Watch JR construct a giant optical illusion around IM Pei's Louvre Pyramid
This time-lapse movie shows the installation of street artist JR's paper trompe l'oeil at the Louvre Pyramid in Paris, France. More
This time-lapse movie shows the installation of street artist JR's paper trompe l'oeil at the Louvre Pyramid in Paris, France. More
Artist JR has created a giant 3D optical illusion from paper that imagines the iconic pyramid at the Musée du Louvre in Paris continuing underground, but it has already been destroyed. More
Italian designer Paola Navone has rolled out a new visual identity for seven McDonald's stores in France, adding clashing prints and pops of colour to their interiors. More
A long run of gabled volumes clad in honey-coloured wood has been designed by Tracks Architectes for a kindergarten in France called La Ruche, which translates as The Beehive. More
Atelier Stéphane Fernandez has completed Ecole Communale Jacqueline de Rommily, a school in Cannes comprising low, travertine-clad buildings arranged around courtyards. More
French sports retailer Decathlon has abandoned plans to sell a hijab for female runners in France, following a surge of complaints. More
Architecture studio Volta has revamped an apartment within the Marcel Breuer-designed ski resort Flaine, adding a handful of Bauhaus-inspired details to its interiors. More
The ornate wall panels of a previously hidden 19th-century atrium informed the transformation of this steak restaurant by design duo Humbert & Poyet. More
Curving brass partitions and vaulted stone ceilings both feature inside this Japanese beauty store in Paris, designed by local architecture firm Archiee. More
French designer Olivier Vadrot has created an open-air playground made of geometric structures that encourage children to socialise, in the northeastern suburbs of Paris. More
Danish studio Henning Larsen is set to add a new foyer, performance space and workshop to the Opéra Bastille in Paris. More
Franco-Brazilian architect Elizabeth de Portzamparc has completed a museum of Roman history in the French city of Nîmes featuring glazed facades intended to recall the draped fabric of a toga. More
French architect Jean-Paul Viguier chose white perforated metal to clad the three monolithic volumes of a secure cash-processing centre for a bank in Paris.
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A twisting tower clad in reflective stainless steel panels, designed by architect Frank Gehry, is taking form in the south of France. More
Clay, granite and timber appear throughout the B-Raku ceramics store in Brittany, France, which connects to a Japan-inspired restaurant next door, named Otonali. More
The Paris apartment within the Immeuble Molitor, where Le Corbusier lived for over three decades, has reopened its doors to the public, following two years of restoration works led by the Fondation Le Corbusier. More
Carl Fredrik Svenstedt Architect has completed a winery in Provence with facades made of one-tonne stone blocks, which are staggered in places to let the light in. More
French architect Jean Nouvel has completed an office skyscraper in Marseille, with a concrete facade painted in 27 shades of red, white and blue in celebration of the port city's landscape. More
Japanese studio Kengo Kuma and Associates threw paper pulp at expanded-metal panels to produce light-filtering screens evoking artist Antoni Clavé's paintings, at this archive in Paris dedicated to his work. More
A pair of former warehouses topped with saw-toothed roofs have been transformed into a school for fine arts by Franklin Azzi Architecture, in the French city of Nantes. More