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Paris Architectural Developments
Current building designs in the French capital city, northern France.
post updated 26 January 2026
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We’ve selected what we feel are the key examples of Paris Architectural Developments. The focus is on major contemporary Parisian buildings and designs.
We have 8 pages of Parisian Architecture selections with links to hundreds of individual project pages.
Architectural Developments in Paris
Paris Architecture : news + key projects
Paris Buildings : A-B
Paris Architectural Designs : C-D
Paris Building Developments : E-F
Paris Architectural Developments : G-K (this page)
Paris Architecture Designs : L-O
Paris Architecture Developments : P-R
Paris Building Designs : S-Z
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Parisian Architectural Developments
New Paris Architectural Developments – latest additions to this page, arranged chronologically:
5 Mar 2013
Jean Lurçat College, Saint Denis, south east Paris
Design: Mikou Design Studio
photograph from architects
Jean Lurçat College – new photos added
This french school building is located in the “articulation of two landscape types: a space of shattered non-structured housing blocks which give the district its identity and give a convivial scale on the rues Diderot and d’Alembert; the sports park which opens itself towards the landscape of Courneuve and enables the college to have an open view and a strong liaison with the green areas of the city”.
22 Feb 2013
Hypernuit Offices
Design: h2o architectes
photo : Julien Attard
Hypernuit Offices
This French capital property takes place on the ground floor of a building of flats, behind a large window looking out onto the street. The office space to create has a single orientation; it is a well-lit, plainly treated volume with a simple geometry.
14 Jan 2013
Giraffe Childcare Center
Design: Hondelatte Laporte Architectes
photo : Philippe Ruault
Giraffe Childcare Center
The Giraffe childcare center 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 center and 20 bed day nursery. The building has been awarded the green “zéro Energie Effinergie” label.
23 Jul 2012
Gare Saint-Lazare Train Station Building
Design: AREP Architects
photo : SNCF – AREP / M. Vigneau
Gare de Paris Saint-Lazare
Saint-Lazare is the oldest railway station in France. It opened in 1837, two years after the first railway line came into service – the Paris Saint-Germain line carrying travellers west as far as Le Pecq.
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Paris Architectural Developments, alphabetical:
Garnier Opera House / Opéra Garnier, Paris IXe
Date built: 1875
Design: Garnier
Galeo Bouygues, ZAC Forum Seine, Issy les Moulineaux
Design: Atelier Christian de Portzamparc
image © Éric Sempé _SPIKSTUDIO
Galeo Bouygues
The project is composed of three buildings, it’s an ensemble which while being urban is formed of two contrasting architectural expressions.
Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin – Art Gallery in Paris, 10 impasse Saint-Claude, Paris 75003
Design: Du Besset-Lyon Architectes
picture from architects
Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin
Gare Versailles Chantier
Design: André Ventre
photograph © Rebecca Breun
Gare Versailles Chantier
Although the curved, central, stone-clad façade draws it inspiration from classical architecture with pillars and cornices, the tall openings with the entrance doors which continues as window makes the interior feel light and spacious. The overall form is inspired by and literally looks like a locomotive from the 1930s.
Gentilly Building, south Paris
Design: ecdm
picture from architects office
Gentilly Building
The project is above all a proposal to articulate 2 territories, 2 urban landscapes separated by the influence of the ring road. This urban fringe context frees up a vast expanse where emptiness is preponderant, where the gaze goes far.
Grand Paris Metropole Doucet
Design: LIN
image © Fabio Casiroli, Systematica + LIN
Greater Paris Vision : Architecture proposal by LIN
Groupe scolaire Lucie Aubrac, Nanterre, north west Paris
Design: Dietmar Feichtinger Architectes
photograph from architects studio
Groupe scolaire Lucie Aubrac
The school is distinguished by its spatial organization and design of the facades of their surroundings. The free form differentiates the building from its environnement of rigid social housing characterizing the area ‘Province de France’ in Nanterre.
HEC School of Management Building
Design: David Chipperfield Architects
image : David Chipperfield Architects
MBA Building Paris : Design competition winner
Hermès Rive Gauche
Denis Montel / RDAI
picture : Michel Denance
Hermès Rive Gauche
Herold Apartments
Jakob+MacFarlane
picture : Nicolla Borel
Herold Apartments Paris
Hotel Concorde Lafayette, Paris XVIIe
1974
Guillaume Gillet, Henri Guibout, Serge Maloletenkov, Architects
This Paris building is 137m high
Hotel Fouquet Extension, Paris
2007
Edouard François
Hôtel Industriel Jean-Baptiste Berlier
1986-90
Dominique Perrault Architects
photo © Georges Fessy / DPA / ADAGP
House of Roof, Maintenon, near Paris
kotaro horiuchi architecture
picture from architects
House of Roof Maintenon
Hyatt Regency Roissy
1988-92
Murphy/Jahn Architects
Îlot Candie Saint-Bernard housing
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Massimiliano Fuksas
Ilot Cantagrel Refurbishment
1999-2001
Massimiliano Fuksas
Institute Cultures Islam
Mikou Design Studio
picture from architects
Institute Cultures Islam
lnstitut du Monde Arabe / Arab du Monde lnstitute, 1 Rue des Fossés, Saint-Bernard, Paris V
Jean Nouvel Architect
picture © Adrian Welch
lnstitut du Monde Arabe
IRCAM Building Extension, Paris, France
1988-89
Renzo Piano Architects
Jardins de l’Arche, La Défense
Design: AWP
image from AWP
Jardins de l’Arche Paris
Jean Lurçat College, Saint Denis
Mikou Design Studio
picture from architects
Jean Lurcat College
Jean Lurcat College, La Courneuve
D. Coulon et Associes
photograph : Eugeni Pons Photographe
Josephine Baker schools La Courneuve
The ‘Josephine Baker’ group of schools recently completed by Dominique Coulon manages to fit into the difficult context of the ‘Cité des 4000’ neighbourhood, on a site marked by the painful memory of the demolition of the ‘Ravel’ and ‘Presov’ longitudinal blocks of flats.
More modern Paris Architectural Developments online soon.
Location: Paris, France, Western Europe.
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Architecture in the French Capital
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