Cap Leeuwin à Bordeaux par Hessamfar & Véron + Moon Safari
Designed by the architectural firms Marjan Hessamfar & Joe Véron (lead), with Moon Safari (partner), and delivered in the summer of 2021, Cap Leeuwin (15,119 m²; €21.8 million excluding tax; Fayat Immobilier + Pitch Promotion , project owners) wants to be the figurehead of the new Quai des Caps in Bordeaux (Gironde). Brick and metal. Communicated.
Between port imagination and industrial architecture, the Bassins à flot district in Bordeaux has changed its face in a decade. Facing the submarine base, the Quai des Caps program is developing a series of four islets of which Cap Leeuwin is the figurehead, drawing a new entrance to the city.
Clad in metal on the basin side and clad in terracotta brick on the rue Lucien Faure side, the building weaves the link between its industrial past and the new aspirations of the Bordeaux metropolis.
The mixed program of Cap Leeuwin brings together a hotel, a hotel residence with a social vocation, office floors and shops on the ground floor.
Two emergences of seven and eight floors frame lower buildings with roofs reminiscent of the sheds of yesteryear. Large wooden terraces punctuate these volumes and create breaths, like the large belvedere which offers a view of the basins and the underwater base.