“The emergency is real, and the city is too beautiful, important and crucial an issue to be treated like a common commodity.“, writes Franck Boutté, in a press release. The Grand Prix de l'Urbanisme 2022, director and founder of Atelier Franck Boutté, is sounding the alarm.
In a text published on social networks and addressed to the press, he denounces the “behaviors“real estate players”which lead to undoing the quality of projects, while undermining the economic balance of partner structures'” and returning to their commitments in terms of ecological transition.
“Unethical and humiliating” practices
In recent months, its environmental engineering and design agency has left winning teams on several projects. The reason? The impossibility, according to Franck Boutté, “to find an agreement that matches the ambitions displayed during the competitions, or after having been unduly put back into competition. So-called 'project partners' must no longer be considered as vulgar service providers, to be forced to work at will during the competition phases, but expelled as soon as projects are won.“, he protests. Behaviors that colleagues and project management partners, engineers, architects, landscapers and town planners, also have”suffered“, he points out.
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