World's largest single-domed tropical greenhouse, designed by Coldefy & Associates, coming soon to Northern France

2018-03-28T17:40:00-04:00

French architects Coldefy & Associates Architects Urban Planners have revealed plans for the world's largest single-domed tropical greenhouse. Called Tropicalia, this vast indoor landscape will soon pop up in the Pas-de-Calais area in Northern France and house all sorts of tropical flora and fauna under an enormous pillar-less firmament of EFTE pressurized air cushions held up by an aluminum frame.

Image: Coldefy & Associates Architects Urban Planners.

Here's a project description from the architects: "Tropicalia is a 15,000m2 tropical biodome that creates a harmonious world connecting man to an exotic natural, providing a constant temperature of 28°C in a region with notoriously poor weather. Whether it is an invitation into a dream, a grand voyage or an educational trip, Tropicalia is a place of discovery, amazement and ecological awareness."

Image: Coldefy & Associates Architects Urban Planners.

"This unique place will contain a diverse range of fauna and flora, butterflies, exotic...

Following the closing of the Calais "Jungle", the streets of Paris fill with tents

2016-11-01T18:56:00-04:00

The number of migrants sleeping rough on the streets of Paris has risen by at least a third since the start of the week when the "Jungle" shanty town in Calais was evacuated. Along the bustling boulevards and a canal in a northeastern corner of Paris, hundreds of tents have been pitched by asylum seekers - mostly Africans who say they are from Sudan - with cardboard on the ground to try and insulate them from the cold.

While their presence is not new, it has grown substantially this week, said Colombe Brossel, Paris deputy mayor in charge of security issues.

According to the article, there are up to a thousand more people living on the streets of Paris—amounting to around 2,500 in total—following the closure of the Calais refugee settlement. Most of these asylum seekers are from Sudan or elsewhere in Africa. While the city of Paris has plans to open two new reception centers, they will only be able to house less than 1,000 people.

Meanwhile, France and Britain are squabbling over which country will take responsibility for the 1,500 minors who were living in Calais. Despite pleas from the French president François Hollande, the new Prime Minister of the UK, Theresa May, has declined to make any extra commitments. May has taken a hardline stance against immigration since assuming office after the Brexit referendum.

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World's largest single-domed tropical greenhouse, designed by Coldefy & Associates, coming soon to Northern France

Following the closing of the Calais "Jungle", the streets of Paris fill with tents