Franco-Brazilian architect Elizabeth de Portzamparc has completed a museum of Roman history in the French city of Nîmes featuring glazed facades intended to recall the draped fabric of a toga. Read more
French architect Jean-Paul Viguier chose white perforated metal to clad the three monolithic volumes of a secure cash-processing centre for a bank in Paris. Jean-Paul Viguier et Associés was tasked with renovating a pair of existing buildings and introducing a new secure facility for the Banque de France, which is expected to handle over a
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A twisting tower clad in reflective aluminium tiles, designed by architect Frank Gehry, is taking form in the south of France. Canadian-American architect Frank Gehry, who was awarded the Prizker Prize in 1989, designed the tower for the Luma Arles complex, an arts centre established by Swiss collector Maja Hoffmann. The tower’s opening date has been
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Caprini & Pellerin Architects have completed a new contemporary villa that sits on a hillside overlooking the bay of Cannes in France. Water features line the path to the front door, while stone accents and plants contrast the white exterior of the house. Inside, the living room is bright and airy due to […]
Photography by Philippe Biolatto PietriArchitectes have designed a new single floor house that’s located in the village of Puy-Sainte-Réparade in France. Photography by Philippe Biolatto The house has been divided into three buildings, with two of them connected. The first building is the garage, which can be seen from the carport that overhangs the driveway. Photography […]
Clay, granite and timber appear throughout the B-Raku ceramics store in Brittany, France, which connects to a Japan-inspired restaurant next door, named Otonali. The space is situated in the port city of Saint-Malo and is the first dining-cum-retail venture of restauranteur Betrand Larcher, who has already opened a series of cafes under the name Breizh
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The Paris apartment within the Immeuble Molitor, where Le Corbusier lived for over three decades, has reopened its doors to the public, following two years of restoration works led by the Fondation Le Corbusier. Back in 2016 Fondation Le Corbusier began the restoration of the apartment, which was designed by the French-Swiss architect and his long-term collaborator
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Carl Fredrik Svenstedt Architect has completed a winery in Provence with facades made of one-tonne stone blocks, which are staggered in places to let the light in. Paris-based Carl Fredrik Svenstedt Architect designed the facility for winemaker Les Domaine Ott’s Château de Selle estate, which is located in the iconic Côtes de Provence region near the
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French architect Jean Nouvel has completed an office skyscraper in Marseille, with a concrete facade painted in 27 shades of red, white and blue in celebration of the port city’s landscape. The 135 metre-high tower, which is named La Marseillaise, is situated in Euroméditerranée, an emerging business district on Marseille’s waterfront. It stands close to
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Japanese studio Kengo Kuma and Associates threw paper pulp at expanded-metal panels to produce light-filtering screens evoking artist Antoni Clavé’s paintings, at this archive in Paris dedicated to his work. Kuma’s firm designed the interiors of the compact Archives Antoni Clavé on Rue Boissonade in the French capital’s 14th Arrondissement, which was Clavé’s first studio. The Catalan
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