At Parisian architecture and design firm Rena Dumas Architecture Interieure (RDAI), Julia Capp serves as managing director and design department director. Denis Montel is managing director and ...

The Pritzker Architecture Prize, the field’s highest honor, has been awarded to the Paris-based duo of Anne Lacaton and Jean-Philippe Vassal for “prioritizing the enrichment of human life,” especially ...

The Maison La Roche in Paris is one of architect Le Corbusier's star buildings. Listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, it is a perfect illustration of his innovative architectural principles. And the ...

Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo has said "Oui" to a plan to transform the French capital's famous Champs-Élysées and nearby areas. The project, headed by PCA-Stream, will involve the planting of thousands of ...

The 2007 Paris Climate Action Plan set a goal of reducing the city’s environmental footprint by 75% by 2050 (using 2004 as the base year), including greenhouse-gas emissions, energy consumption, and a ...

Whenever we ask architects if we can see where they live, the response is invariably: “My place? Let’s just say it’s a work in progress.” Followed by: “You know the expression about the shoemaker ...

PARIS -- A nonprofit organization recently hired an architectural firm to aid in its initiative to revitalize the historic Smith Hospital. Tonya Fletcher, a member of the Smith Memorial Association ...

Gothic cathedrals were meant to overwhelm. And they do—even their secular-minded 21st-century visitors. Can we enter any other space in which ordinary sensory dimensions seem so stymied? Inside a ...

There is an old joke in Paris that the top of Montparnasse Tower has the prettiest view in the French capital. Not because of its breathtaking views of the Eiffel Tower or the Sacre-Coeur Basilica ...

Pritzker Prize-winning architect Richard Rogers, known for his work that transformed the cityscapes of Paris and London, died Sunday at 88. The New York Times is reporting his death was confirmed by ...