Gabled bungalows are scattered over the rooftops of bulky apartment blocks that are perched above rows of narrow townhouses in this social housing development outside Paris by French studio Maison Edouard François (+ slideshow). More »
Bleachers climb over the roof of this timber-clad community centre in France by Ateliers O-S Architectes (+ slideshow). More »
The residential buildings of Paris appear to be sailing through the sky like kites in these dream-like images created by French photographer Laurent Chéhère (+ slideshow). More »
This university library in Paris by French practice Beckmann-N’Thépé Architectes has a knobbly concrete facade that looks like blocks of earth. More »
News: French practice bureau faceB has won a competition to design a bridge across the Seine in Paris with plans for a wobbling crossing of stretched steel cables. More »
The deep-framed windows of this office building by French studio Chartier-Corbasson Architectes burst through mossy walls and piles of stone beside a 100-year old mansion in Amiens. More »
This student housing building in Paris by Slovenian studio OFIS Arhitekti was designed to resembled a stack of wooden baskets. More »
World Architecture Festival 2012: architects Arcau won the civic and community category at the World Architecture Festival this week for a community building in the French town of Pornic that references traditional local storehouses for salt. More »
British designer Ross Lovegrove has installed a silver spaceship in the rafters of a railway station in Lille, France. More »
French artists Christophe Berdaguer and Marie Péjus have converted an old house in France into a visitor centre by giving it a ghostly cloak of polystyrene and paint. More »
An undulating golden plane blankets the new Islamic art galleries at the Musée du Louvre in Paris, which opened to the public this weekend (+ slideshow). More »
The buildings of Lyon are pulled apart in these impossible photographs by Norwegian artist Espen Dietrichson. More »
