(workflo– flickr/cc license André Bloc designed the sculpture-habitacle (cubicle) “La Tour” in Meudon France, completed in 1966. This piece of environmental art resembles the ruins of nineteenth century France in the countryside. The tumbled white brick becomes habitable with crevices …
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I.M. Pei’s Louvre pyramid connects the vast wings of the museum to one central location. Most of the space is buried underground, keeping the visual attention on the historic palace. Was Napoleon’s monument to freedom Elephant of the Bastille …
(Panoramas– flickr/creative commons license) Louis Arretche designed the Eglise Sainte Jeanne d’Arc Vieux Marche in Rouen, France, completed in 1979. The church replaces the Vieux-Marché market were executions and public humiliations took place. It retains the original stained …
(UggBoy ( have fun doing it )– flickr/creative commons license) Buffi Associés designed the Toulouse Regional Library in France, completed in 2004. The library arch structure is the main part of the overall Marengo renewal project, terminating the city layout’s …
(Kazuhisa Togo– flickr/creative commons license) Paul Andreu designed much of the Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport (CDG) redesign completed in 2003. Terminal 2E’s roof soon collapsed and kileld 5 people. Investigations found that structural design and procedural construction of the …
(ChristinaT– flickr/creative commons license) Jean-Marie Railway Duthilleul and RFR designed this glass dome that runs 120m above this historic railroad station. The Gare de Strasbourg was designed in 1883 by Berlin architect Johann Jacobsthal. The vital hub between Paris, Cologne, …
(tetue– flickr/creative commons license) Gerard Grandval designed these ten cauliflower-shaped residential towers, completed in 1974. Each rises 15 floors. Western nations were experimenting with new social solutions to mass housing needs during this time in history. The round shape of …
(j-daniel – flickr/creative commons license) The modern Arc de Triomphe in the La Défense district of Paris, La Grande Arche de la Fraternité, was realized by Danish architect Otto van Spreckelsen. Paul Andreu completed the project in 1990, after Spreckelsen’s …
Oscar Niemeyer designed Le Volcan at the Maison de la Culture du Havre, which opened in 1982. He collaborated with Jean-Maur Lyonnet, with whom he had just completed the French Communist Party Headquarters. The large volcano contains a 1200-seat theatre …
(Nelson Minar– wikipedia/creative commons license) Jean-Marie Duthilleul and Etienne Tricaut designed the Gare d’Aix-en-Provence TGV near Vitrolles and Aix-en-Provence in Southern France. It opened in 2001. The design included a deviation in the nearby highway to run along the railway …