Sou Fujimoto Architects   France   This welcoming center is part of the metamorphosis of the Ruinart champagne house in Reims. Sou Fujimoto’s design draws inspiration from the sparkling bubbles of champagne. Built with stone and wood, the pavilion presents gentle curves in the walls a

Carmen Maurice   France   Sarzeau, in the French department of Brittany, has after a 70-year hiatus seen a relaunch of wine production, an activity that had flourished in the area for centuries until the 1950s. The winegrowers Guillaume Hagner and Marie Devigne planted 25,000

Kengo Kuma   France   Through a series of stairs and ramps that follow a spiral formation, Saint-Denis Station expands public space and connects with the urban scheme of the Pleyel district in northern Paris. A work of the Japanese architect Kengo Kuma, the complex includ

Martin Duplantier Architectes   France   Built in line with the 2024 Olympic Games held in Paris, this seven-story garage in L'Île-Saint-Denis freed up the neighborhood of vehicles. The structural bracing system was included in the design of the facade and the whole building serves as a la

Snøhetta   France   Nestling in the heart of the Pyyenees National Park, the project is a reconstruction of the Barroude mountain refuge that fire destroyed ten years ago. The building will provide a visitor reception center, support facilities for park staff, and accom

Beaudouin Architectes Ivry Serres   France   On a difficult plot in the historic quarter of the city of Grasse in southern France, the Charles Nègre media library absorbs some preexisting dwellings and an old water reservoir. The 3,600-square-meter building is inserted into the urban fabric of

OMA - Office for Metropolitan Architecture   France   The bridge designed by OMA / Rem Koolhaas, connecting the Bégles and Floirac cantons of Bordeaux, has officially opened. It is 548 meters long and 44 meters wide. There are separate lanes for cars, public transport, bicycles, and pedestrians, the one

Moreau Kusunoki Frida Escobedo   France   The French studio of Nicolas Moreau and Hiroko Kusunoki, in collaboration with Mexican firm Frida Escobedo Studio and AIA Ingénierie, has won the competition to carry out an overhaul of the Centre Pompidou in Paris. The steel-and-glass museum built b

Arquitectura-G   France   Two aspects unrelated to the project, prior to it, deeply marked the character of the house. So much so that the project, in a way, is understood as a complement that is added. On one hand, the privileged location on a promontory with views of the Ca

Arquitectura-G   France   The store is located on Rue Saint-Honoré, on the lower floors of a corner building, with the typical artisan house-workshop structure with a first floor of reasonable height and a loft with a height of 2,05 meters, where the family lived. Both floors

Assemble BC Architects & Studies   France   Le Magasin Électrique is part of a complex previously used for the construction and maintenance of trains, built in the mid-19th century, and now harboring the Luma Arles art center. The revamp begin in 2013 and gave rise to the Frank Gehry-designed

TAKK Architecture   France   Plato imagined the cave as an allegory of a sensual world that is just appearance, and this feigned background seems to materialize in the dazzling mise-en-scène that during this fashion season dresses the storefronts of the Parisian house of luxury

Tham & Videgård   France   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

Antonio Virga Architecte   France   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   France   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

MGM Morales De Giles Arquitectos Beaudouin Architectes   France   Located between the main campus avenue and the university’s residential area, the project seeks an open and permeable building, which invites students to a space for collaboration, research, and work that is easy to use and get around. The position a

Herzog & de Meuron   France   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

NORD Architects   France   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

Alberto Campo Baeza Raphaël Gabrion   France   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...

Coldefy   France   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

Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos   France   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

Moreau Kusunoki   France   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

Studio Muoto Titan architects   France   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 Guardian   Oliver Wainwright   The cathedral, “the soul of France” finally resurrected following a meticulous five-year, €700m restoration. “The area around Notre Dame has changed so much throughout history,” says Bas Smets, the Belgian landscape architect who won an open competit

The latest Cruise collection imagined by Virginie Viard, unveiled shortly before her departure as creative director of Chanel, was presented with a film protagonized by Marion Barbeau and the Ballet National de Marseille, in which they dance through

The sight of a blaze on the Seine has historically boded ill, from the conflagration of Pont Marchand in 1621 to that of Notre Dame Cathedral in 2019, by way of the setting of fire on the Palais des Tuileries by men from the Commune. But this 26th of

The French architect Dominique Perrault drew up the masterplan for the complex where the athletes competing in the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games will be billeted. Located in Seine-Saint-Denis, north of the center of Paris, it provides 2,400 lodgi

Olympics   Florian Bouhier   Close to the Porte de la Chapelle Arena, the Olympic Aquatic Centre is one of the facilities expressly built for the 2024 Olympic and Palalympic Games in Paris. A work of the firms VenhoevenCS and Ateliers 2/3/4, this building in the city of Saint-De

Paris 2024 Olympics

After three years of renovations, the Grand Palais will host the fencing and taekwondo competitions during the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. Built for the 1900 Universal Exposition, the Grand Palais has been closed since March 2021 for renovations, led b

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

Lorenzo Ciccarelli   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

Deyan Sudjic   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

CNN   Tamara Hardingham-Gill   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

Libération   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

The Guardian   Kim Willsher   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

Isabelle Regnier   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 Guardian   Kim Willsher   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

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