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Highstay designs Paris holiday apartments for Olympics visitors and holiday makers

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Highstay's has created holiday apartments within historic buildings The apartments are spread over four central Paris locations: Champs-Elysées, Saint-Honoré, Louvre and Marais. A ring-shaped light hangs over the centre of the tall space, which is vertically emphasised by the kitchen millwork and full-height windows.

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Karl Lagerfeld’s Paris Home Will Be Sold at Auction Starting at €5.3M

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The legendary fashion designer’s sleek apartment and design studio is perched above the Left Bank with striking views of the Seine and the Louvre. Photo courtesy of Mediacorp See the full story on Dwell.com: Karl Lagerfeld’s Paris Home Will Be Sold at Auction Starting at €5.3M

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RSHP designs tapered museum extension to house Bayeux Tapestry in Normandy

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British studio RSHP has unveiled plans to overhaul the Bayeux Tapestry Museum in Normandy, France , adding an extension to exhibit the 70-metre-long, historic tapestry. Stretching the length of the museum's site, the new building will have a gently sloping roof designed to reduce its size alongside the neighbouring structures.

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World's largest museum captured ahead of opening in Egypt

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The long-awaited Grand Egyptian Museum by Dublin studio Heneghan Peng Architects has been captured ahead of its scheduled opening in Giza, Egypt , later this year. In the photos shared by the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the colossal building, also known as the Giza Museum, is framed against the Pyramids of Giza.

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Kengo Kuma adds Japanese-influenced wing to Musée Albert Kahn in Paris

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Kengo Kuma and Associates has completed a major extension to the Paris museum of late philanthropist Albert Kahn, which holds a historic collection of 72,000 photographs from around the world. Kengo Kuma and Associates has added a new building to the Musée Albert Kahn. It opened as a museum in 1986, 46 years after Kahn's death.

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Shiftspace brings IM Pei rowhouse in Philadelphia back to "original vision"

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Wooden louvres replace walls Inside, a central staircase that reaches from the basement to the third storey is essential to the redesign. Here, some solid walls have been replaced with wooden louvres. He designed a number of noteworthy buildings including Dallas City Hall and the Grand Louvre pyramid in Paris.

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"Italo Rota's all-encompassing definition of architecture is needed today more than ever"

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Later, he became the lead architect for several neo-liberty projects by Gae Aulenti , co-signing with her one of the key museums of the time – the renovation of the famed Gare d'Orsay in Paris. Yet, if I had to attach a label to his oeuvre, I would say that he ultimately espoused only one movement: a continuous avant-garde.