Louvre Paris Extension – Tuileries Palace
The recent French debate surrounding the potential reconstruction of the Tuileries Palace demonstrates that the Louvre is still a major symbolic and political issue.
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Famous buildings include the Eiffel Tower, The Louvre and the Pompidou Centre. Also worth checking out is the New Alesia Cinema by Manuelle Gautrand Architecture.
Major historic Parisian buildings include Notre-Dame Cathedral, The Pantheon, Garnier’s Opera House and Sacre Coeur in Montmartre. Major contemporary Parisian structures include The Louvre Museum Pyramid, Parc de la Villette, and the Institut du Monde Arabe south of the River Seine.
Villa Savoie, Poissy, by architect Le Corbusier, is a celebrated 20th Century house on the outskirts of the French capital.
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The recent French debate surrounding the potential reconstruction of the Tuileries Palace demonstrates that the Louvre is still a major symbolic and political issue.
Indian-born British artist Anish Kapoor’s giant sculpture ‘Leviathan’ in Paris’ Grand Palais, alluding to the idea of the cathedral: the body as living, breathing sacred space.
The driving idea guiding our project stems from the challenge of responding to the necessity for urban integration and creating optimum comfort for the residence’s occupants in a convivial and intimate environment.
The building is located on the fringe of Paris city, at ‘Porte de la Villette’, an area where the urban fabric dissolves into heterogeneous industrial infrastructures.
The project is composed of three buildings, it’s an ensemble which while being urban is formed of two contrasting architectural expressions.
In Nanterre, at the western extremity of the district of La Défense, this project fits into an exiguous triangular site and figures as the prow of the Valmy district.
Russian Cultural Centre facilities in Paris include a church, lodgings, library and a public garden. The Russian Orthodox Center is located in the 7E district.
Designed by american architects Robert A.M. Stern Architects the Carpe Diem foundation stone has been laid for this 162m high Paris skyscraper.
Stade Arena 92, Nanterre Stadium, Paris, France – design by Atelier Christian de Portzamparc, architects
Hermès Rive Gauche Paris boutique interior design by RDAI agency, which is responsible for designing all the Hermès stores worldwide, with the design of a new space
Completion of The Factory, the new office building by Josep Lluís Mateo on the site of the old Renault factory in Boulogne-Billancourt, Paris.
Salon du Fromage Hisada, Paris Cheese Store, France – design by kotaro horiuchi, architects – Parisian Shop, French Retail Design
Cardinet-Chalabre Paris, 40 housing units by LAN Architecture: the major urban interest of Ilot 4.2 lies in its position: it will act as a fulcrum between Boulevard Pereire and the new ZAC (Urban Development Zone)
The programme is complex: it associates working spaces with communication spaces, historical spaces with modern spaces, crossing spaces with spaces of presence, closed and open spaces.
At the Buc fortress, there exist a strong conjunction between a historic construction, witness of military engineering of 19th century and preoccupations and expectations of our time.
The success of the Saint-Blaise crèche and day nursery project depends on its capacity to provide an architectural solution to a number of specific and extremely constraining problems
Intriguing building that plays games with layers of translucent screens to ask what is building and what is not? Existing mature trees on the site, south of the centre of Paris, are imaginatively integrated.
Saint-Denis Offices Paris by by Richard Meier & Partners: this pair of new office buildings is located in Saint-Denis in Paris, along one side of the Place des Droits des l’Homme, a public plaza that connects the railway station with the main avenue leading to the Stade de France