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Paris Architecture

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The capital of France is a renowned city for architecture. Celebrated architects that lived or worked here include Le Corbusier, Perrault and Nouvel. The city has strong formal axes and spaces, with many interesting buildings by famous designers.

Louvre Pyramid ; Eiffel Tower ; Trocadero ; lnstitut du Monde Arabe
Paris buildings Eiffel Tower Paris Trocadero Paris architecture Institut du Monde Arabe Paris
photos © Isabelle Lomholt / Adrian Welch

We've selected what we feel are the key examples of Parisian Architecture Designs. We aim to include buildings that are either of top quality or interesting, or ideally both.

We cover completed buildings, new building designs, architectural exhibitions and architecture competitions across the city. The focus is on contemporary Parisian buildings but information on traditional buildings is also welcome.

We have 8 pages of Parisian Architecture selections with links to hundreds of individual project pages.

Paris Architecture : news + key projects (this page)

Paris Buildings : A-B

Paris Architectural Designs : C-D

Paris Building Developments : E-F

Paris Architectural Developments : G-K

Paris Architecture Designs : L-O

Paris Architecture Developments : P-R

Paris Building Designs : S-Z

Ten Key Paris Buildings

Paris Architecture, chronological:

1. Notre-Dame Cathedral
2. The Pantheon
3. Arc de Triomphe
4. Garnier Opera House
5. The Louvre Museum Pyramid
6. Eiffel Tower
7. Sacre Coeur
8. Pompidou Centre
9. Arab du Monde lnstitute
10. Parc de la Villette

Major Paris Buildings

Parisian Architecture, alphabetical:

Centre George Pompidou, Rue Beaubourg, IVe
Richard Rogers / Renzo Piano Architects
Paris building
photo © Adrian Welch

Radical building for its time : Pompidou Centre - Hi -Tech Parisian architecture

lnstitut du Monde Arabe, 1 Rue des Fossés, V
Jean Nouvel, Architect
lnstitut du Monde Arabe
photo © Jean Nouvel ; photograph: Georges Fessy

Result of one of the first Grands Projet architecture competitions: Paris building

Musée du Louvre, Ie
various architects
Louvre Museum Photo
image © Isabelle Lomholt


Pyramide du Louvre, Ie
I.M. Pei & Partners Architects
Louvre Pyramid
picture © Isabelle Lomholt

Louvre building : radical contemporary design, foil to traditional Louvre architecture

Tour Eiffel, Rue de Champ de Mars, VIIe
Gustave Eiffel
Eiffel Tower
photograph © Adrian Welch

Eiffel Tower : most famous structure in Paris, heroic iron architecture

Villa La Roche
Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret
Villa La Roche Paris
image © Karavan

Villa La Roche

La Basilique du Sacré Coeur, Montmartre, XVIIIe
Paul Abadie, Architect
Sacré Coeur
photograph © Adrian Welch

Paris church : Sacred Heart Church building

Paris Architecture Walking Tours

Paris Buildings - Latest Designs

Parisian Building Developments, chronological:

Patrick Roger Boutique
Design: XTU
Patrick Roger Boutique Paris
photo : Boegly

Patrick Roger Boutique Paris - 20 May 2013
This project was the discovery of the work, sculptures and workshop Patrick Roger. Through him the chocolate has emerged as a world of flavor, taste, and as a material for reversible property changes state from solid to liquid state.

Rudy Ricciotti Exhibition, Cite de l’architecture Show
'Architecture is a combat sport' - architectural article by Rebecca Breun, e-architect
Building by Rudy Ricciotti
photo © RB
Rudy Ricciotti Exhibition - 16 Apr 2013
There can be no question about it: Rudy Ricciotti is the French architect to watch at present. So it was no surprise that Cite de l’architecture in Paris put on an exhibition dedicated to him. Since the construction of the stadium in Vitrolles in the 1990’s, his architecture practice has been responsible for a number of important buildings both in France and elsewhere. This is not signature architecture.

Ecole Bobigny
Design: Mikou Design Studio
School Building Bobigny
image from architect

Ecole Bobigny - new photos added 5 Mar 2013
The city centre school in Bobigny is in a strategic urban location, bounded by three large streets and by a pedestrian space on the north. It is in the middle of an urban complex mainly composed of housing, near the city hall. Therefore this new school is a visually remarkable amenity, visible by its façades and its roof, a founding element of the project onto which the openings of the neighbouring dwellings face.

Piscine du Fort, Issy-les-Moulineaux, south west Paris
Design: Mikou Design Studio
Piscine du Fort Paris
picture from architect
Piscine Issy-les-Moulineaux

Jean Lurçat College, Saint Denis, south east Paris
Design: Mikou Design Studio
Jean Lurçat College Paris
photograph from architects

Jean Lurçat College - new photos added 5 Mar 2013
This french school building is located in the "articulation of two landscape types: a space of shattered non-structured housing blocks which give the district its identity and give a convivial scale on the rues Diderot and d'Alembert; the sports park which opens itself towards the landscape of Courneuve and enables the college to have an open view and a strong liaison with the green areas of the city".

M Building, Rue Rebière
Design: Stephane Maupin & Partners
M Building Paris
photo : Cécile Septet

M Building in Paris - 28 Feb 2013
The project takes place in the north Pierre Rebiere Street is a 600 meters long and 25 meters wide straight line. It is surrounded by the Batignoles’ cemetery on one side and by the back entrance of the international high school Honoré de Balzac on the other. The transformation of this narrow abandoned street allows the establishment of whole string of new buildings.

Biscornet, Place de la Bastille
Design: [BP] Architectures
Biscornet Place de la Bastille Building
photograph : Sergio Grazia

Biscornet Paris - 26 Feb 2013
Is there an architect who has not dreamed of designing a building for the Biscornet site, which lay abandoned for so long? Its location is truly spectacular: slightly set back from the Place de la Bastille, it lies where the rue de Lyon and the road running along the canal basin meet; on one side you have a perspective towards the Gare de Lyon, on the other a view of the Bassin de l’Arsenal.

Police Station of Safety and Proximity
Design: Fabienne Bulle Architecte
Police Station of Safety and Proximity Paris
photo : Hervé Abbadie

Police Station Building in Paris - 25 Feb 2013

Hypernuit Offices
Design: h2o architectes
Hypernuit Offices Building
photo : Julien Attard

Hypernuit Offices - 22 Feb 2013
The project takes place on the ground floor of a building of flats, behind a large window looking out onto the street. The office space to create has a single orientation; it is a well-lit, plainly treated volume with a simple geometry. The commission consisted in fitting-out an office space including five identical desks, a common meeting room and shared facilities.

'Basket Apartments'
Design: Ofis Arhitekti, Slovenia
Paris Student Apartment Studios
photograph : Tomaz Gregoric
Student Apartments Paris - 19 Feb 2013
The project is located on a long and very narrow site, on the edge of Parc La Vilette in Paris’s 19th district, within an urban development done by Reichen & Robert architects. On the northeast, new Paris tram route is passing along the site. The site is bordering with tram garage on the southwest, above which is a football field. The first 3 floors of the housing will inevitably share the wall with the tram garage.

FFR Grand Stade, Essone, south west of Paris
Design: Populous + Ateliers 2/3/4/
FFR Grand Stade
photo from architects
FFR Grand Stade
After several months of discussions with three competing groups, the FFR has made its choice of designers and has issued the first computer-rendered images for the new French Rugby Stadium building.

Samaritaine Cheval Blanc
Design: Edouard François
La Samaritaine Cheval Blanc
photograph © Edouard François

La Samaritaine Cheval Blanc Paris - 15 Jan 2013
The exceptional site for this confidential project is a historic department store designed by Henri Sauvage that overlooks the Seine river and the Pont Neuf. The Samaritaine is a landmark that embodies a Parisian tradition.

Giraffe Childcare Center
Hondelatte Laporte Architectes
Giraffe Childcare Center Building
photo : Philippe Ruault

Giraffe Childcare Center - 14 Jan 2013
The Giraffe childcare center is located in the C1 block of the Seguin Rives de Seine district in Boulogne-Billancourt, a suburban area of Paris. The program houses a 60 bed childcare center and 20 bed day nursery. The building has been awarded the green “zéro Energie Effinergie” label.

Louvre Museum Visconti Courtyard
Design: Architects Rudy Ricciotti and Mario Bellini
Louvre Museum Visconti Courtyard
photograph © R. Ricciotti - M. Bellini / Musée du Louvre © Lisa Ricciotti

Louvre Museum Visconti Courtyard - 21 Sep 2012
A new cutting-edge architectural structure is to open to the public after five years of construction work; designed to showcase the museum’s treasures of Islamic art, the new project is located in the Visconti courtyard, at the very centre of the Louvre. Lafarge has worked in close partnership with the architects to supply the most appropriate materials for the structure, hailed as the most significant museum expansion project since the Louvre’s great Pyramid.

Duo Towers
Ateliers Jean Nouvel
DUO Project Paris
image © Ateliers Jean Nouvel

Duo Towers Paris - 22 May 2012
Jean Nouvel will build the 'Duo' project on the Rive Gauche in Paris. The DUO project ('B3A') is located in Paris XIII (Masséna Bruneseau) for investor Ivanhoé Cambridge Hines the total cost is projected to be 500/600M€.

Paris Office Buildings

Key Recent Paris Architecture

Fondation Imagine
Ateliers Jean Nouvel / Valero Gadan
Fondation Imagine Paris
image © Ateliers Jean Nouvel / Valero Gadan

Fondation Imagine
 
Hermitage Plaza
Foster + Partners
Hermitage Plaza Paris Skyscrapers
picture : Foster + Partners

Hermitage Plaza : skyscraper architecture
 
Herold Apartments
Jakob+MacFarlane Architectes
Herold Apartments Paris
photo Nicolla Borel © Jakob+MacFarlane

Herold Apartment Buildings
 
La Gaîté lyrique
Manuelle Gautrand
La Gaîté lyrique Paris
photograph : Philippe Ruault

La Gaîté lyrique
 
La Ville Intelligente, northeast Paris
Jakob+MacFarlane
La Ville Intelligente
© Jakob+MacFarlane - Nicolas Borel photographer

La Ville Intelligente
 
Le Monde
Atelier Christian de Portzamparc
Le Monde Paris
photo © Kamel Khalfi

Le Monde Paris
 
Musée du quai Branly
Ateliers Jean Nouvel
Musée du quai Branly Paris
image © Rebecca Breun

Musée du quai Branly
 
Novancia business school
Architecture-Studio
Novancia business school building
photograph : Georges Fessy

Novancia business school
 
The Phare Building
Morphosis, Architects
Paris Tower Building
image from Morphosis

Paris Tower Building
 
Philharmonie de Paris
Ateliers Jean Nouvel
Philharmonie de Paris Building
picture : Ateliers Jean Nouvel

Philharmonie de Paris
 
Projet Triangle
Herzog & de Meuron
Projet Triangle Paris
image © Herzog & de Meuron

Projet Triangle
 
Simone de Beauvoir Footbridge
Dietmar Feichtinger Architectes
Passerelle Simone de Beauvoir
photo : David Boureau

Simone de Beauvoir Footbridge
 
Stade Arena 92, Nanterre
Atelier Christian de Portzamparc
Stade Arena 92
image from architects

Stade Arena 92
 
Tour Carpe Diem
Robert A.M. Stern Architects
Tour Carpe Diem Paris
studio amd for Robert A.M. Stern Architects

Tour Carpe Diem
 
Tour Granite, Nanterre
Atelier Christian de Portzamparc
Tour Granite
images © Nicolas Borel

Tour Granite
Tour Horizons
Ateliers Jean Nouvel
Tour Horizons Paris
image © Ateliers Jean Nouvel

Tour Horizons

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Paris Architects

Paris Masterplan Architecture

Vision for Greater Paris : Architecture proposal by MVRDV
Paris Plus petit
picture from architects

Greater Paris Vision : Architecture proposal by LIN
Grand Paris Métropole Douce Vision
image © Fabio Casiroli, Systematica + LIN

Le Grand Pari : Exhibition, Vision 2030

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