Rem Koolhaas built a unique villa on the heights of Saint-Cloud.

In Nîmes, Jean Nouvel conceived a block of tenement houses reminiscent of a cruise liner. An architectural utopia tha...

In late 19th century Brussels, the Art Nouveau movement was laying the foundations of a new concept in architecture, ...

Bruno and Henri Gaudin have broken with the classic design of a closed stadium, and created a bridge between Paris an...

Middle Aged castle rebuilt by Viollet Le Duc for the Emperor Napoleon III. A reconstruction that paradoxically opene...

At the turn of the last century, Otto Wagner designed one of the first 20th century modern office buildings, represen...

A giant meccano-like structure designed by Richard Rogers and Renzo Piano, a museum-factory that has become one of th...

The philanthropist company boss Andre Godin built a workers' housing estate with a palatial air. Social housing is b...

Designed by the architect Rem Koolhaas for a couple whose husband became disabled following a road accident, the arch...

Walter Gropius' main achievement is the buildings of the Bauhaus, built in 1926. His pioneering architecture saw the ...

An astonishing concrete and steel structure designed for an open field in the Lyon countryside. An astonishing feat u...

These famous office buildings were designed and built between 1936 and 1939 for the wax manufacturer Johnson, by one ...

In the heart of Paris, architect Duban's 'École des Beaux-Arts' provides its students with an architectural "temple" ...

The Portuguese architect Alvaro Siza built Porto's Faculty of Architecture, a mediation on space and light in a futur...

The Spa of Vals-les-Bains, designed by Peter Zumthor, redefines the very concept of public bathing, a mise en scène o...

Built in Naples, this is one of the last and largest covered passageways to be constructed in Europe, providing the s...

In the 19th century in London, the Midland Company had Saint Pancras and a luxury hotel built. Engineer W.H. Barlow ...

The Fort de France Education Authority is the only example of a contemporary architectural building in Martinique. I...

The Garnier Opera by Charles Garnier This is Paris's most prestigious 19th century building, the pinnacle of the "Bea...

The Jewish Museum in Berlin, by Daniel Libeskind, tackles the emptiness left by the extermination of Europe's Jews du...

With the Convent of La Tourette, commissioned by the Dominicans of Lyons, Le Courbusier was charged with the task of ...

At the end of the 19th century, Louis Henry Sullivan, the father of American architecture, built the world's largest ...

Built in 1952 by Alvaar Alto, this town hall building lies in the heart of a rugged landscape in Finland. It represe...

A block of flats in Barcelona, the Casa Milà is an extraordinarily sculpted work created by the great Spanish archite...

In 1928, Pierre Chareau built the poetic and remarkable Maison de Verre, one of the unique buildings of the 20th cent...

Built in 1050, the Abbey is one of the foremost pilgrim churches of the Christian world. Rational, svelte and light-...

Known for his strange and deconstructed forms, Frank Gehry designed this monumental, but chaotic and abstract-looking...

The visionary architect Claude Nicolas Ledoux, one of the earliest exponents of French Neoclassical design, built a m...

In 1953, while going through his worst life-crisis, French designer Jean Prouvé built "his" house. Designed in haste...

A glass cube, built in 2001 by Toyo Ito, this library provides an example of immaterial and evanescent architecture. ...

Worried that their dynasty would disappear, the Nasrid sultans built this Red Castle in a strategic location over the...

The sculptural power of the science center in Wolfsberg, Germany, in which the plan is a landscape - the landscape of...

Built in Kyoto in 1743, this traditional Japanese architectural masterpiece portrays a different understanding of arc...

In the most ambitious of the Mussolini regime's buildings, the leader of Italy's modern movement Adalberto Libera att...

For the 1964 summer Olympic Games in Tokyo, Kenzo Tange designed two concrete gymnasiums which evoke a sense of movem...

By inventing the villa, a new type of housing, in 1550, Palladio sought to combine aesthetics with utility. This rig...

In 1598, King Abbas planned an immense urban project. His royal mosque captured his unprecedented wealth, an art of ...

The Menier factory at Noisiel, outside Paris, was the largest chocolate factory in the world between 1870 and 1914. ...

The Djoser pyramid, the work of legendary architect Imhotep, is the oldest in Egypt, and bears witness to the first s...

How and why did this minimalist structure end up embodying 20th century modernity? Between rigor and free form, Ludw...

The SAS Royal Hotel tower marked Denmark's entry into post-war modernity. It is a major work that combines functiona...

Opened in 1974, Roissy 1 was the first time architecture had entered the realm of airport construction. The building...

Although its posterity has now rendered its image commonplace, the Maisons Laffitte Chateau revolutionized French arc...

The elliptical shaped Philharmonic, with its filter of white columns and colorful cliffs, houses the Grand Auditorium...

In 2006, the company Vitra asked the "Herzog & de Meuron" agency to create a building for it's "Home" collection. Th...

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Vauban's "Queen of the citadels" was the model for military construction all over France. Built between 1668 and 167...

Breaking away from the 19th century neoclassical trend, Henri Labrouste erected a powerful public building in which s...

In a country ruined by World War I, Auguste Perret took up the challenge of building a church. In concrete. It was ...

With this building, Dominique Perrault continues a concept that is dear to him, the absence of architecture. The urb...

Poised on the shore of Lake Geneva, a wave of cement and glass has inspired many metaphors, from a slice of Emmental ...

The mutation of a concrete mastodon, the Pantin Administrative Center (1969) into the French National Dance Center (2...

Started in 1247, the Cologne Cathedral was completed in 1880 after a 300 year break in the work carried out on it. T...

In the Palmeiras district of São Paulo, early 20th century former factory workshops are aligned with strange blocks ...

From 1705 to 1752, the house of the Princes of Soubise was the setting for wild ambition and dreams of grandeur, with...

A mysterious white dome and an undulating glass facade, the headquarters of the French Communist Party, built between...

Designed by Claude Hausermann-Costy, and built by Joel Unal between 1972 and 2008, it's a bubble house without a sing...

A cross between Taylorism and Bauhaus, the Van Nelle factory at Rotterdam was built between 1926 and 1931. Designed ...

On the fringes of the Bois de Boulogne in Paris, a grand galleon with 12 glass sails, billowing in an imaginary wind,...

The mausoleum of Itimad-ud-Daulah, built of white marble encrusted with semi-precious stones, in Agra the capital of ...

After Japan's 2011 tsunami, a group of architects led by Toyo Ito launched the "Home for All" project, providing comm...

The Wa Shan, literally "Tile Mountain", is an astonishing guesthouse, built by Chinese architect Wang Shu, who pursue...

Built at the dawn of the 20th century by Charles Rennie Mackintosh, the Glasgow School of Art is a masterpiece that c...

La Sante prison (1861-1867) is a unique and impressive work of architecture. At the cutting edge of reflections on i...

An astonishing structure in which three cones flow together into one roof that protects a school building made of bam...

Seen from the sky, a long stained-glass window structures the commercial center. At Médiacité, the experimental, pro...

A masterpiece of geometry and of architectural precision, the library is one of Lous Kahn's last works. Louis Kahn r...