Reims Cultural Quarter
France 1991

Our masterplan guidelines now form part of Reims’ development plan for this important city quarter. An economic appraisal helped inform plans to rejuvenate the area. There was a need to structure spaces better using new buildings to redefine these, to reinforce links and connections and to introduce uses that would compliment and reanimate the district with tourists in summer and locals in winter.

Proposals for a cathedral museum, a gallery, mediatheque, hotel, mixed commerce, university teaching and living space and an extension to the fine art museum underpinned the strategy.