paris Projects 22 Created 17-Mar-16 By Nicole Fröhlich, Brussels, Belgium Villa la Roche Le Corbusier private house, museum, gallery House and studio Ozenfant Communist Party Headquarters Rue des Suisses Apartment Building by Le Corbusier Pavillon Suisse Maison du Brésil Cité de Refuge Maison de Tristan Tzara 7 Passage Marche Saint-Honore Théâtre des Champs Elysées 14 Grand Écran Italie 15 Musée des Travaux Publics 16 Cartier Headquarters 17 office 8 Axa Offices 18 office 9 Costes K Hotel 19 hotel 10 GAN Insurances Company Offices 20 office 11 Adolf Loos private house Auguste Perret museum Le Corbusier health care, social housing 6 Le Corbusier student housing 13 Kenzo Tange cinema, hotel Le Corbusier student housing 5 Le Corbusier atelier, housing, monument UNESCO Auguste Perret music theatre Herzog and De Meuron housing 4 Oscar Niemeyer government, office Marcel Breuer government Le Corbusier atelier, private house 3 Parfums Christian Dior Headquarters 21 office 12 office, square http://wwwmimoaeu/users/nicolefroehlich/guides/paris/ Taller de Arquitectura Paris Office 22 office 1
Parfums Rochas Headquarters 23 office http://wwwmimoaeu/users/nicolefroehlich/guides/paris/ Les Echelles du Baroque 24 social housing 2
photo: Michael Noordam photo: Michael Noordam Villa la Roche Square du Docteur-Blanche 10 75016 Paris http://wwwfondationlecorbusierassofr/ Villa La Roche was built as a home for Raoul La Roche, a Swiss banker and collector of avant-garde art Among other things, the house would serve as a private gallery to display La Roche's extensive art collection Built in a private Paris courtyard, the house had major constraints imposed by the site and its zoning restrictions, including a north orientation, existing trees and height and boundary limitations Inside the building, to display the art, an architectural promenade was made, a theme inspired by Le Corbusier's visit to the Acropolis in 1911 and repeated most strikingly in his Carpenter centre for the Visual Arts nearly forty years later The promenade goes up and down staircases, leads you through tight spaces, in-between balconies, open surveys, down ramps and into a beautifully lit library This idea of a spatial sequence was re-invented by many modern architects, after Le Corbusier Project is public! 1925 Main designer, Le Corbusier Pierre Jeanneret Raoul La Roche Michael_Noordam photo: Michael Noordam 10 am to 1230 pm - 130 to 6 pm (Mondays 130 pm - Fridays 5 pm) Saturdays 10 am to 5 pm Closed : Sundays, Monday mornings and public holidays The villa is open to the public, administered by the Fondation Le Corbusier, which is based in the adjoining Villa Jeanneret at 8 square du Docteur-Blanche For reservations please call +33 1 42 88 41 53 or visit wwwfondationlecorbusierassofr he villa is ten minutes' walk west of Jasmin metro station line 9 (Jasmin) / liges 9 and 10 (Michel-Ange - Auteuil) Bus : line 52 (La Fontaine - Mozart) / Line PC : (Suchet - Raffet) http://wwwmimoaeu/users/nicolefroehlich/guides/paris/ 3
photo: Laurent David Ruamps House and studio Ozenfant Avenue Reille 53 75014 Paris The house and studio in Paris for Le Corbusier's friend the painter Ozenfant is an early example of 'minimal' architecture, a prototype of the Domino house and a manifestation of some of the principles which Le Corbusier was to set out in his famous 'five points' It possessed a geometrical clarity inside and out which has since been lost with the elimination of the north-light roof and its replacement by a flat one Project is not public! 1922 Le Corbusier Amédée J Ozenfant Michael_Noordam photo: Michael Noordam Metro: Porte d'orléans (line 4) RER: Cité Universitaire (line B) http://wwwmimoaeu/users/nicolefroehlich/guides/paris/ 4
photo: Viktor Ramos photo: Viktor Ramos Communist Party Headquarters Place Colonel Fabien 2 75019 Paris http://wwwpcffr The avant-garde building conceived by Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer has become super hip In 2000, Italian fashion house Prada rented the building to present its collection Niemeyer has created a beautiful building He wanted a simple construction without ornament The walls of the Place du Colonel Fabien have kept the marks of the wooden boards used to build them Oscar Niemeyer said the headquarters was ''a piece of work which will constitute in this city, I am sure, an example of contemporary architecture, and even, permit me to say, a tourist attraction'' The main conference room with metal slates hanging vertically on the walls is situated below ground level and has Niemeyer desks and chairs The room's dome (see the satellite images) is on the lawn in front of the curved six-story main building, sheathed in glass Project is public! 1972 Oscar Niemeyer Communist Party Naomi photo: Viktor Ramos open Monday through Friday from 9 am to 4 pm; tours by appointment by can be arranged by e-mail at vbenoit@pcffr or at 011-33140401212 or 01 40 40 12 12 Take the subway to Colonel Fabien, or Jaurès or Bolivar http://wwwmimoaeu/users/nicolefroehlich/guides/paris/ 5
photo: Piotr Krajewski Rue des Suisses Rue des Suisses 17 75014 Paris http://17ruedessuissesmirrorzcom/ This is the first project in Paris by the Herzog De Meuron team on an unusual site in the 14th Arrondisement not far from Gare Montparnesse The result of a 1966 competition sponsored by the Paris public housing agency Régie Immobilière de la Paris (RVIP), the project is built on three interconnected parcels that include infill sites on two sides of a long perimeter block that face a long narrow plot on the interior of the block The infill buildings are built to the neighbourhood height of 7 floors, while the interior slab is only 3 floors in height Entry to the interior of the block is made beneath the infill buildings In addition to the 4 story difference in building height, the long narrow block designed as a free-standing element in a long narrow garden and is protected with curving rolling wooden blinds that are in sharp contrast to the folding metal blinds that cover the façades of the street buildings The three buildings contain about 60 flats and basement parking Project is not public! 2000 Herzog and De Meuron pkrajewski_pl photo: Piotr Krajewski 17/19 Rue des Suisses/Rue Jonquoy, 14th http://wwwmimoaeu/users/nicolefroehlich/guides/paris/ 6
photo: goa photo: goa Apartment Building by Le Corbusier Rue Nungesser et Coli 24 75016 Paris http://fondationlecorbusierfr This apartment building in Paris - Immeuble Molitor Appartement - was constructed in 1934 with on top the apartment of Le Corbusier himself He lived there his whole life, next to the Parc des Princes It is an interesting building, similar to the Clarté Building in Geneva with its glass façade with rigid exterior This stands in contrast to his own apartment on top, which has roof vaults, old brick walls in his atelier and a little roof terrace Project is public! Floor area/size 1934 240 m² Main designer,, Artist, Interior architect, Landscape architect, Urban planner Le Corbusier goa Pierre Jeanneret Kouznetzoff - Noble photo: goa Visitable by appointment For reservations please contact Fondation Le Corbusier Tel: +33 (1) 42 88 75 72 E-mail : reservation@fondationlecorbusierfr Metro: lines 9 and 10 (Michel-Ange - Molitor) / Bus: line PC (Porte Molitor) http://wwwmimoaeu/users/nicolefroehlich/guides/paris/ 7
photo: goa photo: goa Pavillon Suisse Boulevard Jourdan 7 75014 Paris http://wwwfondationsuissefr Cité universitaire was founded in 1921 to provide accommodation and support for foreign students in Paris, with a number of residential pavilions endowed by different national communities The pavilion adheres to Le Corbusier's 'five points of architecture', but with a number of developments since the Villa Savoye The free façade and horizontal window have become a continuous glazed curtain wall, on the south side of the building (above) The pilotis have developed from thin columns to six massive reinforced concrete 'dog-bones' or 'thighs' with their characteristic figure-of-eight cross section to withstand winds While the client accepted the student rooms being raised in mid air, the public spaces were required to be on the ground The plan accommodates them in a separate block sitting on the earth, its curvaceous form contrasting with the simple slab of the student accommodation (text from wwwgalinskycom) photo: goa Project is public! 1930, Artist, Interior architect, Landscape architect, Urban planner Le Corbusier goa Committee of Swiss Universities 1000-1200 & 1400-1700 Station RER B: Cité Universitaire Bus: 67, 21 and T3 http://wwwmimoaeu/users/nicolefroehlich/guides/paris/ 8
photo: goa photo: goa Maison du Brésil Boulevard Jourdan 7L 75014 Paris http://wwwmaisondubresilorg This housing block at the Cité Universitaire complex in Paris was designed by Le Corbusier for Brazilian students and researchers Project is public! 1953, Artist, Interior architect, Landscape architect, Urban planner Le Corbusier goa Brazilian Government photo: goa Monday - Friday: 0800-1200 & 1300-2000 / Saturday: 1000-1300 & 1400-2000 Station RER B: Cité Universitaire Bus: 67, 21 and T3 http://wwwmimoaeu/users/nicolefroehlich/guides/paris/ 9
photo: goa photo: goa Cité de Refuge Rue Cantagrel 12 75013 Paris The Salvation Army Refuge in Paris was Le Corbusier's first opportunity to create accommodation for the urban poor The compact site provided the chance for a radical approach both to bringing in light and space and to laying out the entrance halls to accommodate the Salvation Army's reception process The core of Le Corbusier's design was the dormitory slab with a sheer glass curtain wall Critical to the success of this south-facing glass wall was to have been a technologically ambitious system of double glazing and air conditioning ('respiration exacte') These were never built as intended, and the sheer skin of the wall was lost to Le Corbusier's trademark brises soleils later on in an attempt to prevent the inhabitants from overheating In the spirit of the free plan, Le Corbusier took the entrance hall components out of the dormitory block, constructing a geometric pathway through separate reception buildings outside (text from wwwgalinskycom) photo: goa Project is public! 1929, Artist, Interior architect, Landscape architect, Urban planner Le Corbusier goa Armée du Salut (Salvation Army) Telephone: 01 53 61 82 00 Take the RER to Bibliothèque François Mitterand, and choose the Rue du Chevalaret exit Walk south along Rue du Chevalaret, and at the first junction turn backwards right up rue Cantagrel The Refuge is a few meters up on your right http://wwwmimoaeu/users/nicolefroehlich/guides/paris/ 10
Maison de Tristan Tzara Avenue Junot 15 75018 Paris The modern-style house was built in 1926 by Austrian architect Adolf Loos for the poet & writer Tristan Tzara founding father of Dadaism and his wife, the painter, Knitson The rigidly functionalist Maison Tristan Tzara, built in Montmartre, was designed following Tzara's specific requirements and decorated with samples of African art It was Loos' only major contribution in his Parisian years Project is not public! 1926 Adolf Loos Tristan Tzara cost photo: Costin Constantin http://wwwmimoaeu/users/nicolefroehlich/guides/paris/ 11
photo: Nazar Leskiw photo: Nazar Leskiw Passage Marche Saint-Honore Rue du Marché Saint-Honoré 1 75001 Paris The new ensemble on the square consists of two glazed row buildings that form a common passage under a shared roof As this building type, typical for Paris, is functionally turned into modern architecture, the overall shape of the timeless gabled house model is brought up to date photo: emdxorg Project is public! 1996 Nazar http://wwwmimoaeu/users/nicolefroehlich/guides/paris/ 12
photo: UNESCO photo: Nazar Leskiw UNESCO Place de Fontenoy 7 75007 Paris Inaugurated on 3 November 1958, the Headquarters of UNESCO is the most international building in Paris both in terms of the membership of the Organization it houses, currently standing at 186 Member States (1 July 1997) and in terms of its construction, for it is the combined work of architects of three nationalities : Marcel Breuer of the United States of America, Pier Luigi Nervi of Italy and Bernard Zehrfuss of ; selected by an International Committee of five : Lucio Costa of Brazil, Walter Gropius of the United States of America, Charles Le Corbusier of, Sven Markelius of Sweden and Ernesto Rogers of Italy ; the American architect, Eero Saarinen was also consulted and Eugene E Callison, an American engineer directed the construction site The Y=shaped administrative building, nicknamed the "three-pointed star", fits harmoniously in Place de Fontenoy alongside the Ecole Militaire photo: Jacqueline Poggi Project is public! 1977 Main designer, Marcel Breuer Bernard Zehrfuss Pier Luigi Nervi Nazar http://wwwmimoaeu/users/nicolefroehlich/guides/paris/ 13
photo: Nazar Leskiw photo: Nazar Leskiw Théâtre des Champs Elysées Avenue Montaigne 15 75008 Paris The Théâtre des Champs-Élysées is a thea tre at 15 avenue Montaigne De s pite its name, the thea tre is not on the Champs-Élysées but ne arby in ano ther part of the 8th arrondissement of Paris Opened in 1913, it was de si gned by French ar chi tect Auguste Perret and foun ded by jour na list and im pre sa rio Gabriel Astruc to pro vide a venue sui ta ble for con tem porary music, dance and opera, in con trast to tra di tio nal, more con ser va tive, in sti tu ti ons like the Paris Opera It hosted the Ballets Russes for its first sea son, sta ging the world pre mière of the Rite of Spring on Thurs day May 29, 1913, thus be co m ing the ce le bra ted lo ca tion of one of the most fa mous of all classical music riots Project is public! 1913 Auguste Perret Nazar photo: Nazar Leskiw http://wwwmimoaeu/users/nicolefroehlich/guides/paris/ 14
Grand Écran Italie Place d'italie 30 75013 Paris Tange's first European commission, also known as the Ensemble d'equipment and Campanile, houses a hotel, two cinemas, and offices for film and video Project is public! 1991 Kenzo Tange Nazar photo: David Monniaux http://wwwmimoaeu/users/nicolefroehlich/guides/paris/ 15
photo: archive photo: Nazar Leskiw Musée des Travaux Publics Avenue d'iéna 1 75116 Paris Auguste Perret was a French architect and a world leader and specialist in reinforced concrete construction He worked on a new interpretation of the neo-classical style He continued to carry the banner of nineteenth century rationalism after Viollet-le-Duc His efforts to utilize historical typologies executed in new materials were largely eclipsed by the younger media-savvy architect Le Corbusier, Perret's one-time employee, and his ilk Project is public! 1937 Auguste Perret Nazar photo: Nazar Leskiw http://wwwmimoaeu/users/nicolefroehlich/guides/paris/ 16
Cartier Headquarters Boissy d'anglas 33 75008 Paris A complex of buildings in the heart of the 'golden triangle' (the 75008 arrondissement of paris), close to the church of la Madeleine and Place de la Concorde The project was conceived as spatial and technical innovation whose source of inspiration is the city's covered streets and promenades The exteriors of the buildings are combined in such a way that observers' perception of space changes each time, creating an interior block street with three accesses and their corresponding addresses: 30, rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré; 33-37, rue Boissy d'anglas; and 3, rue de Surène The façades are of clear glass and serigraphed glass, while the paving is of pietra serena programme: offices, shops, showroom, restaurant and bar, a multi-purpose hall, a gymnasium and parking space for 450 vehicles in the basement Public access unknown! Floor area/size 2003 26000 m² Unibail Ricardo_Bofill_Taller_de_Arquitectu ra http://wwwmimoaeu/users/nicolefroehlich/guides/paris/ 17
Axa Offices Rabelais 6 75008 Paris Refurbishment project of an existing building provide new, transparent façades The office block includes two basements, a ground floor, a mezzanine and 8 upper floors The result is an imposing volume with a set back from the street alignment and façades that establish a horizontal rhythm in which solid breastwork alternates with strips of metal-framed glass The new project endows the building with an air of modernity, tempered by the double glass façade that creates transparency and depth Public access unknown! Floor area/size 2000 7500 m² AXA Assurances Ricardo_Bofill_Taller_de_Arquitectu ra http://wwwmimoaeu/users/nicolefroehlich/guides/paris/ 18
Costes K Hotel Avenue Kléber 81 75116 Paris By virtue of its privileged location near the Trocadéro, this 4-star hotel offers its clients many practical advantages The full-height transparent double glass skin of the main façade constitutes a curtain of greenery acting as a visual and sound barrier that assures the comfort of guests The building is articulated around a marble patio with a black granite pond from which plants and sculptures in the form of columns emerge The materials used in the interiors are sycamore wood on ceilings and walls, teak in the swimming pool and solarium, and black granite and light-coloured marble for the flooring The program includes 83 apartments ranging from 25 to 55 sqm, restaurant, conference and reading rooms, health club with body-building gym, sauna and heated swimming pool Public access unknown! Floor area/size 1993 7300 m² Eurogim Ricardo_Bofill_Taller_de_Arquitectu ra http://wwwmimoaeu/users/nicolefroehlich/guides/paris/ 19
GAN Insurances Company Offices Ave Robert Schumann 10 75007 Paris An office building for an insurance company laid out over eleven floors: three basements, ground floor and seven upper storeys The plot is bounded by two streets, and the scheme incorporates the interior courtyard characteristic of the buildings in the area in order to provide all the rooms with daylight The building has a U-shaped plant, with the courtyard in the centre The two arms of the U are symmetrical, grouping together the double system of vertical communications and services The top three floors on each of the two streets form two stepped-back towers, in accordance with local planning regulations, concentrating vertical circulation in the centre so as to leave the office spaces on the exterior The facades on each of the two streets are also identical, consisting of a double skin of glass which draws a smooth convex line in contrast to the concave line of the ground floor and the setbacks of the upper floors Public access unknown! 1992 Ricardo_Bofill_Taller_de_Arquitectu ra http://wwwmimoaeu/users/nicolefroehlich/guides/paris/ 20
Parfums Christian Dior Headquarters Avenue Hoche 33 75008 Paris An integral remodeling project for a building from the 60s which will conserve the whole of the occupied volume and the structure, while constructing a new underground car park The design for a new façade in natural stone and glass took as its starting point the creation of an appropriate image for the perfume company that would be in keeping with the context of the other buildings on Avenue Hoche The stone part of the construction acts like a frame around the double glass skin, in an allusion to the setting of a precious gem and to the sophisticated world of Paris fashion Public access unknown! 1991 Ricardo_Bofill_Taller_de_Arquitectu ra http://wwwmimoaeu/users/nicolefroehlich/guides/paris/ 21
Taller de Arquitectura Paris Office d'enghien 18 75010 Paris A conversion scheme for an old building to transform it into the new headquarters of the Taller de Arquitectura in Paris Originally constructed to house the editorial offices of a Paris newspaper, it was later converted into a theatre The spacious interior of the cubic volume was remodeled to obtain 900 m2 (1076 sq yards) of floor area distributed over three floors and laid out around a landscaped interior courtyard The reception area is located on a fourth, lower, level The work spaces on these four levels have been divided into sectors according to activity: reception and design The suspended floors accommodate all the cable and wiring of the computerized office, in addition to giving acoustic insulation The interior design, with its use of glass partitions, make it easy to appreciate the spaciousness of the working environment The built-in cupboards of stained wood with their metal details store the office's drawings and other documents Public access unknown! Floor area/size 1991 900 m² Taller de Arquitectura Ricardo_Bofill_Taller_de_Arquitectu ra http://wwwmimoaeu/users/nicolefroehlich/guides/paris/ 22
Parfums Rochas Headquarters François 1er 33 75008 Paris Back in the 50s, the new building for the Rochas firm broke with the discreet continuity of the facades on rue François I The project for a change of façade managed, without falling into historical pastiche, to assimilate itself to the neighbouring buildings, thus reestablishing its harmony with the urban fabric while maintaining its modern, luxurious character The façade presents a classical design in Vicenza stone with incrustations of golden nickel framing the great window openings, glazed using the most advanced techniques Public access unknown! 1989 Société des Parfums Rochas Ricardo_Bofill_Taller_de_Arquitectu ra http://wwwmimoaeu/users/nicolefroehlich/guides/paris/ 23
Les Echelles du Baroque Pl de Catalogne 75014 Paris 274 apartments grouped around two interior courtyards, laid out in separate 7-storey buildings with distinct characteristics: L'Amphithéâtre and Les Colonnes The ground floor of the two buildings is occupied by shops, and has an underground car park for 300 cars L'Amphithéâtre was designed as subsidized housing, and Les Colonnes as apartments to be sold on the open market The geometry of the apartments is based on a combination of modules The basic module is 65 m2, equivalent to a three-bedroom apartment All of the houses have dual orientation The interior façade of the houses which delimit the elliptical plaza takes the form of a curtain wall, with a rhythmic sequence of glass columns which makes it possible to provide every apartment with a glazed window bay Some of the apartments are laid out over two levels, and have an interior balcony opposite the curtain wall Public access unknown! Floor area/size 1985 22000 m² Sagi Ricardo_Bofill_Taller_de_Arquitectu ra http://wwwmimoaeu/users/nicolefroehlich/guides/paris/ 24