What does a Parisian look like? That’s a good question. The Parisian woman is perhaps easier to imagine than her male counterpart: an elegant and independent character somewhere between Catherine ...

The following is an excerpt from our 1.5-hour conversation at the busy Renzo Piano Building Workshop in New York, right across from Piano’s 2015 Whitney Museum that may not be as inventive as his ...

The incredible thing about Beaubourg, speaking as someone who lived through its construction, was that it was backed by France's most conservative president, Georges Pompidou. The strangest, the most ...

But before construction began, the now-empty museum proved too tempting a stage for Because Music – the French record label marking its 20th anniversary this year. Long-time collaborators with the ...

It was number 493 of the 681 submissions to a 1971 architectural competition set up by the French government for a grand cultural centre on the Plateau Beaubourg in Paris. The design by the young ...

Beaubourg and Châtelet - Les Halles, Straddling the third and fourth arrondissement, this quarter is crowded, commercial and can feel a little careless compared to the beautifully composed avenues and ...