Le Fresnoy is a center for the production and dissemination of contemporary art, as well as a place of international
higher education.

Originally built in 1905 as a leisure center, the site closed in 1977 due to difficult economic conditions and was left
abandoned. In the 1980s, the Ministry of Culture decided to rehabilitate the site, transforming it into an artistic institution
dedicated to digital creation and the hybridizationof artistic practices.

Bernard Tschumi won the competition by proposing to cover the existing buildings with a large sheet-metal structure,
protecting them from bad weather and from any additional constraints.
Much of the site’s original halls has been preserved.

For “The Architectural Review” - New into old issue, Juillet 2025