EuroRennes: Euro Renovation

In September 2018, Samsic Group, which is one of the major professional support services providers in Europe and the city of Rennes launched an architecture competition to generate projects for the future EuroRennes district. On July 9, 2019, the city administration announced the winner of the competition for the Féval Tower building, which became the JDS Architects Copenhagen-based practice, renowned for its distinctive projects. The complex, which architectural dominant will be the new tower, will comprise several buildings, one of which will house the future headquarters of Samsic Group.

EuroRennes is an urban planning project and a future business district located in Rennes, Brittany and declared of community interest in April 2009. Rennes is a city in the east of Brittany in northwestern France at the confluence of the Ille and the Vilaine. Rennes is the capital of the region of Brittany, as well as the Ille-et-Vilaine department. Rennes’s history goes back more than 2,000 years, at a time when it was a small Gallic village named Condate. From the early sixteenth century until the French Revolution, Rennes was a parliamentary, administrative and garrison city of the historic province of Brittany of the Kingdom of France.

Since the 1950s, Rennes has grown in importance through rural flight and its modern industrial development, partly automotive. The city developed extensive building plans to accommodate upwards of 200,000 inhabitants. During the 1980s, Rennes became one of the main centres in telecommunication and high technology industry. It is now a significant digital innovation centre in France.

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