Andrew Ayers

The Pompidou’s final architecture exhibition before it closes for renovations displays a career-spanning trove of the mischievous Austrian’s highly varied output, which runs the gamut from radical provocations to PoMo puckishness.

Joined by a new tower, the soaring concrete structure now houses classrooms, lecture halls, and lab spaces.

Architect Ludmila Pernot’s interventions accommodate a dense program while allowing for flexibility of future use.

The University of Chicago’s timber-and-steel academic building in the 13^th arrondissement aims to become a thriving intellectual hub. 

Although public Sunday mass was held at the fire-ravaged Gothic cathedral for the first time since April 2019, full restoration work will not be completed until 2028 at the earliest.