Winning proposal in the competition of the City of Paris for the Denfert Building located at the site of the former Saint-Vincent-de-Paul Hospital in the 14th arrondissement, the new 7400sqm building will mark the entrance to the new Saint-Vincent-de
Located in the southeastern part of Rennes, capital of the Brittany region of western France, this building has the mission of enriching the community life of its neighborhood, amid 1960s housing estates. Envisioned as a new vector for social cohesio
Henning Larsen, in collaboration with Brière Architectes, has won the competition to raise building B777 at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN for its French initials), specifically on its campus in Prévessin-Moëns, close to the bor
Ubicado entre la avenida principal del campus y la zona residencial universitaria, el proyecto busca ofrecer un edificio abierto y permeable, que invite a los estudiantes a un espacio de convivencia, investigación y trabajo de fácil uso y recorrido i
Combining spaces for production and promotional activities, the viticulture facilities of a historic estate seek to formally and conceptually blend into a World Heritage Site. Much like the product embodies the vineyards’ mineral and climatic charact
Conceived as a village, this healthcare center in Dax – in France’s Landes department – is designed specifically for people afflicted with Alzheimer’s disease and dementia. The objective of the project is to improve the quality of life and the overal
Two volumes wrapped under the same skin of black concrete organize the project. On top of the first one of the them, a large horizontal plinth housing workshops and services, emerges a sort of cubic volume that protects the museum collections...
The firm of Lille Coldefy has been commissioned to build the Sormonne leather good factory of the luxury brand Hermès in an undulating landscape between the municipalities of Tournes and Cliron, in France’s Ardennes region. The 5,700-square-meter man
The deep meaning of the concept of ‘building the city’ lies in the ability to generate public space. While the public nature of a place is essentially a consequence of its citizens’ activity, the architect’s responsibility is to create the conditions
Located at 44 Rue Jean Baptiste Berlier, this timber construction rises to a height of 50 meters and comprises two volumes containing 77 apartments in 15 and 8 floors, and is a work of the practice led by Nicolas Moreau and Hiroko Kusunoki. The gridd
These facilities outside Paris, devoted to creation, research, and education in the arts, feature auditoriums, exhibition spaces, and workshops, plus offices and a restaurant. The building deconstructs the ‘black box’ concept. The main auditorium at
The Laherrère Center is part of an urban renewal program for the Saragosse district of Pau, the capital of the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department of France’s Nouvelle-Aquitaine region. It rises on the site of an old hospice that was unoccupied and in ve
Located at the entrance to the Brazza area of Bordeaux, this sports center has built area exceeding 15,700 square meters and rises 20 meters. The exterior spaces are superimposed like urban squares and streets protected against wind. The building’s m
Nestled in the heart of the citadel of Bonifacio, in the southern French island of Corsica, this daycare is part of the former Montaur military district. Amid stone towers, the educational facilities rise with a concrete material that incorporates ag
Aside from renewing the captaincy and the services of the marina, the project recovers the continuity of the old customs officers’ trail, which had been interrupted by the construction of the port infrastructure.
Drawing inspiration from the continuous elliptical movement of the stars, the new cultural sight of the city of Douai, in northern France, is located between the river Scarpe and the Arkéos archaeological museum. The composition of curved lines envel
The offices of a regional savings bank have been transferred to a building with a half-timbering structure that is a reinterpretation of the vernacular system of exoskeletons.
This facility in Louviers, Normandy, accommodates 260 crafters of artisanal bags, small leather goods, and equestrian items like saddles and harnesses for the luxury brand Hermès. The project of the Lebanese-French architect Lina Ghotmeh is based on
Villerupt is a small municipality in the Alzette Valley, in France’s Lorraine region, close to the Luxembourg border. It is historically linked to the exploitation of iron ore, in the mining of which many Italians worked. Almost all the industrial fa
The masterplan for this plateau proposed boulevards, streets, and squares with the poetic integration of landscape and ecology. It referred to the legacy of the great tradition of institutions such as Oxford, Cambridge, and Harvard, which were reinte
Commissioned by the Présidence de la République, this daycare for 24 children is located at the heart of the Palais de l’Alma in Paris, within the monumental complex. Built with timber and rammed earth, it stands in the garden behind the 19th-century
The block, separated from the street by an eleven-story building, faces the restrictions of the site and addresses the environmental commitments of cities today with a wooden structure that reconciles technological innovation and aesthetics. Behind t
The precision needed for traditional hand-crafted leather goods is reflected in the building’s making. Large brick arches shape both the outer perimeter and the facade onto the courtyard, creating generous windows that fill workshops with sunlight...
Ever since people began to live in cities, conserving surplus food – whether as grain or as wine – has been one of the fundamental tasks of society, and this is likely to turn wineries – overriding the snobberies that nowadays want to make them sophi
The more famous a building is, the more it is wrapped in myths and clichés, and the more we gain from those who take pains to delve into its history. The Centre Pompidou (1971-1977) is one of the iconic constructions of the 20th century. It helped re
On view through 7 August at the Pompidou is the most complete exhibition ever put together on Norman Foster’s work and visionary attitude.
“In Paris, everybody wants to be an actor; nobody is content to be a spectator.” What the young Jean Cocteau wrote in relation to Les Six may well also apply to Norman Foster: after six decades of raising buildings all over the world, numerous master
60 Years of Invention
On view through 7 August at the Centre Pompidou in Paris is a journey through the six-decade career of Norman Foster. Taking up almost 2,200 square meters of floor space, the exhibition presents 130 projects of his through an unprecedented selection
The 14th Veronica Rudge Green Prize in Urban Design has been awarded to the Grand Paris Express, a large-scale transit project currently being built in and around the Paris metropolitan area. With 68 new stations and 200 kilometers of additional trac
Paris is already home to some of the most popular attractions in the world, and the French capital could be about to get its very first urban cable car. Proposed plans for a brand new 4.5 kilometer-long aerial tramway connecting various suburbs in th
As it was for the likes of Gertrude Stein or Sidney Bechet, France was the main scene of the life of Paul Nelson. Attracted to the artistic circles that made Paris a party in the 1920s, the young man born in Chicago moved to the French capital to com
The latest film of Wes Anderson (Houston, 1969) pays a unique tribute to the golden years of independent journalism, and in particular to The New Yorker, of which the Anderson is a self-declared fan since his teens. Set in the newsroom of an American
Construction of Herzog & de Meuron’s ‘Triangle’ is to begin in Paris at the end of the year, after 15 of legal battles. The tower will be the tallest to go up in Paris since 1973. Building work is programmed for completion in 2026... Libération:
On view through 22 February at the Centre Pompidou in Paris is an exhibition that delves into the refreshingly refined graphic humor of Saul Steinberg, the brilliant Romanian American cartoonist who gave a new twist to illustration and the journalist
Exactly sixty years after their first installation in Paris – a barricade of barrels denouncing the then recently erected Berlin Wall – Christo and Jeanne-Claude return, albeit posthumously, to the city where they first met. The object this time is t
Operation combining art and engineering on a massive scale fulfils dream of late artist couple. Shortly after the sun rose over central Paris, the first of the orange-clad rope technicians hopped over the top of the Arc de Triomphe and began to absei
In 1997, Frank Gehry opened with his Guggenheim of Bilbao a new chapter of the history of architecture and city-building: the irruption of spectacular buildings designed by star architects to harbor private institutions, with which municipal councils
The Arc de Triomphe in Paris will be swathed in silvery blue fabric and red rope as a posthumous project planned by the artist Christo since the early 1960s finally becomes reality. Work will begin next month on L’Arc de Triomphe, Wrapped, a €14m ins
One of the features of the modern legacy – the legacy that nourishes our architecture and which we have yet to regard with the necessary impartiality – was the vituperation of rhetoric. In other words: the search for a ‘minor’ tone to apply to the so
1923-2020 The Hungarian-born French architect and urban planner Yona Friedman – perhaps the last of the great utopian masters of the 20th century – passed away in Paris on 21 February 2020 at the age of 96. After World War II, when being Jewish almos
I. A light volume of metal panels supported by thin columns rises in the middle of a dense forest facing the sea, allowing large pine trees to pass through the structure and continue to grow, in an unusual inversion of the image of the cabin suspende
The architect Frank Gehry will unveil his latest blockbuster building—a soaring twisting geometric tower covered with 11,000 stainless steel panels—at Luma Arles this summer, the 27-acre cultural campus in the southern French town of Arles spearheade
There are moments when it feels like we are at a turning point. Moments in which the insight and ingenuity of certain architects, their perseverance, the determination of a few builders, and certain changes in the collective imagination open up other
The Hyatt Foundation has selected Anne Lacaton and Jean-Philippe Vassal as the 2021 winners of the Pritzker Architecture Prize, the accolade it has been giving every year since 1979, coming with an award of US$100,000 (84,000 euros). Chaired by Ale
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