Chef Fre Peneau’s new restaurant, Le Dauphin is an 80 sqm ‘obsession in white’. OMA‘s Rem Koolhaas and associate Clement Blanchet received the Fooding 2010 award for their interior design of the restaurant that opened December 2010. Predominant materials of marble, mirrors and wood enlarge the space through reflection, and blur the boundary between interior and exterior.
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Video: Le Dauphin / Rem Koolhaas and Clement Blanchet
Montmartre Apartment / SWAN Architectes

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Architects: SWAN Architectes
- Area: 25 m²
- Year: 2010
Picard Nursery / BP Architectures

- Area: 576 m²
Ideal Tower / Some Architecture
Grenelle Tower / Atelier Zündel & Cristea

Atelier Zündel & Cristea architects shared with us their Grenelle Tower in Paris France, which has been commended by the Mipim AR FUTURE awards. At a time when Paris is reviewing its ambitions of ‘greatness’, the richness of the city’s diversity is transposed vertically into towers of shifting density. More images and architect’s description after the break.
Place De La République / TVK
Onion Pinch & Napping Pod Projects at Cite' de l'architecture et du Patrimoine

Cite’ de l’architecture et du Patrimoine: Architecture for Children in Paris, France, in collaboration with Eduardo Benamor Duarte, is hosting an event showing two projects: Onion Pinch and Napping Pod which started December 8th, 2010 and runs until February 27th.
Onion Pinch is a cork installation originally conceived in occasion of the Digital Primitive Event proposed as a parallel event of the Lisbon Biennial Experimental Design.
The design is a Babies and Adult Rest Station designed for the Cais du Sodre Lisbon Subway Station.
Napping pod is a proposal for boarding schools and collective napping spaces. Imagine a branching tree, a babies tree, babies growing in the space like flowers and fruits. More images and project descriptions after the break.
H&E Housing / David Elalouf Architecte

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Architects: David Elalouf Architecte
- Area: 7260 m²
- Year: 2008
National Business School / Barré Lambot Architectes + T. Roze and B. Carrie architects

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Architects: Barré Lambot Architectes, T. Roze and B. Carrie architects
- Area: 9464 m²
- Year: 2009
Orthodox Center / Atelier Zündel & Cristea

French architects Atelier Zündel & Cristea shared with us their project Orthodox Center, which includes an orthodox church, cultural center and offices. More images and architect’s description after the break.
AD Classics: Paris Opera / Charles Garnier
28 Social Housing In Paris / KOZ Architectes

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Architects: KOZ Architectes
- Area: 440 m²
- Year: 2010
Showroom in Champs-Elysees / Pascal Grasso Architectures
Apartment in Paris / Pascal Grasso Architectures

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Architects: Pascal Grasso Architectures
- Area: 280 m²
- Year: 2011
Fire Station and Technical Municipal Equipments / Jean-Marc Ibos and Myrto Vitart

French architects Jean-Marc Ibos and Myrto Vitart shared with us their mixed use project which includes a stadium, parking, workshops and administration of the TAM; sheds for trucks, workshops, services and administrative areas, sportroom, restaurant and bedrooms for 50 firemen. More images and architect’s description after the break.
AD Classics: National Library of France / Dominique Perrault Architecture

On the banks of the river Seine, just east of the Île de la Cité and downtown Paris, stand the four glittering towers of the National Library of France. Bent around the outskirts of a public esplanade, these towers are Dominique Perrault’s modern take on the age-old Parisian tradition of monumental public architecture. The project is both volume and void, enclosure and exposure, a juxtaposition of contrasting ideas that is as reverent of its place in a thousand-year-old legacy as it is deliberately self-critical.
Offices and Municipal Equipments / Jean-Marc Ibos and Myrto Vitart

French architects Jean-Marc Ibos and Myrto Vitart shared with us their winning project for the Offices and Municipal Equipments in Porte D’Ivry, Paris, France. More images and architect’s description after the break.
AD Classics: Parc de la Villette / Bernard Tschumi Architects

As part of an international competition, 1982-83, to revitalize the abandoned and undeveloped land from the French national wholesale meat market and slaughterhouse in Paris, France, Bernard Tschumi was chosen from over 470 entries including that of OMA/Rem Koolhaas, Zaha Hadid, and Jean Nouvel.















