Kengo Kuma   France   The Japanese firm of Kengo Kuma has been selected to enlarge and relocate the French manufacturer Michelin’s museum in Clermont-Ferrand. L’Aventure Michelin, which opened in 2009, will be transferring to a former tire-production site of the company,

MARS Architectes   France   Taking up a city block on Boulevard Poniatowski in Paris, this social housing development is clearly inserted into its homogenous urban context. The immediate surroundings are characterized by a uniform system for arranging the facades: a horizontal

ABF-LAB   France   The French firm ABF-LAB, led by architects Paul Azzopardi and Étienne Feher, carried out the Maison des Solidarités in Langon, a public facility for social services of France’s Gironde department. The project took a bioclimatic approach, combining pa

LAUS architectes   France   Rising on a previously vacant lot, on slightly sloping ground, the new municipal market hall is a key piece in restructuring the urban fabric and revitalizing community life. The building takes on a clear, recognizable presence without imposing itsel

Studio Muoto   France   Located in the emerging district of Cambarérès, the center is conceived as an active hub for companies, associations, and agents in the digital ecosystem. Its design promotes informal encounter through a grid arrangement of courtyards and spaces for

Jean Nouvel   France   On 25 October 2025, the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain begins a new chapter with the public opening of its new location at 2 Place du Palais-Royal, in the heart of Paris, across the Musée du Louvre. The inside of the historic Haussmann-sty

Studio Anne Holtrop   Defining gestures of creation in relation to materials was the starting point of the collaboration with the fashion house and its creative director, John Galliano. Taking from concepts of the firm itself – such as ‘dressing in haste,’ unlocking memor

Link Architectes Associés   France   Nearly 2,000 years ago, the city of Lugdunum – now Lyon – was supplied with water by a network of Roman aqueducts, among them the Gier, the longest (over 80 kilometers) and most technically complex. A stretch of it, formed by the alignment of 72 arch

Bindloss Dawes   France   The British firm Bindloss Dawes has turned an old French agricultural hamlet in Mauroux, near Toulouse, into a yoga retreat. Its name, Amassa, comes from Occitan, the region’s Romance language, and means ‘to gather,’ a concept which guided the whole

Christ & Gantenbein   France   On the left margin of the Seine River, the 15th arrondissement of Paris – also known as Vaugirard – is the most populated city district, where a varied residential fabric coexists with extensive parks and one of the tallest skyscrapers. The intervent

P+S Estudio de Arquitectura   France   The second Forêt Monumentale is being held in the Roumare woods, in the French region of Normandy. It is an open-air artistic promenade, featuring thirteen monumental installations in dialogue with the landscape. Prominent among them is Compluvium, a

Onze04 Arquitectes   France   The construction of this new facility in La Bouëxière, in France’s Brittany region, presents the opportunnity to reconsolidate and restructure the zone, creating a large sport and culture center that integrates existing amenities and reconnects the c

Coldefy Carlo Ratti   Japan   Like a grand opéra, the exhibition is divided into acts: the ceremonious entrance is followed by a sequence of thematic spaces that look over the ground floor, to which one returns after an interlude in the rear garden...

Jakob + MacFarlane   France   One aspiration of the avant-gardes was to break the box, but the Nouvelle-Aquitaine regional center of contemporary art only had to open it: a simple two-level volume was inserted into the central void of a disused printing press to expand the exhibi

Clément Blanchet Architecture   France   Located at the intersection of Rue de Lubeck and Rue de Boissière in Paris, this project creates a new campus for the French branch of the Instituto Maragoni. For this purpose, the firm Clément Blanchet undertook the renovation of a historic 19th-cen

Renzo Piano Building Workshop   France   The new Pathé complex proposes Paris as European capital of cinema, bringing together production and distribution under one roof. The project involves a complete renovation of the historic Paramount complex – built in 1929 by Auguste Bluysen in art d

Renzo Piano Building Workshop   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

Kengo Kuma   France   The final prototypes have been approved to begin the prefabrication of the 660 pieces that will form the future gallery. Each concrete element, made of white cement, sand, and aggregates from the Loire basin, will be cast and polished. The project ca

RAUM   France   The Nantes-based architecture firm Raum has refurbished and expanded a community swimming pool and spa center in Saint-Méen-Le-Grand, a picturesque locality in the northwestern French region of Brittany. There is a new sports pool and aqua-leisure ar

Dominique Perrault Architecture   France   The station beside the Gustave Roussy Hospital in Villejuif, in the south of Paris, is part of the Grand Paris Express, a 200-kilometer system of metropolitan railway lines and 68 new stations which is one of the largest infrastructural projects unde

Studio Mumbai Studio Médtierranée   France   The new extension is built using earth excavated from the site, compressed and repositioned to create spaces that are large enough to accommodate the winery program, as well as a reservoir, carved into the ground, where rainwater is stored. Archetypa

Richter architectes et associés   France   The school complex is located in a regular, orthogonal urban grid of Mitry-Mory, in the Île-de-France region. The program joins an eight-classroom nursery, a leisure center, and a lunchroom for preschool and primary-education classes. The project dra

LAN Architecture   France   This 50-meter-tall timber-framed residential block stands in Paris’s 13th arrondissement. Its three main components are a commercial base, 132 apartments, and communal areas for residents, including a 300-square-meter terrace on the 8th floor, a vers

That one of the great scandals of pre-revolutionary France involved a necklace of Marie Antoinette says much about her position in matters of state and society. Without being a political strategist or an intellectual, the foreign queen consort – init

Eight years following his resolution to stop painting – but not drawing – the Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris has filled its building there with three hundred works which, on display up to March, together are a good reflection of the German visual a

After a nomadic and cosmopolite childhood spending winters in Nice or Florence and summers in the Alps or Biarritz, the young John Singer Sargent settled in Paris to study at the atelier of the famed Carolus-Duran and later at the École des Beaux-Art

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Many may have discovered the figure of Antonin Carême (1783-1833), “le chef des rois, le roi des chefs,” through the Apple TV+ series. But this chef whose specialty was making pastries inspired by architectures he found in tomes of the royal library

For the celebration of its tenth anniversary, in 1987 the Centre Pompidou invited Hans Hollein to show his work in the foyer, with a montage designed by himself. Now, with the idea of marking the museum’s closure for an exhaustive revamp set to last

In 1929, Le Corbusier imagined an architectural manifesto that would become one of the masterpieces of the Modern Movement. Today, almost a century later, and in a clear declaration of intentions from the Madrid-based luxury brand, the Villa Savoye h

Luis Fernández-Galiano   The only surreal work by Le Corbusier is not by him. As the monumental monograph by the Aachen University professor Wim van den Bergh shows, the very famous image of the grass-floored terrace with Paris’s Arc de Triomphe rising behind a wall where a

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

Juan Villoro   Victor Hugo estableció en Nuestra Señora de París una sugerente tensión entre la arquitectura y el texto. Escrita en el siglo XIX, la novela se ubica en el XV, que asiste a la invención de la imprenta. Hugo compara esta transformación cultural con el

François Chas, Nicolas Guérin, Fabrice Long, and Paul Maitre Devallon are architects of Cartesian method: their projects stem from a deduction process grounded on the drawing, “the first act of building,” which helps them take on the complexities of

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

Wim van den Bergh   The Life and Death of the Beistegui Penthouse Apartment

Frédéric Migayrou   Paris  2023  
Centre Pompidou   - 272 Pages 

Boris Hamzeian   From Pompidou to Beaubourg

Philippe Rahm   Comment le climat, les épidémies et l'énergie ont façonné la ville et les bâtiments

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

Walter Benjamin   Madrid  2013  
Abada Editores   - 1666 Pages 

José Ramón Alonso Pereira   Barcelona  2015  
Reverté   - 320 Pages 

Lia Piano   Génova  2014  
Fondazione Renzo Piano   - 196 Pages 

RCR Arquitectes   Rodez  2014  
RCR Bunka   - 110 Pages 

2009

Larry Busbea   The Urban Utopia in France, 1960-1970

Walter Benjamin   Cambridge (Mass)  1999  
Harvard University Press   - 1074 Pages 

Jean-Louis Cohen Monique Eleb Antonio Martinelli   París  2000  
Norma Editorial   - 288 Pages