Housing in La Courrouze by Philippe Gazeau
Balconies of these two apartment blocks in northwest France by architect Philippe Gazeau protrude like a set of open drawers. More
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Escale Numérique by Mathieu Lehanneur
French designer Mathieu Lehanneur has created a series of Wi-Fi stations in Paris where people can sit down to use their laptops or access local information via a large screen. More
Air France Business Lounge by Brandimage and Noé Duchaufour-Lawrance
French designer Noé Duchaufour-Lawrance and branding agency Brandimage have created a park-like business lounge at Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris, with branching pathways and tree-shaped lights. More
Housing in Sète by Colboc Franzen & Associés
Architects Colboc Franzen & Associés have masked the facade and balconies of three apartment blocks in the south of France behind curved galvanised-steel grids. More
Ciel de Paris by Noé Duchaufour-Lawrance
French designer Noé Duchaufour-Lawrance has fitted out a restaurant at the top of the tallest skyscraper in central Paris. More
Crèche Rue Pierre Budin by ECDM
French architects ECDM have completed a nursery in Paris with rippling concrete walls (+ slideshow). More
Maison Escalier by Moussafir Architectes
Steps connecting the gradually rising floors of this Paris house by Moussafir Architectes can be glimpsed through the cut-out shutters on its glazed facade (+ slideshow). More
Musée de la Romanité in Nîmes by Elizabeth de Portzamparc
Franco-Brazilian architect Elizabeth de Portzamparc has won a competition to design a museum of Roman history in Nîmes with this building dressed in a pleated glass toga. More
MÉCA by BIG and FREAKS freearchitects
Danish architects BIG and French studio FREAKS freearchitects have designed a cultural centre for Bordeaux with a huge stage in its middle. More
La Galerie de Lunettes by Dumazer & Lafallisse Architectes
French architects Dumazer & Lafallisse have converted a former gallery in Paris into an optician's. More
Movie: Thomas Heatherwick on designing a boat for the Loire
Movie: Thomas Heatherwick talks to Dezeen about his design for a riverboat in France in this interview filmed by Dezeen at Heatherwick's ongoing exhibition at the V&A museum in London. More
Musée des Beaux-arts in Reims by David Chipperfield Architects
David Chipperfield Architects have won a competition to design a museum of fine arts in the city of Reims, France with proposals for a building clad in translucent white marble and glass. More
Seven-screen pavilion by OMA for Kanye West
Kanye West's first short film was shown on seven cinema screens surrounding the audience inside a pyramid designed by architects OMA at the Cannes Film Festival in France yesterday. More
Sticks by Djuric Tardio Architectes
French architects Djuric Tardio have designed a wooden tipi that could be mass-produced to provide miniature nurseries in the parks of Paris. More
Stella Cadente Paris by Atelier du Pont
The new Paris store for fashion designer Stella Cadente is a tunnel lined in gold. More
Camper store in Lyon by Studio Makkink & Bey
Dutch designers Studio Makkink & Bey have completed a store for shoe brand Camper in Lyon with staircases that seem to go on forever. More
Le Temps Machine by Moussafir Architectes
Paris firm Moussafir Architectes have blanketed the roof of this concert hall in Tours, France, with a synthetic material that looks like a quilt. More
Branched Offices by Projectiles
This cluster of offices in northern France are raised above the ground like treehouses, supported by a forest of roughly sawn wooden columns. More
Alésia Museum visitor’s centreby Bernard Tschumi Architects
Slideshow: a visitor’s centre with an ornate herringbone facade by Bernard Tschumi Architects opens this weekend on an archaeological site in central France. More
Hermitage Plaza by Foster + Partners
Slidehow: architects Foster + Partners have been granted permission to build two 320-metre-high towers beside the Seine, just outside Paris. More