{"id":807540,"date":"2026-10-19T12:18:19","date_gmt":"2026-10-19T12:18:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/807540\/"},"modified":"2026-10-19T12:18:19","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T12:18:19","slug":"oma-dresses-palais-de-justice-de-lille-in-coloured-glass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/807540\/","title":{"rendered":"OMA dresses Palais de Justice de Lille in coloured glass"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dutch studio OMA<\/a> has completed the Palais de Justice de Lille, a six-sided law court<\/a> in northern France with a faceted facade lined with coloured glass<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Located in Lille, the project was commissioned by the Ministry of Justice to host the city’s high and district courts.<\/p>\n

\"PalaisOMA has completed the Palais de Justice de Lille<\/p>\n

Palais de Justice de Lille occupies a verdant landscape adjacent to a star-shaped fortification, built in 1667 by the French military engineer S\u00e9bastien Le Prestre de Vauban.<\/p>\n

OMA<\/a>‘s design has a pointy, hexagonal form, with each elevation finished in coloured glass, intended to mimic this fortress.<\/p>\n

\"ColouredIt is lined with coloured glass<\/p>\n

The Palais de Justice de Lille is arranged in three volumes, accessed via a publicly accessible base.<\/p>\n

Its first volume is a plinth that holds the major courtrooms, from which a triangular central tower containing minor courtrooms extends. Above, a faceted ring of offices surrounds the tower, which helps draw light into the building.<\/p>\n

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According to OMA, each volume has “its own material expression and spatial character, reinforcing clarity and orientation throughout the complex”.<\/p>\n

However, they are unified by light finishes and furnishings, and an ambition to feel welcoming and “free of the intimidation”, it added.<\/p>\n

\"PalaisA series of outdoor spaces complete the project<\/p>\n

Completing the Palais de Justice de Lille is a series of outdoor spaces, distributed across its three volumes.<\/p>\n

This includes a public plaza at ground level and a roof garden overlooking the city.<\/p>\n

\"TriangularA triangular tower contains the minor courtrooms<\/p>\n

OMA, officially known as Office for Metropolitan Architecture, was founded in 1975 in Rotterdam. It won a competition to design the courthouse in 2018 and was originally due to complete the project in 2023.<\/p>\n

The studio’s other recent projects include an affordable housing development in San Francisco<\/a> and a pyramidal building in Hangzhou designed as a “three-dimensional village”<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Other law courts featured on Dezeen include one in Toronto by Renzo Piano Building Workshop<\/a>\u00a0that aims to display “the identity and values of a modern justice institution” and a 10-storey federal courthouse by SOM currently under development in Florida<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dutch studio OMA has completed the Palais de Justice de Lille, a six-sided law court in northern France…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":807541,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[6225,6485,6486,265073,1120,96,107745,819,25202,265074,32823,28032,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-807540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-coloured-glass","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-facets","tag-france","tag-glass","tag-law-courts","tag-lille","tag-oma","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=807540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807540\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/807541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=807540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=807540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=807540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}