Piano's building for film company Pathé snakes in between the façades of the XIII arrondissement

The Pathé Foundation, Paris, by Renzo Piano Building Workshop

Renzo Piano might forever be best known in Paris for the Pompidou Centre, which he designed in the 1970s with fellow architect Richard Rogers, but his recent projects in the capital are also turning heads.

In particular, Renzo Piano Building Workshop has almost completed a fantastic new tubular, glass-clad structure squeezed between two more conventional buildings, which will serve as an archive and heritage centre for the famous French film company, Pathé.

The Pathé Foundation, Paris, by Renzo Piano Building Workshop

The building has been constructed in the centre of a block in Paris’ XIII arrondissement, and is topped with an elliptical dome, held in place by timber beams. The architects at RPBW describe it as “an unexpected presence, a curved volume glimpsed floating in the middle of a courtyard, anchored on just a few supports”.

It will house the new headquarters of the Fondation Jérôme Seydoux-Pathé, along with its not inconsiderable film archive, as well as exhibition spaces for temporary and permanent collections, a 70-seat screening room and the foundation's offices....Continue Reading

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