© Frédéric Schlachet
Architect: Frédéric Schlachet Architecte
Location: Paris, France
Client: SNI – SAGI
General Contrator: AMT
Project Area: 1,650 sqm
Budget: 3,370,000 €
Project Year: 2010
Photographs: Frédéric Schlachet
Courtesy of LAN Architecture
Paris-based LAN Architecture won the competition organized by ICF Novedis to design the block 4.2 of the new Cardinet-Chalabre urban development zone in Paris, France. More images and architect’s description after the break. read more »
© Manuelle Gautrand Architects
Manuelle Gautrand Architects shared their Enzo Hotel in Paris with us. The hotel’s strong triangular form holds different programmatic elements to engage its lively streetscape. The colorful façade took inspiration from the landscape’s natural palette. The colors add a crisp aesthetic to the building as the different panels and their varying tints add a sleek texture to the form. According to the architects, “Their fragmented bands give a kinetic effect to overall volume – one can see the movement of the cars there, a certain impression of speed.”
More images and more about the hotel after the break. read more »
Courtesy of Stefan Gzyl
Stefan Gzyl shared with us his project “Parc Disponible”, one of the finalists on an international competition recently held in Paris on ways to incorporate nature into the urban environment in original ways. “Parc Disponible” is a glass box enclosing a mini-park for individual use within the city. See more images and architect’s description after the break. read more »
© Christopher Wassmann
Tadashi Kawamata, a Japanese sculptor and installer, is known for creating urban spaces that utilize simple materials. Often times, Kawamata selects an single item, whether it is a material or an object, that becomes the basic module of a huge construction. His latest spaces are occupying the external façade of the Centre Pompidou in Paris. These timbers huts, which are lined with cardboard, attach on to the existing structural framework, like a parasite, and morph into something entirely new.
More about the huts after the break.
© MVRDV
MVRDV presents the design for the Pushed Slab office building at ZAC Gare de Rungis in the 13th arrondissement of Paris, France. The 19.000 m2 building will be one of the first low energy buildings realised in France; with low energy consumption and an energy production of appr. 200.000kWh per year. Construction of the 35 million Euro building commissioned by French project developer ICADE Promotion is expected to start 2011. read more »
© Philippe Ruault
Architects: Chartier – Corbasson
Location: Paris, France
Client: CROAIF
Net surface: 1000 m²
Budget: 1, 250 M€
Photography: Philippe Ruault
© Grégoire Vieille
Architects: RMDM Architectes
Location: Passage des Tourelles 75020, Paris, France
Client: City of Paris – SLA XX
Area: 272 m2
Cost: €780.000
Construction engeneering: Corebat
Photos: Grégoire Vieille
BASE
In Paris, France, BASE has created an environment for the imagination with their latest playground design. Working with children and adults in different workshops, BASE was able to understand the users’ wishes and visions for the project. ”Our work then consisted in synthetising and interpreting the public’s expectations to provide a spatial response both truthful and original,” explained the designers.
More images and more about the playground after the break. read more »
© Herve Abbadie
Architects: RMDM Architectes
Location: Saint Germain Les Corbeil, Paris, France
Interior and Landscape Design: RMDM Architectes
Structural and Constructional Engineer: SOTEC Ingenierie
Client: Communatute Agglomeration Seine Essonne
Site Area: 5,450 m2
Building Area: 2,450 m2
Completion Date: December 2009
Photographs: Herve Abbadie
Courtesy of Bigoni-Mortemard Architectes
Architects: Stéphane Bigoni and Antoine Mortemard
Location: Villejuif, Paris, France
Engineer: SIMA Ingénierie
Client: SADEV 94
General contractor: DEMATHIEU & BARD
Cost: €1,447,000
Cost per square meter: €1,405
Building area: 1,030 m2
Photography: Courtesy of Bigoni-Mortemard Architectes
© conservapedia.com
In the 1970′s architects Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers, both unknown at the time, collaborated and erected one of the most famous and radical buildings of our time, Centre Georges Pompidou. The cultural center in Paris, France turned our world inside out, literally. It all began with Georges Pompidou, President of France from 1969 to 1974, who wanted to construct a cultural center in Paris that would attract visitors and be a monumental aspect of the city. Receiving more than 150 million visitors since is completion thirty three years ago, there is no doubt that Pompidou’s vision became a successful reality.
More information on Centre Georges Pompidou after the break. read more »
© Julien Lanoo
Architects: Béal & Blanckaert
Location: Scientific quarter, Villeneuve d’Ascq, Paris, France
Principals: Antoine Béal and Ludovic Blanckaert
Project Team: J. Ramet, E. Veauvy, T. Foucray, L. Zimny
Bet: HDM – Becquart
Project Area: 950 sqm
Budget: 1,850,000 euro
Project Year: 2007-2009
Photographs: Julien Lanoo
“Vertical Confluence”, a skyscraper in Paris designed by Jiang Yuan and Xu Yang from Y-studio received a special mention in the 2010 eVolo skyscraper competition.
More images and architect’s description after the break. read more »
Stéphane Chalmeau shared with us this bricked housing building in downtown Paris, France designed by Brenac + Gonzalez Atelier d’Architecture. It shows two different volumes, merging with both, the red roofs of the low height houses and the white volumes of the housing buildings next to it, demonstrating a great respect for the context.
French architects Atelier Phileas have won a competition to design an elementary and primary school along with 150 students housing in Paris, France.
More images and architect’s description after the break. read more »
Architects: BP Architectures (member of PLAN01)
Location: Paris, France
Client : Trouseau Children Hospital
Project Area : 360 sqm
Project year : 2009
Photographs: Luc Boegly
Architect: Pascal Grasso
Location : Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
Artist : Laurent Grasso
Client: Palais de Tokyo / Electrolux
Structure / facade engineer : ARCORA
Project Area: 63 sqm
Project year: 2009
Photograph: Kleinefenn
Architect: Edouard François
Location: Paris, France
Client: Groupe Lucien Barrière, Groupe ACCOR
Structural engineers: COTEBA Ingénierie
Decorations: Jacques Garcia
Gardens: Pré Carré, Marc Vatinel
Lights and illumination: Light CIBLES, Louis Claire
Year of enchargement: 2003
Year of completion: 2006
Constructed area: 18,000 sqm
Photographs: Courtesy of Agence Edouard François
Arquitectum recently announced the Paris 2009 International Architecture Competition to be held from May to August of this year. The competition proposes a reinterpretation of “the new Moulin Rouge”, the most famous cabaret in the world and an important piece of Parisian life.
Further information about the competition after the break.
Dutch Mountains / Francine Houben / Mecanoo Architecten
We are pleased to bring attention to the book Dutch Mountains that focuses on Francine Houben from Mecanoo Architecten and her inspiring work that spans the globe. We have featured Mecanoo Architecten… before and you can see them here. Houben
A short while ago we received Pamphlet Architecture 11-20, …the second volume that accumulates the continually growing series. Steven Holl and William Stout started the Pamphlet series back in 1978. They wanted to create a venue “for publishing the works,
Alvar Aalto: The Mark of the Hand / Harry Charrington and Vezio Nava
A short time ago we received the book Alvar Aalto: The Mark of the Hand. Before you Aalto fans get jealous of our newly acquired treasure, we want you to know that we received several copies and will be doing…
