News Designs unveiled for Bayeux Tapestry’s new home UK-headquartered architect RSHP has unveiled its designs for the Bayeux Tapestry museum, which has occupied Bayeux’s 17th Century Grand Séminaire for the last 40 years. The new museum will be…
News Eiffage to renovate mixed-use Paris project French engineer Eiffage has won a €92m contract to renovate the 25,000 sq m “Cristallis” project in northern Paris’ ninth arrondissement. The three buildings that make up Cristallis will in…
News Macron woos UK nuclear start-up to build first factory in France London-based nuclear power start-up Newcleo is in talks with investors to raise up to €1bn to develop its generation IV small modular reactor powered by nuclear waste. It would use…
News France now wants 14 new reactors The French government says it wants to build eight more nuclear reactors on top of the six previously announced. Energy transition minister Agnes Pannier-Runacher told La Tribune Dimanche that more…
News Holcim and Zaha Hadid Architects team up to print circular bridge A pedestrian bridge has been 3D-printed in Lyon by a team that included Swiss cement-maker Holcim, British designer Zaha Hadid Architects, ETH Zürich and Austrian printing specialist Incremental3D. The precursor…
News Eiffage team wins €2.5bn Line 15 East on Grand Paris Express A nine-company consortium has won a €2.5bn design-and-build contract for a section of Line 15 East of the Grand Paris Express between Bobigny-Pablo Picasso station and Champigny Centre. The consortium…
News Huawei to build first European factory “next year” Chinese tech company Huawei plans to start work on its first European factory next year, Reuters reports. The Strasbourg plant will make electronic devices for use in mobile networks. A…
News 85-tonne-a-day hydrogen plant planned for Nantes French green-hydrogen specialist Lhyfe has been chosen by the Port of Nantes Saint-Nazaire to build a green hydrogen factory in Montoir-de-Bretagne at the mouth of the Loire River. It’s expected…
News Bouygues, Peikko join to promote “steel concrete” method for nuclear Finnish Peikko Group, a supplier of specialist steel and concrete structures, has signed a contract to work with French contractor Bouygues Travaux Publics to develop a “steel concrete” construction method…
News Work begins on MVRDV’s ‘urban oasis’ in Paris Construction has begun – and the first trees have been planted – at an 18-storey apartment block in the southwest suburbs of Paris. The “urban oasis” in Issy-les-Moulineaux was designed…
Projects RVA blows up French power station Engineering consultant RVA Group has overseen phase one of a three-stage decommissioning and demolition project at the disused Lucy III coal power station in Montceau-les-Mines, France. The works involved the…
News Huge residential timber tower completed in Paris A 50m-tall timber tower in Paris has been completed, complete with 77 residential units, a ground-floor art gallery and restaurant. The €18.5m Le Berlier building was designed by Franco-Australian architect…
News Vinci team picked to handle spoil from world’s longest rail tunnel A Vinci-led consortium has won an €800m contract to deal with 23 million tonnes of spoil produced in the boring of the 45km French section of the Mont Cenis base…
Projects ‘Not an icon’: Swiss architects finish no-nonsense social housing scheme in Paris Basel-headquartered architecture firm Christ & Gantenbein is celebrating the completion of its first Paris project, a 10,500-sq-m, 104-unit social housing development over five floors in the 15th arrondissement. Begun in…
News Six French companies fined for nuclear bid-rigging France’s competition watchdog has fined six companies a total of €31m for collusive tendering connected to work on the Marcoule nuclear site near Avignon. The companies affected, all of which…
News Taiwanese battery maker gets €1.5bn to build French plant The French government is to give €1.5bn to Taiwanese battery maker ProLogium to build a factory near Dunkirk. The company announced its intention to base its first large-scale overseas production…
News €247m to be spent on modernising motorway between France and Italy A total of €247m in funding has been raised for modernisation and safety work on the A32 motorway that connects northwest Italy and France via the Frejus tunnel. The project…
News France and Taiwan finance $3.5m Ukrainian bridge Taiwan has announced that a memorandum of understanding has been signed with the Kyiv city government to build a $2.5m bridge to the city’s Obolon Island. Some $1m in funding…