Friday June 3rd, 2016
For the past few months, our site workers haven’t been the only ones working on the L2 project. Graffiti artists have been expressing their creativity on freshly dried concrete, painting large frescoes on the structures of the future bypass. Art is being created behind the walls for the benefit of all in Marseille. Currently under […]
For the past few months, our site workers haven’t been the only ones working on the L2 project. Graffiti artists have been expressing their creativity on freshly dried concrete, painting large frescoes on the structures of the future bypass. Art is being created behind the walls for the benefit of all in Marseille.
Currently under construction, the L2 Marseille bypass will link the northern and eastern motorways through a 9.7 km connection between the Arnavaux (A7) and Florian (A50) interchanges. The bypass will offer an efficient alternative to going through the city centre and will increase travel between the city’s different neighbourhoods and suburbs. It will also form part of the urban fabric and the development projects currently underway.
In partnership with the Planète Emergences association, La Société de la Rocade L2, who is behind the project, invited artists to express themselves on the massive, open-air walls. The graffiti is a break from the grey motorway and opens it up to the neighbourhoods it passes through, inspired by local history, geography, architecture, and the social and urban environment. It is a major urban art project that should be seen and enjoyed, one that strengthens the link between people and spaces.
At each interchange there will be a large-scale mural that tells a story, demonstrating the graffiti artists’ talent, and the diversity of perspectives and techniques. Drivers will be able to discover a wide range of symbols during car journeys.
In order to respect safety requirements for drivers, the tagged walls are on slip roads, and the artistic stance favours large works featuring giant designs, avoiding small details.
A citizen-focused project creating linksThe Murs de la L2 project is at the heart of the city. Artists have been involved in each step of the project, in partnership with educational establishments and community centres through workshops and collaborative programmes.
The first sections, which began in 2015, will be revealed this summer, when the eastern section of the project will be opened to traffic. Artists will then be involved until 2017 to give life and colour to the northern part of the bypass.
The Floatgen project, the largest offshore wind turbine in France on which construction is soon due to be completed in the port of Saint-Nazaire, has won the Usine Nouvelle 2017 Renewable Energies Trophy for Energy Transition at the ceremony organised on Tuesday 16 May in the presence of Jean Jouzel, climatologist and former vice-president of GIEC.
Rising to the environmental challenge posed by construction-site spoil, we have sought to offer a reliable, safe solution for optimising resources.
On October 19, the new Yves Saint Laurent Museum in Marrakech was opened to the public. This haute-couture museum was imagined by the Studio KO architects, and designed & built by the teams of BYMARO, the Moroccan subsidiary of Bouygues Construction. This inauguration, which has received international media attention, is for BYMARO, the end of an exciting journey to deliver an exclusive and high end project to one of their most discerning clients.
BIM World is back on 28-29 March! And Bouygues Construction will be represented at this umbrella event for the digital transformation in construction, real estate, and urban planning; with the goal of leading way in the digital transformation of our industry.
You must have crossed a few without knowing where they came from. Whether crossing rivers, spanning mountains, or connecting communities, bridges shape the landscape, defy the laws of gravity and often take our breath away. Bouygues Construction’s bridge building expertise made these engineering marvels possible. Discover some of the most remarkable achievements.
In a consortium with Soletanche Bachy, Bessac and Sade, Bouygues Travaux Publics has won lot T3A of line 15 South of the Grand Paris Express, comprising civil engineering works between the stations of Pont de Sèvres and Fort d’Issy-Vanves-Clamart.
Bouygues Bâtiment Ile-de-France, subsidiary of Bouygues Construction, signed a partnership with Les Canaux to design and build a 170-square-meter terrace. Built from reclaimed materials along the Canal de l’Ourcq and beneath the Maison des Canaux, this terrace was drawn up by architect and set designer Myrtille Fakhreddine and urban gardener Cédric Derouin. A temporary space (the Terrace will be taken down on 2 September), built using materials from company building sites and other sources!
8 March is International Women’s Day. A day to denounce inequalities. A day for society to move forward and modernise. On this occasion, Bouygues Construction is launching a recruitment campaign geared towards women, for more gender equality in the Group.
After "Wizom Connected", Bouygues Construction's connected housing solution, the group is now launching an adaptable housing offer called "Wizom for Life". Presented during a trade show for mayors from the Paris region, it rounds out the Wizom housing offer and paves the way for a more flexible and modular home.
