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Is Paris’s Olympics Architecture Right-Sized for our Times?

With its tight environmental targets, reuse of historic landmarks, and adaptable housing, Paris 2024 aims to make hosting the Olympics thrifty and useful to the city. 

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An Infill Apartment Building with a Secret Garden Rises in Paris

Overcoming logistical hurdles, MARS Architectes creates an “Alice in Wonderland” moment with an elegant new development concealed behind an older one.

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Wine Cellar History and Modern Brasserie Culture Meet at Abstinence Restaurant

Architectural studio Lizée-Hugot’s inaugural restaurant project brings warm wood textures, supple leather upholstery, and polished steel accents to Paris’s Left Bank.

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La Samaritaine Reinvents the Paris Department Store for the 21st Century

A renovation led by SANAA incorporates futuristic facades, historic restoration, and social housing into the Right-Bank landmark.

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Atelier NEA Builds an Intimate Home in a Secluded Paris Alleyway

The local firm's refurbishment of a multilevel live/work studio champions simplicity, flexibility, and poignant accents.

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Louis Denavaut Imbues a Parisian Tech Company’s HQ with Character and Poise

A warm palette of noble materials, textured surfaces, and curved walls transforms a mediocre office into a refined bureau that transcends workplace norms.

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A Plastic Surgery Clinic in Paris Cuts an Impressive Figure

Interior architecture firm Le Berre Vevaud converts a ubiquitous Haussmann apartment into a florid yet refined doctor’s office.

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Matali Crasset Designs a Flexible, Rainbow-like Apartment for a Paris Jewelry Designer

A clever, highly variegated screen can be reconfigured to toggle the living area between guest room, entertainment space, and impromptu showroom.

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Quality Control: Avenier Cornejo Takes on Social Housing in Southeastern Paris

The sunlit 22-unit building features energy-harvesting mechanisms and a brick facade that echoes its 19th-century neighbors.

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Paris’s Museum of Modern Art Receives a Flexible Renovation

Recently renovated by h2o architectes and Studio GGSV, the Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris (MAM) emphasizes openness and clear circulation.

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In Paris, an Affordable Housing Complex Creates a New Vertical Neighborhood

Designed by Hamonic + Masson & Associates, Rue Camille Claudel offers clever sites for communal gathering and abundant access to the outdoors.

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Fondation Cartier Exhibition Invites You Into the Whimsical World of Architect Junya Ishigami

The Paris art museum's first solo architecture exhibition, dubbed Freeing Architecture, is on view through June 18, 2018.

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OMA’s Paris “Exhibition Tower” Isn’t a Showstopper, Just Eager to Please

The new building, which houses the Lafayette Anticipations galleries, does whatever it's told and will bend over backwards to accommodate curatorial wills.

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The Fascinating History of Le Corbusier’s Lost Barge

The Louise-Catherine, a Parisian barge transformed by the Modernist icon into a homeless shelter, sank due to unprecedented rainfall last month.

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BREAKING: Paris’s “Ugliest Skyscraper” to Receive a Makeover, Courtesy of New French Firm

Nouvelle AOM beat out Studio Gang for the job to revitalize the Tour Montparnasse, the city's much-reviled skyscraper.

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Paris’ Richelieu Complex Re-Opens After Stunning Renovation

The renovation of the French national library’s Richelieu complex has brought a new dynamism to the library, while preserving and protecting the best of its historical features.

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Didier Gomez Redefines Parisian Chic for Marriott’s Renaissance République

For its latest boutique hotel, Marriott tapped famed interior designer Didier Gomez, who designed the hotel as "a vision of another Paris."