Écomusée du Pays de Rennes in Rennes, France, by Guinée*Potin, 2010. One of the projects included in the book reviewed this week, Architecture: From Commission to Construction, is the Écomusée du Pays de Rennes, designed by Nantes-based architects Guinée*Potin from ...Read More
"Le Grand Stade" in Fontainebleau, France by Joly&Loiret, 2012. In less than a week the starting ceremonies of the 2012 Summer Olympics will be underway in London. For two weeks the world's attention will be focused on events taking place in ...Read More
Family Crèche in Drulingen, France by Fluor Architects, 2010. Drulingen is a small town in the Alsace region of northeastern France. One of the main routes into town from the nearby motorway is Rue de Phalsbourg, on which this "Family Crèche" ...Read More
Alésia Museum Interpretive Center in Alise-Sainte-Reine, France by Bernard Tschumi Architects, 2012. Located about 90 minutes southeast of Paris by train is the site of a 53-BC battle between Julius Caesar and the Gauls, the Battle of Alésia. Although it was ...Read More
M3A2 - Cultural and Community Tower in Paris, France by Antonini + Darmon Architectes, 2011. Paris Diderot Unversity, which bills itself as "the multidisplinary university in the heart of Paris," is located on the Left Bank of the Seine, just south ...Read More
50 Avenue Montaigne in Paris, France by Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates, 1993. Although the idea of a rooftop garden is not new, it is becoming a solution for both ...Read More
Exhibition Hall in Paris, France by Architecture Studio, 1998. Often with an exhibition hall commission the architect's job is limited to creating simple, column-free ...Read More
Ilôt de Candie in Paris, France by Massimiliano Fuksas, 1995. Director of this year's architecture section of the Venice Biennale, Massimiliano Fuksas posed ...Read More
How Buildings Learn by Stewart Brand, 1994. The following is an excerpt from Stewart Brand's How Buildings Learn, which looks at the evolution of buildings by their users; from storefront renovations by retailers ...Read More
Musée D'Ethnographie in Paris, France by Peter Eisenman, 1999. By showing the different ways in which people represented their faces and their bodies, and the ways they used nature and negotiated with the supernatural, the museum of humankind served to cultivate ...Read More
