Tag Paris

08-07-2022

Manuelle Gautrand Architecture, a hotel for Paris' Charles de Gaulle Airport.

Architect Manuelle Gautrand and her firm have designed two new hotels for the Marriott brand on the site of Paris' Charles de Gaulle Airport, in an area called "Pôle Hôtelier", that will house several hotels and office buildings under the airport's development and renovation plan.

31-05-2022

David Chipperfield Architects completed Morland Mixité Capitale in Paris

The former Préfecture de Paris, the building that housed the city administration for years, has undergone a major renovation completed by David Chipperfield Architects Berlin. Originally completed around 1960 by architect Albert Laprade, the large scale of the building made it appear closed off and inaccessible. The project conceived by David Chipperfield Architects Berlin, instead, revitalised and transformed the complex into the new "Morland Mixité Capitale" as part of the "Réinventer Paris" programme.

27-04-2022

2022 Art Biennale and representations of urban space

The 59th International Art Exhibition at Biennale di Venezia has opened. Curated by Cecilia Alemani, the exibition entitled “The milk of dreams” was conceived and organised at a time of great instability and uncertainty due to the pandemic and even reacts to the latest geopolitical developments with Piazza Ucraina.

18-04-2022

GAN-Physarum: ecoLogicStudio explains how a kind of mould can create whole cities

Marco Poletto and Claudia Pasquero - architects, designers and innovators, as well as co-founders of ecoLogicStudio - have curated a section of the ‘Réseaux-Mondes’ exhibition now on at the Centre Pompidou in Paris until 25 April 2022. They have dubbed their project ‘GAN-Physarum: la dérive numérique’, and it demonstrates how, thanks to the wonders of machine learning, a form of slime can effectively underpin the future vision of a bio-digital, ecological and energy-autonomous Paris.

31-03-2022

Design free of constraints at Galerie kreo

A conversation with Didier Krzentowski, founder of Galerie kreo of Paris and London, which has featured the work of internationally prominent designers and promoted pure research, beyond the logic and limitations of the market, for the past 23 years.

28-03-2022

Atelier Zündel Cristea Paris metro expansion

Atelier Zündel Cristea and Architram architectes have designed four new metro stations extending line 14 of the Paris metro toward the town hall of Saint-Ouen to the north. The project involved a number of difficulties connected with the need to work at considerable depths below ground in areas of high urban density involving the simultaneous presence of a number of different construction sites.

24-03-2022

In a network, or in a trap? Creative artists answer the question at Centre Pompidou

‘Réseaux-Mondes’ is an exhibition in the arts and culture centre in Paris inviting multidisciplinary debate about the issue that characterises our time more than any other: networks. Sixty artists, designers and architects explore and interpret the theme.

08-03-2022

Cali Uptown Restaurant, Californian Mid Century Vibes in Paris

Interior designers from the Los Angeles-based Studio UNLTD have created a new restaurant in Paris – Cali Uptown – with a strong connection with the atmosphere and lifestyle that inspired Southern California's modernist design movement. The result is a journey through time and space.