Tag Paris

25-11-2016

Alice Prin rest home by a+ Samuel Delmas in Paris

a+ Samuel Delmas has converted Broussais hospital south of Paris into a new rest home, Alice Prin. A number of hospital blocks with no particular architectural quality that had been added over the years were demolished to restore the original brick building, which a+ Samuel Delmas then completed with new volumes and a double skin of glass.

01-11-2016

UNIK by Beckmann-N'Thépé Architectes

French studio B/NT has built a housing development in Paris. UNIK contains 160 residential units: 159 normal apartments plus one which is the first home in Europe to be designed specifically for people with Locked-In Syndrome.

31-08-2016

InSpace Architecture Paris: social housing and family centre

InSpace puts Boulevard de la Villette in Paris back together with a social housing project inspired by the façades of the neighbourhood, built in the style of the Haussmann renovation, and by Oscar Niemeyer’s Communist Party Headquarters. InSpace has designed 14 social housing units and offices for the Paris PMI family centre.

11-07-2016

An infrastructure landmark by DVVD

The Claude Bernard pedestrian and bike overpass by French architecture firm DVVD, links Paris and Aubervilliers with a sculptural stroke.

05-07-2016

Manuelle Gautrand Hipark Hotel Paris la Villette

The colours of the façade, fading gradually from leaf green to the white of the Paris sky, are certainly one of the distinguishing signs of the Hipark Hotel Paris la Villette, a recent construction by Manuelle Gautrand Architecture in Paris.

01-07-2016

Asif Khan Serpentine Summer House London

Inspired by Queen Caroline's Temple, a little stone building in neoclassical style built in 1743 and attributed to William Kent, Asif Khan’s Summer House built in the gardens of the Serpentine Gallery for the 2016 Architecture Programme is a place that encourages visitors to establish an intimate relationship with the landscape and with their own inner thoughts.

21-06-2016

Cube Architects's Bastille: A custom-built home

Benjamin Exbrayat of Cube Architects redesigned a single-family home on three levels as the renovations proceeded, changing the prefabricated building into a customised solution because it was not coming out the way the clients wanted.

14-06-2016

Henkai Architects’ Precious Stone Gallery

The Czech studio Henkai Architects has designed a combined store and exhibition space, Precious Stone Gallery, for a stone seller with a long history.