Wonder Building, Bagnolet, FranceThe long glazed façade with horizontal lines and diagonals follows the peripheral boulevard and creates a new urban signal for the Porte de Bagnolet as much as it shields against the nuisance of the boulevard for its employees and the inhabitants of Bagnolet. Lead Architect: ColdefyCollaborators: Bollinger+Grohmann, Sylvain Maury , BASE, Projex, […]
Thomas Coldefy and Isabel Van Haute, founders of Coldefy, gave a lecture on the role of the void in architecture at the LifeCycles Festival (29 September 2022, Ghent) Thanks to the organizers for the invitation! […]
We are happy to announce the groundbreaking of Lake11, in Budapest’s 11th District.Following a competitive process for the Urban Design of 8 hectares of new residential park area called Lake City, Coldefy was selected with Demeter Design Studio and 5LM to develop approximately 175 units of housing with parking, services, and supporting commercial spaces.The design […]
Coldefy has been selected winner of the competition for the construction of over 50 units of individual, intermediary, and collective housing units in Amiens ZAC Renancourt. Primarily driven by the desire to integrate the development into the landscape, the project is organized around landscaped areas with dedicated private and collective exterior spaces, encouraging connection with […]
Coldefy has been selected winner of the competition for the construction of a new Parking structure in Saclay, France. Located at the entrance of ZAC Corbeville urban development area, the parking structure has the opportunity to signal the entrance to the area, as well as connect with the green corridor via an integrated garden, all […]
Our Project Parenthèse in Marc-en-Baroeul has been selected among the 20 winners for remarkable projects and initiatives in real estate. The project is developed by Aire Nouvel / Aventim, aiming to bring life to a district through the creation of a new sustainable office building on strategic triangular site just outside of Lille. […]
We are proud to announce that JDSA / Julien De Smedt Architects (DK), Coldefy (FR), CRA-Carlo Ratti Associati (IT), NL Architects (NL) and Ensamble Studio (SP) have formed a collective of united European architects and won the First Prize of the international competition to design a new European Parliament building in Brussels. Stay tuned for […]
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We are honored to be included among the worldarchfest 2022 Shortlist. We will present our Lille based project Echo at WAF2022 – see you in Lisbon, November 30 – December 2. […]
We are happy to announce the groundbreaking of Paul Duez Secondary School in Cambrai, France, that celebrates the well-being necessary for learning and for the development of life. It will be the first one to be built in wood in the North of France. Thus, the building’s primary purpose is to ensure the comfort of […]
On June 29th, Thomas Coldefy took part in the CARPARK FUTURES COMPETITION Roundtable and Prize-giving ceremony organized by DPA-X and Indigo Group. Joined by Dominique Perrault, Architect and Urbanist, Serge Clemente, President of Indigo, and many others, the competition and event, held at Tripostal Lille, aims to encourage the emergence of innovative solutions linked to […]
Our evolving global context imposes many changes in terms of the transformation of life in the city and the consumption of our fragile resources. Culminating at 48 meters high in this changing port district, the Elithis Le Havre tower, that will composed by 74 housing units, is a new positive energy lighthouse that re-interprets our relationship […]
Thomas Coldefy and Marc Franco will be representing the studio at MIPIM World 2022 in Cannes from March 15-18. Get in touch with us at communication@coldefy.fr, we look forward to meeting with you. […]
The New Cité Administrative of Lille has broken ground this week! It is intended to revitalize the southern sector of the city with an innovative and virtuous architecture. The project was designed by Valode & Pistre and Coldefy, and is being carried out by Bouygues Bâtiment Nord-Est. […]
Coldefy is exhibiting during the Chicago Biennial of Architecture. Opening night with a panel about sensitive architecture,or architecture sensible, and the relationship between building and memory, as seen in the National Pulse Memorial & Museum in Orlando. Exhibition about the creative process behind Coldefy’s work, until December 5th, at the Alliance Française. […]
Listen to Thomas Coldefy in the All Good Vibes podcast by Floornature.com! Thomas shares with us his rich experience abroad, and his begin with the construction of the Hong Kong Design Institute, followed by a series of important assignments from Bao’an Artistic and Cultural Center in Shenzhen, the innovative offices Wonder Building, Fondation de Chine […]
Coldefy is proud to announce the expansion of our leadership team with three new partners. With the appointment of Simon Ducreu, Marc Franco, and Zoltán Neville as Partner Architects, we broaden our leadership, reinforcing our expertise and ability to design and manage high-quality, complex projects in France and internationally. Founding partners Thomas Coldefy and Isabel […]
We are proud to announce Coldefy – Residence G, North of France has received a Prize from the Chicago Athenaeum’s European Centre in the International Architecture Awards in the PRIVATE HOUSES category. An exhibition of the award winners is on display: from 10 September to 6 October 2021 The European Centre Athens, Mitropoleos 74, Athens […]
Zoltán Neville has the privilege to be a part of the jury of the Budapest Architecture Excellence Award, organized by the Municipality of Budapest and the Budapest Chamber of Architects. This prestigious award recognizes architectural solutions that increase the liveability of Hungary’s only metropolis in the face of the increasing challenges of urban life, highlighting […]
This past month we were thankful to finally be able to regroup much of our French teams in person for the first time in over a year! Our summer party was held in our recently delivered GARAGE on Boulevard Carnot in Lille, where we presented new projects, shared exciting news, and enjoyed each other’s company in […]
On 27 July 12-12.45 (Paris time), Thomas Coldefy and Isabel Van Haute are giving a webinar on the Fondation de Chine at the Cité Internationale universitaire de Paris de Paris. Actually under construction, the future student residency, designed by Coldefy and FCJZ, will be delivered in 2023. Subscription here. […]
The junior high school Paul Duez in Cambrai, France, supported by Ramery and designed by Coldefy (together with Ramery), winner of the competition launched by the Department du Nord! It will be the first “wood junior high school” and the first to be certified HQE Environmental Building in the North of France. Its morphology is […]
We are pleased to invite you to visite “Tropicalia – Architecture, Materials, Innovative Systems”, Collateral Event of the Biennale Archittettura 2021, curated by Thomas Coldefy and Alessandro Possati. At Squero Castello, Salizada Streta 368, Venice. From May 22 to November 21, 2021. More details here. […]
Isabel Van Haute has the privilege to be part of the jury of the GRAND PRIX AFEX 2021. This award, organized by AFEX (the French Architects Overseas) rewards every second year a remarkable work delivered abroad by a French architects. The palmares of projects and the winning one will be unveiled at the Venice architecture […]
Coldefy winner of the residential quartier Les Promenades d’Olène in Reims, France Designed during the sanitary crisis and its confinement in March 2020, the Promenades d’Olène urban plots integrates the societal expectations of health and well-being in the city born during this particular period, such as larger housing, convivial extra spaces and a landscaped approach. […]
Thomas Coldefy is very happy to be invited to teach students in Master’s degree at École Spéciale d’Architecture Paris (www.esa-paris.fr) during this spring semester. He will support them in the development of their projects in a professional and operational manner. […]
Coldefy is proud to be composed of over 50% women, holding both staff and leadership positions within all our departments, including one of the two founding partners. They are all creative, smart, talented and a fundamental part of our team. Let’s continue to fight for equality. […]
In @thegoodlife_mag #47 focused on France’s highlights all over the world, the Hong Kong Design Institute has been ranked among the 10 icons of French architecture beyond our borders! […]
Coldefy is currently designing the Inzovu Mall in Kigali, Rwanda. Gently perched on a sloping site in the Kimihurura District, the location boasts views over the lush hills and valleys of the city of Kigali, as well as the emblematic dome of the Kigali Conference Center (KCC). Containing an open-air retail center, hotel, offices, conference […]
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Located between two major architectural buildings, Lille Grand Palais and the Cité Administrative, interfacing with the railways, the 2,000 m² of the 10.9 plot is at the heart of important issues for the life of the business district and its animation. The Euralille district bears witness to its vitality and begins a new era, focused […]
The Sébastopol-Booking.com nominee for the Archdaily Building of the Year Awards in the office category! the booking.com building is an all-concrete, triangular office building – four levels built around a central courtyard, linked to one another with monumental active stairs, visible to the outside world as a continuous glass ribbon that wraps around the building. It is […]
Verification of facade prototypes of the window framing and brickwork for the South facade of the Fondation de Chine.Located in the south of Paris between Parc Montsouris and the ring road, Cité Internationale Universitaire de Paris (CIUP) hosts nearly 12,000 students, researchers, artists and top athletes from around the world. With the Fondation de Chine, the CIUP […]
Congratulations to Chef Mathieu Boutroy of the restaurant Le Cerisier and his team, who received a star in the Michelin Guide 2021! “On the first floor of an ultra-contemporary building in the heart of Lille, the former chef of Meurin, Mathieu Boutroy, is active in a superb open kitchen.” […]
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Coldefy wishes you a fresh, dynamic, loving, human and inspiring new year. […]
WIRED magazine showcases Tropicalia among the best nature-inspired architecture 2021! “As sustainability and environmental issues start to assume a greater role in the considerations of architects and developers, it appears the age of the megabuilding may finally be over. Taking their place in 2021 are new, biophilic structures – from a school in India to […]
Thanks to Geoffroy Deffrennes for his great portrait of Thomas Coldefy and Isabel Van Haute. They are presented together with 9 artists from Lille (namely Mimi le Clown, Norman Dilworth and Julien Gosselin) in the cultural guide dedicated to the contemporary creation in Lille and North of France. The book written in French and published […]
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Garage is a rehabilitated Peugeot car garage of the 1940’s transformed into a unique “third place” dedicated to retail and innovation in the heart of Lille. Its folding facade, a technical and architectural achievement, is stimulating the public space. Coldefy challenges the limit between public and private spaces. Delivery soon. […]
On September 22, Thomas Coldefy took part in a virtual panel discussion organized by Delta Light with Konrad Buhagiar, executive director of AP Valletta, and Pippo Ciorra, principal curator of Museo Maxxi in Rome. This was part of a series of round tables dedicated to the conception of the future, this one is focused on culture. […]
On 14 November and now online, watch the online talk «We Will Not Let Hate Win» organized by the American Institute of Architects (AIA). Thomas Coldefy and Zoltán Neville, Director of Design & International Development, present the National Pulse Memorial & Museum of Orlando, a project won by a multidisciplinary team led by Coldefy. They explain […]
Garage is an architectural innovation in Lille city center. It is a unique place capable of transforming its original 3,800 m² to reinvent them and shake them up according to events, needs or encounters, until converting them into 6,500 m² of retail and innovation experience. Vozer, thanks for your article! […]
Follow here the lecture of Zhuo Wang Rolland, Dir. Asia at Coldefy, given at the occasion of the “Art, Space and Innovation Week” at the Beijing Institute of Technology on 7 December 2020. She describes the process through actual engineering cases, how the project members implement the concept, the communication process, the game between ideals and […]
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On November 27th, and still on-line, listen to Thomas Coldefy ‘s presentation “Context Matters” for the ZAK Virtual Festival of Façades 2020. […]
a world-class jury selected the proposal of Coldefy as finalist among high quality competitors for the International Performing Art Center in Shenzhen! our project proposes an innovative and flexible performing arts center characterized by three sweeping roofs, providing a new public place that responds to both the cultural tradition and innovative spirit of Shenzhen. […]
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Listen to the interview (in French) of Thomas Coldefy and Isabel Van Haute for the radio show Com d’Archi Podcast by Anne-Charlotte Depondt: they present their story and the one of the office Coldefy and conclued with a short presentation of the Pulse Memorial & Museum of Orlando. This short presentation is also available in English here. […]
The proposal of Coldefy with Valode & Pistre for the design of the Xi’an International Football Center, was finalist. The requirement was the design of a stadium for Asia Games 2023, with a masterplan and accompanying programs that complete a new CBD axis in the western district of Xi’an.our proposal balances needs of a new […]
Find here the contribution of Thomas Coldefy “La Nouvelle Normalité” (“The New Normality”) in the book “Et demain, on fait quoi? 198 contributions pour penser la ville ” (“And tomoroww, what will we do? 198 contributions to think the city”) published by the Pavillon de l’Arsenal, the center of urban planning and architecture of Paris. […]