Santiago Sierra creates mud runway for Balenciaga during Paris Fashion Week
Spanish artist Santiago Sierra carved a runway through mounds of mud from a peat bog for Balenciaga's Spring Summer 2023 show in Paris. More
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Andreas Angelidakis fills Espace Niemeyer with "soft ruins"
Greek artist Andreas Angelidakis has scattered soft, digitally-printed temple ruins around the Espace Niemeyer in Paris for his Center for the Critical Appreciation of Antiquity exhibition. More
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Chzon studio designs airport departure hall to reference Parisian life
French design agency Chzon has added archways and fountains that reference iconic Parisian monuments to a departure lounge at the Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris. More
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Ateliers Jean Nouvel completes pair of inclined skyscrapers in Paris
French studio Ateliers Jean Nouvel has designed the 180- and 125-metre-high Tours Duo skyscrapers to "create a character" for eastern Paris. More
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Balenciaga opens tinted-glass couture store beneath historic Paris atelier
Fashion house Balenciaga has opened a couture store with smoked-glass-panelled walls in the same building as its original couture salon in Paris. More
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Bernard Dubois incorporates nightclub references into Courrèges' Paris store
Thick carpets, mirrored panels and fabric-covered walls populate this clothing store in Paris designed by Belgian architect Bernard Dubois. More
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Hotel Rosalie encourages nature to "reclaim its rightful place in the urban landscape"
French interior designer Marion Mailaender has worked with hotelier Joris Bruneel to create a hotel in Paris informed by overgrown and abandoned buildings. More
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Concrete infrastructure informs Acne Studios' limestone-clad Rue Saint Honoré store
Fashion brand Acne Studios has opened a "monolithic" store on Paris' Rue Saint Honoré, designed in collaboration with architecture studio Arquitectura-G, that references a Stockholm skatepark and its Parisian setting. More
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Skewed apartment by Clément Lesnoff-Rocard Architect celebrates "edges"
Local architect Clément Lesnoff-Rocard used clean lines, light colours and mirrors to create a bright interior within this skewed Parisian penthouse. More
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Ciguë imagines car-free city inside Cowboy's electric bike shop in Paris
Limestone blocks and crushed earth feature in this electric bike shop in Paris, designed by local studio Ciguë to visualise how a car-free city of the future might look. More
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MAD surrounds Passivhaus housing block in white curved balconies
Chinese architecture studio MAD has unveiled the 13-storey UNIC residential tower in Paris, France, which is its first completed project in Europe. More
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Villa Eugénie places two replica villas in flower meadow for Dior menswear show
Production studio Villa Eugénie created a replica of Christian Dior's childhood home and a garden with 19,000 flowers for Dior's Spring Summer 2023 menswear show. More
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Notre-Dame visitor centre set to be built in underground car park
Landscape architecture studio Bureau Bas Smets is set to revive the square facing Notre-Dame cathedral in Paris and transform an abandoned underground car park beneath it into a visitor centre that opens onto the river Seine More
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OMA designs Tiffany & Co pop-up in Paris to take visitors on a "journey across time"
Architecture studio OMA has created a pop-up shop for Tiffany & Co in Paris that showcases an assortment of pieces from the jeweller's 185-year history. More
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Louis Vuitton inserts yellow racetrack into Louvre courtyard for Spring Summer 2023 show
LA-based studio PlayLab Inc has created a magnified playground with a winding, yellow toy racetrack at the Musée de Louvre for Louis Vuitton's Spring Summer 2023 menswear show during Paris Fashion Week. More
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Plant-covered Villa M by Triptyque and Philippe Starck "brings nature back to the city"
A steel exoskeleton supports a vertical garden facade at this hotel in Paris, France, created by designer Philippe Starck in collaboration with French-Brazilian studio Triptyque and landscape studio Coloco. More
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David Chipperfield adds vaulted arcades to revamped office complex in Paris
The Berlin studio of David Chipperfield Architects has renovated and extended a 20th-century office block in Paris to transform it into a multifunctional complex called Morland Mixité Capitale. More
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Parc de la Villette is the "largest deconstructed building in the world"
Continuing our deconstructivism series, we take a look at Bernard Tschumi's Parc de la Villette in Paris, one of the movement's earliest and most influential projects. More
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Arthur Mamou-Mani creates 3D-printed cups for Trame's latest collection
Paris-based homeware brand Trame has unveiled a collection of rugs and ceramics with pieces designed by architect Arthur Mamou-Mani as well as designers Amandine David and Wonmin Park that reference the historic Alhambra palace in Granada. More
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Paris set to build four-kilometre-long urban cable car
Construction is set to begin on Paris' first urban cable car, a 4.5-kilometre-line that will connect several suburbs in the southeast of the city to the Metro system. More
