Country: France
Places of Modern Architecture to Visit: 35
This project is part of a fabric ANRU pavilion near a school and a gymnasium. The challenge for the lessor I3F was to relocate 34 families near their old neighborhood, […] |
One of the Grands Projets (Mitterrand’s 15 billion franc program to provide a series of modern monuments to symbolize France’s central role in art, politics, and world economy at the […] |
A building that is part of its neighborhood To the north-west of Paris, the Porte de Montmartre district is a sector of economic and social reconquest, through a Great Urban […] |
Boutique Patrick Roger was the discovery of the work, sculptures and workshop Patrick Roger. Through him the chocolate has emerged as a world of flavor, taste, and as a material for […] |
With the aim to group its premises on one site in 2003 Cartier moved its new headquarters to La Cité du Retiro. The new headquarters represents the strong identity of […] |
In 1970 an international architectural competition was launched. It was based on a programme aimed at achieving the objectives set by President Georges Pompidou and drawn up by the Sébastien […] |
The Centre of New Industries and Technologies, better known as the CNIT, located in Puteaux, France, is one of the first buildings built in La Défense in Paris, France. It […] |
This office building, the largest corporate project built in Europe in recent times – 350,000 sq m of usable floor space – is situated in the heart of La Défense, […] |
This project is the first element of the urban visual identity of the campus’s east side. It’s mixed use by students and city’s sports associations symbolizes new relationship between Villetaneuse […] |
Lovers of Paris revel in the symmetrical grandeur of the city’s ornate architecture, but most overlook a landmark of undulating lyricism inserted onto the stage of the French capital by […] |
The project that RATP has entrusted to us consists of the realization of 2 housing buildings imbricated with a bus center. © Salem Mostefaoui In a specific and referenced work […] |
The completion of a building in the planning project of Saclay Paris is a unique opportunity to be one of the markers of the future center of excellence established on […] |
At 85 Championnet there was an empty plot of land, with a plan that was too convoluted to be constructed in a classic way, like the rest of the street, […] |
Icone House contains a contemporary version of the ‘icon’ individual dwelling, i.e. it is devoid of preconceived ideas. It may have the archetypal four walls and sloping roof which are […] |
This project is part of the scheme to reconsider urban identity in the Centre Urbain, the new neighborhood that is the emblem of the future Évry. Rows, set back buildings, […] |
Often the construction of a high school creates a shift in scale and typology of the urban tissue. The new Jean Perrin High School shelters 632 students and 32 interns […] |
“We have strived to clean off the dusty image associated with a wine bar. Instead, we aimed to turn it into an intimate, bright, colourful space – firmly anchored in […] |
For eight centuries the Louvre Palace has stood as a unique national monument, central to the people and spirit of France. In 1983, President François Mitterrand requested that it be modernized, […] |
In autumn 1957, the final plans of Maison Louis Carre were complete and the construction began. Elissa Aalto (1922-1994), the architect’s second wife, headed the project and spent long periods of time […] |
The desire for layout asymmetry with respect to the central hub led us to design three bands of differing thicknesses which are given full expression in the resulting volume through […] |
This museum was designed to display and house works of art from little-known non-Western cultures, as well as to promote the research and teaching of these forms. The collections come […] |
Nanterre Apartment Blocks: Inserting volumes in the site: build a landscape. The architectural takes suggestions specifications and urban landscaping and wishes of a vertical fragmentation increased, and a breakdown in […] |
The landscaping area of the fortifications has been characterized by the striking architecture of public facilities from the 1930s to the 1950s: Lycée Honoré de Balzac (secondary school), kindergartens and […] |
An award-winning project noted for its architecture and new strategy of urban organization, La Villette has become known as an unprecedented type of park, one based on “culture” rather than […] |
56-58 rue Vieille du Temple is located in the heart of the Marais, in the 3rd arrondissement of Paris – a popular neighborhood of boutiques and galleries. PCA agency replaced […] |
The Place du Marché Saint-Honoré has occupied an important role in the history of Paris’ squares. For many years the Saint-Honoré square was occupied by a multi-storey car park. The […] |
This is a three-storey private house with basement, facing east/north-east on the rue de Nice and west/south-west across its courtyard. It is clad in putty coloured concrete from top to […] |
Student Residence in Paris for a student residence was considered in the context of the urban fabric of the La Chapelle district in Paris and its role in its evolution. The […] |
Tour Ariane is an office skyscraper located in La Défense, the high-rise business district situated west of Paris, France. Built in 1975, it belongs to the 2nd generation of skyscrapers […] |
Tour EDF is an office skyscraper located in La Défense, the high-rise business district west of Paris, France. The tower was built for Électricité de France (EDF), France’s main electricity company, […] |
International architecture firm, Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates (KPF) is pleased to announce the recent opening of Tour FIRST. Located on a prominent site near the Neuilly Bridge, the building stands […] |
Tour Montparnasse is a 210-metre office skyscraper located in the Montparnasse area of Paris, France. Constructed from 1969 to 1973, it was the tallest skyscraper in France until 2011, when […] |
Villiot-Rapée Apartments embraces new concepts of living together primarily based on generous outdoor spaces, both private (balconies) and communal (floor area), as well as on an extrapolation of the advantages […] |
A new construction of 60 housing units along the Ourcq Canal is completed by AZC Architects. The creation of block 04, made up of 60 + 60 housing units, is […] |
The urban development zone (ZAC) Claude Bernard is situated in the 19th arrondissement of Paris, on a 3.6ha vast area, between the boulevard Macdonald in the south and the highway […] |