Paris Mayor’s proposals for 11 Paris towers, Nov 2007

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Pajol; The Phare; Tour Carpe Diem; Renaissance Paris Wagram Hotel


Guide to Paris Buildings
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Paris Architecture (alphabetical order):

American Center, Bercy, east Paris
1994
Frank O. Gehry Associates

Apartment buildings, Rue des Suisses, Paris
1998-2000
Herzog de Meuron Architects

Arc de Triomphe / Triumphal Arch
Paris VIIIIe (Paris XVIe)
1836
Jean François Thérèse Chalgrin, Architect; Guillaume Abel Blouet, Architect
Completed by Blouet, following the death of Chalgrin in 1811, the Arc de Triomphe was commissioned by Napoleon to celebrate victory at Austerlitz. It is the world´s largest triumphal arch and influenced the later La Grande Arche further along this formal urban axis of the Étoile. More a national monument than significant piece of architecture.

Argenteuil Centre Régional de la Musique et la Voix, Paris
-
Keith Williams Architects

Berthold Lubetkin & Jean Ginsberg apartment, 25 Rue de Versailles
1928-32

Bibliotheque Nationale / French National Library
Quai François-Mauriac 75706, Paris XIIIe
1862-68
Henri Labrouste, Architect
A key Paris building that appears in most histories of world architecture.
The architect Labrouste was appointed in 1854.

Bibliothèque Nationale François Mitterand / New Bibliotheque Nationale
12 quai Panhard-Levassor, Paris XIIIe
1989-95
Dominique Perrault Architects

© Georges Fessy / DPA / ADAGP

C42, Citroën display building, Champs Elysées
2008
Manuelle Gautrand

Canal+ Headquarters
Paris
1992
Richard Meier Architects

Cathédral de la Résurrection
-
Mario Botta

Centre George Pompidou / Pompidou Centre
Rue Beaubourg, Paris IVe
1977
Richard Rogers / Renzo Piano Architects
Paris building
Renovation of Centre Georges Pompidou: 1995 - Renzo Piano Building Workshop

Cite de l’Architecture & du Patrimoine, nr Tour Eiffel
2007
-
New Architecture Centre

Cité de la Musique / Paris Concert Hall
City of Music, Avenue Jean-Jaurès, La Villette, Paris IXXe
1984-95
Christian de Portzamparc Architect
Located near Parc de Vilette. Other Portzamparc buildings in Paris include Cafe Beaubourg; Ungaro Boutiques; Hautes-Formes housing; National Conservatory of Music and Dance - also in La Villette, 1990. Portzamparc studied architecture in Paris; he received the Pritzker Prize for architecture in 1997. He designed the LVMH Building - see our New York architecture page.

Cite des Sciences
-
1986
Ian Ritchie Architects

Photo: Ian Ritchie Architects
Cite des Sciences

CNIT Building/Sofitel - CNIT
La Défense, Paris
1958
Robert Camelot & Bernard Zherfuss, Architects
Renovated by Andrault & Parat, Architects, in 1989

College Maximilien Perret / Maximilien Perret College
Alfortville, Paris, France
1995-97
Massimiliano Fuksas Architects

E6m bridge, Paris
-
Studio Bednarski Architects

Eiffel Tower platform design
2008-
Serero Architects

Eiffel Tower platform

ENERGY +, office building
2008-
SOM Architects

image: pmBdesign
Sustainable offices

Fondation Cartier pour l'Art Contemporain / Cartier Foundation Paris
261 boulevard Raspail, Paris
1995
Jean Nouvel, Architect with Emanuel Cattani et Associés
Cartier Foundation Paris

French Communist Party headquarters
-
Oscar Niemeyer

Garnier Opera House / Opéra Garnier, Paris IXe
1875
Garnier

HEC School of Management
2008-
David Chipperfield Architects

David Chipperfield Architects
MBA Building Paris : Design competition winner

Hotel Concorde Lafayette
Paris XVIIe
1974
Guillaume Gillet, Henri Guibout, Serge Maloletenkov, Architects
This Paris building is 137m high

Hotel Fouquet Extension, Paris
2007
Edouard François

Hôtel Industriel Jean-Baptiste Berlier
1986-90
Dominique Perrault Architects

© Georges Fessy / DPA / ADAGP

Hyatt Regency Roissy
Paris
1988-92
Murphy/Jahn Architects

Îlot Candie Saint-Bernard housing
-
Massimiliano Fuksas

Ilot Cantagrel Refurbishment
1999-2001
Massimiliano Fuksas

lnstitut du Monde Arabe / Arab du Monde lnstitute
1 Rue des Fossés, Saint-Bernard, Paris V
1988
Jean Nouvel, Architect

lnstitut du Monde Arabe

IRCAM Extension, Paris, France
1988-89
Renzo Piano Architects

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 L’Equipe 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

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

Urban competition

Metal 57, Renault site
-
Claude Vasconi

Metal 57 redevelopment, Renault site
-
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
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
Palais de Tokyo - Website: www.palaisdetokyo.com

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

Architecture Competition win
Paris sports building

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

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
-
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

Paris Hotel

148 rue de l’Université

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

Saint-Denis University

Schlumberger Renovation, Paris, France
1981-84
Renzo Piano Architects

Seguin Island redevelopment, Renault site
-
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

Paris skyscraper

Tour Carpe Diem
2008-
Robert A.M. Stern Architects

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

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-
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



Paris Architects

President Mitterrand´s “Les Grands Projects” in Paris:

lnstitut du Monde Arabe
Opéra de la Bastille
Cité de la Musique
Parc de la Villette
Bibliothèque Nationale François Mitterand
La Grande Arche de La Défense

Paris buildings by Massimiliano Fuksas Architects
College Maximilien Perret, Alfortville, Paris, France
1995-97
Ilot Cantagrel Refurbishment, Paris, France
1999-2001

Building near Paris by Le Corbusier:
Villa Savoie - Parisian house

Paris airport building

Paris Architect : Le Corbusier

Architecture Competition



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