Buvette Cachat - Evian-Les-Bains - Restoration of the covered-enclosure
A symbol of the heyday of Evian's spa industry, the Buvette Cachat is a unique example of wooden architecture combining Art Nouveau style and regional influences.
The town of Evian initiated the project for its rebirth under the supervision of the RL&A agency. Restoration of the closed roof was completed in May 2024, and is the subject of a publication in Monumental magazine.
Work to restore a wing that no longer exists, in strict compliance with its historic layout, is underway and will be completed in autumn 2025.
In parallel, restoration of the interiors will begin in spring 2025 and continue into 2026.
Vichy - Restauration de la galerie du Parc des Sources
The restoration of Vichy's Parc des Sources continues. Focus on the restoration of the Art Nouveau galleries that encircle the park over a length of 700m.
Château de la Colline Saint-Eutrope
Work to restore and enhance the Château on Saint-Eutrope hill began in january 2024. Work is currently underway on the 14th century north curtain wall. By lowering the base of the wall more than two metres of elevation have been restored.
The company is currently preparing the restoration ands reassembly wor.
The mason is clearing the inner facings of the curtain wall and preparing the footings. Tests to clean the masonry have been validated dans repointing tests are being adapted using local unscreened sand, closer to the original mortar.
Reassembly plans are currently being drawn up, based on orthophotographs taken after the wall bases have been excavated.
Collégiale Saint-Martin
Work to restore the interior of the collegiate church of Saint-Martin in Saint Remy de Provence got under way at the end of May 2024. The contractors have set up the base camp and are beginning to erect the scaffolding. The liturgical furnishings have been removed protected and stored on site for the duration of the works. The organ is being partially dismantled and protected. The 7 month firm works package covers the transept and the last two bays of the nave of this 19th century collegiate church. The schedule provides for a first stage of cleaning and restoration of the facings from the end of August.
Le chantier du Parc des Sources à Vichy
The Parc des Sources in Vichy will be a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2021 and has been a listed historic monument since 1994. Since its creation in 1812 at the request of Emperor Napoleon Ier, it has undergone a number of transformations in line with the developement of the spa town. The project to restaure the Parc des Sources aims to breathe new life into this exceptional heritage, an expression of the wild, romatice park inherited from the Enlightenment.
The first phase of restoration word was inaugurated on 21 June this year and residents and visitors alike can now rediscover the park and stroll its paths once again. The overall work on the Parc des Sources is continuing with restoration of the perimeter gallery, the two shopping kiosks and the bandstand.
Eglise St-Nizier
Built in the 14th century, Saint-Nizier church in Lyon's 2nd arrondissement is a major building in the flamboyant gothic style and a historic parish church for the city's merchantes and bourgeoisie. It has been protected as a Historic Monument since the first list was drawn up in 1840.
Since the 1970s, extensive work has been carried out on the roof enclosure, nave and transepts to ensure the conservation and enhancement of this exceptional heritage.
A restoration programme has been set up by the City of Lyon to ensure the long term preservation of this religious heritage owned by the municipality.
the aim to restore the south aisle of the chruch and its 5 side chapels, as well as the mosaics in the crypt.
The work involves the facings, painted decorations, stained glass windows, altars and altarpieces, mosaics, wooden furniture, chapel raillings and lighting.
Restoration of Grand Salon de Vaux-le-Vicomte
At the centre of the Château de Vaux-le-Vicomte is the Grand Salon, around which the accomodation and gardens are organised.
The architect Louis Le Vau designed an oval room decorated with stucco, under a dome nearly 18m high, for which the painter Charles Le Brun planned to create an exceptional fresco, a true hymn to the sun,never executed. For almost 200 years, the dome remained undecorated until the palace was restored in the 1840s. A painter-decorator represented a sky dotted with clouds with an eagle in the centre. This fresco, too, was not completed and suffered from the ravages of time.
In 2020, the architectural firm RL & Associés was commissioned to restore the entire Grand Salon. The fresco, which had been fairly well executed, was covered with a reversible whitewash that would allow Charles Le Brun's drawing to be projected digitally.
Bell Tower of Saint Didier - Vaucluse
Saint Didier Restoration of the bell tower-porch
Restoration of a historical monument of the XVIIIth century on the Commune of Saint Didier.
Photo report published in Provence Matin.
30th anniversary of the Richard Morris Hunt Prize
The Richard Morris Hunt Prize (RMHP), founded in 1990, is celebrating its 30th anniversary. It is awarded each year to a French or American conservation architect. In 2018, Sixte Doussau de Bazignan, a partner at the RL&A Architects, won this grand prize. He spent six months in the United States, from June to December 2018, to study historical conservation in the context of natural disasters.
Partnership with Studio Milou - Singapore
Partnership between RL&A Architectes Agency and the Studio Milou
Franco-Singaporean collaboration
Article published by the Singaporean Ministry URA to celebrate 30 years of Franco-Singaporean collaboration on the restoration of historical heritage.
Villa Bonaparte - Book
This book presents the history of Villa Bonaparte in Rome, its architectural part, the technical and human adventure of the restoration as well as the portraits of restorers with exceptional know-how. The historian Sebastiano Roberto makes assumptions about the probable architect who designed this villa in 1749 for Cardinal Gonzaga. Didier Repellin and Sixte Doussau, in charge of this restoration, present the technical and aesthetic components of a building imprinted with a refined and precursor classicism, and reveal the stakes of this restoration site. Pictures of Thibaut de Rohan-Chabot.
Villa Bonaparte, De Luca Editore d'arte, 2019