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French Theatre Buildings : Architecture

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Theatre Buildings in France

We’ve selected what we feel are the key examples of French Theatre Buildings. We cover completed French buildings, new building designs, architectural exhibitions and design competitions across France. The focus is on contemporary Arts buildings.

French Theatre Buildings

French Theater Architecture – latest additions to this page, arranged chronologically:

27 Oct 2020
Théâtre “Legendre” in Evreux, Haute Normandie, Northern France
Design: OPUS 5 architectes

photo : Luc Boegly
Théâtre Legendre Evreux
Inaugurated in 1903, the Théâtre d’Evreux, and commonly referred to as the Théâtre Legendre, was built in the Beaux-Arts style and signed by the architect Léon Legendre. Prior to its restoration, the theater’s southern façade was in state of ruin and bore traces of past damage.

7 Oct 2013
Jean-Claude Carrière Theatre, Montpellier, southern France
Design: A+Architecture

photo © Marie-Caroline Lucat
This a colourful new timber theatre building in a lovely mature landscape site in the south of France. Based around the harlequin concept the external faces and some of the interior is decorated with a diagonal timber lattice.

25 Jun 2010
Le Quai Theatre in Angiers, western France
Architecture-Studio

photo : Luc Boegly
Théâtre ‘Le Quai’
This French theatre has 971 seats plus a flexible auditorium of 400 seats, a drama school, a dance school and a restaurant. The Front de Maine theatre is a major building for the town and its region. Developed around the “creation, training, urban animation” trend, the theatre’s architecture enhances urbanity and ensures the link between the town, performance areas and the two schools.

22 Dec 2009
Bateau Feu National Theatre, Dunkirk, northern France
Architects: Mikou Design Studio

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Theater Dunkerque
“A theatre as an open, structuring urban venue”
The architects conceived the new Bateau Feu theatre in Dunkirk both as an open urban venue – which is welcoming by the diversity of the complementary programme of events and activities that it provides and their strategic orientation in the urban space – and as a structuring civic building and arts amenity located on the Place du Général de Gaulle square.

31 Mar 2009
Centre d’Art Dramatique National de Montreuil, Montreuil, northern France
Design: Dominique COULON & Associés

photo : jean marie MONTHIERS photographe
Montreuil Theatre : Mies van der Rohe Awards 2009 Nominee
In Montreuil, located northeast of the urban center of Paris, a master plan has in recent years been realized for the regeneration of the urban center by Alvaro Siza. The project, with the theater at its heart, shows the hill of the site : the buildings like the fingers of a hand reveal the slope and increase the perspectives.

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The BrOnks Youth Theater Brussels, Belgium
Design: MDMA l Martine De Maeseneer Architects

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The BrOnks Youth Theater Brussels