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Watch JR construct a giant optical illusion around IM Pei’s Louvre Pyramid

April 3, 2019 Lizzie Crook 0
The Secret of the Great Pyramid by JR under construction at Musée du Louvre

This time-lapse movie shows the installation of street artist JR’s paper trompe l’oeil at the Louvre Pyramid in Paris, France. Named The Secret of the Great Pyramid, it imagined the iconic building by Pritzker prize-winner IM Pei extending deep below the ground at the Musée du Louvre, in celebration of its 30th anniversary. Constructed from 2,000 stickers, it

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JR extends IM Pei’s Louvre pyramid with optical illusion to celebrate its 30th anniversary

April 2, 2019 Lizzie Crook 0
The Secret of the Great Pyramid by JR at the Louvre Museum in Paris, France

Artist JR has created a giant 3D optical illusion from paper that imagines the iconic pyramid at the Louvre in Paris continuing underground. Named The Secret of the Great Pyramid, the trompe l’oeil was made from 2,000 stickers surrounding Pritzker Prize-winning architect IM Pei’s glass building, making it appear to project out from a white excavated crater. At 17,000-square-metres it was French street artist

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Paola Navone rolls out “imperfect” aesthetic in McDonald’s stores across France

April 2, 2019 Natasha Levy 0
Interiors of McDonald's Austerlitz designed by Paola Navone

Italian designer Paola Navone has rolled out a new visual identity for seven McDonald’s stores in France, adding clashing prints and pops of colour to their interiors. The seven McDonald’s branches now feature a variety of patterned surfaces and brightly hued furnishings, which Navone hopes will create an “imperfect, almost artisanal look”. “The proposal to design

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Tracks Architectes designs timber-clad kindergarten with gabled forms in France

March 26, 2019 Jon Astbury 0
La Ruche by Tracks Architectes

A long run of gabled volumes clad in honey-coloured wood has been designed by Tracks Architectes for a kindergarten in France called La Ruche, which translates as The Beehive. La Ruche is located in the village of Perthes-en-Gatinais, and the project borrowed its simple geometry from the local architecture. Each pitched unit sits on one level, with widths and

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Travertine clads walls of school in Cannes by Atelier Stéphane Fernandez

March 6, 2019 Jon Astbury 0

Atelier Stéphane Fernandez has completed Ecole Communale Jacqueline de Rommily, a school in Cannes comprising low, travertine-clad buildings arranged around courtyards. French practice Atelier Stéphane Fernandez, previously named Atelier Fernandez & Serres, designed the stone primary school and kindergarten to respond to the landscape of the Petit Juas area on France’s south coast. “The project speaks to the

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Volta updates holiday apartment inside Breuer’s brutalist Flaine ski resort

February 20, 2019 Natasha Levy 0
Interiors of Flaine holiday apartment, revamped by Volta

Architecture studio Volta has revamped an apartment within the Marcel Breuer-designed ski resort Flaine, adding a handful of Bauhaus-inspired details to its interiors. Having already gone through a number of renovations, the apartment has now been redesigned by Paris-based architecture studio Volta to more closely reflect its “original spirit”. It’s set inside the Cassiopeia apartment

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Beefbar steakhouse in Paris occupies an art nouveau atrium

February 19, 2019 Natasha Levy 0
Interiors of Beefbar restaurant in Paris, designed by Humbert & Poyet

The ornate wall panels of a previously hidden 19th-century atrium informed the interiors of this steak restaurant, which has been overhauled by design duo Humbert & Poyet. Beefbar Paris has been decked out in sumptuous jewel tones to complement the art nouveau wall panelling that appears in the main dining atrium, creating what Humbert &

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Old stone contrasts with polished brass inside En skincare store in Paris by Archiee

February 16, 2019 Ali Morris 0

Curving brass partitions and vaulted stone ceilings both feature inside this Japanese beauty store in Paris, designed by local architecture firm Archiee. Designed for new Japanese cosmetics brand En, the 150-square-metre store occupies the ground floor and basement of an 18th-century building in the centre of the French capital. It is the brand’s first physical shop.

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Old stone contrasts with polished brass inside En skincare store in Paris by Archiee

February 16, 2019 Ali Morris 0

Curving brass partitions and vaulted stone ceilings both feature inside this Japanese beauty store in Paris, designed by local architecture firm Archiee. Designed for new Japanese cosmetics brand En, the 150-square-metre store occupies the ground floor and basement of an 18th-century building in the centre of the French capital. It is the brand’s first physical shop.

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Henning Larsen to extend Paris’s largest opera house

February 5, 2019 Tom Ravenscroft 0
Henning Larsen to extend Opera Bastille in Paris

Danish studio Henning Larsen is set to add a new foyer, performance space and workshop to the Opéra Bastille in Paris. According to Henning Larsen the extension to will complete Uruguayan architect Carlos Ott’s vision for the building, which opened in 1989. “Our goal is to fulfil the original vision and potential for the Opéra Bastille in a way that

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