IDOM   France   Southeast of Nantes – in the municipality of Bouguenais, which belongs to the French cantón of Rezé – rises this building by IDOM – Gohar Manrique San Pedro, Inés López Taberna, Iñaki Garai – which ensued from winning a competition to improve the cit

Dominique Perrault   France   In 2012, the French firm Dominique Perrault Architecture won the competition to revitalize this post office building located in the heart of Paris – an 1888 work of Julien Guadet – by injecting new uses into it, side by side with old ones. The reno

OFFICE Kersten Geers David Van Severen   France   The competition-winning project set out to renovate and transform the Caserne de Reuilly, a former infantry quarter located in the 12th arrondissement of Paris. Dating from the 19th century, during World War II the Caserne de Reuilly served as a mobi

SANAA   France   Fifteen years and 280 French companies have taken part in the reconstruction, reshaping, and renovation of La Samaritaine in Paris. The history of this department store dates back to 1870, when Ernest Cognacq opened at the junction of Pont-Neuf and M

SAM architecture   France   With room for 360 children, the school complex built by Paris-based SAM Architecture is located in a neighborhood designed for railway workers in the 1970s, in the Epine district south of Hellemmes. It is also to serve as a public facility, with func

Dietmar Feichtinger Architectes   France   At the foot of the fortress built by the Genoese in the 14th century – and which gave the city its name – a sinuous walk is set into the rock, giving access to 450 meters of coastline beside the mighty walls that in the past resisted the squadrons of

Richard Rogers   France   This is final building work of Richard Rogers, initiated before his June 2020 retirement from the firm he founded in London in 1977, and which in 2007 was renamed Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners (RSHP). The art gallery designed by the Pritzker laur

Miralles Tagliabue EMBT ilimelgo architectes   France   The Barcelona-based studio of Benedetta Tagliabue, in collaboration with the Paris firm ilimelgo architects, has refurbished Le Palais des Fêtes, an old events hall in the city of Romainville, 10 kilometers from the French capital, enhancing the stru

Reiulf Ramstad Arkitekter ASP Architecture   France   Raised high over the Swiss village of Breitenbach, near the German border, this hotel is designed as a reinterpretation of a traditional Scandinavian place of retreat in nature. Wooden volumes dot the hillside and are diluted in the Alsatian landscap

David Chipperfield   France   The existing ensemble of 1960 had an unapproachable appearance. Formed by a 16-storey tower flanked by two 9-storey wings that create a square, it will be renovated and extended with two volumes facing the Seine and similar in scale to the neighborin

SANAA   France   Fifteen years and 280 French companies have taken part in the reconstruction, reshaping, and renovation of La Samaritaine in Paris. The history of this department store dates back to 1870, when Ernest Cognacq opened at the junction of Pont-Neuf and M

Enrique Sobejano   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 Art Newspaper   Gareth Harris   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

François Chaslin   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

The Guardian   Kim Willsher   The Pompidou Centre, one of Paris’s top cultural attractions and home to Europe’s biggest modern art collection, is to close from 2023 for four years of renovations, France’s culture minister has said. Designed by architects Renzo Piano and Richard R

The Guardian   Kim Willsher   Mayor Anne Hidalgo gives green light to £225m-scheme to transform French capital’s most famous avenue.  The mayor of Paris has said a €250m (£225m) makeover of the Champs-Élysées will go ahead, though the ambitious transformation will not happen befo

Eduardo Prieto   “May you live in interesting times”: the curse that has fallen upon us resembles the one that befell Europeans in the 1930s. The 1937 Paris International Exposition was the last major cosmopolitan event held in Europe before the apocalypse, and desp

In collaboration with local firms PPA Architectures and Taillandier Architectes Associés, Rotterdam-based Office for Metropolitan Architecture has built MEETT, the city of Toulouse’s new convention and exhibition center. With its 155,000 square meter

The Madrid partners Fuensanta Nieto and Enrique Sobejano, in collaboration with the Parisian firm Marin+Trottin, finished first in the bid to design the Cité du Théâtre in Paris, carrying the day over the other two finalists, Foster+Partners and Fabr

Six months before dying in poverty, the visionary French architect Jean-Jacques Lequeu (1757-1826), after failing to find a buyer, donated hundreds of his drawings to the Bibliothèque nationale de France. His detailed works describe all sorts of them

Renzo Piano Richard Rogers   Genoa  2017  
Fondazione Renzo Piano   - 248 Pages 

Francesco Dal Co   Renzo Piano, Rchard Rogers and the Makin of a Modern Monument

José Ramón Alonso Pereira   Barcelona  2015  
Reverté   - 320 Pages 

Walter Benjamin   Madrid  2013  
Abada Editores   - 1666 Pages 

Lia Piano   Génova  2014  
Fondazione Renzo Piano   - 196 Pages 

RCR Arquitectes   Rodez  2014  
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