Archinect

MARCH 28, 2023

The new museum, set to open in 2025, will join the center’s existing network of outposts in Shanghai, Malaga, and the French city of Metz. French architect Jean-Michel Wilmotte is expected to oversee the design of the museum, having previously fulfilled interior design roles for the Louvre Museum and the British Museum.

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ArchDaily

APRIL 21, 2024

Image © Jakub Certowicz Among the "Five Points of New Architecture" formulated by Le Corbusier , terrace gardens figure as a way to take advantage of a building's so-called fifth facade, either as leisure areas or landscaping spaces. Living-Garden House In Katowice / KWK PROMES.

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ArchDaily

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Courtesy of Iwona Buczkowska Patricia Stroud, and Angela Davis, Oregon State University The Jane Drew Prize for Architecture 2024 and the Ada Louise Huxtable Prize for Contribution to Architecture 2024 have been awarded to Polish-French architect Iwona Buczkowska and political activist and author Angela Davis , respectively.

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ArchDaily

JANUARY 8, 2024

From cleaning the Seine River to building a cycling lane, activating a transit line, and banning non-essential city traffic, the heart of the French capital is on a mission against time to revitalize its historic urban core. Read more »

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ArchDaily

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Image Courtesy of French 2D In Greater Boston's city of Malden, Massachusetts , an inter-generational community of thirty households hired an architecture firm and collectively designed their cohousing community.

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Archinect

DECEMBER 14, 2023

The Urban Land Institute (ULI) has today announced Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo as its selection for the 2023 ULI Prize for Visionaries in Urban Development, one of the industry’s leading honors for community building and development worldwide.

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Archinect

MARCH 26, 2024

On February 29 by the French President, the Athletes’ Village will be the center of the world in the Summer of 2024, before becoming a fully-fledged city district in 2025. These are divided, in a mixed program, into five lots and nineteen buildings, all new construction, on which seven architecture agencies worked as a cohesive unit.

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Archinect

DECEMBER 15, 2023

SPAN worked closely with Mr. Baron to restore the building’s facade, while introducing new, historically appropriate decorative cast iron elements. The interior is more contemporary, and showcases Mr. Baron’s world-class collection of vintage French furniture and fashion prints.

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Archinect

JUNE 7, 2023

For the 22nd Pavilion, Lebanese-born Parisian-based architect showcases a design that highlights aspirations towards community gathering in a manner that speaks to the importance of building relationships while "inviting us to convene, sit down, think, share and celebrate exchanges."

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Dwell

MARCH 12, 2024

Anda and Jenny French of Boston architecture firm French 2D specialize in "strange" housing types where people can reconsider what it means to live together. But architects at French 2D , a Boston firm helmed by sisters Anda and Jenny French (above), have made it possible. A building model.

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Archinect

MARCH 6, 2023

Located in Gillett Square, the scheme refurbished existing workspaces in a Victorian-era brick masonry building while adding ten new mini retail units and a two-story extension to provide increased usability and interaction between its tenants and their neighbors in the square. Finally, the design comes wrapp.

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ArchDaily

JUNE 7, 2023

Image Courtesy of Herzog & de Meuron The city of Paris has officially reinstated a rule that limits the height of new buildings in the French capital to 37 meters, or 12 storeys. Tour Triangle.

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Archinect

MAY 27, 2023

Belgian-French construction group BESIX and Dutch dredging and heavylift company Boskalis have been announced as the first European contractors to be awarded a design and build lump sum contract by NEOM to work on the first phase of development for the Port of NEOM project.

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Deezen

APRIL 4, 2024

Wood has been used to construct the swooping form of this indoor swimming pool , created by Dutch studio VenhoevenCS and French studio Ateliers 2/3/4 for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. Located in the Saint-Denis district, the Aquatics Centre is the only permanent building constructed for the major sports event, which begins on 26 July 2024.

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Archinect

DECEMBER 20, 2022

The project was completed last year as a collaboration between the French studios Encore Heureux Architectes, Construire, and Base. It included adding a two-story extension and wood canopy entrance to the existing factory building at Place des Carmes which was acquired by the company in the early 2000s.

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Deezen

MARCH 26, 2024

Construction is progressing on a mass-timber academic building with a stone facade designed by architecture firm Studio Gang for the University of Chicago campus in Paris. Located in Paris Rive Gauche in the city's 13th arrondissement, the building's external facades will be decorated with fibreglass batons coated in Lutetian limestone.

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Deezen

APRIL 26, 2024

The Dior store's expressive facade elements echo those of its Seoul flagship store – also designed by French architect De Portzamparc – that similarly draws on fabrics used for Dior's creations. At night, the lighting appears to filter – through the elegant resin shells – transforming the building into a majestic urban lantern."

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Archinect

AUGUST 3, 2023

Strolling under the shading of French parasol trees, pedestrians won't miss the strong sense of Shanghai Culture with a mixture of international vigor and local spirit along the street. The main body of the building in which Tough Planet Space is located has a unique geometric form: an eleven-story iron-shape building built in 2004.

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designboom

MARCH 29, 2024

the project includes a passive archive building and a bespoke timber-framed office building, within an 11,000 sqm masterplan. The post tvk and carmody groarke collaborate on new conservation center for french national library appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

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Archinect

OCTOBER 28, 2022

3XN has officially debuted its first-ever French design just west of Paris’ La Défense business district in Nanterre. “As the first shape you encounter when arriving from La Défense, this building had to be eye-catching and dynamic,” 3XN Founding Partner Kim Herforth Nielsen explains.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

French studio Amelia Tavella Architectes referenced fossils for the textured stone facade of the Auguste Benedict School, which is designed to appear as though it has "emerged from the earth". The kindergarten dormitories have been positioned at the rear of the building, where the site's natural drop and a high stone wall offer privacy.

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Archinect

MARCH 1, 2023

This spring, the UIC School of Architecture continues building a new rhythm of in-person public programming," the institution shares. Events began on February 16 with Paul Andersen ’s lecture on the Boston-based studio French 2D.

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Archinect

APRIL 11, 2022

Ahead of the third anniversary of Notre-Dame de Paris’ devastating April 2019 fire , the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C. has announced a new 360-degree augmented reality -powered exhibition focusing on the famed cathedral ’s restoration and 850-plus years of history.

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World Architecture Community

MAY 2, 2024

French architecture firm rÖk architecte has built a wooden school inspired by Nordic architecture in Noisy-le-Grand, France. The school, named Oiseau Lyre, aims to be biosourced positive energy building with its bold material approach.Designed with susutainable principle.

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Dwell

MARCH 12, 2024

Photo by Lyndon French Carefully Picked When David Barsoum moved to the greater Chicago area to complete a PhD in organic chemistry, he faced a daunting task: filling an empty apartment on a tight student budget. But three of Instagram’s most vibrant vintage sellers prove that the real deal is out there.

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The Spaces

MAY 1, 2024

French interior designer Dorothée Delaye served as the design lead, inspired by sunshine, travel and Mediterranean flora and fauna. ‘It is important to strike the right balance between decoration and operation as light changes throughout the day into the evening, creating the right ambiance in this iconic building,’ says Dorothée.

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Archinect

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

MVRDV has shared details on its just-completed Gaîté Montparnasse block renovation in the French capital. It created a kind of explosion of buildings that combines large and small scale, existing and new programs, where everything mixes and opens up to the city with lobbies and windows of varying scales like so many addresses.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

series, we've collected 10 recently completed and upcoming buildings that show the potential of structural stone as a modern construction material. has explored the viability of stone as a modern, low-carbon building material that could help the construction industry minimise its vast carbon footprint. To conclude our Stone Age 2.0

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Archinect

MARCH 1, 2022

Heritage Buildings of Beirut, Lebanon: The vibrant coastal city of Beirut, devastated by the blast of August 2020, needs further recovery support to protect and rehabilitate the historic buildings essential to its identity. Pictured: A French-mandate building in the upper part of the Fouad Boutros corridor after the blast.

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Archinect

AUGUST 1, 2022

French artist Jean Dubuffet’s sculpture “Monument with Standing Beast,” in place in front of the Thompson Center since the building opened in 1985, is moving to a different spot in the Loop. The 29-foot, 10-ton fiberglass sculpture was seen as an extension of the Helmut Jahn -designed building.

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Deezen

JULY 6, 2023

Local practice Fabled Studio has designed the interiors for London 's Socca restaurant , adding hand-painted murals informed by the French Riviera. Fabled Studio co-founder Tom Strother describes the eatery as "a pocket of Southern France in Mayfair," with a playful and whimsical interior that complements the French Mediterranean menu.

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designboom

MAY 8, 2023

it is, to date, the first industrial building to have earned the french E4C2 label. The post lina ghotmeh brings sweeping arches to brick-clad hermès workshop in normandy appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

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Dwell

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

The 1964 French film, which was one of Greta Gerwig’s main visual references for "Barbie," is a master class in vibrant, patterned wallpapers and "more is more" decor. Sometimes, the colors clash casually, almost carelessly; at others, they build upon each other, creating a sea of complementary patterns and hues.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

French studio Vurpas Architectes has converted a 1960s market building to create Eugénie Brazier, a primary school and nursery in Lyon. Eugénie Brazier is built around the long structure of the old wholesale market and features perforated brickwork and a neutral colour palette that draws on the existing building.

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Dwell

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Proceed to the grand formal dining room, which in turn reveals the 32-by-20-foot living room through a pair of French doors. Designed by Schwartz & Gross in 1910 with French and Italian influences, the Brentmore building enjoys a premier location on Central Park West at 69th Street."

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Deezen

MAY 25, 2023

Developed in partnership with Dubai-developer Binghatti , the Bugatti Residences will be the first residential building branded with the car manufacturer's name. According to the developer, the building's form and its interiors draw upon the heritage of the luxury car brand, which was established in 1909.

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Archinect

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

When designing any building or structure, several factors come into play,owever, an often-overlooked element when designing a space is the power of lighting. For the New York-based L'Observatoire, the firm's passion and expertise started in 1993 with French lighting designer Hervé Descottes. Since its in.

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