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French Architectural Designs – Buildings
Architecture Developments across France, Europe
post updated 1 August 2024
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Buildings in France
We select key examples of French Buildings. The focus is on contemporary French buildings.
We have 7 pages of French Architecture selections.
French Architecture : news + key projects
French Buildings : A-C
French Architectural Designs : D-F (this page)
French Building Developments : G-J
French Architecture Designs : K-L
French Building Designs : M-R
French Architecture Developments : S-Z
Recent French Architectural Designs additions to this page:
1 May 2013
Drulingen Family Crèche, near Strasbourg, eastern France
Design: Fluor Architecture
image from architect
Drulingen Family Crèche
The family crèche is both a living space where the children thrive and a workplace for the staff. The building is the set for this environment in every aspects and needs but also in its poetical dimension.
21 Mar 2013
The Beam, Villeneuve d’Ascq, north east France
Design: MVRDV
picture © MVRDV
Villeneuve d’Ascq Masterplan
MVRDV win Competition with ‘The Beam’, Marking the Urban Renewal of Villeneuve d’Ascq, France. Development corporation ADIM Nord with MVRDV and de Alzua+ have been announced the winners of an urban renewal competition in the French town of Villeneuve d’Ascq, beating four other entries. An iconic building, The Beam, will hover over the motorway signalling urban renewal and acting as visual reference point for the town’s centre.
12 Jul 2012 – award 11 Dec 2012
Dijon Mustard Lab, eastern France
MVRDV Architects
photo : MVRDV
Dijon Building
MVRDV has completed transformation of a disused Dijon Mustard laboratory into an large call centre – 600 work spaces – with an education centre, incubator and social program. For these Dutch architects it represents an “exemplary project” : transformation through reuse is one of the contemporary issues in European architecture since the current crisis.
27 Nov 2012
European International Trade Centre, Lorraine, north east France
Design: McAdam Architects
image from architects
European International Trade Centre
The European International Trade Centre Terra Lorraine (ITEC) is a 6m sqm retail & logistics complex. The trading city will comprise up to 3 million sqm of flexible retail space including 4 expo halls of 250,000sqm, hotels and accommodation for 40,000 visitors and staff, 500,000sqm of logistic storage, and a new customs clearance terminal. A new passenger railway and goods rail connections are planned.
20 Sep 2012
Ecole Maternelle, Nimes, southern France
Design: Tectoniques
image © Jerome Ricolleau
Ecole Maternelle Nimes
A large part of the programme is placed on the first upper floor to comply with flood protection requirements for the area. As a result, the architecture is unique among the design schemes produced by the firm. The building seems to float a few metres above the ground, like a vessel hovering at the height of the roofs of the surrounding houses.
We have 7 pages of French Building selections.
French Architecture : news + key projects
French Buildings : A-C
French Architectural Designs : D-F (this page)
French Building Developments : G-J
French Architecture Designs : K-L
French Building Designs : M-R
French Architecture Developments : S-Z
French Buildings – Outwith Major Cities
Buildings in France, D-F, alphabetical:
Docks Quay Rambaud, Lyons
Design: Odile Decq Benoît Cornette
image © Odile Decq – Labtop
Lyons Docks building
EDF Campus Saclay, Paris
Design: ecdm
picture from architects
EDF Campus Saclay
EHPAD Grenoble + Mervans, southeast France
Design: Tectoniques Architectes
image from architects
EHPAD in Grenoble + Mervans
ENERGY + office building, Paris, northern France
Design: SOM Architects
image : pmBdesign
ENERGY + office building
Follies Poissy, northern France
Design: AWP + HHF
image © AWP – HHF, Sbda
Follies Poissy
Fondation Imagine, Paris
Design: Ateliers Jean Nouvel / Valero Gadan
image © Ateliers Jean Nouvel / Valero Gadan
Fondation Imagine Paris
Fonderie Center, Mulhouse, eastern France
Design: Atelier Zündel Cristea
ves et Romain MARCHAND et MEFFRE
Fonderie Center
FRAC Centre Garden, Orléans
Bassinet Turquin Paysage – design
image from landscape architects
FRAC Centre Garden
FRAC Centre Orléans, northern France
Jakob+MacFarlane Architectes
image from architect
FRAC Centre Orléans
More new French Architectural Designs online soon
French Buildings – No Images
French Buildings – D-F:
Dance Centre, Aix-en-Provence
Date built: 2007
Rudy Ricciotti
Primary School, Daours, nr Amiens, Somme, Picardie
Ian Ritchie Architects
Picardie school building
Delcourt House, Croix, Nord
Dates built: 1968-69
Richard Neutra Architects
E1027, Roquebrune-Cap Martin, south of France
Date built: 1929
Eileen Gray
Electricity Pylons for the EdF
Ian Ritchie Architects
French pylon designs
Espace Corbusier, Firminy
Date built: 1967
Design: Le Corbusier
Evry Cathedral, Essonne
Date built: 1994
Design: Mario Botta
Fluy House, nr Amiens, Somme, Picardie
Date built: 1977
Design: Ian Ritchie Architects
French house
More French Building Developments online soon
Location: France, western Europe
Buildings / photos for the new French Architectural Designs page welcome