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‘There’s much to celebrate about the Paris Olympics – but I deserve a refund’
As the Paralympics begin in Paris, former RIBA president Paul Hyett takes a look (or tries to) at the quality of the spectator facilities, both new and adapted
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Paris 2024 Olympics diary, week two: ‘The reuse story is obvious everywhere’
With only two new permanent venues created for Paris 2024, its organisers will hope these Games are proof the Olympics can be sustainable
Grimshaw scoops Paris metro station job
Grimshaw has landed its first job in the French capital – designing a station at La Défense for a new metro line across Paris
RSHP wins contest to reimagine key Paris La Défense site
RSHP has won a competition to transform a 1.5ha site at the edge of La Défense, west of Paris, into a ‘low-carbon’ neighbourhood with new pedestrian and cycling connections
Grandorge: April in Paris
Lacaton & Vassal’s refurbishment and extension of a 16-storey social housing tower in Paris followed extensive discussions with its tenants
Renée Gailhoustet Residency, Paris
The Royal Academy of Arts has announced a new six-week residency focussing on the work of French social housing pioneer Renée Gailhoustet [Deadline: 12 May 2023]
David Chipperfield Architects completes huge retrofit scheme in Paris
The 63,500m² Morland Mixité Capitale remodels and extends the former Préfecture de Paris building, completed in 1964
Grafton on shortlist to reimagine streets and squares around Notre-Dame
Stirling Prize winner Grafton Architects is among four finalists in a competition to rethink the public realm surrounding the reconstructed Notre-Dame de Paris cathedral
Astragal: Fujimoto’s Paris trees are not so green
What happened to one of the flagship projects in Paris’s mission to green itself ahead of the 2024 Olympics – the eye-catching Thousand Trees scheme by Sou Fujimoto and Manal Rachdi OXO Architects?
RSHP opens Paris office in response to ‘profoundly regressive’ Brexit
Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners (RSHP) has opened a new office in France as a ‘direct result of the impact of Brexit and to form a gateway to working in Europe’