Paris: The Latest Architecture and News

When you're surrounded by buildings on all sides, what do you see? In his SkyArt series, French artist Lamadieu Thomas gives us his answer. He takes claustrophobia-inducing photographs of urban landscapes through a fish-eye lens, framing the sky with rooftops and filling the negative space with playful illustrations. Thomas describes his whimsical approach to art as an attempt to show "what we can construct with a boundless imagination" and "a different perception of urban architecture and the everyday environment around us." To see more from the collection, continue after the break.

+ 5

+ 10

+ 8

In this four-part, stop-motion series, Mayeul Akpovi presents a new perspective on the City of Lights. Filmed with manual camera movements and composed of more than 30,000 photographs, the videos enable a unique, otherwise-unattainable experience of Paris’ sleepless urban spaces by ceaselessly attenuating the passage of time.

Watch part one (above), and continue after the break for the remaining series...

+ 20

+ 25

+ 9

+ 21

+ 32

• Architects

  MOATTI-RIVIERE

• Location

  Eiffel Tower, Champ de Mars, 5 Avenue Anatole France, 75007 Paris, France

• Area

  4586.0 sqm

• Project Year

  2014

• Photographs

  Courtesy of Moatti-Rivière

• Location

  Eiffel Tower, Champ de Mars, 5 Avenue Anatole France, 75007 Paris, France

• Project Year

  2014

• Photographs

  Courtesy of MOATTI-RIVIERE

• Area

  4586.0 m2

+ 18

After a nine-month long competition, LAN Architecture has been commissioned to restructure and extend the historic Grand Palais in Paris. With the intent to “restore the building’s original coherence and sense of transparency,” LAN plans to revamp the 1900 World’s Fair building by resorting its unity and circulation, as well as the volume of its galleries around the Grand Nave and the addition of a new entrance court.

Review the plan in more detail, after the break...

+ 8

+ 15

+ 23

+ 4

+ 10