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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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Concrete infrastructure informs Acne Studios’ limestone-clad Rue Saint Honoré store

August 9, 2022 James Parkes 0
Interior image of Acne Studios limestone-clad Rue Saint Honoré store

Fashion brand Acne Studios has opened a “monolithic” store on Paris’ Rue Saint Honoré, designed in collaboration with architecture studio Arquitectura-G, that references a Stockholm skatepark and its Parisian setting. Located on Rue Saint Honoré, a historic street and renowned shopping destination in the 1st arrondissement of Paris, the store was created by Acne Studios

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Skewed apartment by Clément Lesnoff-Rocard Architect celebrates “edges”

August 9, 2022 Ali Morris 0
Interior image of the marble staircase at The Edge

Local architect Clément Lesnoff-Rocard used clean lines, light colours and mirrors to create a bright interior within this skewed Parisian penthouse. Located on the top two floors of a 1980s building in Paris’ 17th arrondissement, The Edge apartment is a penthouse that looks out over the city’s rooftops. “This space gave me this very specific

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Ciguë imagines car-free city inside Cowboy’s electric bike shop in Paris

July 28, 2022 Ali Morris 0
Exterior shop of bike hanging in window of Cowboy e-bike shop in Paris by Ciguë

Limestone blocks and crushed earth feature in this electric bike shop in Paris, designed by local studio Ciguë to visualise how a car-free city of the future might look. The store belongs to Cowboy, an e-bike brand aimed at urban cyclists, and is located in the department store Le Bon Marché Rive Gauche. For its

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MAD surrounds Passivhaus housing block in white curved balconies

July 25, 2022 Tom Ravenscroft 0
MAD housing at Clichy-Batignolles in Paris

Chinese architecture studio MAD has unveiled the 13-storey UNIC residential tower in Paris, France, which is its first completed project in Europe. Designed in collaboration with French studio Biecher Architectes, the 50-metre-high residential tower forms part of the Clichy-Batignolles development of a former rail yard in the north of Paris. The 6,600-square-metre apartment tower is designed as

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Notre-Dame visitor centre set to be built in underground car park

July 15, 2022 Lizzie Crook 0
Render of Notre-Dame underground visitor centre

Landscape architecture studio Bureau Bas Smets is set to revive the square facing Notre-Dame cathedral in Paris and transform an abandoned underground car park beneath it into a visitor centre that opens onto the river Seine The overhaul, which is being led by Belgian studio Bureau Bas Smets with urban planner GRAU and heritage architecture studio Neufville-Gayet,

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OMA designs Tiffany & Co pop-up in Paris to take visitors on a “journey across time”

July 8, 2022 Natasha Levy 0
Blue rotunda in Tiffany & Co pop-up shop in Paris designed by OMA

Architecture studio OMA has created a pop-up shop for Tiffany & Co in Paris that showcases an assortment of pieces from the jeweller’s 185-year history. The pop-up is located in the eighth arrondissement and functions as a cross between a boutique and an exhibition, spotlighting Tiffany pieces from both past and present. “Tiffany & Co

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Plant-covered Villa M by Triptyque and Philippe Starck “brings nature back to the city”

June 12, 2022 Jon Astbury 0
Vertical garden of Villa M in Paris

A steel exoskeleton supports a vertical garden facade at this hotel in Paris, France, designed by French-Brazilian studio Triptyque in collaboration with designer Philippe Starck and landscape studio Coloco. Located in Montparnasse, the 8,000-square-metre hotel also contains a restaurant, co-working space, gym and rooftop bar, which the team said all focus on healthy living and a

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