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Dutch architecture, design, and research firm UNStudio has recently won a competition to design a new cultural center in France. The competition arose as part of a larger initiative to invite designers to submit proposals for eight key buildings within the new EuropaCity development, which itself is set to be located just north of Paris in the Triangle de Gonesse area.
EuropaCity is a new build district whose masterplan was designed by starchitect Bjarke Ingles and his BIG architectural practice. Like UNStudio, BIG was given this privelege after winning a design competition. When it’s complete, the mammoth £2.74 billion mixed-use development will be aimed at attracting tourists and entertaining the masses.
UNStudio?s win will see them take the helm of one of the most prestigious projects within the innovative new area. More specifically, the firm will be contributing the Centre Culturel dédié au 7ème Art, a multi-purpose cinema and ?cultural laboratory.”

The cente...