CAAU

Projects

Educational
Hong Kong Design Institute
Hong Kong, China

Design University

42,000 m²

Competition winner

Completed 2011

Client: Vocational Training Council Hong Kong

Team: P & T Group, ARUP, PBA, ACLA, Shen, Milsom & Wilke

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Commercial
ZAC Paris-Austerlitz
Paris, France

Offices, Retail

15,443 m²

Competition

Client: ALTAREA COGEDIM

Team: Egis, Alexis Tricoire

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Educational
Collège Lucie Aubrac
Tourcoing, France

Secondary School

10,382 m²

Under Construction

Completed in 2013

Client: Conseil Général du Nord

Team: Bérim, Solener, Pergame, Anne-Sophie Motte, NP Ingénierie, Daniel Caucheteux

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Commercial
Former Shell Site
Villeneuve d'Ascq, France

Offices, Hotel Retail

26,556 m²

Competition

Client: City of Villeneuve d’Ascq

Team: Reichen et Robert, NACARAT, Citania, Projex, Diagobat

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Housing
Rue des Rogations Housing
Hellemmes, France

Multifamily housing

3,256 m² - 42 units

Completed 2012

Client: CIRMAD

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Public
Cultural Laboratory
Cambrai, France

Mediatheque + Architecture and Heritage Interpretation Center

4,150 m²

Competition

Client: Communauté d’Agglomération de Cambrais

Team: Jean-Christophe Denise, dUCKS scéno, Etienne Poncelet, HDM, Sogeti, CCVH

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Mixed use
Chantilly Station District
Chantilly, France

Housing, Retail, Rehabilitation, Parking

12,555 m²

Competition winner

In Progress

Client: ICF Nord Est + Nacarat

Team: Rabot Dutilleul, BETOM Ingénierie, Cap Terre, HDM, BKW

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Mixed use
ZAC Porte de Valenciennes
Euralille, France

Offices, Housing, Retail

9,800 m²

Competition winner

Expected completion 2013

Client: SEDAF

Team: Symoé, HDM Ingénierie, Sogeti, ETC, Rabot Dutilleul

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Public
Taichung City Cultural Center
Taichung City, Taiwan

Fine Arts Museum, Public Library

63,000 m²

Competition

Client: Taichung City Government

Team: Arup, VS-A Group, My CO2, Ta.dA lab

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Housing
ZAC Paul Claudel
Amiens, France

Housing Development

10 748 m² - 113 units

Completed 2012

Client: NACARAT, SIP

Team: BKW, Sigier

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Mixed use
Mons-en-Baroeul Centrality
Mons-en-Barœul, France

Housing and Retail

6,295 m² - 92 units

Competition winner

In Progress

Client: City of Mons-en-Barœul

Team: CIRMAD, NORPAC, Symoé, EMA paysage

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Public
Liège Design Center
Liège, Belgium

Design Center, Housing

2,200 m²

Competition

Client: SPI

Team: Nicolas Firket Architects (representative), Cordeel-Bernard, Greisch, Michaël Bihain Studio

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Public
Kobuleti Public Service Hall
Kobuleti, Georgia

Civic Center

3,500 m²

Competition winner

Client: Ministry of Justice of Georgia

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Educational
Deforest de Lewarde High School
Douai, France

Professional High School

12,443 m²

Competition

Client: Deforest De Lewarde Foundation

Team: Eiffage Construction, Agence Perrissin & Sailly, Projex, Diagobat, Atelier Altern

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Public
International Conference Center
Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso

Conference Center

17,780 m²

Competition winner

In Progress

Client: Minister of housing and urbanism of Burkina Faso

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Commercial
Rigot Stalars
Dunkirk, France

Offices, Nursery, Cafeteria

876 m²

In progress

Client: Work & Co, Piet Colruyt

Team: Norlit, Symoe

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Public
Museum of the Second World War
Gdansk, Poland

Museum

15,700 m²

Competition

Client: Museum of Gdansk

Team: OLM landscape, dUCKS scéno, APMD

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Housing
Vanhoenacker Housing
Lille, France

Multifamily Housing

5,943 m² - 79 units

In Progress

Client: Pierres & Territoires de France Nord

Team: Helios, ETR, Folliot

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Public
Amiens Mosque
Amiens, France

Religious and Cultural Center

1,063 m²

Competition winner

Client: Amiens Amenagement

Team: Soteco, Helios Engineering

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Public
Chiatura Public Service Hall
Chiatura, Georgia

Civic Center

655 m²

Competition

Client: Ministry of Justice of Georgia

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Public
Le Raquet Aquatic Center
Douai, France

Sport and Health Center

5,804 m²

Competition winner

In Progress

Client: Communauté d’agglomération de Douai

Team: Auer+Weber+Assoziierte (representative), Atelier Villes et Paysages, BETOM Ingénierie, LCO Ingénierie, Symoé, Peutz & Associés, Vanguard, Scène, VisionLab

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Housing
Rue des Stations Apartments
Lille, France

Multi-family Housing

1 820 m² - 32 units

In Progress

Client: Edouard Denis

Team: Folliot, BKW, ETC, Sigier

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Housing
Rue Voltaire Housing
Hellemmes, France

Multi-family housing

2,457 m² - 33 units

In Progress

Expected completion 2014

Client: Bouygues Immobilier,

Team: Pergame, SERC, BKW

Entreprise: Ramery

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Urban
ZAC du Mont-Houy
Valenciennes, France

Urban Design

30,959 m²

Competition

Client: Communauté d’agglomération de Valenciennes

Team: Projex, Atelier LD

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Commercial
LMH Headquarters
Tourcoing, France

Offices

11,143 m²

Competition

Client: Lille Metropole Habitat

Team: ETR, NPI, RFR, Echologos, Atelier Altern

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Mixed use
Pompidou Ave City Entrance
Valenciennes, France

Offices, Retail, Housing

13,450 m²

Competition

Client: Icade

Team: Projex, Atelier LD

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Housing
Lille Penthouse
Lille, France

Mixed-use Housing

7 749 m² - 112 units

Research

Client: ICADE, SIA habitat

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Housing
ZAC Arras Europe
Lille, France

Multifamily Housing

3 240 m² - 36 units

Under construction

Expected completion 2014

Client: SNI

Team: Projex

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Housing
ZAC de la Gibauderie
Saint-Benoît, France

Housing

2,461 m²

In Progress

Client: GTI

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Housing
Dhaze Housing
Tourcoing, France

Mixed Density Housing

7,072 m² - 80 units

Competition

Client: Lille Metropole Habitat

Team: HDM, SIB

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Commercial
Kursaal Hotel
Dunkirk, France

Hotel

5,140 m²

In Progress

Client: GMH
Team: Aymaud, Pingat

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Housing
Lille Sud Housing
Lille, France

Mixed Density Housing

10,023 m² - 100 units

Competition

Client: Foncière Logement

Team: Symoe, ETNAP

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Commercial
Colombia Center
Rennes, France

Retail Center renovation

23,800 m²

Proposal

Client: Segece

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Urban
Lohas Park Master Plan
Hong Kong, China

Urban Design

34.8 Ha

Research

Client: MTR

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Housing
Rue Verte Housing
Villeneuve d’Ascq, France

Multifamily Housing

123 units

In progress

Client: Vesta Promotion

Team: HDM, Symoe

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Public
Aulnoye-Aymeries SDIS
Aulnoye-Aymeries, France

Fire and Safety Center

2,127 m²

Competition Winner

Client: CIS of North

Team: ETNAP, NPI, Tesson, Technicity

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Public
Louvre-Lens
Lens, France

Museum

19,475 m²

Competition

Client: Region Nord-pas-de-Calais

Team: Steven Holl (representative), Field Operations

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Mixed use
Versatile Tower
New York, USA

Skyscraper

69,000 m²

Research

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Public
Port and Cruise Service Center
Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Transportation Center

29,000 m²

Competition

Client: Kaohsiung Harbor Bureau

Team: Tensys, Ramus Illumination

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Index

Project

Location

Studio

Thomas Coldefy and Isabel Van Haute are the young duo of Coldefy & Associates Architects Urban Planners (CAAU), leading the diverse international team based in Lille, France.

The firm is characterized by their dynamism and creativity, animated by an international tropism that drives them to participate regularly in professional events around the world as well as in large international competitions. Their originality and resourcefulness have brought them success in a number of entries, including the Hong Kong Design Institute which they won in 2006 against 162 teams. As a result of this success the firm has opened an office in Hong Kong where the architects now visit regularly.

The firm’s international activity extends beyond Asia, having won the international conference center in Ouagadougou, Burkina-Faso in 2009, the Public Service Hall in Kobuleti, Georgia in 2012, and was awarded the silver prize for the IDA awards 2012.

In France, CAAU continues to develop a number of projects, notably at the heart of the Lille metropolitan area where they won the competition for a mixed-use building in Euralille. Additionally, they won the Lucie Aubrac secondary school in Tourcoing, the first ‘BBC’ rated low-energy building in region. Finally, associated with Steven Holl, they were one of the five finalist teams in the international competition for the Louvre II in Lens.

The firm distinguishes itself with an open and innovative spirit acquired in high-quality international offices, particularly in the United States. Their project method employs extreme consideration to the site, an urban culture concerned with the appropriate density and diversity, as well as a conceptualization process where the various project factors are continually brought together to the point of overlap.

Henceforth positioned as a young firm not to be overlooked, the office strives to develop collaborations with the best public and private clients in both France and abroad.

Thomas Coldefy and Isabel Van Haute

People

Key people

Thomas Coldefy

Architect DESA

Principal

Isabel VAN HAUTE

Architect DESL

Artistic Director

Oliver PAGE

Architect RIBA

Office Director

Collaborators since 2006

Donatien Appler

Katrin Bergmann

Nathalie Boufflers

Camille Brulard

Fanny Caron

Sergio Carretero

Bertrand Coldefy

Chantal Coldefy

Geoffrey Cordonnier

Monika Cysek

Geoffrey Diackiw

Caroline Dolacinski

Jean-Pierre Dorges

Simon Ducreu

Anouk Duquoc

Perrine Duquesne

Maria Fernandez

Léa Fournier

Jerry Geurts

Alain Ghestem

Florian Giroguy

Sophie Graux

Nicolas Guiot

Susan Hagerty

Brigitte Hiboux

Luc Kirket

Gérard Lefebvre

Maeva Leneveu

Angéline Litteri

Emmanuelle Maudens

Rodolphe Mazairat

Leila Met Den Ancxt

Laureline Mialon

Sabah Moufakkir

Zoltan Neville

Sarah Ouvray

Franck Petit

Laurence Ployaert

Maxime Pruvost

Marie-Aline Rival

Julien Senez

Samson Shua

Ludivine Spanneut

Clément Viroulaud

Zhuo Wang Rolland

Approach

Attentiveness to the quality of public space, an attuned pursuit for the harmony between context, landscape and building, and a respect for the program and economy of means are the defining predispositions of Coldefy and associates. This approach is based on the environmental, urban and social contexts of a project that forms its image and identity.

The rigorous approach is a crossbreeding of the search for simple, convivial urban events, traces of humanity and a sense of dialogue with all the actors of the project: the client, but also the collaborating engineers and enterprises.

This dialogue is guided by a priority objective: to respond to the function while simultaneously providing a certain quality of life to the users. Rejecting anecdote and exuberance, the studio pursuits nevertheless to create surprise; all the while exploring the correctness of solutions. For them, a building must be legible, sensitive, resonating and innovative. In order to change habits, it must also push certain limits

Awards

Green Building Award (June 2012)

The Hong Kong Institute receives Merit Award, organized by the Hong Kong Green Building Council.

AFEX (2012)

CAAU awarded the 'palmares' for the Grand Prix AFEX and exhibited at the Venice Biennial for HKDI.

'Terra Cotta Prize' (2012)

CAAU awarded the 'Terra Cotta Prize' for housing in Lille-Hellemmes, France.

International Design Awards (February 2012)

CAAU awarded the IDA Silver Award, to be received in Los Angeles in 2013

'Pyramide d’Argent' Prize (April 2011)

CAAU has won with the residential and office building 'Arboretum' in Lille, organized by the northern France Developers committee.

'Pyramide d’Or' Prize (April 2011)

CAAU has been selected to run for the National.

'40 under 40' Asia Prize (2011)

Organized by Perspective, Valcucine et Demode

'40 under 40' European Prize (2010)

Organized by European Centre for architecture Art Design and Urban Studies and The Chicago Athenaeum

'Spécial Hiver' Prize (2009)

Organized by ESA Paris

'Tour Eiffel' Prize (2007)

Organized by ESA Paris

APIDA Asia Pacific Interior Design Awards (2007)

Jury Member

Publications

Perspectives (06.2013)
SIGNED (5.2013)
Le Moniteur (18.01.2013)
Le Moniteur (11.01.2013)
La Chronique du BTP (08.11.2012)
Tarsarim (11.2012)
La Chronique du BTP (03.2012)
Numéro (10.2011)
TL Magazine (10.2011)
l'ARCA n°272 (07.2011)
EcoBuild (07.2011)
Perspective (06.2011)
Perspective (05.2011)
Il Giornale dell' architettura (04.2011)
Les Echos (28.04.2011)
MARK n°30 (02-03.2011)
Le Moniteur n°5594 (02.2011)
AMC Hors-série Acier
Build (02.2011)
Icon (02.2011)
Batiactu (11.01.2011)
Le Courrier de l'Architecte (05.01.2011)
Hinge n°185 (01.2011)

archistorm n°46 (01.2011)
Le Courrier de l'Architecte (27.10.2010)
Le Courrier de l'Architecte (27.10.2010)
Cathay Pacific Magazine (10.2010)
Archibooks (03.08.2010)
La Voix du Nord (02.2010)
Archistorm n°40 (01-02.2010)
L'Observateur du Cambrésis (28.01.2010)
Rum n°24 (01.2010)
Concept Vol.129 (01.2010)
B One Magazine (01.2010)
Le Moniteur n°5516 (14.09.2009)
Le Moniteur n°5519 (04.09.2009)
www.cyberarchi.com (28.08.2009)
www.lemoniteur.fr (20.08.2009)
www.neoarchitecture.com (08.2009)
Capital n°215 (08.2009)
Télérama n°3095 (15.05.2009)
Lille Métropole Info n°62 (05.2009)
Le Point n°1911 (30.04.2009)
Les Echos (16.04.2009)
Lille Métropole Info n°61 (04.2009)
Lille Magazine n°57 (04.2009)

www.lavoixdunord.fr (08.03.2009)
La Voix du Nord (07.03.2009)
MARK n°24 (02-03.2010)
Hong Kong Echo n°51 (Winter 2008)
l'ARCA n°233 (02.2008)
LIVRE : "Elevating Design : Hong Kong Design Institute International Architectural Design Competition" (01.2008)
Futur Arc Vol.8 (1st quarter 2008)
l'ARCA International n°79 (11-12.2007)
Hinge n°142 (05.2007)
Hong Kong Express (04.2007)
Norcomex Informations n°145 (03.2007)
L'Observateur du Cambrésis n°958 (08.02.2007)
Le Moniteur n°5384 (02.02.2007)
La Voix du Nord (21-22.01.2007)
Modern Home (01.2007)
AMC n°166 (01.2007)
Le Moniteur n°5376 (08.12.06)
www.lemoniteur.fr (01.12.2006)
AMC n°156 (11.2005)
La Voix du Nord (28.07.2005)

News archive

Sustainable Building Conference ‘13
Thomas Coldefy invited to speak at the SB13 Hong Kong Regional Conference

This year’s Sustainable Building Hong Kong Regional Conference will include Thomas Coldefy as one of its speakers. The event will take place at the Crowne Plaza Hong Kong Kowloon East Hotel on 12-13 September 2013 with the theme of “Urban Density & Sustainability”.

More information about the event can be found at http://www.sb13.org.hk/en/

ZAC Paris Rive Gauche
CAAU shortlisted for a new mixed-use project in Paris

Coldefy & Associates is pleased to be selected to participate in an architectural competition as a part of the urban redevelopment of Paris’ Left Bank. The mixed-use project will be located in the 13th arrondissement of Paris, in the near vicinity of the Austerlitz train station.

Taichung City Cultural Center
CAAU participates in the competition for a new cultural center in Taiwan

Coldefy and Associates are pleased to submit a proposal for the international architecture competition for the construction of a new cultural center in Taichung City, Taiwan. The project contains a new Public Library and Fine Arts museum as a part of the new Gateway District in Taichung. http://caau.fr/project/tccc

Grand Prix AFEX
Inauguration of the exhibition Grand Prix AFEX

CAAU is pleased to be a part of the Grand Prix AFEX 2012 exhibition at the “Cité de l’architecture et du patrimoine” in Paris, France. The inauguration event will take place Wednesday April 3rd 2013 at 6:00pm, and the exhibition will be on display until Friday, May 3rd 2013.

February 2013
Thomas Coldefy invited to speak at IDEA conference in Prague

Thomas Coldefy has been invited to speak as a part of the IDEA conference for interior design and eco architecture. The two day event will be held in Prague June 10-11, 2013. More information is available on the event website: http://idea.intlbc.com/

December 2012
CAAU to lecture at Hong Kong Design Institute

Thomas Coldefy and Isabel Van Haute will give a lecture on the work of CAAU at the Hong Kong Design Institute as part of the school’s Public Lectures in Architectural Design.

Rue des Rogations Apartments
CAAU celebrates project completion and delivery.

Coldefy and Associates is pleased to finish the year with the completion and delivery the housing project on rue des Rogations in Lille-Hellemmes.

Lucie Aubrac Secondary School
CAAU celebrates completion of primary structural work

Coldefy and Associates celebrates the completion of the structural work for the Lucie Aubrac Secondary School, which remains on schedule for project delivery for the Fall semester, 2013.

Prix de la Terre Cuite
CAAU awarded the ‘Terra Cotta Prize’ for Rue des Rogations Apartments

Coldefy and Associates is pleased receive the ‘Terra Cotta Prize’ for their recently delivered project in Lille-Hellemmes, France.

October 2012
CAAU wins the architectural competition for a collection of residential buildings and commercial space in Mons-en-Baroeul, France

Coldefy and Associates has been announced first-prize competition winner for a collection of buildings, residential buildings including some retail, in Mons-en-Baroeul, France.

Septembre 2012
CAAU awarded palmarès Grand Prix AFEX at the Venice Biennial for HKDI

Coldefy and Associates is pleased to be informed that the Hong Kong Design Institute has been awarded a palmarès for the Grand Prix AFEX and will included in their publication as well as on display at the Venice Biennial.

September 2012
CAAU awarded First prize winner for their project in Chantilly, France

Coldefy and Associates has been announced competition winner of the mixed-use project in the railway station district of Chantilly, France.

July 2012
CAAU wins the architectural competition for a civic administration building in Kobuleti, Georgia

Coldefy and Associates has been announced first-prize competition winner for the construction of a new Public Service Hall in Kobuleti, Georgia.

June 2012
HKDI receives Merit Award organized by the Hong Kong Green Building Council

Coldefy and Associates is pleased to be informed that the Hong Kong Design Institute has been awarded the Merit Award for by the Hong Kong Green Building Council.

April 2012
Recent work by CAAU on display as part of Le French May Hong Kong.

Coldefy and Associates is pleased to display their work as part of the event Le French May in Hong Kong in the exhibit titled INSIDE / OUT.

Contact

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contact@caau.fr

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