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RSHP designs tapered museum extension to house Bayeux Tapestry in Normandy

February 6, 2024 Amy Peacock 0

British studio RSHP has unveiled plans to overhaul the Bayeux Tapestry Museum in Normandy, France, adding an extension to exhibit the 70-metre-long, historic tapestry. RSHP’s design will involve restoring the existing 17th-century museum and extending it to better display the embroidered cloth that depicts the lead-up to William I’s conquest of England in 1066. The

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Vurpas Architectes transforms French market with “childlike quality” into primary school

February 4, 2024 Katie Last 0

French studio Vurpas Architectes has converted a 1960s market building to create Eugénie Brazier, a primary school and nursery in Lyon. Eugénie Brazier is built around the long structure of the old wholesale market and features perforated brickwork and a neutral colour palette that draws on the existing building. To accommodate a nursery as well

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Brazilian-informed murals bring character to Parisian restaurant duo Oka Fogo

January 30, 2024 Amy Frearson 0

Architect Arnaud Behzadi and artist Florence Bamberger have combined French and Brazilian influences to create interiors for a pair of adjoining restaurants. Located in Paris’ 17th arrondissement, Oka Fogo is the latest eatery from Raphael Rego, a Michelin-starred chef who is originally from Rio de Janeiro. Behzadi designed interiors that aim to capture the spirit

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Nem Architectes flushes French hillside villa in pink for Lancôme perfumery

January 24, 2024 Amy Peacock 0

Paris-based Nem Architectes has renovated a villa in Grasse, France, transforming it into a bright pink tourist destination named Domaine de la Rose for beauty company Lancôme. The villa contains lounge and meeting spaces that can host perfume-making workshops, events and exhibitions, designed as a place where visitors can learn about the Lancôme brand and

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Ignacio Prego Architectures designs “standardised and welcoming” student housing

January 9, 2024 Jon Astbury 0

Prefabricated units of concrete and wood were given varied facades to “mitigate the feeling of repetition” at this student housing project in Agen, France, by Parisian studio Ignacio Prego Architectures. Designed for the National School of the Penitentiary Administration (ENAP), the scheme provides 461 rooms set within a 15-hectare park, which the studio wanted the

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TVK designs limestone buildings for “first zero-carbon district” in Paris

January 5, 2024 Amy Peacock 0

French architecture practice TVK has completed a neighbourhood in Paris made up of limestone buildings surrounding a garden and designed as a sustainable development that aims to increase biodiversity. Located on a triangular site in Paris’s 19th arrondissement, the project is “the capital’s first zero-carbon district”, according to TVK. Named Îlot Fertile, which translates to

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Concrete “wells” illuminate French home renovated by Atelier Delalande Tabourin

December 22, 2023 Jon Astbury 0

A series of red-concrete cylinders were used to update the layout, circulation and lighting of this house in Versaille, renovated by French studio Atelier Delalande Tabourin. Dating back to the 1950s, the existing brick and concrete home previously had a compartmentalised interior that felt separated from its large garden, as well as an unused basement. Atelier

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REV Architecture decorates Carita Maison de Beauté with “translucent clouds”

November 26, 2023 Kate Donaldson 0

Local studio REV Architecture has completed an interior renovation of the Maison de Beauté in Paris, France, for L’Oréal Luxe skincare brand Carita. Surrounded by other luxury brands along the Rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré, the studio aimed for the space, which houses a hair salon and skincare treatment rooms as well as a restaurant and

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Colour-drenched coffee shop by Uchronia references “sunsets in the Tunisian desert”

November 21, 2023 Jane Englefield 0

Gradated lava stone flooring and suspended planet-like orbs feature at the Cafe Nuances coffee shop in Paris, which was created by Dezeen Awards-nominated studio Uchronia. Located on the city’s Rue de la Tremoille, the coffee shop is the third Uchronia-designed branch for Parisian coffee roaster Cafe Nuances. The one-room shop is fronted by a bright

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Atelier 9.81 models Calais port tower on stack of pebbles

November 19, 2023 Amy Peacock 0

French architecture studio Atelier 9.81 has designed a tower of staggered concrete blocks for a harbour master’s office and lookout building on the Calais coastline. Forming part of the Calais Port 2015 expansion plan, the 38-metre-tall tower comprises four stacked white-concrete boxes with decorative surfaces. The blocks are designed by Atelier 9.81 to resemble balancing

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