Amid the vast array of design to behold at this year’s Maison et Objet—we were interested in lighting, seating and innovation, in particular—were smaller accessories that give the very show its name. Here, a trio of designers presenting objects from sleek scissor necklaces and nylon diamonds to Indian scarves featuring…
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Le duo d’illustrateurs Nichole et Evan Robertson ont réalisé ces superbes posters à la suite de leur voyage à Paris. Avec une approche graphique très réussie, ces derniers nous plongent dans les rues de la capitale française avec des visuels originaux à découvrir dans la suite de l’article.
Afin d’illustrer et d’introduire ses différentes séries de photographies prises durant ses voyages, le designer Gokhun Guneyhan compose des typographies de toute beauté qu’il appose sur chacun de ses clichés. Retrouvez une sélection de ces montages dans plusieurs villes en Europe dans la suite de l’article.
Here are the first photographs of Jean Nouvel’s Tour Horizons, an office block in Paris that looks like a pile of three separate buildings (+ slideshow).
The eighteen-storey building is located in the Ile Seguin-Rives de Seine district on the site of the old Renault factories, which closed in the early 1990s for relocation.
Ateliers Jean Nouvel designed the building in three tiers, with a bulky base of textured concrete, a middle section clad with enamelled ceramic and a glass upper shaped like a giant greenhouse.
Clay-coloured ceramic panels create bands of colour around the centre of the building and were intended to evoke the industrial heritage of the site. These stripes are interspersed with white and black rectangles.
Construction completed in June 2011, but the studio are yet to release images of the building’s interior.
French architect Nouvel launched his studio in the 1980s and has since worked on a host of projects including the Philharmonie de Paris, set to become one of the world’s most expensive concert halls, and Les Bains des Docks aquatic centre in Le Havre.
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Photography is by Julien Lanoo. See more photographs by Lanoo on Dezeen.
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Pools of water separate offices from archives at a new building for the National Archives of France by Italian architects Massimiliano and Doriana Fuksas (+ slideshow).
The new national archive building is located in Pierrefitte-sur-Seine, in the northern suburbs of Paris, and will take over from the existing centre in Le Marais as the main archive of documents charting the history of France.
Studio Fuksas designed the building as two separate wings, with the offices and conference room contained inside a stack of glazed volumes at the front of the structure and the archives housed within a 10-storey aluminium-clad block at the back.
Pools of water fill the open spaces between the two wings, while angular sculptures by artist Anthony Gormley appear to hover just above the surface of the water.
Above: photograph is by Studio Fuksas
Enclosed bridges span the pools as connecting corridors, leading visitors across to the archives.
Above: photograph is by Studio Fuksas
A diamond-shaped motif decorates the facades, creating a lattice across the glazing of the entrance wing and a pattern of panels across the aluminium cladding of the archive. Some of the aluminium panels are replaced with windows to let a little natural light into a 160-seat reading room.
Above: photograph is by Studio Fuksas
Massimiliano and Doriana Fuksas have offices in Rome, Paris and Shenzhen. Past projects from the architects include the Zenith music hall in France and and a church in Foligno, Italy, and they also recently completed a public services hall in Georgia. See more architecture by Studio Fuksas.
Above: photograph is by Poltrona Frau
Other archive buildings of interest include a Corten steel-clad building in Germany and a film archive in the UK. See more archive buildings on Dezeen.
Above: photograph is by Poltrona Frau
Photography is by Yves Bellier, apart from where otherwise stated.
Here’s some more information from Studio Fuksas:
New National Archives of France, Pierrefitte-sur-Seine, Saint-Denis, Paris
Massimiliano and Doriana Fuksas architects have completed the New National Archives à Pierrefitte-sur-Seine, Saint-Denis, Paris.
The National Archives, created during the French Revolution, hold documents of political regimes from the seventh century until today. The National Archives preserves some milestones in the history of France: the papyri Merovingian, the processes of the Templars, the diary of Louis XVI, the Will of Napoleon, the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, the oath of the Jeu de Paume , …
The new building of the Archives of France (108,136 sq.m.), à Pierrefitte-sur-Seine, is signed by the Italian architects Massimiliano and Doriana Fuksas and after three years of construction works it opens to the public.
Above: site plan – click above for larger image
The project is composed of two main “bodies”: one that extends horizontally the other with a tension in height.
The first, stretching out towards the city, consists of six cantilevered volumes called “satellites” that accommodate the offices, the conference room (300 seats) and the exhibition room. The facades, mostly glazed, give lightness and transparency to the volumes of different proportions, that follow each other and overlap in “suspension” on the surfaces of the water.
The building that accommodates the Archives (220 stock rooms on 10 levels) is an imposing monolith thought as a place dedicated to memory and research. It houses the archival documents and the reading room (160 seats). The facades of the monolith are coated with aluminium “skin” that runs throughout the volume, except for some glazed insertions that allow the amount of natural light in the reading room and the entry route. The basins insert themselves between the building of the Archives the “satellite” volumes and at the foot of the satellite volumes. Walkways above them create a connection between the volumes.
Above: ground floor plan – click above for larger image and key
The facades of both “bodies” follow a lozenge geometry that is repeated both in the aluminium cladding of the building of the Archives and in the glass facades of the “satellite” volumes.
The sculptor Antony Gormley has signed one of the three artistic interventions. Gormley’s work stands out among the monolith and volumes “satellites.”
A precious sculptural object that rises from the veil of the water below, like to draw strength from it. This redesigns the spaces in a contemporary way, winding along the facades of the architectural complex. The geometric faces articulate the artwork along its passage and give life to the structure of a chain of dodecahedra, which reflects and projects itself between the basin of water and the mirror surfaces of the volumes.
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Après son projet Liu Bolin : Lost in Art, voici la nouvelle série de réalisation de l’artiste chinois Liu Bolin « Hiding in the City ». Toujours aussi talentueux pour se mêler à un décor grâce à un travail de peinture remarquable, ces œuvres sont à découvrir à la galerie Paris – Beijing, à Paris jusqu’au 9 mars 2013.
L’agence de communication Havas Paris vient de lancer sa vidéo afin de présenter ses meilleurs vœux et une bonne année 2013. Une superbe animation en noir et blanc autour des différents quartiers de la ville de Paris, grâce à une direction artistique de Julien Saurin et une réalisation de Flying V (Quad Prod).
A gigantic yellow giraffe pokes its heads out from the roof of this nursery and childcare centre in Paris by French studio Hondelatte Laporte Architectes (+ slideshow).
The larger-than-life statue appears to act as a supporting column, as its body pushes up through a cantilevered upper storey so that only legs, a long neck and a head can be spotted by passers-by.
“The idea is to animate the urban landscape by using a child’s imagination,” explains Hondelatte Laporte Architectes.
The aptly named Giraffe Childcare Centre accommodates a 60-bed childcare facility and a nursery for up to 20 children, in addition to playgrounds on each of its three levels.
As well as the giraffe, the playgrounds feature a white bear and a parade of huge ladybirds, all constructed from concrete. “Through their affable form, the lively animal sculptures invite us to live our dreams,” say the architects.
The centre is located beside Jean Nouvel’s Horizons offices, in the riverside Boulogne-Billancourt district in the south-west of the city.
The entrance is positioned at the end of the building so that visitors have to walk through the giraffe’s legs on their way inside.
The architects used corrugated metal cladding for the whole exterior, creating a series of bright white elevations.
Animal sculptures are a recurring feature in designs for children and we’ve previously featured a restaurant with a model elephant inside.
Giraffe fans may also enjoy a house with a front door tall enough to let one of the animals, or the giraffe enclosure at Rotterdam Zoo.
Photography is by Philippe Ruault.
Here’s some project details from the architects:
The Giraffe childcare centre is located in the C1 block of the Seguin Rives de Seine district in Boulogne-Billancourt, a suburban area of Paris. The program houses a 60 bed childcare centre and 20 bed day nursery. The building has been awarded the green “zéro Energie Effinergie” label. This public building is located next to Jean Nouvel’s “Horizons” tower, at the junction between the “Vieux pont de Sèvres” neighbourhood, built in the 70s, and the new area called “le Trapèze”. The high density of this area gives it a rugged skyline. To be integrated into this particular urban landscape, the building is composed of three tiers. Each of the south-facing playgrounds is in continuity with the interior spaces and is identified by a unique concrete animal sculpture. Viewed from the surrounding towers, the regular sequence of terraces offers a real “fifth facade” to the neighbourhood.
The facades of the building are made out of white corrugated iron that provides a minimal background to the wild animal sculptures. The idea is to animate the urban landscape by using a child’s imagination. The wild animals appropriate the space; a giraffe appears to be peacefully eating the leaves of the trees from the neighbouring park, a polar bear tries to clamber up the steps, while a family of ladybirds climbs the façade in an attempt to reach the interior patio.
Architecture turns into storytelling. The building changes its identity and becomes a landscape in its own right, a metaphor for the urban jungle. The animals and the trees link the building to nature and motion. The giraffe has become a banner for the nursery since it is visible in the surrounding area from all angles. We walk through its legs to enter the building. Through their affable form, the lively animal sculptures invite us to live our dreams. These playful and dreamlike sculptures introduce a little bit of fantasy into the routine life of the town in order to inspire our lives with a bit of poetry.
Project name: Giraffe childcare centre
Architect(s): Hondelatte Laporte Architectes
Project manager: Virginie Davo
Project team: Charlotte Fagart (architect)
Engineering: Studetech
HEQ Engineering: GCB Gestion Conseil Bâtiment
Client: SAEM Val de Seine Aménagement
Program: 60 bed childcare centre and 20 bed day nursery.
Lieu/Location: Boulogne-Billancourt (92) – France
Competition: January 2009
Delivery: 2012
Area: 1450 sq m
Cost: 3 744 000€ HT
Construction companies): SPIE SCGPM (general contractor), AAB (animals sculpture)
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Here are the latest images of architect Jean Nouvel’s Philharmonie de Paris, set to become the world’s most expensive concert hall after surviving the French government’s recent cull of major cultural projects (+ slideshow).
Setting out its spending for 2013, the French culture ministry recently announced it was shelving several arts projects – including a controversial proposal for a museum of national history – as well as axing state funding for a Snøhetta-designed replica of the famous Lascaux cave paintings.
But despite running two years late and €187 million over budget, it was decided that building work on the Philharmonie de Paris was too far advanced to be halted.
The 2400-seat venue, located in the Parc de la Villette on the north-east edge of Paris, is now set to become the world’s most expensive concert hall after spiralling costs required the city and the state to sink an extra €51 million into architect Jean Nouvel’s project.
Construction costs are now expected to come in at €387 million, nearly double the original estimate of €200 million, with the opening date pushed back to 2015.
A French senate report recently criticised the “worrying drift” in the budget, suggesting the project is a “risky bet” against a gloomy economic backdrop, while state auditors also warned of the “exorbitant inflation in costs” of the publicly funded building.
When completed, visitors to the Philharmonie de Paris will be able to climb up its sloping metal-clad roof, while concert listings will be projected onto a 52-metre-high aluminium slab visible from the nearby ring road.
We first brought you images of the project back in 2007, after Nouvel’s studio won the competition to design the venue – see more of the first images here and here.
Other projects by Nouvel’s studio we’ve featured on Dezeen include a design showroom where furniture is caged behind chain link fencing and a renovated nineteenth century brewery in Barcelona – see all our stories about Jean Nouvel.
Images are by Jean Nouvel and Arte Factory or Jean Nouvel and Didier Ghislain.
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On a recent trip to Paris we had the chance to see a first-time visitor fall in love with the City of Lights. Crashing with locals, our group took the obligatory (but no less bewitching) trips to bistros, cafes, cathedrals and grand museums—but also managed to squeeze in a few…
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