Architecture Now
Fouquet Barrière Hotel
Fouquet’s Barrière Hotel opened to the public in October 2006. Found in the heart of Paris, on Champs-Elysées, this hotel links two existing buildings, offering an interesting example of urban insertion. Why Édouard François chose to recreate a haussmanienne facade when he could have created anything else?
The tallest building in Paris?
After 120 years, the Eiffel Tower is threatened to lose its title as the tallest structure in Paris. The Californian architect Thom Mayne (winner of the 2005 Pritzker prize) envisioned a new office block in La Defense district, that will be 300m high, only 20 cm smaller than the famous tower. This sky-scraper project, along […]
White Chapel
This is a wedding chapel, designed by the Japanese architect Aoki Jun for The Hyatt Regency Osaka. Besides the commercial purpose, this building reflects its own special architectural value. The 4 circles inscribed in regular octagonal planes create units of rings connected at points, thus forming part of the structural skeleton. This design creates the […]
New Angel of Islington
Art and commercial spaces can actually go along very well? Wolfgang and Heron designed in Islington, London a sculpture which guards the main entrance of the N1 retail plaza. Delicate steel wings spread above a flat cylinder which seems to close in its own shell, leaving only a faint crack for light to come in. […]
New photos of ROM
New photos of Libeskind’s Royal Ontario Museum. It looks as interesting as expected, or maybe even more. The building will be inaugurated in June 2007. The initial article here.
A new building from Zaha Hadid
Always a distinctive presence, Zaha Hadid created a new interesting building, this time in Montpellier, France. Herault Culture Sport is a multifunctional construction resembling with the trunk of a tree, laid horizontally. Unified within a single envelope, the three institutions are still clearly defined as distinct functions. The archive is located at the base of […]
