If you’re planning to visit Paris in the next days you won’t regret to discover the most amazing architectural designs. This great architecture it’s everywhere and it’s only necessary a bit of research to uncoversome of the city’s most amazing buildings—there’s a lot more to Parisian architecture than the Tour Eiffel or the Notre Dame. For those visiting the French capital, Paris Design Agenda has selected some of our favorite buildings that are often forgotten in favor of the more famous monuments.
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Centre George Pompidou, Rue Beaubourg, IVe
Centre Pompidou is a complex building in the Beaubourg area of the 4th arrondissement of Paris, near Les Halles, rue Montorgueil and the Marais. It was designed in the style of high-tech architecture by the architectural team of Richard Rogers and Renzo Piano, along with Gianfranco Franchini.
UNESCO Headquarters, Marcel Breuer, Pier Luigi Nervi, Bernard Zehrfuss
The UNESCO headquarters as we know it, which opened in 1958, was the joint effort of three famous modern architects, notably of three distinct nations: the United States’ Marcel Breuer, Italy’s Pier Luigi Nervi, and France’s Bernard Zehrfuss. A modern tour de force, the aptly nicknamed three-point star is located just south of the Eiffel Tower in an otherwise quiet residential neighborhood. Guided tours of the UNESCO campus, which contains several other structures, are available to the public.
Patrick Roger Boutique, 108 Boulevard Saint-Germain
This project was the discovery of the work, sculptures and workshop Patrick Roger. Through him the chocolate has emerged as a world of flavor, taste, and as a material for reversible property changes state from solid to liquid state.
Ecole Bobigny
The city centre school in Bobigny is in a strategic urban location, bounded by three large streets and by a pedestrian space on the north. It is in the middle of an urban complex mainly composed of housing, near the city hall. Therefore this new school is a visually remarkable amenity, visible by its façades and its roof, a founding element of the project onto which the openings of the neighbouring dwellings face.
Fondation Cartier Pour L’Art Contemporain, Jean Nouvel
Completed in 1994, the Fondation Cartier’s Jean Nouvel–designed home sits on the city’s Left Bank, not far from favorite tourist destination Les Catacombes.
Here we left some of the best architectural designs in Paris.
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