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Architects: Hardel Le Bihan Architectes
- Area: 6581 m²
- Year: 2017
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Manufacturers: Forbo Flooring Systems, Saloni, Ardex, EGE, Lamp Lighting, +2
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Professionals: Legendre, EVP, Igrec Ingénierie
Paris: The Latest Architecture and News
City Hotel Paris / Hardel Le Bihan Architectes
New Ministry of Defense in Paris / ANMA
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Architects: ANMA
- Area: 17000 m²
- Year: 2015
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Manufacturers: Geggus
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Professionals: Socotec, Acoustique & Conseil, Apex, Bouygues Bâtiment, Etamine, +3
The Arc de Triomphe as an Elephant?! These Illustrations Reveal What Famous Monuments Could Have Been
A city’s monuments are integral parts of its metropolitan identity. They stand proud and tall and are often the subject of a few of your vacation photos. It is their form and design which makes them instantly recognizable, but what if their design had turned out differently?
Paris’ iconic and stunning Arc de Triomphe could have been a giant elephant, large enough to hold banquets and balls, and the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. could have featured an impressive pyramid.
GoCompare has compiled and illustrated a series of rejected designs for monuments and placed them in a modern context to commemorate what could have been. Here are a few of our favorites:
The Architectural Review Announces Winners of the 2017 AR Emerging Architecture Awards
The winners of the Architectural Review 2017 Emerging Architecture Award are Christelle Avenier and Miguel Cornejo. The duo’s social housing project in Paris was selected as winners by the judges. All finalists gathered in Berlin this year to present their projects to a panel consisting of Marina Tabassum, Martyn Hook, and Matthias Sauerbruch. For the last two-years, the jury has received the applications at the World Architecture Festival.
Peep Through the Wondrous Windows of the Tours Aillaud in This Colorful Photo Series
French photographer Laurent Kronental’s latest photo series, “Les Yeux des Tours” views of Paris, are framed by the quirky windows of the Tours Aillaud, and by the subtle differences in which the spaces around them are inhabited. Kronental considers the towers as some of the most spectacular of the Grands Ensembles built in the post-war economic boom in France. For him, photographing these buildings was a form of nostalgia, a way of satisfying a deep sense of childhood wonder and curiosity that fostered in him as a young boy perceiving them from the nearby business and shopping center "La Défense," questioning the lives of the people who live there.
Paris Courthouse / Renzo Piano Building Workshop
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Architects: Renzo Piano Building Workshop
- Area: 62000 m²
- Year: 2017
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Professionals: SETEC Bâtiment, Berim, Setec, Eléments Ingénieries, RFR, +11
Manufacture Design / Saguez & Partners
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Architects: Saguez & Partners
- Area: 46000 m²
- Year: 2016
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Manufacturers: Kvadrat Soft Cells, Louis Poulsen, Duravit, Forbo Flooring Systems, Tarkett Sports, +21
Millénaire Footbridge / Explorations Architecture
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Architects: Explorations Architecture
- Year: 2016
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Manufacturers: ACQPA, SILL
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Professionals: TERRELL
Competition-Winning Paris Office Park Design to Reintroduce Play into the Workplace
Dutch Firms Team RAU, SeARCH, and karres +brands have been named as one of the winners of the Inventons la Metropole de Grand Paris, the largest European competition for city planning, architecture and public space. Their project, Triango, reinvents Paris’ Triangle de Gonesse into a dynamic and lively business park which promotes sustainability in every sense of the word.
Coallia - Residence and Social Restaurant / Peripheriques Architectes
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Architects: Peripheriques Architectes
- Area: 4477 m²
- Year: 2017
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Manufacturers: Terreal
Stefano Boeri Architetti Unveils Vertical Forest Tower for Megaproject in Paris
The next Vertical Forest tower will be located in France, as Stefano Boeri Architetti have revealed renderings of their designs for Forêt Blanche, a 54-meter-tall mixed-use tower located within the Paris metropolitan region in Villiers-sur-Marne.
The latest in the family of Vertical Forest concepts, which have included built and planned projects for China, Europe, South America and the United States, Forêt Blanche will be covered by 2000 trees and plants – a green surface equivalent to a hectare of forest and more than 10 times the building footprint.
Paris School of Architecture Launches Competition for "Brexit Monuments"
As part of Paris School of Architecture's 2017/18 research theme, which is discussing the infrastructural implications of the United Kingdom's withdrawal from the European Union, the institute has launched an international architecture competition seeking Brexit Monuments.
Iconic and Revered, Notre Dame de Paris Faces an Uncertain Future
Broken gargoyles and fallen balustrades replaced by plastic pipes and wooden planks. Flying buttresses darkened by pollution and eroded by rainwater. Pinnacles propped up by beams and held together with straps.
According to the Friends of Notre-Dame de Paris, the iconic Parisian cathedral is in "desperate need of attention." Perhaps more concerningly, the holy site and French national monument is also in "a worrisome state of preservation." Built of limestone—a material notoriously susceptible to erosion—the building is in an accelerating state of wear-and-tear, demanding renewed funding efforts and expertise to secure its immediate and long-term future. From the lead roof to the stone buttresses, the world-renowned gargoyles to the stained glass windows, every inch of the structure requires differing levels of attention.
Nouvelle AOM Wins Competition to Redesign Paris' Tour Montparnasse
The architectural consortium of Nouvelle AOM has been announced as the winner of the international competition for the renovation and redesign of Paris’ Tour Montparnasse, beating out finalist Studio Gang and a shortlist of top firms.
Lauded by the jury for its “powerful, dynamic and bold new identity,” the winning entry will introduce an entirely new vegetated facade system that will improve both the tower’s immediate surroundings and the neighborhood as a whole.
"This was a huge challenge, as the Tower isn't like any other," the jury explained. "Nouvelle AOM's project perfectly captures the spirit of the 21st century, giving the Tower a multifaceted identity revolving around attractive, innovative new uses. The Tower will breathe new life into the Montparnasse neighbourhood."
Mercadet / Verdier + Rebiere architects + F. Commerçon architect
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Architects: F. Commerçon architect, Verdier + Rebiere architects
- Area: 1280 m²
- Year: 2016
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Manufacturers: Lookmetal
Populous and Egis to Develop Plans for 38 Olympic Venues at 2024 Paris Games
Clarification Update 10/4/17: Populous and Egis were selected in 2016 to collaborate on the Paris 2024 bid; this news piece reflects the bid’s approval by the International Olympic Committee. However, the team to lead the next planning phase for Paris 2024 has yet to be decided. Stay tuned for further information.
The Paris 2024 Olympic bid, featuring planning for 38 Olympics and Paralympic venues across the city by the team of Populous and engineering consultants Egis, has received approval as part of the International Olympic Committee’s naming of the 2024 host city.
How a Novel Saved Notre-Dame and Changed Perceptions of Gothic Architecture
This article was originally published by Common Edge as "It’s a Book. It’s a Building. It’s a Behavioral Intervention!"
A few years ago, while visiting, or rather exploring, Notre-Dame, the author of this book found, in an obscure corner of one of the towers, this word carved upon the wall:
'ANÁΓKH
These Greek characters, black with age, and cut deep into the stone with the peculiarities of form and arrangement common to Gothic calligraphy that marked them the work of some hand in the Middle Ages, and above all the sad and mournful meaning which they expressed, forcibly impressed the author.