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04 April 2025
Landscaped Geometric Building to be Built in Issy-les-Moulineaux
Studio Libeskind has revealed plans for Fan d'Issy, a striking new mixed-use building set to rise in Issy-les-Moulineaux, a suburb of Paris. Created in collaboration...
04 November 2024
Paris Landmark Notre Dame Cathedral Announces Re-Opening Date
It has been more than five years after the fire that blazed atop the Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris and caused significant damage. Officials recently announced...
22 November 2023
Construction Begins for 19-Story Project in Issy-les-Moulineaux
La Serre, a 19-story mixed-use development, initiated construction with a symbolic tree-planting ceremony in the ZAC Léon Blum eco-district in Issy-les-Moulineaux. This collaborative venture involves...
26 October 2022
New 850-Unit Development Progresses in Lyon
More than 90 years after Môrice Leroux, Nicolas Michelin, chief architect of the ZAC des Gratte-Ciel has just unveiled further details of the firm's latest...
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04 October 2022
Paris Abandons Re-Landscaping Around Eiffel Tower
The Paris mayor's office has abandoned plans for new buildings—including a cafe, shops, and baggage drop—around the base of the Eiffel Tower following months of...
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16 March 2022
New Antenna Attachment Increases Height of the Eiffel Tower in Paris
15 March, 2022, marks a historic date for the Eiffel Tower. The Eiffel Tower will grow to a height of 330 meters (1,083 feet) with...
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02 March 2022
New 50-Meter Green-Walled Project Coming to Montpellier
Developer Roxim and the Montpellier-based architect François Fontès have just unveiled the design of a new building made up of two interconnected high-rise towers, that...
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14 February 2022
Partnerships Solidified for Work on Pyramid-Shaped Paris Tower
The URW Group announces that it has signed a partnership with AXA IM Alts, acting on behalf of its investor clients, for the construction of...
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07 February 2022
Colorful Aluminum to Coat Paris Tower
Aluminium gold-hued struts coloured by Sandalor will line the exterior of the HEKLA Tower, which architect Jean Nouvel's studio is designing in Paris. The metal struts...
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11 January 2022
A Stacked Residential Building Takes Shape in Montpellier
Designed by Brenac & Gonzalez & Associés, the Higher Roch tower is taking shape in Montpellier, France, as an organic form characterized by stacked and...
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04 January 2022
Twin Tower Proposal Canceled in Paris
The board of directors of the local public establishment Paris La Défense announced on Monday, 3 January, 2022 that it had decided not to approve...
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16 November 2021
Pyramidal Project Moves Forward in Paris
The Tour Triangle project is set to move forward and begin the initial site work before the year ends. The project was originally proposed in...
17 September 2021
Complex in Bordeaux Prioritizes Mobility and Biodiversity
Bouygues Immobilier and Sogeprom are launching Quai Neuf at the entrance to Bordeaux. The mixed-use complex will deliver 770 residences, as well as one office...
14 July 2021
Near Paris, Skyscraper Reaches Midway Mark
In La Défense just outside of Paris, the Hekla tower is over halfway completed. The project has completed 30 of 49 floors, with a final...
22 June 2021
Residential Project Using Structural Timber Reaches Completion in Bordeaux
Eiffage Immobilier, with the architect Jean-Paul Viguier, have delivered what could be among the tallest residential towers in france using structural timber in France. Called...
01 June 2021
Timber Tower Proposed in Nantes
A 58 meter tower mainly made of wood, with shops, urban vacation homes, a rooftop on the first floor, and a 50-meter Nordic pool at...
31 March 2021
Affordable Housing Development to Receive Funding in Paris Suburbs
The National Housing Agency (Anah) will release €44.5 million (US$53.3 million) to be used for emergency work on the Grigny 2 condominium (Essonne), which is...
19 March 2021
Architecture Firm Wins Contest to Complete Green-Terraced Mixed-Use Building in Lille
A design by architecture firm Coldefy has been selected as the winning entry of a competition to build a new mixed-use building in northern France....
16 March 2021
Arles Twisting Tower to Open its Doors in June 2021
The architect Frank Gehry will unveil his latest blockbuster building—a soaring twisting geometric tower covered with 11,000 stainless steel panels—at Luma Arles this summer, the...
04 February 2021
Eiffel Tower to Get Gold-Hued Overhaul in Advance of the 2024 Paris Olympics
The Eiffel Tower has embarked on the most extensive revamp of its 130-year history to look its best for the 2024 Paris Olympics, including with...
18 December 2020
Property Developer Acquires 1990s-Built High-Rise in Paris
Tishman Speyer announced on 18 December 2020 that it has acquired the Tour Cristal in Paris, along with its partner the Public Sector Pension Investment...
03 December 2020
A 14-Step Chunk of Eiffel Tower's Spiral Staircase Goes Under the Hammer
A 14-step chunk of the Eiffel Tower's spiral staircase was sold for €274,475 euros (US$328,427) in Paris on Tuesday, 1 December 2020, nearly 10 times...
31 July 2020
Two-Building Residential Project Successfully Implemented Without Disrupting Views in Paris
In July 2020, three years after obtaining the building permit, Ingrid Taillandier Architecture (Itar) delivered a 72-residential unit project located on the boulevard Ney in...
10 June 2020
After Three Months Closed, Paris' Eiffel Tower Will Re-Open
The very symbol of France, the Eiffel Tower, will reopen for visitors on June 25 2020. The landmark, located in Paris' Seventh Arrondissement, has been...
08 June 2020
Refinancing of Plaza Closes in Puteaux
Asset manager DWS has partnered with Societe Generale Corporate & Investment Banking to complete a €205 million (US$231 million) refinancing secured by the defense Plaza...
01 May 2020
"Energy-Positive" Residential Towers Launched in Dijon and St-Etienne
The French cities of Dijon and Saint-Etienne have become the first metropolises to approve the development of highly sustainable "energy-positive" residential towers under a €2.0...
30 April 2020
Restoration Works Suspended on Historic Paris Cathedral due to COVID-19 Pandemic
Due to the global pandemic, restoration works of La Cathedrale Notre-Dame in Paris have been paused. For security reasons, all operations have been halted by...
02 March 2020
Rippling Tower in Arles Nears Completion
Now soaring over the French city of Arles, Frank Ghery and his team have nearly completed LUMA Arles Art and Research Center, a twisting tower...
31 January 2020
Construction on New Bank Headquarters in Lyon Scheduled to Begin in Spring 2021
Located in Lyon's Part-Dieu business district, between the rue de Bonnel and boulevard Eugène Deruelle, the former Caisse d'Epargne-Rhône-Alpes headquarters, which had been occupied until...
08 January 2020
Mixed-Use Building Planned for Le Havre
After the Videcoq and Dumont-d'Urville towers, a third building is planned to further densify downtown Le Havre. The tower is part of a project by...
13 December 2019
Office Tower Redevelopment Planned for Courbevoie
On 4 December 2019, developer Paris La Défense organized a meeting with local residents in Courbevoie about Tour Aurore, who were informed that the redevelopment...
11 September 2019
Community-Oriented Trades Campus Begins Construction in Nice
The Nice Côte d’Azur Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCI) and the social landlord Habitat 06 kicked off the development of the Campus Sud des...
10 September 2019
Construction Begins on Lyon Skyscraper
Construction on the To-Lyon tower project was officially launched by Vinci Immobilier d’Entreprise, with a symbolic laying of the building’s foundation stone. When completed in...
26 July 2019
Residential Tower in Paris Nears Completion
MAD architects’ first building in Europe, know as UNIC, is nearing completion in Paris, France, marking the architecture firm’s first realized project in Europe. The...
23 July 2019
Toulouse Gives Green Light to Development and Skyscraper
The prefecture of Haute-Garonne has published the favorable opinions of the public commission of inquiry concerning the urban project ToulouseEuroSudOuest (TESO), and the building permit...
15 July 2019
New Tower in Bordeaux Pushes City Construction Limits
A new office tower, Innova Tower, is being developed in Bordeaux, France. Architecture agency Hobo Architects is working in partnership with Bernard Bühler on the...
12 July 2019
Rennes to Become Home to 26-Story Architectural Venture
On 9 July 2019, the east of Brittany town of Rennes was announced as the site for a new architectural project, Féval Tower. The development...
01 July 2019
Tour Hekla Begins Construction in La Défense Near Paris
The currently under-construction Hekla Tower at La Défense is emblematic of next-generation skyscrapers: one that is integrated with the urban habitat. The building, which is...
05 June 2019
Move-ins Begin at Montpellier’s L’Arbre Blanc
Residents have started moving into a Mediterranean development that aims to make a difference to high-rise living. Looking like a pine cone and featuring the...
29 May 2019
Skyscraper to Transform Montpellier District
The construction of the Roch Tower, a symbol of the urban renewal program initiated in the station district in Montpellier, has begun. The new 17-story...
28 May 2019
Suburban Paris Complex Undergoes Major Renovations
The City of Nanterre presented its project to renovate the Aillaud towers, also known as the Cloud Towers, located in the heart of the Pablo-Picasso...
23 May 2019
Competition Winners Announced for Redesign of Paris’ Eiffel Tower Grounds
British landscape architecture studio Gustafson Porter + Bowman is redesigning the surroundings of the Eiffel Tower in Paris in advance of the Paris 2024 Olympic...
21 May 2019
SOHO Concept Comes to Paris Tower
The Small Office / Home Office concept is coming to France. It is a simple, affordable and adaptable hosting solution for the needs of small...
08 May 2019
Construction of Paris’ Triangle Tower Approved
The first stone of a controversial Paris building must be laid before the beginning of next year, now that a court has ruled that the...
16 April 2019
Cathedral Structure Remains Intact After Devastating Fire in Paris
The massive fire at Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris was extinguished early Tuesday, April 16, after a nine-hour battle, authorities said. “The cathedral’s structure has been...
12 April 2019
Plans Revealed for New Urban District in Paris
Winners for the competition "Inventer Bruneseau" have been decided. The massive project will convert a 100,000-square-meter brownfield site into a major new urban district by...
05 March 2019
South Korean Developer Plans to Purchase Paris Skyscraper
A consortium led by South Korea’s top brokerage house Mirae Asset Daewoo Co. is in exclusive negotiations to buy a landmark building worth ₩1 trillion...
27 February 2019
Wooden Tower Will be Added to Rouen’s Skyline
Soon a wooden tower will be visible in the skies of Rouen, France. In the summer of 2019, Eiffage Construction will file building permits for...
31 January 2019
An Urban Development Project is Taking Shape in Lyon
An urban development project in downtown Lyon is slated to double the size of Villeurbanne’s city center by 2027. The Métropole de Lyon and the...
04 April 2025
Landscaped Geometric Building to be Built in Issy-les-Moulineaux
Studio Libeskind has revealed plans for Fan d'Issy, a striking new mixed-use building set to rise in Issy-les-Moulineaux, a suburb of Paris. Created in collaboration...
04 November 2024
Paris Landmark Notre Dame Cathedral Announces Re-Opening Date
It has been more than five years after the fire that blazed atop the Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris and caused significant damage. Officials recently announced...
22 November 2023
Construction Begins for 19-Story Project in Issy-les-Moulineaux
La Serre, a 19-story mixed-use development, initiated construction with a symbolic tree-planting ceremony in the ZAC Léon Blum eco-district in Issy-les-Moulineaux. This collaborative venture involves...
26 October 2022
New 850-Unit Development Progresses in Lyon
More than 90 years after Môrice Leroux, Nicolas Michelin, chief architect of the ZAC des Gratte-Ciel has just unveiled further details of the firm's latest...
04 October 2022
Paris Abandons Re-Landscaping Around Eiffel Tower
The Paris mayor's office has abandoned plans for new buildings—including a cafe, shops, and baggage drop—around the base of the Eiffel Tower following months of...
16 March 2022
New Antenna Attachment Increases Height of the Eiffel Tower in Paris
15 March, 2022, marks a historic date for the Eiffel Tower. The Eiffel Tower will grow to a height of 330 meters (1,083 feet) with...
02 March 2022
New 50-Meter Green-Walled Project Coming to Montpellier
Developer Roxim and the Montpellier-based architect François Fontès have just unveiled the design of a new building made up of two interconnected high-rise towers, that...
14 February 2022
Partnerships Solidified for Work on Pyramid-Shaped Paris Tower
The URW Group announces that it has signed a partnership with AXA IM Alts, acting on behalf of its investor clients, for the construction of...
07 February 2022
Colorful Aluminum to Coat Paris Tower
Aluminium gold-hued struts coloured by Sandalor will line the exterior of the HEKLA Tower, which architect Jean Nouvel's studio is designing in Paris. The metal struts...
11 January 2022
A Stacked Residential Building Takes Shape in Montpellier
Designed by Brenac & Gonzalez & Associés, the Higher Roch tower is taking shape in Montpellier, France, as an organic form characterized by stacked and...
04 January 2022
Twin Tower Proposal Canceled in Paris
The board of directors of the local public establishment Paris La Défense announced on Monday, 3 January, 2022 that it had decided not to approve...
16 November 2021
Pyramidal Project Moves Forward in Paris
The Tour Triangle project is set to move forward and begin the initial site work before the year ends. The project was originally proposed in...
17 September 2021
Complex in Bordeaux Prioritizes Mobility and Biodiversity
Bouygues Immobilier and Sogeprom are launching Quai Neuf at the entrance to Bordeaux. The mixed-use complex will deliver 770 residences, as well as one office...
14 July 2021
Near Paris, Skyscraper Reaches Midway Mark
In La Défense just outside of Paris, the Hekla tower is over halfway completed. The project has completed 30 of 49 floors, with a final...
22 June 2021
Residential Project Using Structural Timber Reaches Completion in Bordeaux
Eiffage Immobilier, with the architect Jean-Paul Viguier, have delivered what could be among the tallest residential towers in france using structural timber in France. Called...
01 June 2021
Timber Tower Proposed in Nantes
A 58 meter tower mainly made of wood, with shops, urban vacation homes, a rooftop on the first floor, and a 50-meter Nordic pool at...
31 March 2021
Affordable Housing Development to Receive Funding in Paris Suburbs
The National Housing Agency (Anah) will release €44.5 million (US$53.3 million) to be used for emergency work on the Grigny 2 condominium (Essonne), which is...
19 March 2021
Architecture Firm Wins Contest to Complete Green-Terraced Mixed-Use Building in Lille
A design by architecture firm Coldefy has been selected as the winning entry of a competition to build a new mixed-use building in northern France....
16 March 2021
Arles Twisting Tower to Open its Doors in June 2021
The architect Frank Gehry will unveil his latest blockbuster building—a soaring twisting geometric tower covered with 11,000 stainless steel panels—at Luma Arles this summer, the...
04 February 2021
Eiffel Tower to Get Gold-Hued Overhaul in Advance of the 2024 Paris Olympics
The Eiffel Tower has embarked on the most extensive revamp of its 130-year history to look its best for the 2024 Paris Olympics, including with...
18 December 2020
Property Developer Acquires 1990s-Built High-Rise in Paris
Tishman Speyer announced on 18 December 2020 that it has acquired the Tour Cristal in Paris, along with its partner the Public Sector Pension Investment...
03 December 2020
A 14-Step Chunk of Eiffel Tower's Spiral Staircase Goes Under the Hammer
A 14-step chunk of the Eiffel Tower's spiral staircase was sold for €274,475 euros (US$328,427) in Paris on Tuesday, 1 December 2020, nearly 10 times...
31 July 2020
Two-Building Residential Project Successfully Implemented Without Disrupting Views in Paris
In July 2020, three years after obtaining the building permit, Ingrid Taillandier Architecture (Itar) delivered a 72-residential unit project located on the boulevard Ney in...
10 June 2020
After Three Months Closed, Paris' Eiffel Tower Will Re-Open
The very symbol of France, the Eiffel Tower, will reopen for visitors on June 25 2020. The landmark, located in Paris' Seventh Arrondissement, has been...
08 June 2020
Refinancing of Plaza Closes in Puteaux
Asset manager DWS has partnered with Societe Generale Corporate & Investment Banking to complete a €205 million (US$231 million) refinancing secured by the defense Plaza...
01 May 2020
"Energy-Positive" Residential Towers Launched in Dijon and St-Etienne
The French cities of Dijon and Saint-Etienne have become the first metropolises to approve the development of highly sustainable "energy-positive" residential towers under a €2.0...
30 April 2020
Restoration Works Suspended on Historic Paris Cathedral due to COVID-19 Pandemic
Due to the global pandemic, restoration works of La Cathedrale Notre-Dame in Paris have been paused. For security reasons, all operations have been halted by...
02 March 2020
Rippling Tower in Arles Nears Completion
Now soaring over the French city of Arles, Frank Ghery and his team have nearly completed LUMA Arles Art and Research Center, a twisting tower...
31 January 2020
Construction on New Bank Headquarters in Lyon Scheduled to Begin in Spring 2021
Located in Lyon's Part-Dieu business district, between the rue de Bonnel and boulevard Eugène Deruelle, the former Caisse d'Epargne-Rhône-Alpes headquarters, which had been occupied until...
08 January 2020
Mixed-Use Building Planned for Le Havre
After the Videcoq and Dumont-d'Urville towers, a third building is planned to further densify downtown Le Havre. The tower is part of a project by...
13 December 2019
Office Tower Redevelopment Planned for Courbevoie
On 4 December 2019, developer Paris La Défense organized a meeting with local residents in Courbevoie about Tour Aurore, who were informed that the redevelopment...
11 September 2019
Community-Oriented Trades Campus Begins Construction in Nice
The Nice Côte d’Azur Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCI) and the social landlord Habitat 06 kicked off the development of the Campus Sud des...
10 September 2019
Construction Begins on Lyon Skyscraper
Construction on the To-Lyon tower project was officially launched by Vinci Immobilier d’Entreprise, with a symbolic laying of the building’s foundation stone. When completed in...
26 July 2019
Residential Tower in Paris Nears Completion
MAD architects’ first building in Europe, know as UNIC, is nearing completion in Paris, France, marking the architecture firm’s first realized project in Europe. The...
23 July 2019
Toulouse Gives Green Light to Development and Skyscraper
The prefecture of Haute-Garonne has published the favorable opinions of the public commission of inquiry concerning the urban project ToulouseEuroSudOuest (TESO), and the building permit...
15 July 2019
New Tower in Bordeaux Pushes City Construction Limits
A new office tower, Innova Tower, is being developed in Bordeaux, France. Architecture agency Hobo Architects is working in partnership with Bernard Bühler on the...
12 July 2019
Rennes to Become Home to 26-Story Architectural Venture
On 9 July 2019, the east of Brittany town of Rennes was announced as the site for a new architectural project, Féval Tower. The development...
01 July 2019
Tour Hekla Begins Construction in La Défense Near Paris
The currently under-construction Hekla Tower at La Défense is emblematic of next-generation skyscrapers: one that is integrated with the urban habitat. The building, which is...
05 June 2019
Move-ins Begin at Montpellier’s L’Arbre Blanc
Residents have started moving into a Mediterranean development that aims to make a difference to high-rise living. Looking like a pine cone and featuring the...
29 May 2019
Skyscraper to Transform Montpellier District
The construction of the Roch Tower, a symbol of the urban renewal program initiated in the station district in Montpellier, has begun. The new 17-story...
28 May 2019
Suburban Paris Complex Undergoes Major Renovations
The City of Nanterre presented its project to renovate the Aillaud towers, also known as the Cloud Towers, located in the heart of the Pablo-Picasso...
23 May 2019
Competition Winners Announced for Redesign of Paris’ Eiffel Tower Grounds
British landscape architecture studio Gustafson Porter + Bowman is redesigning the surroundings of the Eiffel Tower in Paris in advance of the Paris 2024 Olympic...
21 May 2019
SOHO Concept Comes to Paris Tower
The Small Office / Home Office concept is coming to France. It is a simple, affordable and adaptable hosting solution for the needs of small...
08 May 2019
Construction of Paris’ Triangle Tower Approved
The first stone of a controversial Paris building must be laid before the beginning of next year, now that a court has ruled that the...
16 April 2019
Cathedral Structure Remains Intact After Devastating Fire in Paris
The massive fire at Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris was extinguished early Tuesday, April 16, after a nine-hour battle, authorities said. “The cathedral’s structure has been...
12 April 2019
Plans Revealed for New Urban District in Paris
Winners for the competition "Inventer Bruneseau" have been decided. The massive project will convert a 100,000-square-meter brownfield site into a major new urban district by...
05 March 2019
South Korean Developer Plans to Purchase Paris Skyscraper
A consortium led by South Korea’s top brokerage house Mirae Asset Daewoo Co. is in exclusive negotiations to buy a landmark building worth ₩1 trillion...
27 February 2019
Wooden Tower Will be Added to Rouen’s Skyline
Soon a wooden tower will be visible in the skies of Rouen, France. In the summer of 2019, Eiffage Construction will file building permits for...
31 January 2019
An Urban Development Project is Taking Shape in Lyon
An urban development project in downtown Lyon is slated to double the size of Villeurbanne’s city center by 2027. The Métropole de Lyon and the...
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