Architects:LAN Architecture

Area :21500 m²

Year :2020

Photographs :Charly Broyez, Lorenzo Zandri

Manufacturers :  KEIMKEIM

Lead Architects :Umberto Napolitano, Benoit Jallon

City : Strasbourg

Country : France

Colors over the city. The Saint-Urbain block has now completed the urban development zone Étoile in Strasbourg. Located between the Saint-Urbain cemetery and the Parc de l’Étoile, bordered on one side by the broad avenue Jean Jaurès and on the other by the cross-border road E52, the new neighborhood appears as an urban Island, a colorful emergence in the horizontality of Neudorf’s landscapes.

At a local scale, the project activates a major link between the city center and the Neudorf district. At the regional scale, it constitutes one of the milestones of the “Deux rives” urbanization project, which itself extends as far as Kehl in Germany. Set in this strategic position, eight buildings today embody the urban ambition of the new Euro‐metropolis in giving form to more than 21,500 m2 of a mixed real estate program, composed of 178 housing units, a hotel, offices, and commercial space. In its size and its ambition, Saint‐Urbain is a new fragment of the ecological, democratic, and lively city that is taking shape today.