This inside-out building with its pipes of different colours (specific colour always matches a specific type of pipe) is a love/hate…
The Art Deco palace was built on the same spot where a similar palace already stood before that.
The imposing Beaux-Arts building was erected for the 1900 World Exposition.
Looming in the Montparnasse district, this 210 meters tall tower used to be the tallest skyscraper in France until 2011.
A memorial built in 2000 to remind its visitors of the importance of peace. It's made of steel, wood and glass.
Fans of the movie Amélie will recognize the place instantly. In this small metro station and the triangular square that surrounds it,…
Stravinsky Fountain features various colourful sculptures and many water springs.
This cinema's history starts in 1921, when the first movie (Danish science-fiction silent film A Trip to Mars, published in 1918) showed on…
A fairly young mosque which was built in the city in order to thank more than 100,000 Muslims for fighting in WWI against Germany.
UNESCO Headquarters, or Maison de l'UNESCO, is a building inaugurated on 3 November 1958 at number 7 Place de Fontenoy in Paris, France, to…
The Cité de la mode et du design is a building located at the site of the old general storehouses on the Quai d'Austerlitz in the 13th…
The Fondation Cartier pour l'Art Contemporain, known simply as the Fondation Cartier, is a contemporary art museum located at 261 boulevard…
This Roman Catholic church looks rather unusual - it consists of a cubic structure covered with an iron grid.
This huge library comprises of 4 towers shaped as open books. The institution keeps every book, newspaper or magazine ever printed in France.
The Maison de Verre was built from 1928 to 1932 in Paris, France. Constructed in the early modern style of architecture, the house's design…
Accor Arena, also known as Paris-Bercy, is an indoor sports arena and concert hall located in the neighbourhood of Bercy, on the Boulevard…
Nip across the road to see this modern house which was built for Tristan Tzara by Adolf Loos. It's very simple and minimalistic.
Maison du Brésil is a student hostel building located in the Cité Universitaire complex in Paris, France, designed by noted architects Le…
Named after controversial Les Shadoks by French animator Jacques Rouxel.