Dominique Perrault   France   The planning frenzy that Baron Haussman breathed into the Paris of 1850 led to an ambitious succession of urbanistic operations of an imperial grandeur that continued even after the establishment of the Third Republic twenty years later. It was in th

Dominique Perrault   China   The French firm headed by Dominique Perrault, in collaboration with the Chinese office Zhubo Design, has won the competition to build a new campus – accommodating 4,000 students – for the Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech) in She

Dominique Perrault   France   Dominique Perrault Architecture (DPA) has won the competition to cover the tennis court named after the French champion Suzanne Lenglen at Stade Roland Garros, the complex that hosts the French Open. Over a concrete structure and the ensemble of stee

Dominique Perrault   Spain   The Santa Elvira sugar refinery was, since the early 20th century until its closing in 1992, one of the key economic motors of the city. The site where the old factory building was located was the place designated for the construction of the new Conv

Dominique Perrault   South Korea   The French firm Dominique Perrault Architecture, in collaboration with the South Korean office Junglim, has won the international competition for the construction of ‘Light Walk,’ the future intermodal transport hub and shopping center in Seoul’s Gan

Dominique Perrault   France   The extension is carried out with a wooden structure, lightening the building, and placing a dynamic shock absorber – a vast metal sphere – at the top of the building to stabilize it. The dual-skin facade is conceived as a breathable enclosure... [+]

Dominique Perrault   South Korea   Inspired in Richard Long’s work, the buildings connect with the landscape by incorporating nature to the project and relying on the calm geometry of the circle to achieve harmony with the valley, while its scale turns it into a symbol of strength and

Dominique Perrault   Luxembourg   This is the latest of the interventions that Perrault has planned for the extension of this complex. It’s a third tower that synthesizes the aesthetics of the different buildings of the Court and marks the end of the Gallery that articulates them...

Dominique Perrault   Switzerland   The objective of the intervention is to favor a greater connection between the adjacent public spaces by displacing the current bicycle parking to an underground area and proposing a new tower with a perforated base... [+]

Dominique Perrault   Switzerland   The building is integrated in the urban tissue of the old industrial zone, favoring pedestrian traffic along the north-south and east-west directions by connecting the recessed patios with the protected park – of almost 5,000 m2 – via two public

Dominique Perrault   France   The aim of the project is not to obtain a historical reproduction of the monumental Post Office Building of the19th century, but to revitalize it by introducing current uses that will be added to the old ones in a block open 24 hours a day. The block

Dominique Perrault   France   In order to turn the racecourse into an icon for the horse racing world, the project includes refurbishment works, new construction, and landscaping, adding up to a total of 22,000 m2 of built areas and 70,000 m2 of green spaces. The most important i

Dominique Perrault   France   Taking advantage of the relocation of some of the institutions that occupied the island, the project proposes revitalizing the place, diversifying uses, reclaiming the public space, and highlighting its monuments through 35 interventions. Located in

Dominique Perrault   France   Located at different height, two disks of 58 and 66 meters in diameter configure a lightweight roof that marks the entrances to the station hovering over a central void that connects the city with the train tracks buried 50 meters deep... [+]

Dominique Perrault   France   Characterized by its exquisite deference to the surroundings, the intervention on the Pavilion Dufour at the Palace of Versailles manifests itself externally only through a discreet, delicate staircase. 

Dominique Perrault Architecture    Switzerland   The new mechanics hall of the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne follows the 7.2 x 3.9 geometric scheme that has defined the campus since it was built in the 1970s. The result of an international competition, the project organizes its 19,000 sq

Dominique Perrault   Spain   Ten years after the French architect won the first prize in the architectural competition called by the Town Hall, the construction of the Convention Center and Exhibition Hall of León is now reaching its final stages. The project is a key urban inte

Dominique Perrault   France   Decorated with a curved screen made of metal grids, the theater in its weightless appearance strikes a contrast with the clay fabric of historical Albi and has become a new cultural hub.

Dominique Perrault   Netherlands   Groningen has been trying for years to ‘intensify’ its urban fabric, avoiding suburbanization, protecting rural areas and promoting the quality of the public spaces in the city. This building complex is an example of this effort, a development which

Dominique Perrault   Spain   Located on a strategic site across from the AVE station, the sugar refinery of Santa Elvira is ready to start working again. The project links two differentiated spaces that, in a symbiotic manner, serve and complement one another. In the first place

Dominique Perrault   Italy   The project for the Line 1 Metro Station Piazza Garibaldi is inserted into an urban district with a strategic relevance for the whole city of Naples, in terms of scale and logistics. Five stations are present in the area: the Railway Central Station,

Dominique Perrault   Austria   Conceived as the new ‘gate’ of Vienna’s business district on Danube Island, the asymmetrical DC Towers are home to an extensive mixed program of uses, from offices to a restaurant through a hotel and private apartments. The first of the two construct

Dominique Perrault   Russia   Like other monuments of Saint Petersburg, the golden shell of the new opera, whose construction has finally been cancelled, does not conform to the building’s interior shape. Rather, it keeps its distance, even managing to envelope the structure with

Dominique Perrault   During the opening of the Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism 2021 that took place September 16th, its General Director, Dominique Perrault, shared his experience and thoughts on the future of this kind of events. Tribulations of a Biennale d

The Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism will be held from September 16 to October 31, 2021. Dominique Perrault is the General Director of the Seoul Biennale. The third edition of this Biennale, entitled "CROSSROADS Building the Resilient City

Jacques Herzog For a young architect at the beginning of his career it is a challenging moment to see the widely admired work of established colleagues, often with a mixture of disdain and admiration. For my generation this moment was in the 1980s, a

Dominique Perrault   Notre-Dame, the heart of the heart of Paris, treasure of the Île de la Cité, has just suffered one of the most trying moments in its long history. Across all lands and cultures of the world, this drama leaves us speechless, touching the hearts and ar

Architecture is ideas and forms, but both crystallize through matter. While construction is prefigured in the immaterial geometries of the project, it takes shape in the physical world by means of materials and techniques. This entangled relationship

Not without some controversy in France and Spain alike (from his stand in El País, Fernando Savater – a big fan of the turf world – expressed his nostalgia for the old building), the renovated Longchamp Racecourse was recently completed. Long a

Dominique Perrault   Frédéric Migayrou   Our relationship with the ground keeps us continually attached to what is the essence of a truly geographic approach, to our cultural tendency to accept the idea of making a mark, of a foundation, of geography in the literal sense, the one of rootedn

The dictionary of the Royal Spanish Academy says that an infrastructure is an underground work. If this is so, then the future multimodal transport hub and shopping center of Gangnam, right in the heart of Seoul and called Lightwalk, is literally one

Unlike in Spain, where prime ministers are uninterested in architecture, in France it is a tradition for French presidents to leave a ‘monumental’ legacy. Beyond emulating Napoleon or Louis xiv, they know that only presidential power can carry out pr

The early moderns saw the past as a hindrance to eliminate or at least transcend and ‘go beyond.’ But as modernity matured, becoming less and less ‘modern,’ the past tended to shed its bad reputation and eventually carved an actual niche for itself i

Dominique Perrault The Imperial House of Japan and the Japan Art Association give yearly since 1989 the Praemium Imperiale to five artists in the categories of Painting, Sculpture, Architecture, Music, and Cinema or Theater. In 2015 the awards – endo

The French Dominique Perrault is among those distinguished in the 2015 edition of the Praemium Imperiale, given yearly since 1989 by the Japanese imperial family and the Japan Art Association, with a prize of 15 million yen (approximately 111,000 eur

Dominique Perrault será el encargado de rehabilitar y ampliar el inmenso complejo Pont de Sèvres, construido por Daniel Badani y Pierre Roux-Dorlut en 1975. Situado en Boulogne-Billancourt, en el área metropolitana parisina, y separado de la capital

Dominique Perrault ha sido seleccionado, a través de un concurso internacional, para remodelar el hipódromo de Longchamp, un lugar de referencia en el mundo hípico situado en el Bois de Boulogne en París. El proyecto aborda el doble reto de integrar

Un ‘pulpo’ de ocho brazos se aferra a las paredes de una cantera en desuso; se trata del Zénith, un centro multifuncional dedicado a la cultura y el espectáculo propuesto por Dominique Perrault para la recualificación ambiental de la antigua explotac

El estudio de arquitectura del francés Dominique Perrault ha finalizado el pabellón de acceso al parque Priory en Reigate, al sur de Londres. Con una superficie de 340 metros cuadrados, la estructura de planta circular alberga un puesto de informació

Dominique Perrault ha finalizado la ampliación del Tribunal Europeo de Justicia en Luxemburgo. El proyecto, ganador de un concurso convocado en 1996, proponía la reforma de un conjunto de edificios construidos entre los años setenta, ochenta y novent

Sebastian Redecke   Placing the starting point of Dominique Perrault’s architecture in the concern for materiality seems obvious. The architect has clear preferences: the list of materials used can be reduced to metal, in all its forms, and, of course, glass. There is n

François Chaslin   Is Dominique Perrault France’s best architect? It would be tempting to say so if the Pritzker had not first gone to Portzamparc and Nouvel, both of whom are about ten years older. French? Without a doubt. In certain ways, so are the latter two. All t

Luis Fernández-Galiano   As his fellow countryman Pascal, Dominique Perrault reconciles the ‘esprit de géométrie’ with the ‘esprit de finesse’; on the trail of the Michelin saga of his native city, the architect from Clermont-Ferrand reunites technology and society in his wo

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Dominique Perrault joins geometry and geography in a new architectural place, sparsely inhabited by families of hermetic objects, all built with exact logic, and which face the environment with metaphysical aplomb. Instead of seamlessly merging with

Cuando faltan pocas semanas para la inauguración del Centro Olímpico de Tenis de Madrid, conocido como la ‘Caja Mágica’ (véase AV Proyectos 29), el Museo de Colecciones ICO presenta una exposición monográfica del autor de esta nueva e importante inst

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Como su paisano Pascal, Dominique Perrault reconcilia el esprit de géométrie con el esprit de finesse; en la estela de la saga Michelin de su ciudad natal, el arquitecto de Clermont-Ferrand reúne en su trabajo tecnología y sociedad; y al igual que el

Dominique Perrault   Other Topographies

Michèle Champenois   Paris  2016   - 360 Pages 

Gilles de Bure   Paris  2004  
Vilo Terreil   - 303 Pages 

Dean Hawkes Wayne Forster   Londres  2002  
Laurence King   - 240 Pages 

Dominique Perrault   Baden  1999  
Lars Müller Publishers   - 108 Pages 

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