Danish and French architects BIG & OFF, engineers Buro Happold, consultants Michel Forgue and environmental engineer Franck Boutte is the winning team to design the new 15,000 m2 research center for Sorbonne Université Pierre et Marie Curie in Paris.…

The firm of Josep Lluís Mateo recently completed The Factory, a new office building on the site of the old Renault factory in Boulogne-Billancourt, Paris. Mateo Arquitectura's design was the winning proposal in the invited competition organized in 2006. …

Paris-based firm LAN has won the competition organized by ICF Novedis to design the block 4.2 of the new Cardinet-Chalabre urban development zone in Paris, France. The project sits at a sensitive transition point between two Parisian urban areas and will act as a fulcrum between the…

Rotterdam architects MVRDV present the design for the Pushed Slab office building at ZAC Gare de Rungis in the 13th arrondissement of Paris. The 19,000 m2 building promises to be one of the first low energy buildings realized in France; with low energy consumption and an energy production…

Paris-based firm Serero Architects have won a competition for the design of the new library and auditorium for the University of Amiens in France. The design showcases a skin inspired by the scales of a conifer cone.

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…

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…

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…