France

Philippe Starck designs “phantasmagoric” hotel topped with a house for Metz

March 16, 2018 Tom Ravenscroft 0

Philippe Starck has revealed plans to build a 14-storey hotel in the French city of Metz, with an 18th-century-style house on the roof. The French designer was commissioned to design the “habitable, surreal and poetic work of art” by the Hilton Group, to operate under the Curio Collection brand. In an arrangement that Starck describes as phantasmagoric, a traditional regional home will

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Paris garden skyscraper by SOM will be “one of the most sustainable buildings in Europe”

March 14, 2018 India Block 0

Skidmore Owings and Merrill has proposed a 180-metre skyscraper in Paris that is designed to be zero-energy, and accessible via a garden bridge leading from the River Seine. The international architecture firm is part of the team that launched a masterplan for the Charenton-Bercy project at property event MIPIM in Cannes this week. Led by urban

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Parasitic extensions to Paris apartment building could reduce energy consumption

March 14, 2018 Calum Lindsay 0

Our latest Dezeen x MINI Living video features a proposal by Malka Architecture to improve the energy efficiency of a Parisian apartment building, by attaching boxy, parasitic extensions to its exterior. Titled Plug-in City 75, the proposal would see parasitic cubes mounted onto the facade of a building in the 16th arrondissement of Paris, extending the floor plates

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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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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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OMA unveils plans for coloured glass courthouse in Lille

February 20, 2018 Natasha Levy 0

Dutch firm OMA has revealed its design for a six-sided courthouse in Lille, France, which will features sheer facades of coloured glass. Commissioned by the Ministry of Justice, the Palais de Justice will play host to Lille’s high and district courts. It will be situated west of the city centre, a short distance from a historic fortress.

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Álvaro Siza combines geometric forms for white-concrete church in Brittany

February 15, 2018 Alyn Griffiths 0

Portuguese architect Álvaro Siza Vieira has completed a church in the Brittany region of France, featuring a sculptural composition of intersecting concrete forms. The church of Saint-Jacques-de-la-Lande is the first to be built in Brittany in the 21st century, and was designed by Siza’s Porto-based office to complement its setting in a residential neighbourhood south

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Eurotunnel “very interested” in Boris bridge between England and France

February 14, 2018 Tom Ravenscroft 0

The French operator of the Channel Tunnel has given the Boris bridge proposal a boast, by writing a letter to the UK prime minster in support of a second permanent connection between England and France. In a letter seen by the Telegraph, the chief executive of Eurotunnel Jacques Gounon, said that he was “very interested” in the

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White concrete volumes conceal bright red auditorium in Dominique Coulon & Associés’ theatre

February 7, 2018 India Block 0

Stacked white, concrete volumes conceal the vibrant red, pink and orange interior of this theatre in the former mining town of Freyming-Merlebach by Dominique Coulon & Associés. The French architects designed the Théodore Gouvy theatre as part of a drive to regenerate the town in north east France, which has seen high levels of unemployment since the area’s

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Century-old oak supports treehouse guest room in northern France

February 2, 2018 Natasha Levy 0

Paris-based Atelier Lavit built this treehouse around the trunk of a century-old oak in Raray, France, basing its design of criss-crossing timbers on a bird’s nest. The Origin treehouse forms part of the Cabanes des Grands Chênes, a collection of elevated guest cabins set in the grounds of the Château de Raray hotel. Atelier Lavit, which is led

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