Fluctuart’s strongest idea was to allow the Seine’s water to enter in the heart of the building, to do so we literally opened a hole in the shell. It is a paradox that responds to that of the program: to create a closed enclosure to exhibit works of art that belong to the street: [...]
The City of Paris decided to create a Center of Emergency Accommodation for homeless in the Bois de Boulogne, next to the most expensive neighborhood of Paris. The project was very political and met a strong resistance by the wealthy inhabitants of the 16th Arrondissement of Paris who didn’t want at first to have any “poor or refugees” in [...]
Architecture practice Hamonic+Masson & Associés have designed a new neighborhood development to reimagine suburban Paris. As the winning entry in the Inventons la Métropole du Grand Paris competition, the "High Garden" project was made to propose a metropolitan-scaled architecture on various sites within the greater city limits. Responding to the brief, it was designed [...]
New Deal: Part of “Les Routes du Futur du Grand Paris” exhibition, organized by Forum Métropolitain du Grand Paris Where: Pavilion de l’Arsenal, Paris, France Opening dates: June 6th - August 31st, 2019 Carlo Ratti Associati has unveiled their vision for the urban highways of Paris in 2050. Reinventing the city’s infamous Boulevard Périphérique [...]
The American architect of Chinese origin I.M. Pei died last Wednesday night, at 102, in his home in Manhattan, United States. Pei's extraordinary career, spanning seven decades, makes it difficult to say which of his buildings Pei is best known for. Pei won a lot of awards for his work, including the Royal Gold [...]
The studio Vincent Callebaut Architectures has revealed the images of his project tribute to the Cathedral of Notre-Dame, after the fire that severely damaged this historic structure. The project is a transcendent proposal, a symbol of an ecological and resilient future, which is inspired both by biomimicry and by common ethics to seek a [...]
