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Paris Prepares for the 2024 Summer Olympics With a Strategic Mix of New Construction and Renovation

Paris

July 8, 2024

With only two purpose-built structures and a heavy reliance on existing venues, this year's games will be the least architectural—in terms of new construction—in decades.

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Paris's Centre Pompidou to Close in September 2025 for a Major Revamp

Andrew Ayers

June 26, 2024

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Next year, the radical 1970s monument will begin a $494 million overhaul led by AIA Life Designers and Moreau Kusunoki with Frida Escobedo.

In Light of a Major Expansion, an Exhibition Takes a Historic Look at the Paris Metro

'Métro! Le Grand Paris en mouvement' on view at the Cité de l’Architecture et du Patrimoine through June 2, 2024

Andrew Ayers

January 15, 2024

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On view at Cité de l’Architecture et du Patrimoine, the exhibition traces the transit system's history from the handdug tunnels of the 1890s to the automated boring machines of the 2020s.

Paris’s Maritime Museum Reopens after a Belowdecks Overhaul by h2o and Snøhetta

Paris

Andrew Ayers

December 1, 2023

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The revamped museum is located at Palais de Chaillot, a building whose multiple transformations over the years shows that "adaptive reuse" is hardly a new concept.

Amid Changing Regulations, Moreau Kusunoki Completes a Singular Wood Tower in Paris

Paris

Andrew Ayers

October 6, 2023

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A residential building with a hybrid wood structure brings a new material to a rapidly densifying part of the 13th arrondissement.

In Shanghai, a New Exhibition by Jean-Louis Cohen Looks at Interwar Paris

Izzy Kornblatt

July 19, 2023

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‘Paris Moderne 1914-1945: Architecture, Design, Film, Fashion' will debut at the Power Station of Art on July 22.

May 2023: Dates and Events

Pansy Schulman

May 12, 2023

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This month’s dates and events include a Raqs Media Collective exhibition commissioned by the Jencks Foundation at the late architectural theorist's eclectic home in west London.

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Beyond the Norm: Maxi-Foster at the Centre Georges-Pompidou

Review: 'Norman Foster' at Musée National d’Art Moderne, Centre Georges-Pompidou, Paris, through August 7

Andrew Ayers

May 12, 2023

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Spectacularly staged in the Piano and Rogers building, the largest-ever Norman Foster retrospective paints a dashing self-portrait of the British starchitect.

Lighting Design Firm 8’8” Illuminates the Renewed Bibliothèque Nationale de France

Paris

Andrew Ayers

February 21, 2023

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Joining L’Atelier Gaudin Architectes, the firm developed countless solutions for the historic Paris institution that range from the spectacular to the discreet.

Scenes From the January 2023 Edition of Maison&Objet

Melissa Feldman

February 15, 2023

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Highlights of the Parisian design fair include works by generation-spanning French architects such as Charlotte Perriand, Jean Prouvé, and Jean-Michel Wilmotte.