UNStudio plans new cultural centre with rooftop cinemas for Paris

February 21, 2018 India Block 0

UNStudio has won a competition to design a new cinema and cultural centre with weathering steel walls and green roofs as part of BIG’s EruopaCity masterplan on the outskirts of Paris. The three intertwined volumes of weathering steel comprising the Centre Culturel dédié au 7è Art will house a cinema and “cultural laboratory” featuring both indoor and outdoor screens. EuropaCity

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UNStudio plans new cultural centre with rooftop cinemas for Paris

February 21, 2018 India Block 0

UNStudio has won a competition to design a new cinema and cultural centre with weathering steel walls and green roofs as part of BIG’s EruopaCity masterplan on the outskirts of Paris. The three intertwined volumes of weathering steel comprising the Centre Culturel dédié au 7è Art will house a cinema and “cultural laboratory” featuring both indoor and outdoor screens. EuropaCity

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Post Office Architectes adds vaulted roof extension to Paris apartment for a photographer

December 4, 2017 Ali Morris 0

Post Office Architectes has added a timber-lined barrel vaulted roof extension to an apartment in Paris, giving its owner an unobstructed view of the Eiffel Tower. The apartment building is located at the intersection of four Paris districts and was originally built in the 19th century as a two-storey department store. A third floor was added in

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First photos emerge of tiered tower built by Renzo Piano to house Paris law courts

November 23, 2017 India Block 0

Work has completed on Tribunal de Paris – a tiered skyscraper, designed by Italian architect Renzo Piano to become the largest law complex in Europe. Comprising a series of stacked glass volumes, the building will bring together the various activities of the French capital’s judiciary system, which had previously been scattered about the city. It is not set to open

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MoreySmith create co-working offices in former industrial building in Paris

November 19, 2017 Ali Morris 0

Interior design studio MoreySmith has created co-working spaces with a “contemporary industrial” aesthetic in an old factory building in Paris. Created for a new serviced office brand called Deskopolitan, the co-working space comprises 4,430 square feet (or 1,350 square metres) spread over four floors at 48 Rue du Château d’Eau, Paris. MoreySmith was asked to conceive and develop the company’s

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Ora Ïto uses hundreds of wooden slats for snaking oak stair at LVMH offices

October 15, 2017 Eleanor Gibson 0

French designer Ora Ïto has cut and pieced together over 400 wooden slats to create this staircase, which twists up the Paris offices for one of the world’s largest luxury companies. Ïto was tasked to design offices for the media division of LVMH, the parent company of luxury brands including Louis Vuitton and Dior. The department, which encompasses news brands

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Ora Ïto uses hundreds of wooden slats for snaking oak stair at LVMH offices

October 15, 2017 Eleanor Gibson 0

French designer Ora Ïto has cut and pieced together over 400 wooden slats to create this staircase, which twists up the Paris offices for one of the world’s largest luxury companies. Ïto was tasked to design offices for the media division of LVMH, the parent company of luxury brands including Louis Vuitton and Dior. The department, which encompasses news brands

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Shigeru Ban’s La Seine Musicale incorporates a wall of moving solar panels

October 3, 2017 Alyn Griffiths 0

Pritzker Prize-winning architect Shigeru Ban has completed a music complex near Paris, featuring an egg-shaped auditorium and a wall of solar panels that move to follow the path of the sun. The Japanese architect’s Paris-based office won an international competition held in 2013 to design La Seine Musicale – a musical facility comprising a large

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Tour Montparnasse set to receive “green makeover” by Nouvelle AOM

September 20, 2017 Jessica Mairs 0

French studio Nouvelle AOM has been selected to overhaul the Tour Montparnasse skyscraper, in time for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. Nouvelle AOM is a team made up of the heads of three Paris-based firms: Franklin Azzi of Franklin Azzi Architecture, Fréderic Chartier and Pascale Dalix from Chartier Dalix, and Mathurin Hardel and Cyrille Le Bihan of Hardel + Le Bihan Architectes. The consortium

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