagiste, Une Fabrique de la Ville

Hyatt regency Nice
Palais de la Méditerranée
05 July, 2019

For more than 25 years, Michel Desvigne has been working in the Port Marianne area, a former agricultural landscape on the outskirts of Montpellier. Through many projects, the "agricultural language" is transposed to other scales, and for other uses. A vast landscape structure is gradually being put in place, accompanying the urban metamorphosis of Montpellier.

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Assimpredili Ance, Sala Giunta
Via San Maurilla 21, Milano, Italia
20 june 2019, 17h30-19h30

The Assimpredil Ance Study Centre has promoted a new cycle of meetings, called Market Metamorphosis, on the transformation and change of the construction market with exclusive interviews with those who are designing and building its boundaries.

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Pavillon de l’Arsenal, Paris, France
June 07^th – September 01, 2019

The Pavillon de l'Arsenal and 11 Parisian venues present, through the exhibition "Les Routes du futur du Grand Paris", the work on the prospective visions of the teams for the future of motorways, ring road, expressways or structuring roads by 2030 and 2050. Michel Desvigne Paysagiste is part of the Shared utility networks - SUN (Rogers Stirk Harbour & Partners) team.

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Atelier Projet Urbain N°47
Louvre-Lens Museum, Lens, France, June 6^th & 7^th  2019
Michel Desvigne : June 6^th

The Urban Project Workshop "Phoenix Territories" created and led by Ariella Masboungi will explore the social dynamics of the territory and the urban regeneration phenomena of the mining basin. Visits, debates and lectures will be organized over two days.

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Detroit East Riverfront, Michigan, US

The American Institute of Architects (AIA) has announced the recipients of the 2019 Institute Honor Awards. The Detroit East Riverfront Framework Plan received an Honor Award for regional and Urban Design, which recognizes the best in urban design, regional and city planning, and community development. The best planning accounts for the entire built environment, local culture, and available resources - modeling architecture's promise and true value to communities.

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The official opening date of the Royal Museum for Central Africa Tervuren (BE) has been announced: December 8, 2018 

Palazzo della Triennale. Milano, Italia

“The Landscape as a strategy. The Quality of the Landscape for a Quality Architecture.”

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Lyon, France

After two years of work, the A3 block of the Confluence, known as Ynfluences Square, was inaugurated on Friday 18 May. This first block of the ZAC 2 Lyon Confluence illustrates the principles of the master plan defined by the Herzog & de Meuron agency and landscape architect Michel Desvigne.

MDP wins the call for tender about the urban and landscape study on the open spaces of the EMGP district, straddling the districts of Aubervilliers and Saint-Denis.
Team: MDP Michel Desvigne Paysagist : lead consultant, Tugec, Urban-éco.

MDP was assigned the project management assistance for the implementation of the « Chaîne des parcs du bassin minier ». Initiated by MDP since 2013, it provides a park system in a vast area of nearly 2 400 ha, including 100 km of paths and 7 major parks.
Project team: MDP Michel Desvigne Paysagiste (lead consultant), Ville Ouverte, Algoe, Biotope, Cabinet Huet.

Detroit East Riverfront, Michigan, US

The Detroit East Riverfront Framework Plan —a plan for the revitalization of 2.2 miles of Detroit's historic but long-neglected East Riverfront District—won an Honor Award in the Illinois Chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects (ILASLA).  The annual program recognizes individuals or organizations that have enhanced the Illinois landscape or promoted the profession of landscape architecture.

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Agency portrait published as a supplement to AMC 264, November 2017

This portrait, in the form of an interview, focuses on MDP approach to composition, illustrated by a selection of ordinary photographs of projects, some of them quite novel, which rely on the effects of time. 

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Los Angeles, CA, US

Herzog & de Meuron, in collaboration with Michel Desvigne Paysagiste, Inessa Hansch architect and executive architect Gensler, have revealed designs for a new “Scholars’ Campus” for global think tank the Berggruen Institute to be located in the Santa Monica Mountains overlooking the city of Los Angeles.
(image Herzog & de Meuron)

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September 24th 2017. Hangar 14, Bordeaux, France.
14h00 – 15h00: « Draw me a landscape »
15h00 – 17h00: A tribute to Michel Corajoud

September 20-24th 2017. Hangar 14, Bordeaux, France.
Movies : "moving landscapes"
“Mirror left bank / right bank”, interview with Michel Corajoud, landscape architect for the left bank dock, and Michel Desvigne, landscape architect of Parc aux Angéliques right bank. 

Pavillon de l'Arsenal, Paris, France

From June 27 th to September 24th, several MDP projects' will be shown at "ARCHITECTURES JAPONAISES À PARIS, 1867- 2017". 

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Palazzo della Triennale. Milano, Italia
“The Landscape as a strategy. The Quality of the Landscape for a Quality Architecture.” This is the third edition of an international event that was created with the shared objective of establishing light reflection on landscape projects.

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Le Carré des Docks, Le Havre, France
Key Note speech by Michel Desvigne Paysagiste and Inessa Hansch Architecte, about Southampton quay project in Le Havre. Located in the downstream part of the large maritime port, this seafront serves as an interface between the industrial world of the port and the urban world of the city center.

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From March 15 th to July 24th, several MDP projects' will be shown at "Jardins", an exhibition organized by the Réunion des musées nationaux – Grand Palais, Paris, France.

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MDP wins the competition for the redevelopment of the city of Montluçon (France).
Team: MDP Michel Desvigne Paysagiste / BAU Joan Busquets (lead consultant) / Atelier 4 / Merlin. 

Inauguration of Jussieu campus, Paris (France) : Saturday October 1st, 2016. 
Team: Michel Desvigne Paysagiste, Architectre studio (lead consultant). 

Michel Desvigne Paysagiste is awarded " Défis Urbains 2016 " Prize for the redevelopment of access to the Garonne from Saint-Pierre Square.
This realization is part of an overall project revalorizing the public spaces of the heart of Toulouse city. Team: Michel Desvigne Paysagiste, Joan Busquets urban-planner (lead consultant).

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Michel Desvigne Paysagiste is selected by the Detroit RiverFront Conservancy and the City of Detroit Planning Department to develop a comprehensive plan for the city’s East Riverfront District. Team: Michel Desvigne Paysagiste / Skidmore, Owings & Merrill SOM (lead consultant) /  HR&A Advisors / Mohsen Mostafavi

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Michel Desvigne Paysagiste wins the urban and landscape design of the 250 hectares of the Triangle de Gonesse. 
Team: Michel Desvigne Paysagiste / Güller Güller (Lead consultant) / Van Beek  / TVK / Artelia