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The Bons Enfants Building
A web of silver by architect Francis Soler covers the Bon Enfants building, the headquarter of French Ministry of Culture & Communications at Rue Saint-Honoré 182, Paris. The web made of metallic ironwork wraps the facade of the original 1919 building opened in 2005. Article: La resille argentée de Francis Soler
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Vertical Garden
The vertical garden at the Musée du Quai Branly, Paris by Patrick Blanc. The garden, a living wall of greenery, covers 800 square meters of the facades of the museum and 150 square meters of the interior walls. A total of 15,000 plants from 150 species throughout the world. Wallflowers, ferns, fuchsias, irises, heuchera and willows growing like…
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Louvre
The Islamic Art Wing exhibition space designed by the French architect Rudy Ricciotti and the Italian architect Mario Bellini, sits under an undulating golden canopy in the middle of the museum’s neo-Classical Visconti Courtyard. The Italian Renaissance hall empty just before closing time.
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December in Paris
Notre-Dame Cathedral & Pont au Double bridge Eiffel Tower & Canal Saint-Martin
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Anamorphic Artwork, Espace Fondation EDF
Pegasus and Medusa by the team at Truly Design: Urban Artists based in Torino, Italy. Pegasus and Medusa are series from Anamorph featured at the #Streetart exhibition at the Espace gallery of the Foundation EDF in Paris. Source: Pegasus/Anamorph and #Streetart Project
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Les Marquis de Ladurée
From Ladurée, a new chocolate-centric boutique Les Marquis de Ladurée opened in 2014 on Rue Castiglione in Paris. The sumptuous interiors appear just as lavish as any of the ornate jewelry boutiques at the nearby Place Vendôme, but with a modern-design twist that mixes a 21st-century graphic sensibility.