The Link La Défense Office Tower

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Design: PCA-STREAM. The Link concept wants to rethink the office tower, (too) long synonymous with verticality and isolation: “schematically a stack of trays of 1800m2 on average, on which the employees are isolated in small groups of 150 people per floor. The access to natural light is uneven, non-existent outdoor spaces and common spaces where work together very rare.”

Headquarter Veolia Aubervilliers building design

Headquarter Veolia

Design: Dietmar Feichtinger Architectes. Veolia’s new headquarters is a building that enhances the new neighbourhood between Paris and Aubervilliers. It creates an optimal environment for future users, a “pleasant to live in” building with large interior gardens, terraces, windows that open and mobile sunshades.

Grand Musée du Parfum in Paris: Perfume Museum

Grand Musee du Parfum

Architects: Projectiles. The Grand Musée du Parfum is a world of sensory experience, emotion, and enjoyment, offering an original, educational, entertaining, and immersive experience to help visitors understand the world of perfume and unravel its many mysteries.

LESS – Urban Amplifier in Paris

LESS Urban Amplifier

Design: AAVP ARCHITECTURE. It has been difficult for the neighborhood to bid farewell to this last little piece of the country in Paris, and the densification of an open space explains the group lawsuit brought against the project by 180 neighbors recorded during the waiting period for the building permit.

Campus Jourdan Paris Building

Campus Jourdan Paris Building

Designed by Thierry Van de Wyngaert and Véronique Fiegel, the Jourdan Campus for higher education and research unites the Ecole Normale Supérieure and the Paris School of Economics.

Tall Building Designs in Paris

Paris High-Rise Building Design

Building upwards in Paris: hyper-urbanisation of world cities requires new solutions for housing construction. Building permit figures in Paris show a growing interest in building upwards.

Résidence de l’Aqueduc in Gentilly

Residence de L'Aqueduc

The Residence de l’Aqueduc design by Daquin & Ferrière Architecture is located in the ZAC Lenine in Gentilly (France) at the articulation of the central mall Lenine and the future Promenade des Aqueducs.

Boulevard Haussmann department store in Paris

Boulevard Haussmann department store in Paris

Design: AL_A. Galeries Lafayette select British architecture studio AL_A for transformation of its Boulevard Haussmann department store, following a competition with 3 of the world’s leading architecture firms.

Bibliothèque Nationale de France Paris

Bibliotheque Nationale de France

Design: Bruno Gaudin & Virginie Brégal Architectes. This historical site has just reopened after ten years of complete building renovation by the architects Bruno Gaudin and Virginie Brégal.

Les Saisons Retail Centre in Meaux

Les Saisons Retail Centre in Meaux

Design: Arte Charpentier Architectes. The building design works with the colourful geometrical fields that surround it. A inventive metal totem orientates people and provides a focus to the architectural design.

musée du Louvre bookstore / giftshop

Musee Du Louvre Bookstore Giftshop

Architects: RDAI Architecture / Gare du Nord Architecture. After two years of work as part of the “Pyramid project”, this new store will occupy the entire Allée du Grand Louvre, between the Carrousel entrance and the Pyramid in early December.

Grand Lognes Training Site Paris

Grand Lognes Training Site

Design: Architecture Patrick Mauger. The restructuring and extension of the Lognes site for the Ministry of the Interior aims to make it the main Grand Paris training center.