Programmed by the City of Strasbourg and realized by a contractor/developer, a new mini-neighborhood—baptized “Nolistra”—is intended to bridge the divide between the historic city center and the suburb of Neudorf. Located between a park and a cemetery, just where the highway to Germany exits a tunnel, the development comprises a mix of freehold and rental housing (some of it social), offices, a hotel, and street-level cafés, restaurants and food stores. Fragmented into eight orthogonal blocks, Nolistra is intended to “add in the missing pieces of the cityscape,” according to Umberto Napolitano, a founding partner at the Paris-based firm Local Architecture Network (LAN), who won a 2015 design competition for this project.

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