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Best Western Premier Why Hotel Recognisable from afar by its vast oval windows, the Why building is reminiscent of a brutalist version of the game Puissance 4. The hotel's 46 rooms - and 35 m² meeting room - are bathed in natural light thanks to the large windows, which are accentuated by a...

Lille, designated the 2020 World Design Capital, had to wait. "The confinement came just a few weeks before the grand opening, scheduled for 29 April," explains Denis Tersen, Managing Director of the Lille Metropole 2020 World Design Capital Committee, who assures us that "we have been able to re-establish a dense and comprehensive programme at...

Spread over 150 hectares, just a fifteen-minute walk from the city centre, the Euralille project was conceived back in the 1980s, when Pierre Mauroy, then Mayor of Lille, planned to build a station for the TGV Nord high-speed train line on the site vacated by the old fortifications that surrounded it. The surrounding area was to be the site of a...

Lille airport, which began its transformation at the end of 2018, is going to have to close its doors. The renovation of the main runway leaves those in charge of the Lille hub with no other option: "during an incompressible 39-hour phase, we are forced to suspend flight activities on our hub,...

The long-awaited arrival of Mama Shelter in Lille was eagerly awaited. In the end, it was the group's latest addition, the coworking branch Mama Works, that beat its hotel sister to the punch. Mama Works Lille was inaugurated with great fanfare on 28 March, just a few weeks before the hotel's expected opening...

Business travel by train and coworking clearly go hand in hand... Following the inauguration of a Multiburo space at Saint-Lazare station last October, it's now Regus' turn to strengthen its rail links. On Thursday, the meeting space giant announced the opening of a new site in Lille, within the Gare Saint-Lazare...

Despite the advent of new technologies, getting together with colleagues remains a constant, almost vital need. In fact, over the last fifty years or so, the number of international congresses and meetings has risen steadily throughout the world. According to a study by the International Congress and Convention Association (ICCA) covering the period 1963-2013, the number of regular associative events...