General plan of the Passerelle Simone de Beauvoir pedestrian bridge over the Seine, Paris © David Boureau

Constructing an elegant bridge – France

01/01/2007 · by · in Architecture, France

Eight years after the team of Feichtinger Architects, consulting engineers RFR and Sepia was declared the winner of the competition for a new pedestrian bridge over the River Seine, the Passerelle Simone de Beauvoir was finally inaugurated in July 2006….

Paris Plage 2003 – temporary beach along the Seine riverside roadway in central Paris, France © Christian Horn

Paris Plage 2003 – France

01/09/2003 · by · in Architecture, France

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…