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Massimiliano & Doriana Fuksas

The career of any great architect is a series of trials, breakthroughs, reverses and revisions, followed in the best of cases by the opening up of new research

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Teletech Callcenter and Incubator

MVRDV

How can a structurally sound building, which isn’t suitable for restoration or a new traditional use, be reutilized? This problem, which the architects at

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the Department of Islamic Art, The Louvre

Rudy Ricciotti | Mario Bellini

Along with its collections, the Louvre itself testifies to almost one thousand years of history, from its medieval foundations and 17th century Cour Carré

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Pierres Vives Form and Function fuse to create expressive and dynamic Civic Spaces

Zaha Hadid Architects

“I don’t design nice buildings,” says Zaha Hadid, “I like architecture to have some raw, vital, earthy quality.” Those adjectives aptly describe Pierr

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Day Nursery and Residence Pierre Budin

ECDM Emmanuel Combarel Dominique Marrec

The urban context is the northern fringes of Paris, an unlovely jumble of disparate buildings, a tide line marking the end of the 19th century city and the begi

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"L'Atoll"

AAVP Architecture | Antonio Virga Architecte

Atoll, a new regional retail park covering 979,515 square feet (91,000 m²) a short distance from the city of Angers, France, was designed by Paris-based ar

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Origami Building

Manuelle Gautrand Architecture

Located near the Arc de Triomphe and Place de l’ Etoile, and designed by Manuelle Gautrand, Barclays’ Paris headquarters is distinguished by the sop

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Baie Marquet Residence, Cap-d'Ail

LPA - Longo Palmarini Architecture & Partners

Cap-d'Ail is a seaside resort nestling along the French Riviera. A slightly inland road - Avenue Marquet - runs parallel to the coast, leading east to the Princ

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Alésia Museum Park - Interpretation centre

Bernard Tschumi Architects

Architecture in history-laden sites has to be conceived and built in acknowledgement of the special identity of place; physical form should give an insight into

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Jean Cocteau Museum

Rudy Ricciotti

Three years after laying the foundation stone, the Musée Jean Cocteau has now opened to the public. Thanks to an extraordinary bequest from Séveri

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Cité de l’océan et du Surf

Steven Holl Architects | Solange Fabião

Perched on a hill high above the sea, at walking distance from the shore of the bay of Biscay, la Cité de l’Ocean et du Surf in Biarritz was inaugurated on J

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Centre Georges Pompidou

Shigeru Ban Architects

The opening of the Centre Georges Pompidou (CGP) in Metz last May was a coherent move by the Paris based (state-run) modern art museum. Not only does the new fa

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