Paris, France
Since the Middle Ages, Parisian justice has been dispensed from the famous building that surrounds the Sainte-Chapelle on the Île de la Cité, but due to an increasing shortage of space its offices were scattered across the city. The new law courts, b
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.
In dialogue with the grand courthouse building next to it, the new seat of the law bar association completes the judicial complex that has activated the peripheral Batignolles district. A metro station under the site made it necessary to dispense wit
With the Seine Valley as backdrop, the new school of Heudobouville – a village in France's Upper Normandy region – harnesses materials used in the buildings around: the slate of the nearby bell tower and…
First it was a market; the it was station and cultural center; now, it is a station, cultural center, and shopping center. The case of Les Halles in Paris is that of a fast-changing palimpsest, and what is interesting is that the building just comple
Located in Paris, this apartment building facing two intersecting roads – Rue Frémicourt and Boulevard de Grenelle – has some gardens adjacent to it, and is organized in such a way that the two blocks – one providing social housing and the other priv
The waves of the undulating roof, built with laminated wood and bamboo, suggest the fusion of cities and nature, and reinterpret the codes of traditional Chinese architecture.
Renzo Piano recently inaugurated the new Palais de Justice of Paris, a project that was undertaken to address the increasing shortage of space in the famous building on the Île de la Cité. The tower, raised by virtue of an agreement between public an
Born with the millennium, the Serpentine project was entrusted to a purely artistic view of architecture, a view where use – in this case the questionable use of a small summer pavilion – was understood as a mere trigger of ephemeral buildings, folie
