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3XN completes aluminium-clad hotel and office overlooking La Défense in Paris

December 20, 2022 Jon Astbury 0

Danish architecture practice 3XN has completed a blocky office building and hotel in the suburbs of Paris, with “distinct but complementary” faceted checkerboard facades of bronze-coloured and reflective aluminium. The first project completed in France by 3XN, the InDéfense office and Hôtel OKKO stand side-by-side between a railway and road in the Les Groues district

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Design Brut: Philia & Kids showcases sculptural furniture designed by “rather wise” children

December 14, 2022 Jane Englefield 0

Designers Antoine Behaghel and Alexis Foiny have created sculptural olive wood furniture based solely on drawings by children for a Galerie Philia exhibition. Design Brut: Philia & Kids is the inaugural programme of a non-profit initiative conceived by international art gallery Galerie Philia that aims to engage children in design. The project’s first edition invited 19

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Kengo Kuma adds Japanese-influenced wing to Musée Albert Kahn in Paris

December 9, 2022 Amy Frearson 0

Kengo Kuma and Associates has completed a major extension to the Paris museum of late philanthropist Albert Kahn, which holds a historic collection of 72,000 photographs from around the world. The project creates modern facilities for the Musée Albert Kahn, home to the Archives of the Planet, a photography collection that captures over 50 countries between 1909

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Studio Odile Decq’s minimalist glass pavilion recalls traditional greenhouses

November 21, 2022 Alyn Griffiths 0

The Green Pavilion, a glass pavilion with a pyramidal roof, was designed by architect Odile Decq to evoke historic orangeries and installed in the Jardin des Tuileries as part of the Paris+ par Art Basel art fair. Decq was commissioned by Galerie Philippe Gravier to create a functional art piece to be placed in the

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Scalloped facade fronts Parisian social housing block by Jean-Christophe Quinton

November 1, 2022 Rima Sabina Aouf 0

French architect Jean-Christophe Quinton has decorated a Parisian social housing project built on the site of a demolished police station with a curvy limestone facade. The housing units are located at 12 Rue Jean-Bart in Paris’ wealthy sixth arrondissement, one of the city’s central districts, and were designed to destigmatise social housing by giving it

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Chzon studio designs airport departure hall to reference Parisian life

September 22, 2022 Alice Laycock 0
Photograph showing airport departure lounge with green bench seats and large tree-like rounded white sculptures

French design agency Chzon studio has added archways and fountains that reference iconic Parisian monuments to a departure lounge at the Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris. Chzon studio redesigned the boarding gate area in Terminal 2G with the aim of creating a dynamic representation of Paris’ design and history in a typically utilitarian area

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Ateliers Jean Nouvel completes pair of inclined skyscrapers in Paris

September 21, 2022 Tom Ravenscroft 0
Duo skyscraper by Ateliers Jean Nouvel

French studio Ateliers Jean Nouvel has designed the 180- and 125-metre-high Tours Duo skyscrapers to “create a character” for eastern Paris. Designed as a landmark for eastern Paris, the pair of skyscrapers contain 97,000 square metres of office space and a 139-room hotel with interiors designed by French designer Philippe Starck. “Eastern Paris is slowly coming

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Balenciaga opens tinted-glass couture store beneath historic Paris atelier

September 11, 2022 James Parkes 0
Interior image of a shopping space at the Balenciaga Couture Store

Fashion house Balenciaga has opened a couture store with smoked-glass-panelled walls in the same building as its original couture salon in Paris. The store is located beneath Balenciaga’s historic atelier at 10 Avenue George V, which was recently renovated to exactly replicate the interior of the original couture salon that was first opened in 1937.

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Bernard Dubois incorporates nightclub references into Courrèges’ Paris store

September 9, 2022 Ali Morris 0
Image of a mirrored fitting area at the Courrèges store

Thick carpets, mirrored panels and fabric-covered walls populate this clothing store in Paris designed by Belgian architect Bernard Dubois. The 232-square-metre boutique is located near the Champs-Élysées and belongs to Courrèges – a Parisian label that was launched by fashion designer André Courrèges in 1961. Optimistic and full of energy, the late designer’s creations placed

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Hotel Rosalie encourages nature to “reclaim its rightful place in the urban landscape”

August 23, 2022 Ali Morris 0
Hotel Rosalie by Marion Mailaender

French interior designer Marion Mailaender has worked with hotelier Joris Bruneel to create a hotel in Paris informed by overgrown and abandoned buildings. Conceived as a hidden oasis in the city, Hotel Rosalie is set in a courtyard behind a tall iron gate on a tree-lined street in the 13th arrondissement. Greenery is incorporated into

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