Frank Gehry's LVMH Foundation in Paris

From the LVMH Foundation to Aspen Art Museum, Caroline Roux rounds up 2014's standout luxury architectural projects

1. The Leadenhall Building, London: RHSP

If 2013 belonged to The Shard, Renzo Piano’s glass spectacle that soars a record-breaking, for London, 306 metres, then 2014’s skyscraper of the year is a slightly smaller affair at 224 metres. The Leadenhall Building – better known as the Cheesegrater thanks to its triangular form – is the ultimate realization of Richard Rogers’ high-tech principles, here applied to a truly contemporary building. Part of its lofty entrance space offers a new public plaza to the City, while its parking provision –22 cars, 400 bicycles,130 motorbikes – is its view on sustainability writ large.

2. LVMH Foundation, Paris: Frank Gehry. 

Pathé Foundation, Paris: Renzo Piano

The LVMH Foundation opened in Paris’s Bois de Boulogne in October with the sort of fanfare we’ve come to expect from both a Louis Vuitton project and a Frank Gehry building. But there’s no denying that this is architecture as an event, or an explosion: a cluster of pearly white volumes submersed beneath a flurry of 12 massive glass sails. The terraces beneath these transparent shelters feel like an adult playground, ripe for exploration, and from which splendid views of Paris are revealed.....Continue Reading

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