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French Architecture Design – chronological list

Paris Architecture Design – chronological list

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French Architecture News in 2026

5 February 2026
Rue Bouret Housing, Paris
Architecture: Pietri Architectes

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20 January 2026
Leisure Centre with Dormitory, Limoges
Design: Atelier Quatre and r2k architectes

photo : TREMEGE Frederic

6 January 2026
Brise-Vent Havre Harbor Museum, Le Havre, Seine-Maritime department, Normandy region, northern France
Design: LYT-X Studio

render © LYT-X Studio

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French Architecture News 2025

French Architecture News in 2025

19 December 2025
Chateau La Banquiere Hotel, Montpellier, Languedoc-Roussillon
Design: Marianne Tiegen Interiors

11 December 2025
Plum Village Buddhist Monastery, southern Dordogne
Design: MVRDV

image © MVRDV

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27 November 2025
Parc des Loges Childhood and Sports Center, Évry-Courcouronnes
Architects: HEMAA

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15 June 2025
Changing Room and Restroom Pavilion, Brétignolles-sur-Mer, Southern France
Design: Magnum architectes & urbanistes

photo : Juan Cardona

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18 April 2025
Wood-concrete house in Aubervilliers
Design: MANO

photo : Antoine Duhamel

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9 February 2025
Aurore Pavilion, La Défense, Paris
Architects: Nicolas Sisto

9 February 2025
M45 Office Building, Villeurbanne, Lyon
Architecture: Triptyque

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13 January 2025
Astrolabe Office Building, Rennes, Brittany, northwest France
Design: ALTA

Images © Charly Broyez

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French Architecture News 2024

Contemporary buildings in France. Modern built environment design updates and images in 2024:

5 November 2024
Coeur Atlantis Residences, Massy, Vilgénis, Paris
Architects: KCAP

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19 September 2024
Place de la Madeleine, Paris renovation
Architects: Baumschlager Eberle Architekten GmbH

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5 July 2024
Robert Poujade Pedestrian Bridge, Toulouse
Architecture: Grimshaw and ppa architectures

photo : Marc Mondange
The Robert Poujade pedestrian bridge, part of the Grand Parc Garonne urban development project led by the Toulouse Metropole, opens. The bridge is one of four that will eventually connect the Île du Ramier and the city, offering accessible routes through the city’s new ‘green lung’ on the Garonne.

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15 May 2024
Les Jardins de Verchant: Apartments, Montpellier
Architecture: NBJ Architectes

photo : Paul Kozlowski

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27 March 2024
Bibliothèque nationale de France Amiens
Design: TVK and Carmody Groarke

photo © Jeudi Wang
The Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF) and OPPIC (Ministry of Culture for France) have announced a team comprising TVK and Carmody Groarke as the winner of an international competition for the BnF’s new conservation centre and national press conservatory on the former Amiens hospital north site.

7 March 2024
Alta Tower, Le Havre, France twisting building
Design: Hamonic+Masson & Associés

photo © Hamonic+Masson & Associés
A 55-metre-tall residential tower, designed by architects Hamonic+Masson & Associés for client SOGEPROM, has completed in Le Havre, France. Named Alta Tower, its twisting geometry and concrete frame make a bold and expressive statement at the heart of French architect Auguste Perret’s celebrated post World War II redevelopment of the city, close to Oscar Niemeyer’s curvaceous Le Volcan leisure centre.

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French Building News 2023

French Architectural News in 2023

28 September 2023
The Planétarium, Université de Strasbourg
Architecture: frenak+jullien, Cardin Julien, and m+mathieu

Laherrère centre Pau

L House in Dinard, Brittany property

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23 August 2023
Rammed Earth Winery – Châteauneuf-du-Pape building, Southeast France
Architects: JSPA Design

image : JSPA Design
JSPA Design presents Rammed Earth Winery in Châteauneuf-du-Pape, a multi-faceted project in a predominantly rural and agricultural area of Châteauneuf-du-Pape, southeast France. The goal of the project was to create a wine cellar, extend an existing winery to increase its production capacity, create a shop, and develop new public event spaces.

3 August 2023
Project Europa Levallois-Perret, Paris
Design: Baumschlager Eberle Architekten

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26 July 2023
Relic Architectural Installation Metz
Design: Karolina Halatek

photo : Karolina Halatek
RELIC is a monumental and pyramidal light installation, an immersion in light and fog. The artwork consists of circular metal steps traversed by a vertical beam of white light, from which artificial fog emanates.

5 July 2023
Altiplano Development Toulouse – ZAC Aerospace, southern France
Design: KCAP and V2S

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29 June 2023
Wine Press in Crouttes-sur-Marne, commune in the Aisne department, Hauts-de-France, northern France
Architects: Thierry Bonne Architecte

photo : Philippe Dureuil
The project, managed by Champagne Bourgeois Diaz, involved building a wine press and a wine-tourism room on top of an existing vinification cellar.

2 June 2023
AGUR Headquarters Building Bayonne, ZAC Melville Lynch, Anglet, southwest France
Design: IDOM

photograph : F Pardos

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25 January 2023
Q-Park Ravet, Chambéry, Savoie department, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region, southeastern France
Design: Hérault Arnod

photo : Cyrille Weiner
Designed for QPark by Hérault Arnod architectes, in collaboration with artist Krijn de Koning, Ravet is a new 499-space car park with a curved and translucent volume. The structure is located on the edge of the historic district and provides users with a panoramic view of the city of Chambéry and the mountains beyond.

11 January 2023
Arena Du CO’Met, Orléans, north-central France
Architecture: Populous

photo © Didier Depoorter

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French Architecture News 2022

9 Dec 2022
Michelin HQ Canopy, Clermont-Ferrand, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region, southeast France
Design: Encore Heureux Architectes, Construire and Base

photo : Nicolas Trouillard
Implanted on the Carmes site of Clermont-Ferrand since the company’s inception in the late 19th century, Michelin’s Canopy acquired its status as the company’s headquarters in the 2000s. The headquarters’ innovative new reception area symbolizes Michelin’s reinvention, conceived to face 21st century challenges head-on; a design and operation that were conceptualized from a circular economy perspective, mindful of environmental impacts.

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6 Nov 2022
Mountain House II Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, lower Alps, southeast France
Design: studio razavi architecture

photo © Simone Bossi Photographer
This rural French property was commissioned as a primary residence by a family of four moving to France from the UK.

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17 Oct 2022
Espace Mayenne, Laval, Mayenne, western France
Design: Hérault Arnod Architectures

photo : Cyrille Weiner
Espace Mayenne is a multifunctional facility including a large sports and entertainment venue with a capacity of 4,500, a gymnasium with a climbing wall for international competitions, and a conference hall. In addition to these three main venues can be found other spaces, such as partner lounges, offices and cloakrooms for artists and sportsmen.

14 Oct 2022
Ascension Paysagère, Rennes, Brittany
Design: MVRDV

photo © Ossip van Duivenbodee

2 Oct 2022
Pont Anne-de-Bretagne Nantes
Architects: Dietmar Feichtinger Architectes

rendering : Dietmar Feichtinger Architectes
The bridge, which will be extensively planted with vegetation and will be based on the existing bridge to provide a space up to three times wider. It will accommodate a square, promenade areas, a garden, soft traffic lanes and the tramway that will serve the future university hospital.

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14 Sep 2022
Sports Centre, Tarbes, Hautes-Pyrénées department, Occitanie region, southwestern France
Architectes: IDOM

photo : Pedro Pegenaute
This French architecture project results from an ideas competition for the transformation of an old military industry building from the early 20th century.

11 Sep 2022
An Extension on a Aix-en-Provence Vineyard
Design: Mahos architectes

photographs : Studio Module & David Maurel

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6 July 2022
A House with a View, Sainte-Marie-de-Ré, Poitou-Charentes, west of France
Architecture: Martins | Afonso atelier de design

photograph : Mickaël Martins Afonso

4 July 2022
Heudebouville School, Normandy, northwestern France
Design: Hemaa Architectes

photograph : Sergio Grazia

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29 June 2022
Tiffany Temporary Store, Avenue Montaigne, Paris
Design: OMA

photo : Benoit Florençon, Courtesy OMA

28 June 2022
Crous University Refectory Cergy-Pontoise, Paris
Architecture: Graal architecture

photo © Clément Guillaume

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French Architecture News Winter – Spring 2022

17 May 2022
Syctom Sorting Center Nanterre Building, south west of Paris
Design: Le Dévéhat Vuarnesson Architectes

photo : Guillaume Guerin

5 May 2022
Émergence Lafayette Lyon Buildings, southern France
Design: SUD Architectes, ITAR Architectures and Wilmotte & Associés

photograph © Gaela Blandy

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21 April 2022
Empalot District Housing Toulouse, southern France
Design: CoBe Architecture et Paysage

photo : Cédric Colin

14 April 2022
Project Berkeley-Oxford, Cesson Sévigné, ZAC Via Silva, Ille-et-Vilaine department, Rennes, Brittany, northwest France
Design: ALTA Architectes – Urbanistes

photo © Stephane Chalmeau

11 April 2022
Ilot Queyries, Bordeaux Housing, southeast France
Architects: MVRDV

photography : agrob-buchtal.de/ OssipArchitectuurfotogr, Rotterdam
The Dutch architecture firm MVRDV has completed a residential complex in Bordeaux: Ilot Queyries is unusual in many respects, but its striking ceramic outer skin is the most special. The building sculpture is located to the east of the River Garonne, opposite the architectural highlight of France’s largest cathedral.

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17 March 2022
Aperture Chalet, Chamonix-Mont-Blanc
Design: Chevallier Architectes

photo : Solène Renault pour Chevallier Architectes

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24 February 2022
SAFRAN Housing Units in Séné, Brittany, ZAC Coeur de Poulfanc, Morbihan department, Brittany, north-western France
Design: ALTA Le Trionnaire – Le Chapelain

photo © G. Chevrier

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27 January 2022
Tours Val de Loire Airport Area Masterplan, Tours, Indre-et-Loire, Loire Valley, northwest France
Design: Lafayette, in collaboration with KCAP, Etablissement, Elioth, Suez, Ville en Œuvre, Mint and E.Co

image © Filippo Bolognese Images – Lafayette
After a year of competitive dialogue, the team led by Lafayette, in collaboration with KCAP, Etablissement, Elioth, Suez, Ville en Œuvre, Mint and E.Co, has won the 700-hectare masterplan for the area around Tours Val de Loire Airport in France, competing against two other international teams.

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