Monday, March 5, 2012

Hotel Fouquet's Barriere

'COPY-EDIT'

Sitting right off of the Champs-Elysees, this project brings the contemporary to the Haussman facade.

It's no easy task to bring contemporary architecture to Paris city center. Imagine being a folded plane building in this context...

Hotel Fouquet grabs onto the old Haussman facade as one way to resolve the dilemma of designing in a historic context during a not-yet historic time. (One can see that the Haussman elements are built using current technology.)



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