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MUR.MUR Suspends the Counter at What the Bread Bakery in Saint-Denis
In WHAT THE BREAD, the heaviest object in the room is the one engineered to look like it…
Guillaume Bloget Folds a Single Aluminum Sheet Into an Unsinkable Kayak
A press brake arrived at the workshop, and Guillaume Bloget designed a kayak whose folds are not a…
Bien Urbain Turns a Nursery School Roof into Four Gill-Like Sheds in Montfermeil
The hardest-working element in the extension Paris-based practice Bien Urbain has completed for a nursery school in Montfermeil…
Yurika Takemura Suspends a 39-Foot Net That Turns a Courtyard into a Walkable Boundary
A twelve-metre (39 ft) net of suspended steel mesh turns something nobody can see — the line between…
Ateliers A+ Suspends 600 Coloured Elements Over a Hidden Montpellier Courtyard
A red gateway at the end of a narrow Montpellier street opens onto a courtyard few people have…
Atelier Iso Wraps a Self-Built La Claye House in Reclaimed Stone and Douglas Fir
On a long-vacant corner plot in the village of La Claye, French practice Atelier Iso built an entirely…
Gabrielle Vinson Keeps a Toulouse House’s 1970s Concrete Beams and Hourdis Floors Exposed
In the Saint-Cyprien district of Toulouse, French-architect Gabrielle Vinson approaches a 1970s house reconstruction as inherited infrastructure rather…
Mur Mur Makes This Paris Smash Burger Restaurant Feel Underwater, Not Fast
Mur Mur pointed a fast-food restaurant directly at the street, then built the whole interior around two shades…
Emilio Ferro’s Threshold Makes a 19th-Century Chapel Behave Like an Artwork
A beam of white light that retracts when the chapel closes is not an effect — it is…
Uchronia Designs a Café Shin That Remembers Its Own History in Its Walls
Café Shin Marais by Uchronia is not the third location of a Parisian café concept — it is…
At Louis Vuitton SS27, Pharrell Williams Proved the Set Is the Collection
Louis Vuitton‘s Men’s Spring/Summer 2027 show, staged on 23 June 2026 at the Cité Internationale Universitaire de Paris,…
Fujiko Nakaya’s Fog Is the Only Thing at the Bourse de Commerce That Can Make Tadao Ando’s Concrete Disappear
The only object in the Rotonde de la Bourse de Commerce capable of making Tadao Ando‘s concrete cylinder…
Leandro Erlich Fills the Grand Palais With Fourteen Things That Look Exactly Like Architecture — And Aren’t
Leandro Erlich has spent three decades constructing replicas of the most trusted objects in architecture — elevators, staircases,…
Forty Years After Christo Wrapped It, JR Cracks the Pont Neuf Open with the World’s Largest Immersive Installation
Forty years after Christo and Jeanne-Claude wrapped the Pont Neuf in 40,000 square metres of champagne-coloured fabric, French…
Rotating Larch Louvers Turn a Paris Suburb House Façade Into a Kinetic Street Event
A boundary wall left standing becomes the foundation of a house — not metaphorically, but structurally and conceptually.…
Coralie Gruit Uses Raw Concrete and Bold Color to Merge Two Bagnolet Apartments
French architect Coralie Gruit has recently transformed two stacked units in a 2000s-era building in Bagnolet, France, into…
Uchronia Transforms a Bordeaux Mansion Into a 1960s-Inspired Athletic & Bath Club
Nestled within a historic private mansion in the heart of Bordeaux’s prestigious Golden Triangle, the Athletic & Bath…
Jessica Mille Merges Kaiten Dining With Audiophile Culture at Matsuri Marseille
Designed by French architect Jessica Mille, the newly unveiled Matsuri Marseille restaurant on Rue Paradis is an immersive…
Mesnil Architectures Peels Back the Layers of a Former Repair Workshop to Create a Tactile Pyrenean Home
Mesnil Architectures has reimagined a nondescript former workshop in Laruns, France, transforming a fragmented structure into a unified,…
Ney & Partners Cantilevers Sinusoidal Steel Footbridge From 19th-Century Albi Viaduct
Ney & Partners has completed the Foot and Bicycle Bridge Albi, a slender steel intervention cantilevered from a…
Paola Pivi Deconstructs Sicilian Lemon Trees to Create “New Life” Constellations at Perrotin Paris
Italian artist Paola Pivi returns to Perrotin Paris with “Live Again,” a multifaceted exhibition that transforms the gallery’s…