During France’s traditional August vacation period, part of the riverside roadway in Paris‘ inner city was blocked off to traffic and handed over to strollers and roller-skaters. As during last year, the “Paris Plage” project was created again, an inner-city…
Francois Roche’s concept for converting a warehouse into a private art gallery was realized in a rear courtyard in Paris. Access is through the storage area, which has been retained in its original rough condition and leads directly to the…
Cobra, high-heeled shoe, golf club… Quite a few nicknames have emerged for the new Bergisel Ski Jump since its opening in September 2002. Time will tell if one of these nicknames will stick, but already the ski jump by the…
Office Claydon Heeley Jones Mason – Ushida Findlay specialize in surrealistic interiors. Their latest work, for Claydon Heeley Jones Mason, is an office which differs markedly from the typical office space. The advertising agency wanted their London headquarters to leave…
Paris has long had a deep relationship with the lives and work of its artists. The city has been both home and inspiration to some of the greatest artists of the 19th and 20th centuries and to thousands more seeking…
Stealth house In southern France close to the village of Sommieres, a more traditional region of small individual houses, surprises the unusual appearance of the new house of M. Ami Barak. In its outside form the building reflects the morphology…
Some 500 architectural experts came to Paris in September 2002 to discuss the plight of a threatened species: architecture of the 20th-century Modern Movement. The 7th International DOCOMOMO Conference met in the UNESCO Headquarters designed by Marcel Breuer, one of…
The World Congress of Architecture, in conjunction with the General Assembly of the International Union of Architects (UIA), took place in Berlin this summer. Organized by the UIA and its German section, the Association of German Architects (BDA), the conference…
A small French city tackled a very large topic when the fourth annual architectural conference “Archilab” met in Orléans to ponder “Earth Economics.” As in past years, the curators Marie-Ange Brayer and Béatrice Simonot offered innovative architectural research programs, exploring…
In July 2000, the architecture team Edge won the design competition for the new 2500 m2 Pixelpark Office in Paris. Just six months later, the company moved into its new headquarters. Edge, a two-man office made up of François Gillet…
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