Architectural diploma in 1978, Odile Decq also has a diploma from the Institute of Political Studies in Paris on Urbanism and Planning in 1979.
Architectural diploma in 1985, Benoît Cornette previously completed medical school in 1978 (d. 1998)
After several architectural interior projects, urban studies and some architectural realizations in the west of France including several national competitions, they achieved in 1990 two buildings for the “Banque Populaire de l’Ouest” in Rennes of which they won the commission after a national competition held in 1988. Afterwards, they’ve completed 3 collective housing projects in Paris, the viaduct of Highway A14 in Nanterre, France along with the construction of the Highway Control Center suspended underneath the viaduct, 2 buildings for Nantes University, the Renovation of Research Centre for Saint Gobain and furnitures for the Conference Hall in the headquarter of UNESCO in Paris.
Realizing numerous exhibits (of which half on the international scene), conferences and symposiums, they’ve also participated in several international competitions.
Represented in Venice Biennale, September 1996, as well as being commissioned to provide the exhibit design for the French Pavillion, they received a Gold Lion Award.
Currently, they are in the process of working on a shop for a fashion designer in Paris, the conversion of the Vetenary School in Bruxelles with a hotel, restaurants, cafes, galleries, commercial and exhibition centre, an office building in Dunkerque, the extension of a dietetic clinic in the north of Paris and the renovation and extension of the “Galleria Municipale d’arte moderna e contemporanea di Roma.”
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