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Jean Nouvel arranges Fondation Cartier around five giant moving floors

October 21, 2025 Tom Ravenscroft 0

French architect Jean Nouvel has overhauled a 19th-century department store alongside the Louvre in central Paris to create a new home for the Fondation Cartier, featuring moveable gallery spaces. Set to open to the public this Friday, the building for the art foundation of luxury brand Cartier, established in 1984, is designed as a contemporary art

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Atelier HA uses colour “as a structural element” in renovated Parisian apartment

September 15, 2025 Alice Laycock 0

A striped kitchen sets the tone for a colourful design scheme within this Parisian apartment, which was renovated by local studio Atelier HA. The 60-square-metre apartment is located in Paris’ bohemian Pigalle neighbourhood, and local studio Atelier HA wanted to imbue its spirit into the interior, especially in the living area. “Pigalle itself, with its

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Dezeen Agenda features the Saint-Denis Pleyel Station by Kengo Kuma

November 7, 2024 Saudatu Bah 0

The latest edition of our weekly Dezeen Agenda newsletter features the Saint-Denis Pleyel Station by Kengo Kuma and Associates. Subscribe to Dezeen Agenda now. Japanese studio Kengo Kuma and Associates has revealed the Saint-Denis Pleyel Station in northern Paris, featuring a facade wrapped in vertical wooden louvres. The 35,000-square-meter station was constructed as part of the

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Policronica crafts Parisian hotel interior using “invasive wood”

November 7, 2024 Rachael Gilby 0

Design studio Policronica has transformed the interior of Hotel Elysée Montmartre in Paris, relying almost exclusively on a single species of wood. The 850-square-metre space nods to the studio’s signature aesthetic and features a monochrome interior characterised by architectural woodwork and wooden furnishings. Nearly every element of the hotel interior was custom-designed and crafted on-site

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Kengo Kuma completes Saint-Denis Pleyel Station in northern Paris

November 5, 2024 Starr Charles 0

Japanese studio Kengo Kuma and Associates has unveiled the Saint-Denis Pleyel Station in northern Paris, which is wrapped by vertical wooden louvres. Built by Kengo Kuma and Associates as part of the Grand Paris Express – a new rapid transport system around the city’s outskirts – the station serves as an interchange between four metro lines

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Toledano + Architects adds wavy mezzanine to compact Biarritz apartment

November 5, 2024 Alyn Griffiths 0

French firm Toledano + Architects has renovated an apartment in the seaside town of Biarritz, adding a raised sleeping area that looks out towards the nearby lighthouse through a large bay window. The apartment was originally the entrance hall of a typical 1930s villa designed in the Basque style, with a bay window facing the

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Uchronia designs Cafe Shin to be “halfway between Paris and Seoul”

November 4, 2024 Jane Englefield 0

French studio Uchronia has completed the interiors for Cafe Shin in Paris, which features a central coffee counter topped with a washi-paper roof to emulate a traditional Korean house. Located on Rue des Petites-Écuries in the city’s 10th arrondissement, Cafe Shin was designed to pay tribute to Seoul’s thriving coffee culture. “The idea was to

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Pleated facade fronts Parisian housing by Kengo Kuma & Associates

November 1, 2024 Amy Peacock 0

Japanese architecture studio Kengo Kuma & Associates has completed Yama-Tani, a wooden residential building in Paris with a sculptural facade designed to “liven up the street”. Yama-Tani, which means Mountain Valley in Japanese, features pleats of chestnut wood cascading down its street-facing facade at jaunty angles to make patterns of light and shadow. “Playing with its

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Snøhetta designs hikers’ refuge in Pyrenees mountains with swooping grass roof

October 9, 2024 Amy Peacock 0

Architecture studio Snøhetta has revealed its design for Refuge de Barroude, a hiker stop with a curving form that will be nestled in the Pyrenees National Park in France. Located along the Haute Route des Pyrénées hiking trail that follows the French and Spanish border, Snøhetta designed Refuge de Barroude to blend into the surrounding

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Stone pavilion by Sou Fujimoto “blends harmoniously” into historic champagne house

October 1, 2024 Starr Charles 0

Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto has added a visitors centre to champagne house Maison Ruinart’s historic site in Reims, France. Completed as part of a three-year renovation of the site, the Nicolas Ruinart Pavilion by Fujimoto serves as a cultural space for visitors and sits in direct contrast to the site’s existing 19th-century buildings. Fronted by

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