TLM ROOFTOP

Marseille, France

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TLM ROOFTOP

Marseille, France

Firm

Tristan Architecture

Type

Hospitality + Sport › Bar/Nightclub

STATUS

Built

YEAR

2025

SIZE

3000 sqft - 5000 sqft

Perched atop the 30th floor of La Marseillaise Tower, Jean Nouvel’s iconic landmark, ROOFTOP TLM transforms an inaccessible technical terrace into a new public horizon — a landscaped belvedere where architecture, nature, and the Mediterranean sky converge.

Designed by Tristan Architecture in collaboration with Champ Libre, the project reimagines the summit of the World Trade Center Marseille Provence as a place of encounter and contemplation. The intervention opens the tower’s peripheral rooftop to the public, shaping 150 m² of gardens and 300 m² of renovated reception and bar spaces that unfold in seamless dialogue with the sea, the city, and the Calanques beyond.

Far from spectacle, ROOFTOP TLM embraces precision and restraint. Its sculpted stone benches, carved from 13 tons of local limestone, echo the rugged topography of the Marseille coastline. Mediterranean vegetation — mastic trees, kermes oaks, and rosemary — anchors the site in its natural context, creating shaded, wind-swept zones of calm. Every element, from the irrigation systems to the anchoring of trees, has been engineered with care to meet the structural and environmental challenges of high-rise design.

Inside, a luminous curved bar — crafted by Italian artisans in limestone and textured glass — forms the project’s sculptural heart. It bridges the interior and exterior, extending the organic geometry and material language of the terrace within.

ROOFTOP TLM is more than a renovation: it’s a gesture of transformation. It turns constraint into creativity, technique into landscape, and architecture into an experience of height, horizon, and light. Rooted in Marseille’s material and climatic realities, it offers a new way of inhabiting the vertical city — suspended between sky and stone.