Special feature: Marseille Capital of Culture 2013
A series of new cultural venues has sprung up along the waterfront in Marseille, including the contemporary art centre by Kengo Kuma we featured yesterday and a mirrored pavilion by Foster + Partners (+ slideshow).
As this year's European Capital of Culture, the coastal city in southern France has recently seen heavy investment in public buildings and temporary event spaces along its harbour.
![Special feature: new architecture in Marseille](https://static.dezeen.com/uploads/2013/08/dezeen_New-architecture-in-Marseille-special-feature_1.jpg)
The first we featured was an events pavilion by British architects Foster + Partners that reflects visitors walking beneath its polished steel canopy.
![FRAC Marseille by Kengo Kuma and Associates](https://static.dezeen.com/uploads/2013/08/dezeen_FRAC-Marseille-by-Kengo-Kuma_9sq.jpg)
More recently, Japanese designer Kengo Kuma completed the FRAC Marseille arts centre for the Provence Alpes Cotes d'Azur region with a chequered glass facade.
![MuCEM by Rudy Ricciotti photographed by Edmund Sumner](https://static.dezeen.com/uploads/2013/05/dezeen_MuCEM-by-Rudy-Ricciotti_1sq.jpg)
Also completed this year is the filigree-clad Museum of European and Mediterranean Civilisations (MuCEM) by architect Rudy Ricciotti, which connects to a seventeenth-century fort across the water via a long thin bridge.
![Villa Méditerranée by Boeri Studio](http://static.dezeen.com/uploads/2013/06/Dezeen_Villa-M%C3%A9diterran%C3%A9e-by-Stefano-Boeri-Architetti_1sq.jpg)
An archive and research centre with a cantilevered exhibition floor and an underwater conference suite by Boeri Studio is located just down the promenade.
![Le Corbusier's Cité Radieuse rooftop to open as art space](https://static.dezeen.com/uploads/2013/04/dezeen_Le-Corbusiers-Cite-Radieuse-rooftop-to-open-as-art-space_2a.jpg)
Elsewhere in the city, the rooftop of Le Corbusier's Cité Radieuse housing block was opened as a contemporary art space as part of the celebrations.
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