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Kengo Kuma to renew Michelin museum on industrial site in France

January 14, 2026 Starr Charles 0

Architecture studio Kengo Kuma and Associates has unveiled plans to renovate and expand French manufacturer Michelin’s interactive museum in Clermont-Ferrand, France. Held within an industrial hangar on a former Michelin manufacturing site, the Michelin Adventure museum opened in 2009 and is being updated in line with a wider renewal of the company’s manufacturing district, the

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Kengo Kuma to renew Michelin museum on industrial site in France

January 14, 2026 Starr Charles 0

Architecture studio Kengo Kuma and Associates has unveiled plans to renovate and expand French manufacturer Michelin’s interactive museum in Clermont-Ferrand, France. Held within an industrial hangar on a former Michelin manufacturing site, the Michelin Adventure museum opened in 2009 and is being updated in line with a wider renewal of the company’s manufacturing district, the

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Musée du Louvre strikers call for €700 million renovation plans to be abandoned

January 9, 2026 Amy Peacock 0

Staff members of the Musée du Louvre in Paris went on strike this week, demanding that plans to renovate and add a new entrance to the museum be scrapped in favor of building maintenance. The staff members staged a walkout on Monday, causing the world’s most visited museum to be closed in the morning before

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A.TM creates two minimal homes in “architectural dialogue” with French manor

December 16, 2025 Jon Astbury 0

Architecture studio Atelier Tropisme Mécanique has completed two homes on the grounds of a 17th-century manor house in France with walls clad in local Armorican granite. Named Houses on Rue de Clermont, the pair of dwellings sits close to a historic manor house within a 4,600-square-metre walled park in Laval. The park’s gardens and paths

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Coldefy completes timber-framed school in northern France

December 13, 2025 Rheanna Hopkins 0

A cantilevered first floor marks the entrance to the timber-framed Robert Badinter Secondary School in Cambrai, France, completed by architecture studio Coldefy with Relief Architects. Located on the site of a former railyard opposite the city’s 19th-century train station, the school accommodates 650 students and forms part of a wider urban renewal in the city.

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MVRDV unveils plans to revamp Buddhist monastery in France

December 12, 2025 Amy Peacock 0

Dutch studio MVRDV has revealed plans to transform the Plum Village Buddhist Monastery in France’s Dordogne region by reconfiguring its layout and introducing timber guesthouses and a nunnery. MVRDV will reorganise the layout of the monastery’s upper and lower hamlets by altering the vehicle routes to create a welcoming arrival and car-free village centres. The studio will

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Bétyle Studio transforms historic French farm building with wood and glass partitions

December 11, 2025 Alyn Griffiths 0

Local practice Bétyle Studio has transformed a former agricultural building in Marseille, France, into a compact home featuring rooms separated by glass blocks that allow light to filter through. The client asked designers Carla Romano and Nicolas Cazenave de la Roche to create an interior that could function both as her daily workspace and a

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New South unveils muqarna-informed ceramic pavilion

November 27, 2025 Tom Ravenscroft 0

Architecture studio New South has created the Muqarnas Pavilion in Saint-Étienne, France, which is informed by sacred Islamic architecture. Built within the grounds of the Explora Park on the outskirts of Saint-Étienne, the semi-dome structure was created from interlocking ceramic and concrete pieces. “We wanted the pavilion to feel like a precious stone revealed from

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Demountable timber structure reinvigorates Palais Rameau in Lille

November 10, 2025 Jon Astbury 0

French architecture studios Atelier 9.81 and Perrot & Richard have renovated the Palais Rameau exhibition hall in Lille, inserting a modular and demountable timber frame into its heritage-protected steel shell. Originally designed in 1878 by Auguste Mourcou and Henri Contamine as a space for horticultural exhibitions, the Palais Rameau is distinctive for its blending of

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Studio Asaï blends “French classicism with British eccentricity” in Parisian apartment

November 10, 2025 Rachael Gilby 0

French design firm Studio Asaï has revamped a residence in Paris informed by the vibrant nightlife of London’s “swinging sixties”. Overlooking the Bois de Boulogne, the 320-square-metre apartment was designed for a young family relocating from London and comprises two living spaces, a library, four bedrooms, three bathrooms, a kitchen and a separate dining area.

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