France

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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Normal Studio refurbish Appartement N°50 in Le Corbusier’s iconic Cité Radieuse

July 15, 2018 Katie de Klee 0

French duo Normal Studio have become the latest designers to overhaul an apartment inside Le Corbusier’s Cité Radieuse building in Marseille. Jean-Marc Drut is the owner of Appartement N°5, one of 337 homes inside the housing block that is one of Le Corbusier’s most famous designs. Every year he hands over his home to a new

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Lattice framework supports undulating roof at swimming pool by Brochet Lajus Pueyo

June 19, 2018 Alyn Griffiths 0

Brochet Lajus Pueyo has completed a swimming pool in Saint Gilles Croix de Vie, France, with a roof informed by waves and the movements of manta rays. Bordeaux-based studio Brochet Lajus Pueyo won a public competition to design the aquatic centre for the local municipality in the Vendée region of western France. Positioned on the outskirts of

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Attic apartment in Paris overhauled with industrial materials by Florent Chagny Architecture

June 17, 2018 Ali Morris 0

Heavy-duty materials, including oriented strand board and steel, lend an industrial aesthetic to this renovated loft apartment in Paris, called Under the Roof. Florent Chagny Architecture was behind the renovation of the small duplex home, which is located in Paris’ 5th arrondissement, at the top of a small residential building built around 1830. Containing 50 square metres of floor

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Amelia Tavella Architectes completes stone and timber school in Corsica

June 16, 2018 Alyn Griffiths 0

A combination of traditional stone walls and surfaces wrapped in pine battens help the Groupe Scolaire à Strega school in Corsica blend in with the surrounding wooded landscape. Amelia Tavella Architectes designed the school for a site in the Corsican village of Santa-Maria-Siché. Located on the edge of the village in the island’s Corse-du-Sud region, the

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Amanda Levete and Junya Ishigami among shortlist for Eiffel Tower overhaul

May 8, 2018 Jessica Mairs 0

Four teams including architects Amanda Levete, Carlo Ratti and Junya Ishigami are vying to improve facilities at the Eiffel Tower, in time for the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games. The teams including architects, landscape designers and urban planners have been selected to draw up ideas that would improve facilities for the six million tourists that

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