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Paris Buildings – Architecture Design
Contemporary Architectural Developments in the French Capital. Modern Architecture in France.
post updated 26 January 2026
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We’ve selected what we feel are the key examples of Parisian Buildings. We cover completed Parisian buildings and new architectural designs.
We have 8 pages of Parisian Architecture selections with links to hundreds of individual project pages.
Buildings in Paris
Paris Architecture : news + key projects
Paris Buildings : A-B (this page)
Paris Architectural Designs : C-D
Paris Building Developments : E-F
Paris Architectural Developments : G-K
Paris Architecture Designs : L-O
Paris Architecture Developments : P-R
Paris Building Designs : S-Z
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Parisian Buildings
Parisian Architecture – latest additions to this page, arranged chronologically:
new photos added 5 Mar 2013
Ecole Bobigny
Design: Mikou Design Studio
image from architect
Ecole Bobigny
The city centre school in Bobigny is in a strategic urban location, bounded by three large streets and by a pedestrian space on the north. It is in the middle of an urban complex mainly composed of housing, near the city hall.
26 Feb 2013
Biscornet, Place de la Bastille
Design: [BP] Architectures
photograph : Sergio Grazia
Biscornet Paris
Is there an architect who has not dreamed of designing a building for the Biscornet site, which lay abandoned for so long? Its location is truly spectacular: slightly set back from the Place de la Bastille, it lies where the rue de Lyon and the road running along the canal basin meet.
19 Feb 2013
‘Basket Apartments’
Design: Ofis Arhitekti, Slovenia
photograph : Tomaz Gregoric
Student Apartments Paris
The project is located on a long and very narrow site, on the edge of Parc La Vilette in Paris’s 19th district, within an urban development done by Reichen & Robert architects. On the northeast, new Paris tram route is passing along the site.
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27 Mar 2012
70°SUD Boulogne-Billancourt, south west Paris
Design: LAN Architecture
image © Julien Lanoo
70°SUD Boulogne-Billancourt
This project, for which the competition occurred in 2008, is the result of a complex transformation process in the city along with a precise economic context. Located on the former site of the Renault factories in Boulogne-Billancourt, the concerned project is part of the Trapèze Ouest, one of the sector of the operation Ile Seguin-Rives de Seine, amongst the most important emerging centres in Ile-de-France.
10 Aug 2012
Alésia and Mistral Cinema Theaters
Architect: Manuelle Gautrand Architecture
image © Luxigon
Alésia and Mistral Cinema Theaters
Building reconstruction and refurbishment development in Paris 14th arrondissement
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Paris Buildings – Key Designs
Paris Buildings, alphabetical:
108 rue de Picpus – Social housing
Design: ecdm
photo : Benoit Fougeirol
Rue de Picpus Housing
18th arrondissement Housing, 21 rue Pajol and 65 rue Philippe de Girard, Paris 18
Design: LAN Architecture
photo : Julien Lanoo
18th arrondissement Housing
The driving idea guiding our project stems from the challenge of responding to the necessity for urban integration and creating optimum comfort for the residence’s occupants in a convivial and intimate environment.
Aeroville Roissy-Charles-de-Gaulle
PCA Philippe Chiambaretta Architecte
image © PCA Philippe Chiambaretta Architecte
Aeroville Roissy-Charles-de-Gaulle
Aeroville, shopping and entertainment center, inspired by the imagination of the voyage will be the “city center” of the previously untraceable, vast zone. With fragmented blocks, it is an open space in which the airport inoculated its cosmopolitan dimension of travel and the city, this of flux and plural activity.
American Center, Bercy, east Paris
1994
Design: Frank O. Gehry Associates
Apartment buildings, Rue des Suisses, Paris
1998-2000
Design: Herzog de Meuron Architects
Arc de Triomphe / Triumphal Arch, Paris VIIIIe (Paris XVIe)
1836
Jean François Thérèse Chalgrin, Architect; Guillaume Abel Blouet, Architect
Completed by Blouet, following the death of Chalgrin in 1811, the Arc de Triomphe was commissioned by Napoleon to celebrate victory at Austerlitz. It is the world´s largest triumphal arch and influenced the later La Grande Arche further along this formal urban axis of the Étoile.
Argenteuil Centre Régional de la Musique et la Voix, Paris
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Keith Williams Architects
Australian Embassy Building
Architects: Harry Seidler, with Marcel Breuer and Pier Luigi Nervi
picture © Rebecca Breun
Australian Embassy Building Paris
Autrement rue Rebière, Rue Pierre-Rebière, Paris 17
Christophe Rousselle Architecte & Nicolas Laisné Architecte
photo : Philippe Ruault
Autrement rue Rebière
Beaugrenelle Shopping Mall, 15th arrondissement
Agence Search
image from architects
Beaugrenelle Shopping Centre – 17 Feb 2012
In today’s increasingly competitive environment, the architecture of shopping malls has come to play a fundamental role in their commercial success. Architecture can distinguish the shopping environment to create a sense of specificity, of differentiation.
Berthold Lubetkin & Jean Ginsberg apartment, 25 Rue de Versailles
1928-32
Bibliotheque Nationale / French National Library, Quai François-Mauriac 75706, Paris XIIIe
1862-68
Henri Labrouste, Architect
A key Paris building that appears in most histories of world architecture.
The architect Labrouste was appointed in 1854.
Bibliothèque Nationale François Mitterand, 12 quai Panhard-Levassor, Paris XIIIe
Dominique Perrault Architects
picture © Georges Fessy / DPA / ADAGP
Bibliothèque Nationale
The largest of Former President of France François Mitterrand‘s Grand Projets for Paris: formed from four L-shaped corners of a square, 25 storeys tall on the banks of the Seine with a garden in the middle. Simple and powerful building, with a clear programme.
Bon Marché, Saint-Germain-des-Près, 7th arrondissement
Louis-Charles Boilleau and Gustave Eiffel
photograph © Adrian Welch
Bon Marché
Famous Parisian department store
Buc Eco Hotel
ECDM + KLNB
image from architects
Buc Eco Hotel
New French hotel building design with 82 guest rooms, set on the south west side of the capital city.
Bureaux Zac Seguin – building IGH
ecdm – emmanuel combarel dominique marrec architectes
image from architects
Bureaux Zac Seguin
The creation of an emergent element is an opportunity to rethink the relationship between the new neighborhood of Le Trapèze and the Grand Paris area.
More modern Paris Building Designs online soon
Location: Paris, France.
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French Capital Architectural Designs
President Mitterrand´s “Les Grands Projects” in Paris
– lnstitut du Monde Arabe
– Opéra de la Bastille
– Cité de la Musique
– Parc de la Villette
– Bibliothèque Nationale François Mitterand
– La Grande Arche de La Défense
Key Public Spaces in the city – Paris Squares & Parks
Le Corbusier : 20th Century Paris Architect
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Useful Links re Paris Buildings
The Arsenal Pavilion
Pavillon de l’Arsenal – Website: www.pavillon-arsenal.com
Architecture Gallery
Galerie d’Architecture – Website: www.galerie-architecture.fr
Paris Art Gallery : Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin
Buildings / photos for the Cntemporary Paris Architecture Designs page welcome.