La Cité Administrative Marianne
The largest administrative complex in France with 18 state departments, 2,000 employees, and more than 20,000 m2 of city nature.
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Salka Kudsk
Project Director, Partner, MA in Strategic Planning, Landscape Architect
Location
Lille, France
Size
20,000 m2 of public space and courtyards
Year
2021 — 2024
Client
The City of Lille and the European Metropolis of Lille
Role
Lead landscape architect
Partners & Collaborators
Bouygues Bâtiment Nord Est, Coldefy, Valode & Pistre, VP Design, Bérim, Inddigo, Elan, Métroergo, SIM Engineering, Setec Bâtiment, 8'18 '', Studios Ingénierie, Bouygues Energy & Services
SLA has designed all public spaces for La Cité Administrative Marianne – Lille’s new state administration city, where 18 state departments will gather in a massive new complex. Here, city nature and buildings are designed to complement each other, creating an inspiring and stimulating work environment centered on well-being, health, and collaboration.
Located on the green belt surrounding Lille, the city’s new state administration campus La Cité Administrative Marianne is designed to dialogue with the city and its surrounding nature. The interministerial campus, which is France’s largest administrative building complex, houses 18 state departments, 2,000 employees, and is designed according to the latest energy and material saving principles.
The site of the new administrative complex is more than 400m long but less than 60m wide at its widest point, placed right against Boulevard de Strasbourg – one of Lille’s major highways.
Like a bastion of biodiversity, the public spaces of the new administration complex will strengthen and develop the natural environment by re-establishing links with the local green ecological networks. Over 3,000 trees are planted, and new local habitats are developed to cover 20,000 m2 of green spaces, courtyards, ecological corridors, and roof terraces.
The landscape reinterprets a series of specific Northern France habitats (natural or man-made): Dunes, forests, bocage, alluvial plains – even terrils and industrial wastelands. The landscape thus provides a strong local atmosphere and a renewed sense of pride in the ecological and historical identity of the Lille region.
