https://www.architecturalrecord.com/rss/1305-dominique-perrault-architecture en-us http://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/17431 Fri, 21 Mar 2025 00:22:17 -0400 https://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/17431-dominique-perrault-designs-an-open-air-metro-station-in-suburban-paris A historic track in Paris is reimagined with an open grandstand for crowds both big and small.

]]> http://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/13577 Wed, 01 Aug 2018 08:02:00 -0400 https://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/13577-longchamp-racecourse-by-dominique-perrault-architecture Photo © Michel Denancé The racecourse borders the western edge of Paris by the Seine River. Photo courtesy Dominique Perrault Architecture A wide staircase greets visitors at the main entrance. Photo © Vincent Fillon The new structure sits adjacent to two historic buildings that include a rarely used 1921 grandstand at the center. Photo courtesy Dominique Perrault Architecture The ipé seating features gold accents. Photo courtesy Dominique Perrault Architecture An open green in front of the raised walkway and beside the grandstand accommodates temporary seating for larger crowds. Photo © Michel Denancé The towers of La Défense are visible from the turf course. Photo courtesy France Galop Image courtesy Dominique Perrault Architecture Image courtesy Dominique Perrault Architecture goncharj@bnpmedia.com (Joann Gonchar, FAIA) 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.

]]> http://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/11817 Mon, 01 Aug 2016 09:00:00 -0400 https://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/11817-dark-sky-design-citylights-by-dominique-perrault Citylights | Dominique Perrault Photo © Vincent Fillon Photo © Vincent Fillon A simple box, dressed up with a curving metal screen, gives an ancient city a modern monument.

]]> 1412-albi-grand-theater-dominique-perrault-architecture.asp Tue, 16 Dec 2014 12:00:00 -0500 https://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/7365-albi-grand-theater Albi Grand Theater Dominique Perrault Architecture wrapped the Albi Grand Theater in a metal mesh screen.   Photo © Georges Fessy/DPA/ADAGP Albi Grand Theater It curves to catch sunlight at different angles and appears to change color throughout the day. The screen is attached to the boxlike building with a black steel armature.   Photo © Georges Fessy/DPA/ADAGP Albi Grand Theater The shifting color of the theater’s metal screen mimics the way that light moves across the brick buildings in Albi’s historic district throughout the day.   Photo © Georges Fessy/DPA/ADAGP Albi Grand Theater The old city is visible from a rooftop restaurant where the screen also serves as a windbreak.   Photo © Georges Fessy/DPA/ADAGP Albi Grand Theater The shifting color of the theater’s metal screen mimics the way that light moves across the brick buildings in Albi’s historic district throughout the day.   Photo © Georges Fessy/DPA/ADAGP Albi Grand Theater Inside the performance hall, the designers and acoustician played off the color of the city’s brick in the seating, and its texture in walls made from variegated wooden “bricks.”   Photo © Georges Fessy/DPA/ADAGP Albi Grand Theater The theater’s public spaces are enclosed by fully-glazed walls. The panes are laminated in a checkerboard pattern in two shades of orange that reference Albi’s historic brick buildings. Chandeliers have vertical glass tubes and exposed wires that give them a refined industrial aesthetic.   Photo © Georges Fessy/DPA/ADAGP Albi Grand Theater The volume of the performance hall protrudes into the lobby. There, light streaming through the colored window walls bounces off a series of mirrored circular kiosks that can be configured as ticket counters or concession bars. One of the highlights of the project, stairs on either side of the lobby mimic the grand stairs of a traditional opera house and a Modernist theater respectively, but in a thin, black-pigmented concrete that makes them resemble pencil drawings, suspended in the dazzling, kaleidoscopic space.   Photo © Georges Fessy/DPA/ADAGP Albi Grand Theater Image courtesy Dominique Perrault Architecture Albi Grand Theater Image courtesy Dominique Perrault Architecture Albi Grand Theater Image courtesy Dominique Perrault Architecture 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.

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