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Snapshot: The Conservatoire de Montreuil Reopens After Ambitious Renovation

Montreuil, France

By Andrew Ayers
Conservatoire de Montreuil
Conservatoire de Montreuil. Photo © Christel Jeanne
December 16, 2024

Architects & Firms

Acto Architecture
Laurence Leroy

When, in the progressive context of 1968 Paris, the architect Claude Le Goas was tasked with designing a music and dance school for the Communist-run suburb of Montreuil, he chose to express function through tectonics: stacked up like bottles in a rack, each of the lightweight metal practice rooms is acoustically independent of the rest. Forty-eight years after its 1976 inauguration, the Conservatoire de Montreuil has just reopened following a $7.9 million renovation-and-enlargement program led by the architect-scenographer Laurence Leroy, in partnership with ACTO Architecture.

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