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Dominique Perrault Designs an Open-air Métro Station in Suburban Paris

March 21, 2025

Sporting dramatic escalators, public art, and an ETFE roof, Gare de Villejuif-Gustave Roussy serves the Paris Métro’s Line 14 and forthcoming Line 15.

Longchamp Racecourse by Dominique Perrault Architecture

Paris

Josephine Minutillo

August 1, 2018

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A historic track in Paris is reimagined with an open grandstand for crowds both big and small.

Dark-Sky Design: Citylights by Dominique Perrault

Paris

Joann Gonchar, FAIA Linda C. Lentz

August 1, 2016

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Located in a previously industrial part of Paris, the 1975 Pont de Sèvres Towers, designed by Badani and Roux-Dorlut, have been reimagined by French architect Dominique Perrault. Renamed Citylights, the once detached office complex now embraces the city with sustainable prism-shaped buildings that illuminate the rapidly developing district (dubbed Trapèze) with a gentle luminosity.

Albi Grand Theater

Curtain Call: A simple box, dressed up with a curving metal screen, gives an ancient city a modern monument.

William Hanley

December 16, 2014

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A simple box, dressed up with a curving metal screen, gives an ancient city a modern monument.

Ewha Womans University Campus Center

Dominique Perrault blends built and natural environments in a new campus center for the growing student body of Seoul's Ewha Womans University.

Robert Ivy, FAIA FAIA

November 19, 2008

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Blurring the line between construction and topography, French architect Dominique Perrault’s campus center for Ewha Womans University in Seoul, South Korea’s trendy Sinchon district is seamlessly integrated into the sloping hillside it intersects.

Credits: 1 AIA LU/HSW; 1 AIBD P-CE; 0.1 ICC CEU; 1 IIBEC CEH

Examine adaptive reuse envelope strategies that improve energy performance, preserve architectural character, and transform existing buildings into high-performing multifamily housing.

Credits: 1 AIA LU/HSW; 1 AIBD P-CE; 0.1 ICC CEU

Examine exterior wall and air barrier system strategies that improve moisture control, energy efficiency, durability, and indoor environmental quality.