Quale architettura per la Metropoli del XXI secolo?
What architecture for the Metropolis of the 21st century? In Paris, where there is a museum for everything, architecture has found one in the Cité de l’Architecture, Palais de Chaillot, Trocadéro, alongside the Musée de l’Homme. An excellent location, …
Parigi metropoli
The Greater Paris International Consultation The last transformation of Paris took place in 1860 and was the work of Baron Haussmann, then prefect of the Seine Department. At that time the city covered 100 km² and was surrounded by villages, farming ha …
Parigi città-laboratorio
Stefano Fera: The international consulting for Greater Paris seems intent on challenging the very idea of capital city. A typically Nineteenth-century idea, linked to a centralist concept of the State which has only been reached quite recently in Italy …
Alcune considerazioni a margine della “nuova” Grille Royale a Versailles
Some reflections on the “new” Grille Royale at Versailles. The invitation to put forward some considerations regarding the restoration of the historical gate, the Grille Royale, in the Castle of Versailles, designed by Jules Hardouin Mansart at the end …
EMI Music France Headquarters
Rising on a former industrial site in the Montmartre area, the scheme is composed of two small restored buildings and four new buildings positioned around a central garden and linked by an interior passageway. These new pavilions are inspired by tradit …
Simone de Beauvoir footbridge
The pedestrian bridge with a length of 304 meters links the new districts of Paris-Bercy and Tolbiac – and at the same time the new national french library with the Park Tolbiac. Flying above the busy freeways which track the Seine, the footbridge touc …
Hotel Fouquet
The design of the building housing the Hotel Fouquet by architect Edouard François is based on the ”shell & core” procedure. Shell, or in other words the external volume, the facades and the way they interact with the light, and landscaping. Core, …
Atrium Jussieu University
The building on the Jussieu university campus, near the historic center of Paris, extends and completes the grid plan that architect Edouard Albert designed in the 60s to serve 45,000 students and researchers. The response formulated by Périphériques f …
Cognacq-Jay hospital
This project concerns the rebuilding of “Cognacq-Jay”, a private hospital with a history of over 100 years. The site is located in the 15th district in Paris near the Eiffel Tower, within a residential quarter home to many hospitals. The old Cognacq-Ja …