Barcelona-based Mateo Arquitectura has sent us a first preview of their proposal ‘Place de la République as public space’ for the restricted competition looking to redesign the Place de la République in Paris, France.

Paris-based office LAN Architecture began the new year with two competition wins for new residential areas in France: a sustainable and social living space in Bègles and a hybrid model between collective and individual housing in Mouvaux. LAN Architecture was also recently featured in the

The highly anticipated ground breaking for the Louvre LENS recently took place on December 4, 2009 atop an abandoned mine field near the city of Lille in Northern France. Co-designed by New York-based Imrey Culbert, Tokyo-based Sanaa, and Paris-based Mosbach Paysagistes, the new branch of…

Paris-based Mikou Design Studio has recently won the competition for the renovation of the Bateay Feu Theater in Dunkirk in the northernmost tip of France. The theater’s program foresees a big concert hall with seating for 500, a black box theater space, foyer, cafeteria, loges, practice…

The winners of the Paris 2009: Dance School for Moulin Rouge competition have recently been revealed. Competition organizer Arquitectum invited architects to design a reinterpretation of the ‘new Moulin Rouge’, the most famous cabaret in the world and a symbol of what is an important piece of Parisian…

In June, Bustler published the winning entries of the Bering Strait Project competition that seeks to connect the short stretch of Arctic Ocean between Russia and the United States via a bridge or a tunnel. Here is the proposal by Paris-based OFF Architecture…

Metropolis Magazine today officially unveiled the winning proposal of its 2009 Metropolis Next Generation Design Competition. French-designed project “Wind-it” by Nicola Delon, Julien Choppin, and Raphael Menard seeks to install wind turbines in existing electrical transmission towers.

French architect, Dominique Perrault, has been selected to design the new city center of Bulgaria’s capital Sofia. The jury was chaired by professor Helle Jul from Denmark, and the members were architects from Japan, France and the US. The city center will be built in the next…

On September 17, 2007, French President Nicolas Sarkozy marked the inauguration of “La Cité de l’architecture & du patrimoine”, the visionary plan for a new ‘Grand Paris’, by stating his wish for international consultation on a “new comprehensive development project for Greater Paris” which would bring together the professional expertise…

Rafael Viñoly Architects (RVA) just announced the award of four independent Research Fellowships for 2009. The global call for entries saw over 180 proposals from 39 countries with a wide approach to the suggested general theme: how architecture can better meet the needs of communities…