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Paris Building Designs, Pictures, Projects, Property, Architecture, News
Paris Architecture, France : Information + Images
Current Developments in the French Capital
Paris
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Selection of Parisian Buildings, alphabetical:
Paris Buildings : A-L
Paris Building Designs : M-Z (this page)
Paris Architecture, alphabetical:
La Basilique du Sacré Coeur / Sacre Coeur Basilica -
see Sacre Coeur
Montmartre, Paris XVIIIe
1912
Paul Abadie, Architect
La Grande Arche de La Défense / Grand Arch at La Defense
1 place du parvis de La Défense, Puteaux, Paris XVe
1989
Johan Otto von Spreckelsen, Architect
Echoing the existing Arche de Triomphe the Grande Arche is typically
bombastic for one of Mitterand´s Grand Projets. Unlike the earlier
Arche de Triomphe this 35-storey building contains offices located
over the formal axis of the Champs-Elysees. Despite the name the architect
is apparently Danish.
Le Pantheon de Paris / The Pantheon, Paris
Paris Ve
1790
Jacques Germain Soufflot, Architect
The Pantheon Paris
Le Safran Festival Hall, Brie Comte Robert, southeast of Paris
2006
S.C.P.A. Semon-Rapaport Mandataire de LEquipe Architects
Les Bons Enfants - French Ministry of Culture & Communications
HQ
2005
Francis Soler
Highly unusual building covered in stainless steel tracery
Le Monde Headquarters
1990
Du Besset-Lyon Architectes

image from the architect
Le Monde Building
Les Trois Quartiers
Library, Paris
1992
Toyo Ito & Associates
Lintas Bridge Paris
1985
Ian Ritchie Architects

photo © Jocelyne Van den Bossche from Ian Ritchie
Architects 2007
Lintas Bridge
Louis Vuitton Foundation for Creation
Architects: Frank Gehry
2007-
Paris building
Maison de le Roche / Le Roche House
Le Corbusier, Architect
Home of the Fondation Le Corbusier
Maison de L'UNESCO / UNESCO Building
Paris VIIe
1958
Marcel Breuer & Pier Luigi Nervi, Architects
The UNESCO Building Paris is by two of the most famous architects
in the history of Modern Architecture. Another Marcel Breuer building
is the Whitney Museum in New York
Maison de Verre / The Glass House
31 Rue St-Guillaume
1932
Pierre Chareau, Architect
Aka Maison Dalsace / House of Glass: Paris
house
Maison Ozenfant / Ozenfant House & Studio
Maison et atelier Ozenfant, 53, avenue Reille, Paris XIV
1922
Le Corbusier, Architect
Masséna development
2009
Atelier Christian de Portzamparc

image from the architect
Urban competition
Metal 57, Renault site
-
Claude Vasconi
Metal 57 redevelopment, Renault site
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Dominique Jakob & Brendan Macfarlane
Ministry of Finance Building
1982
Chemetov & Huidobro
International Architecture Competition win
Musée du Louvre / The Louvre Museum
Paris Ie
1876;
various architects
Musée du quai Branly / Quai Branly Museum
15, rue Jean-Baptiste Berlier (near the Eiffel Tower)
Jean Nouvel, Architect
2006
Musée Orangerie / Orangerie Museum
Tuileries Gardens, central-west Paris
Renovation 1998-2006
Notre-Dame Cathedral / Cathédrale Notre Dame de Paris
Ile de la Cité 6, Place du Parvis, Paris IVe
1250
Architects n/a
Offices beside the Périphérique
2009
Sauerbruch Hutton
Opéra de la Bastille / Paris Opera building
120 Rue de Lyon, Place de la Bastille, Paris XIIe
1983-89
Carlos Ott, Architect
The Opéra National de Paris is one of the weakest buildings
of President Mitterrand´s Les Grands Projects and
much vilified. The story goes that the judges thought it was by Richard
Meier but in the `blind` architecture competition a fairly unknown
architect, Carlos Ott, won.
Opéra Garnier / The Garnier Opera House
Paris IXe
1875
Charles Garnier, Architect
The auditorium of this famous Paris building was painted by Surrealist
artist Marc Chagall in 1964
Pacific Tower / Tour Pacific
1988-92
Kisho Kurokawa
Palais de Tokyo / Tokyo Palace
Avenue de Président Wilson, 13, Paris XVI
2002
Anne Lacaton & Jean-Philippe Vassal, Architects
Adjacent to Museum of Modern Art, Trocadero
The Pantheon, Paris / Le Pantheon de Paris, Paris Ve
1789/90
Soufflot
Parc de la Villette / Villette Park
Porte de la Villette, avenue Jean-Jaurès, Paris IXXe
1993
Bernard Tschumi Architects
An architecture competition was held in 1992 for a park on the site
of national meat market & slaughterhouse.
Paris Orchestra Concert Hall
2007-
Jean Nouvel
Pajol sports centre, north-central Paris
2006-10
Brisac Gonzalez Architects

picture from the architect
Paris sports building
: Architecture Competition win
Pavilion Suisse / Swiss Pavilion
Cité Universitaire
1931-32
Le Corbusier, Architect
This is one of the key buildings by Le Corbusier in Paris
The Phare
2007-12
Morphosis, Architects

image from the architect
Paris Tower Building
Due to be tallest building in Paris after Eiffel Tower
International architecture competition winners - Nov 2006
Philharmonie de Paris
2007-12
Atelier Jean Nouvel
Paris Philharmonic
Pompidou Centre - see Centre George Pompidou
1977
Richard Rogers / Renzo Piano Architects
Pompidou Centre Restaurant
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Dominique Jakob & Brendan Macfarlane
Praetorium office block
2008-
Robert Lewis Turner
Pyramide du Louvre / Louvre Pyramid
Paris Ie
1989
I.M. Pei & Partners [Pei Cobb Freed & Partners], Architects
Louvre building
Renaissance Paris Wagram Hotel
2008
Atelier Christian de Portzamparc

image from the architect
Paris Hotel
Building
148 rue de lUniversité
Residence Ladoumegue
2008
ecdm

image from the architect
Paris Student Housing Design
Rue de Meaux / Meaux Street Housing
Rue de Meaux
1988-91
Renzo Piano Building Workshop - Architects
From the co-designer of the Pompidou Centre: tightly-detailed terracotta-tiled
housing. Other Renzo Piano Paris buildings include Schlumberger Facilities
in 1981, Bercy 2, Shopping Centre (Charenton Le Pont) in 1987, IRCAM
Extension and Thomson Optronics Factory (Saint Quentin-en-Yvelines)
both in 1988, Atelier Brancusi in 1992 and the renovation of the Pompidou
Centre in 1995.
Rue des Suisses - Maison / Suisses Street - Apartment Building
19 rue des Suisses, Paris XIV
2000
Herzog & De Meuron, Architects
Sacre Coeur / Sacred Heart Church
Montmartre, Paris
Sacre Coeur Building
Saint-Denis University - Educational Facility
2005
Du Besset-Lyon Architectes

picture from the architect
Saint-Denis University
Schlumberger Building Renovation, Paris
1981-84
Renzo Piano Architects
Seguin Island redevelopment, Renault site
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Roland Castro & Sophie Denissof
Simone de Beauvoir Bridge
2007
Feichtinger Architectes
Pedestrian Bridge over the River Seine, adj. Bibliothèque Nationale
Société Générale tower, La Défense
2008
Atelier Christian de Portzamparc

image from the architect
Paris skyscraper
Tour Carpe Diem
2008-
Robert A.M. Stern Architects

picture : studio amd for Robert A.M. Stern Architects
Tour Carpe Diem
Tour D2 - office block proposal, Avenue Gambetta
2008-
Anthony Béchu, Architecte DPLG with Tom Sheehan
Tour Eiffel / Eiffel Tower
Rue de Champ de Mars, Paris VIIe
1889
Gustave Eiffel

photo © isabelle lomholt
Eiffel Tower
Tour Montparnasse / Montparnasse Tower
Paris XVe
1973
Beaudoin, Cassan, De Marien, Saubot; A. Epstein & Sons International,
Inc., Architects
Paris skyscraper
Tour Signal - Architecture Competition
2008-
Jean Nouvel

image from the architect
New tower for Business District of La Défense: Tour
Signal
Tristan Tzara - Maison / Tristan Tzara House
Paris
1926-27
Adolf Loos, Architect
Adolf Loos lived in Paris from 1922-27
UNESCO Space for Contemplation
UNESCO Building
1996
Tadao Ando Architects
Rotunda building by one of the world's most famous architects in his
typical style of simple fare-faced concrete. Tadao Ando Architect
& Associates are based in Japan.
Villa Dall'Ava, Saint Cloud
1989-90
Rem Koolhaas Architects / OMA
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