Yesterday, today, tomorrow...

Imagine, think, dream, create, inspire, feel, see, read, say, touch, roam, breathe, look, discover, understand, tell, design, reveal, qualify, intensify, identify, improve, enhance, embellish , enrich, draw, make, manufacture, accompany, preserve, weave, listen, free, balance, liberate, open, accept, embrace, appropriate, engage, influence, amplify, surprise, return, divert, stir, transform, tenderise , thrill, reinvent, preserve, share, savour, offer, cherish, protect, include, live, celebrate, love… the City.

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"The notion of pleasure, in architecture as in urban planning, is essential. “

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"These words from Tania Concko are echoed in each of the projects she designs with her team.  Her unfailing commitment, her rare attention to places and people, her ability to immerse herself in the essence of the contrasting territories in which she works, in order to better reveal their identity, make up the singular figure of an architecture and urban planning agency whose approach is intimately linked, and with great relevance, to the present times. It is a pleasure to be able to salute the vigour of a talent that restores meaning and a future to our cities, which are cluttered with empty or disjointed forms and prey to the most unfounded speculation. 

Delphine Costedoat and Michel Jacques in "Territoires en Mouvement". Arc-en-Rêve.

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BUILDING TO MAKE SENSE ...

Building must be an act of commitment in order to "make city"...

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This is a posture that TCAU places at the centre of the processes of dynamics and success of the districts, the question of "commitment" inseparable from the "balance" of the roles and actors of the City, between public authorities, private individuals, urban planners, architects and other actors involved in the construction.

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What answers do we bring to the mutation of the territories, if we want to transcribe the significant developments and the formidable evolution over the last few decades of our ways of living, working, consuming and entertaining; if we want to create the generous conditions we desire for an open society of solidarity and quality urban lifestyles?

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Thinking about these objectives means, first and foremost, thinking about and addressing people, drawing a cross-section of present and future communities through urban and architectural projects.

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Designing projects that will integrate multiple programs, diverse atmospheres and densities, varied types of housing, rich and complex relationships between the different elements of these programs, collective spaces invested with a real urban dynamic, growing appropriation by the users and the uses of the residents.

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Creating "value" in areas that are sometimes neglected, such as large housing estates, but also areas subject to flooding, industry or marked by traffic flows.

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Create, in new or existing neighbourhoods, housing for desirable urban metropolises, imagine innovative housing offering real qualities of life, integrate them into the sustainable vision of welcoming, attractive and above all "balanced" urban neighbourhoods between : city, nature, resilience, varied densities and intensities, sober diversity and inclusive mix...

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The question of multiple balances being at the heart of the new challenges of the dynamics of "living in the city today...", in order to create the real conditions for social diversity, conviviality, pleasure of living and well-being in the city...