A team headed up by British firm Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners has been selected to design a new conservation and storage centre for the Musée du Louvre, housing 250,000 works of art. More about Rogers Stirk Harbour to design conservation facility for Musée du Louvre
This beachside cafe and toilet block by French studio Link Architectes is built into a grassy bank by the Loire River near Saint-Étienne, France (+ slideshow). More about Beachfront facilities building by Link Architectes nestles into a slope near Saint-Étienne
The research arm of Dutch studio OMA created a 1990s-style nightclub in Paris to host a one-off event for fashion brand Miu Miu (+ slideshow). More about AMO designs pop-up Miu Miu Club for fashion event in Paris
Narrow strips of pine stripe the facades of this housing development on the outskirts of Paris, making it look like a timber cage has been lowered over the upper floors of each building (+ slideshow). More about Paris housing blocks by Tectône Architectes are encased by timber louvres
Dezeen promotion: a life-size plane crash constructed from wood and a field of giant dandelions are among the 10 sculptures installed across the mountainous Sancy region in France as part of this year's Horizons arts and nature festival (+ slideshow). More about Horizons 2015 installations include wooden plane crash and dandelion field
Paris is to get its first skyscraper for over 40 years after Herzog & de Meuron won planning permission for its 180-metre-high Tour Triangle. More about Paris to get first skyscraper since the 70s as Herzog & de Meuron's triangle tower approved
Walls made from a traditional combination of stone and hemp-based plaster contrast with concrete, steel and glass details at this renovated house in the French village of Douvaine (+ slideshow). More about FRAR transforms a dilapidated French house and barn into a holiday home
The sheltered entrance to this craggy school canteen building in France is fronted with a "forest" of slender white columns (+ slideshow). More about Le Roc Canteen by D'Houndt+Bajart is designed as a cross between a treehouse and a cave
Foster + Partners has added a glass-fronted winery framed by tree-shaped columns to the historic Château Margaux wine estate outside Bordeaux (+ slideshow). More about Foster + Partners adds a new winery to the Château Margaux estate
Students from Swiss university ÉCAL are the latest designers to refit an apartment in Le Corbusier's Cité Radieuse housing block in Marseille. More about ÉCAL students take over Appartement N°50 at Le Corbusier's Cité Radieuse
Over 100 products designed by Dieter Rams are the subject of an exhibition at a Paris gallery, which explores the German designer's philosophy of "less but better" (+ slideshow). More about Paris exhibition aims to illustrate Dieter Rams' principles of good design
Thin blue strings are stretched between arch-shaped frames to create tunnels across the cloister garden of a French cathedral (+ slideshow). More about Atelier Yokyok installs vaulted string tunnels in a Gothic cloister garden
This Paris nursery by French architect Samuel Delmas looks like a pile of stacked boxes, featuring a facade of aluminium louvres and colourful enamelled glass (+ slideshow). More about Parisian nursery by Samuel Delmas consists of a pile of irregularly stacked boxes
Furniture that has been extruded and manipulated into distorted forms by Dutch designer Sebastian Brajkovic is on show at the Carpenters Workshop Gallery in Paris (+ slideshow). More about Sebastian Brajkovic exhibits warped furniture at Carpenters Workshop Gallery
Spanish designer Jaime Hayón has created a set of sports-themed furniture for an exhibition at Paris' Galerie Kreo (+ slideshow). More about Jaime Hayón's collection for Galerie Kreo includes a mirror shaped like a table-tennis bat
Italian studio Antonio Virga Architecte has renovated and extended a Parisian building to create offices and haute-couture workshops for French fashion house Dior Homme (+ slideshow). More about Dior Homme occupies extended Haussmann building by Antonio Virga Architecte
Paris studio CUT Architectures has returned to the house it extended in 2011 to create a glazed study featuring a yellow staircase that integrates a desk (+ slideshow). More about CUT Architectures adds a second concrete-framed extension to a French home
Herzog & de Meuron has completed a monumental new stadium in Bordeaux framed by 900 slim white columns, one of the key venues for next year's Euro football championship (+ slideshow). More about Herzog & de Meuron's Bordeaux Stadium is framed by a forest of slender columns
Parisian studio FREAKS freearchitects has covered a series of elaborately decorated galleries inside the Palais du Louvre with shiny plastic for an exhibition that brings together historic and contemporary design (+ slideshow). More about FREAKS freearchitects masks ornate decor inside the Palais du Louvre for design exhibition
These two metal-clad towers featuring stepped forms and angular balconies were designed to prove that, after years of skyscraper restrictions in Paris, height is no longer taboo (+ slideshow). More about Paris' tallest housing block in over 40 years is clad with gold and silver metal