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Le Cordon Bleu, one of the world’s leading networks of culinary arts and hotel management institutes, will open its new Paris school on June 22, 2016. Occupying 4,000 square meters, the flagship institute boasts the latest technology, with emphasis on the use of digital systems. The building’s design was envisaged with the latest environmental norms in mind, enabling it to be eco-friendly. The new contemporary structure will provide students with seven practical classrooms for cuisine, pastry and bakery lessons, including one classroom that has been specially designed for teaching Asian cuisine (Thai, Japanese and Chinese). It will also offer three demonstration rooms, one cellar-style room dedicated to wine and management, six modular classrooms, which can be transformed into a 420 m² function room, one student area with multimedia equipment and a large library with a wide selection of international culinary books and magazines. The project also involves a boutique with a range of products and gourmet gifts, as well as an array of cuisine and pastry equipment. It will also have a workshop dedicated to individual or group lessons for cuisine amateurs. Le Cordon Bleu Café gives students and passers-by the opportunity to try a range of quality goods either on site or at home. One of the building’s innovations is its roof, which has been transformed into a vegetable garden. With an ever increasing demand for training programs in culinary arts and wine, hotel and restaurant management, Le Cordon Bleu will welcome more than 1,000 students every year.