Tag Paris

10-09-2020

Richard Rogers leaves Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners after 40 years of architecture

A few weeks after his 87th birthday, architect Richard Rogers retired from the board of directors of Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners, the practice he founded more than 40 years ago; within the next 2 years his name will be removed from the name of the studio. Thus ends the career of the famous architect who worked on projects such as the Centre Pompidou (with Renzo Piano and Gianfranco Franchini) in Paris, Lloyds of London, the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg and the Millennium Dome or O2, also in London, a large tensile structure on Greenwich peninsula.

13-08-2020

CHRISTO AND JEANNE-CLAUDE - PARIS! Exhibition Centre Pompidou

The Centre Pompidou, Paris hosts a major exhibition on Christo and Jeanne-Claude, looking back on their Parisian period from 1958 to 1964 and the history of Le Pont-Neuf Wrapped project, conceived as early as 1975 and built in 1985. The exhibition precedes the environmental art installation conceived for the Arc de Triomphe; wrapping of the famous Parisian monument is scheduled for 2021.

11-08-2020

SOA Architectes: the La Fab. building for the agnès b. collection, Paris

Parisian firm SOA Architectes has designed a new multipurpose building in the heart of the 13th arrondissement of the French capital. The building contains 75 residential units, a kindergarten and, on the lower floors, “La Fab.”, which the architecture firm itself has also designed as an interior for agnès b., a stylist, patron and collector who has spent many years supporting artistic creation in all its forms. Her initiatives are also aimed towards social solidarity and safeguarding the environment, and SOA Architectes’ design has provided a home for all of the patron’s various activities under one roof.

29-07-2020

Brenac & Gonzalez & Associés and MOA Architecture two residential towers in Paris

Brenac & Gonzalez & Associés and MOA Architecture each designed a residential tower containing apartments with little offices in the heart of the 18th arrondissement of Paris, as part of La Chapelle International urban development project.

25-03-2020

Touring the museums of the world... from home

From Triennale di Milano to the London Design Museum, from the Prado in Madrid to the Uffizi in Florence, from the Louvre in Paris to the Vatican Museums and the Guggenheim Museum on the other side of the ocean: these are only a few of the museums that have closed their doors physically but can now be toured via the new media.

20-03-2020

Housing in Ivry by Tectône Architectes

After a period of five years between the initial plans and the end of construction, Tectône Architectes has finally completed the Housing in Ivry residential complex. The architecture, comprising six buildings of different heights connected in an architectural unicum, takes its name from the homonymous area on the outskirts of Paris and is characterised by an outer shell of cream-coloured exposed brick, with an assortment of different textures as a way of enhancing the aesthetics of the entire complex. The 61 living units proposed by Tectône won the tender advertised by the client, OPH Ivry, thanks to their use of brick, in a combination of durability, stability and aesthetics.

06-03-2020

Goodbye to Yona Friedman, with his Mobile Architecture and feasible utopias

Architect Yona Friedman died on 20 February 2020 at the age of 96. The news was announced in an Instagram post on the account of Fonds de Dotation Denise and Yona Friedman. The architect’s most recent works included the landscape installation No Man's land, created in Abruzzo with artist Jean-Baptiste Decavèle in 2016, and the Summer House for the 2016 Architecture Programme at the Serpentine Galleries.

04-03-2020

Toledano + architects Wood Ribbon interior design in Paris

Toledano + architects, founded in 2013 by Gabrielle Toledano, has completed an interesting contemporary reinterpretation of a typical Parisian apartment constructed in the Hausmann era. The project demonstrates respect for the history of the place and skilful use of materials, such as the ribbon of wood forming an inhabitable sculptural wall and the porcelain slabs of the sculptural, monolithic kitchen counter and worktop.