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Huge fire breaks out at Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris

April 15, 2019 Amy Frearson 0

Breaking news: Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris has caught fire, with flames visible from the roof and firefighters attending the scene. Images have emerged showing the upper parts of the gothic cathedral engulfed by flames. According to witnesses, the roof and the 90-metre-high spire have completely collapsed. Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo has described it as “a terrible

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Watch JR construct a giant optical illusion around IM Pei’s Louvre Pyramid

April 3, 2019 Lizzie Crook 0

The Secret of the Great Pyramid by JR under construction at Musée du Louvre

This time-lapse movie shows the installation of street artist JR’s paper trompe l’oeil at the Louvre Pyramid in Paris, France. Named The Secret of the Great Pyramid, it imagined the iconic building by Pritzker prize-winner IM Pei extending deep below the ground at the Musée du Louvre, in celebration of its 30th anniversary. Constructed from 2,000 stickers, it

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JR extends IM Pei’s Louvre pyramid with optical illusion to celebrate its 30th anniversary

April 2, 2019 Lizzie Crook 0

The Secret of the Great Pyramid by JR at the Louvre Museum in Paris, France

Artist JR has created a giant 3D optical illusion from paper that imagines the iconic pyramid at the Louvre in Paris continuing underground. Named The Secret of the Great Pyramid, the trompe l’oeil was made from 2,000 stickers surrounding Pritzker Prize-winning architect IM Pei’s glass building, making it appear to project out from a white excavated crater. At 17,000-square-metres it was French street artist

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Beefbar steakhouse in Paris occupies an art nouveau atrium

February 19, 2019 Natasha Levy 0

Interiors of Beefbar restaurant in Paris, designed by Humbert & Poyet

The ornate wall panels of a previously hidden 19th-century atrium informed the interiors of this steak restaurant, which has been overhauled by design duo Humbert & Poyet. Beefbar Paris has been decked out in sumptuous jewel tones to complement the art nouveau wall panelling that appears in the main dining atrium, creating what Humbert &

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Old stone contrasts with polished brass inside En skincare store in Paris by Archiee

February 16, 2019 Ali Morris 0

Curving brass partitions and vaulted stone ceilings both feature inside this Japanese beauty store in Paris, designed by local architecture firm Archiee. Designed for new Japanese cosmetics brand En, the 150-square-metre store occupies the ground floor and basement of an 18th-century building in the centre of the French capital. It is the brand’s first physical shop.

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Old stone contrasts with polished brass inside En skincare store in Paris by Archiee

February 16, 2019 Ali Morris 0

Curving brass partitions and vaulted stone ceilings both feature inside this Japanese beauty store in Paris, designed by local architecture firm Archiee. Designed for new Japanese cosmetics brand En, the 150-square-metre store occupies the ground floor and basement of an 18th-century building in the centre of the French capital. It is the brand’s first physical shop.

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Henning Larsen to extend Paris’s largest opera house

February 5, 2019 Tom Ravenscroft 0

Henning Larsen to extend Opera Bastille in Paris

Danish studio Henning Larsen is set to add a new foyer, performance space and workshop to the Opéra Bastille in Paris. According to Henning Larsen the extension to will complete Uruguayan architect Carlos Ott’s vision for the building, which opened in 1989. “Our goal is to fulfil the original vision and potential for the Opéra Bastille in a way that

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Jean-Paul Viguier completes high-security Banque de France building

December 3, 2018 Alyn Griffiths 0

French architect Jean-Paul Viguier chose white perforated metal to clad the three monolithic volumes of a secure cash-processing centre for a bank in Paris. Jean-Paul Viguier et Associés was tasked with renovating a pair of existing buildings and introducing a new secure facility for the Banque de France, which is expected to handle over a

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Foster + Partners unveils Apple Store in Parisian apartment on Champs-Élysées

November 19, 2018 Ali Morris 0

A kaleidoscopic solar roof tops the courtyard of Foster + Partners’ latest Apple Store, which opened on the Champs-Élysées in Paris over the weekend. Located on the corner of Champs-Élysées and Rue Washington, the store has been built within what is described by Foster + Partners as a “quintessential Parisian apartment”. The store is designed to carefully

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Le Corbusier’s Paris home reopens its doors to the public

November 7, 2018 Natasha Levy 0

The Paris apartment within the Immeuble Molitor, where Le Corbusier lived for over three decades, has reopened its doors to the public, following two years of restoration works led by the Fondation Le Corbusier. Back in 2016 Fondation Le Corbusier began the restoration of the apartment, which was designed by the French-Swiss architect and his long-term collaborator

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