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Uchronia founder designs own home as “love letter to French craft”

April 3, 2024 Jane Englefield 0

Glossy walls, ruched curtains and oversized flower-shaped cushions characterise this eclectic 1970s-style Paris apartment, designed and owned by Uchronia founder Julien Sebban. Called Univers Uchronia, the apartment is in the city’s 18th arrondissement, close to the Uchronia office – a Parisian architecture and interiors studio known for its bold application of shape, colour and reflective

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SOA Architectes completes “eclectic” social housing in Parisian park

March 31, 2024 Jon Astbury 0

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. SOA Architectes was tasked with creating 24 social housing units and two affordable units at Parc Princesse – the site of a former hospital in Vésinet that

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

March 26, 2024 Amy Peacock 0

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. The University of Chicago John W Boyer Center was designed by Studio Gang in accordance with the French sustainability law requiring new public buildings to be built from at least

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BIG and A+ Architecture set to design mass-timber transport hub in Toulouse

March 25, 2024 Tom Ravenscroft 0

Architecture studios BIG and A+ Architecture have revealed the design for the mass-timber Marengo Multimodal Transport Hub in Toulouse, France, which will be topped with a rose-coloured “foraine” brick roof. Set to be built alongside the existing main station to the west of Toulouse’s city centre, the 2,800-square-metre building was designed as an interchange for

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Bernard Dubois designs Canal Saint-Martin hotel to feel “far from Paris”

March 25, 2024 Fardous Khalafalla 0

Belgian architect Bernard Dubois designed bespoke 1970s-style wooden furniture and interiors for the revamped Bouchardon hotel in Paris, which references mountain hotels. Located in the Canal Saint-Martin district of the French capital, the Bouchardon is an aparthotel containing 11 suites. Every apartment has its own kitchen and dining area. The entire building has been rebuilt

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Bottega Veneta creative director Matthieu Blazy combines glass bricks and walnut for first store

March 19, 2024 Rupert Bickersteth 0

Bottega Veneta’s creative director Matthieu Blazy has designed the brand’s Avenue Montaigne flagship store in Paris, which is dominated by walnut wood fittings and glass bricks, The 800-metre-square shop features industrial, square glass blocks integrated into the floors, ceilings and walls, creating a geometric grid which diffuses light throughout the store. Walnut wood panels frame the

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Bottega Veneta creative director Matthieu Blazy combines glass bricks and walnut for first store

March 19, 2024 Rupert Bickersteth 0

Bottega Veneta’s creative director Matthieu Blazy has designed the brand’s Avenue Montaigne flagship store in Paris, which is dominated by walnut wood fittings and glass bricks, The 800-metre-square shop features industrial, square glass blocks integrated into the floors, ceilings and walls, creating a geometric grid which diffuses light throughout the store. Walnut wood panels frame the

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The Caserne de Reuilly in Paris was “a hollow tooth that we had to fill”

March 14, 2024 Jon Astbury 0

We continue our Social Housing Revival series with a look at the Caserne de Reuilly, the transformation of a 19th-century barracks in Paris into hundreds of affordable homes that is emblematic of the city’s effective approach to retrofit housing. Located in the 12th arrondissement of Paris, the project was completed in 2020 for the country’s

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Notre-Dame’s rebuilt spire revealed as scaffolding removed

March 7, 2024 Lizzie Crook 0

The reconstructed spire of Notre-Dame cathedral has been revealed in Paris, with a design identical to the 1859 version designed by architect Eugène Viollet-le-Duc. Scaffolding has been removed from around the 96-metre-tall spire, which is among the elements of the landmark to be reconstructed following the devastating fire in 2019. It marks a major milestone

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Notre-Dame’s rebuilt spire revealed as scaffolding removed

March 7, 2024 Lizzie Crook 0

The reconstructed spire of Notre-Dame cathedral has been revealed in Paris, with a design identical to the 1859 version designed by architect Eugène Viollet-le-Duc. Scaffolding has been removed from around the 96-metre-tall spire, which is among the elements of the landmark to be reconstructed following the devastating fire in 2019. It marks a major milestone

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