France
Neri&Hu designs bao restaurant to evoke Shanghai’s street life
“We all need a bit of silliness” says commenter
Le Louxor cinema in Paris is “an art deco fantasy straight out of Egypt”
Restored Casino Royal Palm recreates the “symmetry and boldness” of the 1920s
India Mahdavi’s Smiley armchair turns plug sockets into decoration
Dominique Perrault designs Paris metro station as “inverted skyscraper”
Rudy Guénaire designs PNY restaurant as an ode to modernist California
Willo Perron creates sculptural Chanel runway in restored Grand Palais
Mur Mur Architects fills Paris coffee shop with silo-style steel seating
Lacaton & Vassal, Frédéric Druot and Christophe Hutin’s Transformation of 530 Dwellings was the most significant building of 2016
Atelier Archiplein updates 1960s lakeside villa in France
“Social housing is not the place for minimalism” says commenter
Philippe Starck reveals surrealist hotel topped with 19th-century mansion
Ten art deco structures that encapsulate the 1925 Paris Exposition
Nendo and Arep revamp France’s high-speed TGV train “from nose to seat”
Amelia Tavella Architectes completes granite-clad school on craggy Corsican coast
Studio Libeskind unveils mixed-use building with angular plant-covered facades in Paris
NTSA Architectes draws on “age-old know-how” for rammed-earth school extension
Dorothée Meilichzon designs Alpine hotel interiors with giant ski bed heads
The Grand Palais was the most significant building of 2024
LAN “deliberately exposes” mass-timber structure of Paris apartment block
The House Special Studio brings 1970s nostalgia to Paris pied-à-terre
CMA turns historic mill into “beacon” for Wine Storehouse on French vineyard
