Paris Architecture, France : Information + Images

Paris Architecture, alphabetical: 108 rue de Picpus - Social housing 2008 ecdm photo : Benoit Fougeirol Paris Social Housing 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 picture © Georges Fessy / DPA / ADAGP The largest of Mitterand´s Grand Projets for Paris: formed from four L-shaped corners of a square, 25 storeys tall on the banks of the Seine with a garden in the middle. Simple and powerful building, with a clear programme. Bibliotheque Nationale - Website: www.bnf.fr C42, Citroën display building, Champs Elysées 2008 Manuelle Gautrand C42 Citroen 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 Docks de Paris, Cité de la mode et du design 2008 Jakob+MacFarlane image © Jakob+MacFarlane Cité de la mode et du design E6m bridge, Paris - Studio Bednarski Architects Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture Paris Val de Seine 2007 Frédéric Borel Architecte Eiffel Tower platform design 2008- Serero Architects picture from the designer 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 image : David Chipperfield Architects MBA Building Paris : Design competition winner Herold Apartments 2009 Jakob+MacFarlane picture : Nicolla Borel Herold Apartments Paris 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 photo © 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 picture © Adrian Welch lnstitut du Monde Arabe IRCAM Building 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 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