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Construction Starts on La Serre, MVRDV's Urban Oasis Outside Paris

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Situated in the ZAC Léon Blum eco-district in Issy-les-Moulineaux , just outside of Paris , and designed by MVRDV , in collaboration with landscape architect Alice Tricon, and developer OGIC, the scheme aims to challenge conventional apartment living by integrating nature into the urban setting.

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SOA Architectes completes "eclectic" social housing in Parisian park

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The 19th-century villas in the suburbs of Paris informed the arched windows and sloping roofs of this social housing block in France , completed by local studio SOA Architectes. Its design references 19th-century Parisian villas nearby SOA Architectes divided the apartments across three volumes.

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Studio Gang begins construction on Parisian university built with 50 per cent natural materials

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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. Construction has commenced on the University of Chicago centre in Paris. The centre will have a mass timber structure.

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Budget Breakdown: $91K and Vintage Flair Revive a Flat in One of Paris’s Coolest Buildings

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A small apartment renovation in Orgues de Flandre—a brutalist ’70s development built as social housing—includes a kitchen-focused layout, storage solutions, and secondhand finds. When Marine Etoubleau and Thibault Pailloux were looking to buy an apartment in Paris, the art directors had big ideas for a contemporary, design-led home.

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TVK designs limestone buildings for "first zero-carbon district" in Paris

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French architecture practice TVK has completed a neighbourhood in Paris made up of limestone buildings surrounding a garden and designed as a sustainable development that aims to increase biodiversity. Located on a triangular site in Paris's 19th arrondissement, the project is "the capital's first zero-carbon district", according to TVK.

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The Nakagin Capsule Tower pods… coming soon to a museum near you

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As reported by The Washington Post and other outlets, some of the 140 surviving capsules will be transformed into rentable apartment units, with others traveling to public collections abroad such as the Centre Pompidou in Paris, which has expressed interest along with many other international institutions.

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Christ & Gantenbein wraps Paris social housing in "rather unexpected" steel facade

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Architecture studio Christ & Gantenbein has created a 124-metre-long block of social housing in Paris that is clad in steel. Designed in collaboration with Margot-Duclot Architectes Associes , the linear building is in the city's 15th arrondissement and contains 104 apartments split across five floors.

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