France

Franklin Azzi Architecture converts Nantes warehouses into art school

September 23, 2018 Alyn Griffiths 0

A pair of former warehouses topped with saw-toothed roofs have been transformed into a school for fine arts by Franklin Azzi Architecture, in the French city of Nantes. The Nantes Saint-Nazaire Higher School of Fine Arts, which is shortlisted in the Civic and Cultural Building category of the 2018 Dezeen Awards, provides facilities for 500

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Titan reinstates visitor centre at George Clemenceau’s coastal home

September 13, 2018 Ali Morris 0

French architecture firm Titan has built a sand-coloured concrete pavilion to welcome visitors to the former home of French prime minister Georges Clemenceau, in  western France. Nantes-based firm Titan created the entrance pavilion to replace the house’s original vistor centre, which was destroyed by Cyclone Xynthia in 2010. “Our proposal for the new entrance pavilion is a discrete

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Eileen Gray’s modernist E-1027 villa revealed in photographs by Manuel Bougot

September 11, 2018 Tom Ravenscroft 0

A modernist villa on the south coast of France, which was designed by Eileen Gray and lived in by Le Corbusier, is captured in these photos by Manuel Bougot. Completed in 1929, E-1027 was the first major architecture project by Gray, an Irish architect who was one of the pioneers of the modernist movement. Bougot was recently

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Eileen Gray’s modernist E-1027 villa revealed in photographs by Manuel Bougot

September 11, 2018 Tom Ravenscroft 0

A modernist villa on the south coast of France, which was designed by Eileen Gray and lived in by Le Corbusier, is captured in these photos by Manuel Bougot. Completed in 1929, E-1027 was the first major architecture project by Gray, an Irish architect who was one of the pioneers of the modernist movement. Bougot was recently

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Be-poles fashions rustic interiors for Le Barn hotel near Paris

September 7, 2018 Natasha Levy 0

Guests can watch horses graze from the rooms of this hotel near Paris, France, which studio Be-poles designed to reference traditional agricultural buildings. Le Barn is situated 40 minutes outside of central Paris in the Forest of Rambouillet, which sprawls across 20,000 hectares of land. The guest suites are set inside a handful of previously

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Freaks Architecture divides tiny Parisian pied-à-terre with mobile storage unit

August 22, 2018 Natasha Levy 0

French studio Freaks Architecture has placed an arched storage unit at the centre of this home in Paris, which can be moved around to suit the lifestyle of its retired inhabitants. Situated in Paris’ 13th arrondissement, the La Tournette apartment belongs to a pair of retired architects. Now spending the majority of their time in

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Undulating balconies wrap housing development on Parisian island

August 15, 2018 Alyn Griffiths 0

Local studio Peripheriques Marin+Trottin Architectes has completed an apartment complex on L’Ile-Saint-Denis in Paris, which features wavy balconies enclosed by a ribbon of perforated metal. The development is situated on a plot overlooking the Seine river on L’Ile-Saint-Denis, which is undergoing significant redevelopment ahead of the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris. Around one third of the island’s developed area

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Leopold Banchini sinks rooms and objects beneath office floors in Centre Pompidou installation

August 12, 2018 Tom Ravenscroft 0

Desks, a kitchen and a garden are hidden under raised office floors in this installation created by Swiss architect Leopold Banchini at the Centre Pompidou in Paris. Named 3-8, Banchini’s permanent installation is located on the fourth floor of the Centre Pompidou. It will be used by the museum as an educational space to host workshops and talks. Created in collaboration with

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Atelier Sagitta incorporates emerald green kitchen into Parisian apartment

July 30, 2018 Natasha Levy 0

French practice Atelier Sagitta has added a dose of colour to this previously characterless apartment in the Paris suburbs by creating an almost entirely green kitchen. The apartment is set inside a recently-built residential development in the Clichy neighbourhood, in the north-west of the city. Its owner – a young art director who works in the music industry

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Atelier Ordinaire’s house in Beaune is made almost entirely from wood

July 16, 2018 Alyn Griffiths 0

French architecture studio Atelier Ordinaire has completed a prefabricated house in the Bourgogne region featuring an interior lined with knotted timber boards to complement the surrounding nature. The Strasbourg-based studio founded by architect Thomas Walter in 2014 has completed a series of energy-efficient prefabricated houses that are constructed almost entirely from timber. The property in

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