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France · October
Architecture in Paris
Landmark buildings and design highlights, picked by an architect.
Bois de Boulogne
Fondation Louis Vuitton
Frank Gehry’s glass sails in the Bois de Boulogne. From 9 October, a major show on the collector Gustave Fayet with Van Gogh, Gauguin and Redon.
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Louvre & Les Halles
Bourse de Commerce
Tadao Ando set a smooth concrete cylinder inside an 18th-century grain exchange and its painted dome. From 7 October, “Remember Me”, 700 photographs from the Pinault Collection.
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Latin Quarter
Institut du Monde Arabe
Jean Nouvel’s façade of metal diaphragms, inspired by mashrabiya. The rooftop terrace looks over Notre-Dame. “Vive la mariée!”, on Maghreb wedding traditions, runs to 28 February 2027.
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Louvre & Palais-Royal
Fondation Cartier
Opened in October 2025 in a former department store facing the Louvre. Nouvel inserted five moving steel platforms that rise and fall to reshape the galleries.
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7th arrondissement
Musée du quai Branly
Nouvel’s museum of art from Africa, Asia, Oceania and the Americas, behind a green wall by Patrick Blanc.
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La Villette
Philharmonie de Paris
Nouvel’s shimmering concert hall at the edge of the Parc de la Villette, clad in a pattern of metal birds.
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