The high-rise renaissance of Paris continues with plans by Jean Paul Viguier who has designed a new building for French financial firm, Credit Agricole Assurances. Read More To the untrained eye it may look like Battlestar Galatica has landed in the French city of Lyon, but this exists in reality, not science-fiction, as a spanking new museum - Musee de Confluences. Read More The Louis Vuitton Foundation for Creation may have a slightly Zoolander-esque ring to it, but there's nothing fictional about the new art centre that is taking shape in central Paris. Read More Leading French architect Jean Nouvel, along with developer Ivanhoé Cambridge and Hines, has designed two new towers to stand in the 13th Arrondissement of Paris at Rive Gauche. Read More In the British city of Birmingham a monumental new courthouse was cancelled to save money. There is no such chance of that happening in France with the announcement that Bouyges is to build a 160 metre tall Renzo Piano design that has been championed by Nicolas Sarkozy. Read More Construction is soon to start on a new skyscraper in Paris's central business district, La Defense. Read More |
Having beat off stiff competition from SANAA, W-Architectures and French architects FLINT it has been announced that architectural firm Big, in conjunction with FREAKS Freearchitects have won yet another competition, this time to design a new cultural centre for the French city of Bordeaux. Read More Foster + Partners has secured approval to construct what will be the tallest buildings in Paris, the 320 metre tall Hermitage Plaza, which will be ten metres taller than the Shard in London. Read More Prolific Danish architecture firm BIG has won another competition to design another academic building in another major European city - this time Paris. Read More One of the most interesting tall buildings under construction in Paris right now is undoubtably the 88 metre tall Horizons Building, or Tour Horizon, that has been designed by Jean Nouvel. Read More |