Visiondivision were commission to design three shoe stores on Reunion Island for a local shoe tycoon. Reunion Island is an island located in the Indian Ocean, east of Madagascar. The tropical island is an overseas region of France.

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OFF Architecture, along with Duncan Lewis Scape Architecture and Jeans Giacinto, has completed the design for the reconstruction of ‘Lycee Jean Moulin’ in Revin, France.

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Parisian architect Pascal Grasso has recently completed his project of called ‘Nomiya’, which is a restaurant temporary set on the roof of ‘Le Palais de Tokyo‘ museum in Paris. ‘Nomiya’ is some kind of a small private restaurant with a panoramic view over the Seine and the Eiffel tower.

Last year the museum installed a temporary hotel room/cell structure called ‘Everland‘.

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In 2003 Shigeru Ban, Jean de de Gastines and Philip Gumuchdjian won an international competition to design Pompidou Center in Metz, France.

The 12,000 m2 cultural complex includes 6,000 m2 of exhibition space all contained under the roof. Three rectangular, cantilevered boxes house parts of the Pompidou Center’s permanent collection in a climate controlled environment.

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Eespace Jacques Villegle, (Saint Gratien, France) is currently holding a retrospective of Gilbert Garcin’s work. The French artist creates surreal collages / sculptures from paper, sand, string, rocks, pieces of a Meccano and other discarded objects which he then photographs. He almost always features a cut-out of himself in his black and white images – ‘confronting the meanings and absurdities of the human condition in stark, dream-like landscapes and situations’.

The melancholy of Garcin’s poetic ‘enactments’ never overwhelms. Instead, an optimistic humor is communicated throughout his series of allegorical works, a sense of playing in a psyche littered with fragments from the past.

Garcin himself has explained: ‘In seventy years one has gathered ten thousand souvenirs, one has a sort of attic in one’s head. Piled-up things, which end up suddenly re-emerging.’

This ‘Labyrinthe en maïs/ hommage à Victor Hugo’ by Edouard Francois called ‘Labyrinthus’ was located in Colmar, Haut-Rhin, France.

“Moquette-Maquette, 2002, designed in collaboration with Luc Vincent. For an organization that annually invites a designer to create a maze, François found inspiration in the work of French author Victor Hugo.
He realized the maze, aptly enough, in a field of maize near Colmar.

In 2004, the design reappeared in the form of a rug.”