This blackened plywood box added by architect Antonin Ziegler to one end of a rural home on France's northern coast provides a private library and garage for its inhabitants (+ slideshow). More
Japanese firm Kengo Kuma & Associates has won a competition to design the Gare Saint-Denis Pleyel, one of three key stations that will be built to serve a new stretch of the Paris Metro. More
Perforated metal panels create a semi-opaque surface around this elevated playground structure in Bordeaux, which contains slides, climbing nets and a trampoline (+ slideshow). More
French designer Christophe Pillet has created the first store for a new fragrance brand on Paris' prestigious Rue Saint-Honoré, with a royal blue and marble interior and modular fittings (+ slideshow). More
British sculptor Antony Gormley has filled a Parisian gallery with an impenetrable structure made from grids of steel, and an army of figures made from stacked metal cubes (+ slideshow). More
Paris department store Bon Marché Rive Gauche will host an exhibition of furniture by Danish designer Finn Juhl to celebrate the 75th anniversary of his Pelican Chair and two new product launches. More
Small square openings are scattered across the facade of this after-school clubhouse in Cannes, France, offering glimpses of the activities taking place within its courtyard playground (+ slideshow). More
News: French architect Jean Nouvel has applied for a court order to disassociate himself from the Paris concert hall, which he says is "non-compliant" with his original design. More
News: MVRDV has been granted planning approval to overhaul a 1970s complex in Paris, which includes adding a new facade of colourful stacked boxes to an existing shopping centre. More
News: SO-IL and FREAKS freearchitects have together won a competition to redesign a glass museum, workshop and gallery on the site of an 18th-century glass factory in north-east France. More
Strips of golden aluminium cover this performing arts school and library designed by Ateliers O-S Architectes to stretch across a hillside in a Parisian suburb (+ slideshow). More
Pupils at this school near Paris take lessons on driving large trucks in a building topped with a perforated aluminium canopy, designed to evoke the look of a petrol station (+ slideshow). More
Parisian office Modal Architecture has created a bright white artist's studio with a wall of golden plywood cupboards behind the thick stone walls of a 17th-century barn in Brittany (+ slideshow). More
Jean Nouvel's studio has extended a winery in south-west France, but instead of matching the traditional stone and timber architecture, the new structure is clad with vivid red metal (+ slideshow). More
Maison&Objet 2015: Japanese studio Nendo has surrounded a lounge area with a cascade of 2,000 chocolate-coloured pipes for an installation at this year's Maison&Objet trade fair (+ slideshow). More
Wooden louvres and green rooftops make up the exterior of this market hall outside Paris by Ameller, Dubois & Associés, while inside is a dramatic ceiling that combines angles and curves (+ slideshow). More
This timber-clad casino by a lake in eastern France is one of three that Data Architectes designed to offer an alternative to the "locked universe" typically favoured for this type of building (+ slideshow). More
News: architecture firm Snøhetta has been named winner in a competition to design the new Paris headquarters for French newspaper Le Monde. More
Austrian designer Robert Stadler references eroding columns of architectural ruins and contemporary construction processes in furniture pieces for an exhibition at Paris' Carpenters Workshop Gallery opening this weekend (+ slideshow). More
News: French architect Jean Nouvel has issued a statement saying he will not attend the opening of his Philharmonie de Paris this evening, claiming it is "not finished" and defending his firm against allegations regarding cost overruns. More