Projects How they built the Paris Olympics swimming pools in 36 days Italy’s Myrtha Pools has installed two of its modular, stainless steel swimming pools for the Paris Olympics in just 36 days. The 50×25-metre pools went up at La Defense Arena…
News Eiffage team wins €2.5bn Line 15 East on Grand Paris Express A nine-company consortium has won a €2.5bn design-and-build contract for a section of Line 15 East of the Grand Paris Express between Bobigny-Pablo Picasso station and Champigny Centre. The consortium…
Projects ‘Not since Haussmann!’: Residents move into new Paris quarter built with stone People have started moving into a new mix-use quarter in Paris built predominantly with stone. It is “the largest building site using solid, load-bearing stone since Haussmann!” says its architect,…
News Vinci JV wins €2.7bn contract for the Grand Paris Express Société du Grand Paris, the body in charge of building and running a group of rapid transit lines in the Paris city region, has awarded its first design-and-build contract to…
News Paris picks design for new Notre-Dame setting The City of Paris has chosen a design from a team led by Brussels-based international architect Bureau Bas Smets (BBS) to reimagine the area surrounding Notre-Dame cathedral.