French practice AWP has remodelled a water-treatment plant outside Paris to reveal its industrial processes to the public. More »
Water-Treatment Plant
by AWP
Tag: France
Water-Treatment Plant
Création de 4 chambres d'hôtes
by Loïc Picquet
This two-storey extension by French architect Loïc Picquet converts an old farm building into a rural guesthouse in the Alsace region of France (+ slideshow). More »
Saint Laurent opens new
flagship store in Paris
Morangis Retirement Home
by Vous Êtes Ici Architectes
Doors, windows and recesses are picked out in yellow ochre on the timber facade of this retirement home near Paris by French studio Vous Êtes Ici Architectes (+ slideshow). More »
Iris van Herpen exhibition at the International
Centre for Lace and Fashion
Haute couture garments by Dutch fashion designer Iris van Herpen will be displayed at an exhibition of her work in Calais, France, from June. More »
BIG to design leisure district
on Paris outskirts
Lot 2, Jardins de la Lironde by
Farshid Moussavi Architecture
London firm Farshid Moussavi Architecture has won a competition to design an apartment block in Montpellier with designs for a tower made from a stack of rippling floor plates. More »
OMA hired for Bordeaux masterplan
Tour Bois-le-Prêtre by Frédéric Druot,
Anne Lacaton and Jean-Philippe Vassal
This renovation of a crumbling 1960s tower block in Paris nicknamed "Alcatraz" topped the architecture category of this year's Designs of the Year Awards and is in the running for the top prize to be announced tonight (+ slideshow). More »
Construction begins on Bordeaux
stadium by Herzog & de Meuron
Le Corbusier's Cité Radieuse rooftop
to open as art space
CMA CGM Headquarters by Zaha Hadid
photographed by Hufton + Crow
Zaha Hadid's 142-metre tower for French shipping company CMA CGM in Marseille is documented in these new images by London photographers Hufton + Crow (+ slideshow). More »
The Beam by MVRDV
and de Alzua+
Dutch office MVRDV and French architects de Alzua+ have won a competition to re-masterplan the French town of Villeneuve d'Ascq and are proposing a building that cantilevers over a motorway. More »
D House by
Lode Architecture
Sliding back the glazed facade allows the upper storey to hang over the open living space of this house in Brittany by French firm Lode Architecture (+ slideshow). More »
Electric by
Mathieu Lehanneur
Lighting projectors and cables hang from the spindly branches of chunky black trees inside this penthouse bar and nightclub in Paris by French designer Mathieu Lehanneur (+ slideshow). More »