September 19, 1996 • 26m
Rem Koolhaas built a unique villa on the heights of Saint-Cloud.
September 26, 1996 • 26m
In Nîmes, Jean Nouvel conceived a block of tenement houses reminiscent of a cruise liner. An architectural utopia that pokes fun a...Read more
October 3, 1996 • 26m
In late 19th century Brussels, the Art Nouveau movement was laying the foundations of a new concept in architecture, and Victor Ho...Read more
October 10, 1996 • 26m
Bruno and Henri Gaudin have broken with the classic design of a closed stadium, and created a bridge between Paris and its suburb....Read more
October 17, 1996 • 26m
Middle Aged castle rebuilt by Viollet Le Duc for the Emperor Napoleon III. A reconstruction that paradoxically opened the way for...Read more
July 2, 1998 • 26m
At the turn of the last century, Otto Wagner designed one of the first 20th century modern office buildings, representing a radica...Read more
July 23, 1998 • 26m
A giant meccano-like structure designed by Richard Rogers and Renzo Piano, a museum-factory that has become one of the most notabl...Read more
August 13, 1998 • 26m
The philanthropist company boss Andre Godin built a workers' housing estate with a palatial air. Social housing is born.
August 27, 1998 • 26m
Designed by the architect Rem Koolhaas for a couple whose husband became disabled following a road accident, the architect's plan ...Read more
March 3, 2001 • 26m
Walter Gropius' main achievement is the buildings of the Bauhaus, built in 1926. His pioneering architecture saw the birth of one ...Read more
March 10, 2001 • 26m
An astonishing concrete and steel structure designed for an open field in the Lyon countryside. An astonishing feat undertaken by ...Read more
March 17, 2001 • 26m
These famous office buildings were designed and built between 1936 and 1939 for the wax manufacturer Johnson, by one one of the 20...Read more
March 24, 2001 • 26m
In the heart of Paris, architect Duban's 'École des Beaux-Arts' provides its students with an architectural "temple" representing ...Read more
April 14, 2001 • 26m
The Portuguese architect Alvaro Siza built Porto's Faculty of Architecture, a mediation on space and light in a futuristic "agora"...Read more
April 21, 2001 • 26m
The Spa of Vals-les-Bains, designed by Peter Zumthor, redefines the very concept of public bathing, a mise en scène of water in all its aspects.
May 19, 2001 • 26m
Built in Naples, this is one of the last and largest covered passageways to be constructed in Europe, providing the swan song for ...Read more
June 2, 2001 • 26m
In the 19th century in London, the Midland Company had Saint Pancras and a luxury hotel built. Engineer W.H. Barlow carried out a...Read more
June 9, 2001 • 26m
The Fort de France Education Authority is the only example of a contemporary architectural building in Martinique. It is also the...Read more
June 16, 2001 • 28m
The Garnier Opera by Charles Garnier This is Paris's most prestigious 19th century building, the pinnacle of the "Beaux Arts" styl...Read more
July 5, 2003 • 26m
The Jewish Museum in Berlin, by Daniel Libeskind, tackles the emptiness left by the extermination of Europe's Jews during the Seco...Read more
July 26, 2003 • 26m
With the Convent of La Tourette, commissioned by the Dominicans of Lyons, Le Courbusier was charged with the task of creating this...Read more
September 6, 2003 • 26m
At the end of the 19th century, Louis Henry Sullivan, the father of American architecture, built the world's largest opera house, ...Read more
September 13, 2003 • 26m
Built in 1952 by Alvaar Alto, this town hall building lies in the heart of a rugged landscape in Finland. It represents a humanis...Read more
September 20, 2003 • 26m
A block of flats in Barcelona, the Casa Milà is an extraordinarily sculpted work created by the great Spanish architect Antoni Gau...Read more
February 26, 2005 • 26m
In 1928, Pierre Chareau built the poetic and remarkable Maison de Verre, one of the unique buildings of the 20th century. Inserte...Read more
March 5, 2005 • 26m
Built in 1050, the Abbey is one of the foremost pilgrim churches of the Christian world. Rational, svelte and light-filled Romane...Read more
March 19, 2005 • 26m
Known for his strange and deconstructed forms, Frank Gehry designed this monumental, but chaotic and abstract-looking sculpture in...Read more
April 2, 2005 • 26m
The visionary architect Claude Nicolas Ledoux, one of the earliest exponents of French Neoclassical design, built a monumental fac...Read more
April 30, 2005 • 26m
In 1953, while going through his worst life-crisis, French designer Jean Prouvé built "his" house. Designed in haste, it embodies...Read more
May 14, 2005 • 26m
A glass cube, built in 2001 by Toyo Ito, this library provides an example of immaterial and evanescent architecture. The multimedi...Read more
March 11, 2007 • 26m
Worried that their dynasty would disappear, the Nasrid sultans built this Red Castle in a strategic location over the city of Gran...Read more
March 18, 2007 • 26m
The sculptural power of the science center in Wolfsberg, Germany, in which the plan is a landscape - the landscape of Zaha Hadid's...Read more
April 1, 2007 • 26m
Built in Kyoto in 1743, this traditional Japanese architectural masterpiece portrays a different understanding of architecture and...Read more
April 15, 2007 • 26m
In the most ambitious of the Mussolini regime's buildings, the leader of Italy's modern movement Adalberto Libera attempted the im...Read more
May 20, 2007 • 26m
For the 1964 summer Olympic Games in Tokyo, Kenzo Tange designed two concrete gymnasiums which evoke a sense of movement. Famous ...Read more
June 17, 2007 • 26m
By inventing the villa, a new type of housing, in 1550, Palladio sought to combine aesthetics with utility. This rigorous and inn...Read more
February 11, 2009 • 26m
In 1598, King Abbas planned an immense urban project. His royal mosque captured his unprecedented wealth, an art of living, the k...Read more
September 13, 2009 • 26m
The Menier factory at Noisiel, outside Paris, was the largest chocolate factory in the world between 1870 and 1914. Throughout it...Read more
September 20, 2009 • 26m
The Djoser pyramid, the work of legendary architect Imhotep, is the oldest in Egypt, and bears witness to the first steps of archi...Read more
September 27, 2009 • 26m
How and why did this minimalist structure end up embodying 20th century modernity? Between rigor and free form, Ludwig Mies van d...Read more
October 11, 2009 • 26m
The SAS Royal Hotel tower marked Denmark's entry into post-war modernity. It is a major work that combines functionalism, simplic...Read more
October 25, 2009 • 26m
Opened in 1974, Roissy 1 was the first time architecture had entered the realm of airport construction. The building is the work ...Read more
November 15, 2009 • 26m
Although its posterity has now rendered its image commonplace, the Maisons Laffitte Chateau revolutionized French architecture. I...Read more
December 6, 2009 • 26m
The elliptical shaped Philharmonic, with its filter of white columns and colorful cliffs, houses the Grand Auditorium in the manne...Read more
October 2, 2011 • 26m
In 2006, the company Vitra asked the "Herzog & de Meuron" agency to create a building for it's "Home" collection. The showroom co...Read more
October 9, 2011 • 26m
Episode 46 of Season 1 premiered on October 9, 2011
October 16, 2011 • 26m
Vauban's "Queen of the citadels" was the model for military construction all over France. Built between 1668 and 1671, its exacti...Read more
October 30, 2011 • 26m
Breaking away from the 19th century neoclassical trend, Henri Labrouste erected a powerful public building in which stone featured...Read more
November 13, 2011 • 26m
In a country ruined by World War I, Auguste Perret took up the challenge of building a church. In concrete. It was a shunned mat...Read more
December 4, 2011 • 26m
With this building, Dominique Perrault continues a concept that is dear to him, the absence of architecture. The urban dimension ...Read more
May 5, 2013 • 26m
Poised on the shore of Lake Geneva, a wave of cement and glass has inspired many metaphors, from a slice of Emmental cheese to a p...Read more
May 19, 2013 • 26m
The mutation of a concrete mastodon, the Pantin Administrative Center (1969) into the French National Dance Center (2004)... Or t...Read more
May 26, 2013 • 26m
Started in 1247, the Cologne Cathedral was completed in 1880 after a 300 year break in the work carried out on it. The Cathedral,...Read more
June 23, 2013 • 26m
In the Palmeiras district of São Paulo, early 20th century former factory workshops are aligned with strange blocks of cement tha...Read more
July 7, 2013 • 26m
From 1705 to 1752, the house of the Princes of Soubise was the setting for wild ambition and dreams of grandeur, with the dual pur...Read more
August 30, 2015 • 26m
A mysterious white dome and an undulating glass facade, the headquarters of the French Communist Party, built between 1965 and 198...Read more
September 6, 2015 • 26m
Designed by Claude Hausermann-Costy, and built by Joel Unal between 1972 and 2008, it's a bubble house without a single right angl...Read more
September 13, 2015 • 26m
A cross between Taylorism and Bauhaus, the Van Nelle factory at Rotterdam was built between 1926 and 1931. Designed by the archit...Read more
September 20, 2015 • 26m
On the fringes of the Bois de Boulogne in Paris, a grand galleon with 12 glass sails, billowing in an imaginary wind, towers above...Read more
October 4, 2015 • 26m
The mausoleum of Itimad-ud-Daulah, built of white marble encrusted with semi-precious stones, in Agra the capital of the Mughal Em...Read more
October 11, 2015 • 26m
After Japan's 2011 tsunami, a group of architects led by Toyo Ito launched the "Home for All" project, providing community centers...Read more
October 18, 2015 • 26m
The Wa Shan, literally "Tile Mountain", is an astonishing guesthouse, built by Chinese architect Wang Shu, who pursues the aim of ...Read more
October 25, 2015 • 26m
Built at the dawn of the 20th century by Charles Rennie Mackintosh, the Glasgow School of Art is a masterpiece that combines the c...Read more
October 8, 2017 • 26m
La Sante prison (1861-1867) is a unique and impressive work of architecture. At the cutting edge of reflections on imprisonment, ...Read more
October 15, 2017 • 26m
An astonishing structure in which three cones flow together into one roof that protects a school building made of bamboo. An ambi...Read more
October 22, 2017 • 26m
Seen from the sky, a long stained-glass window structures the commercial center. At Médiacité, the experimental, provocative Isra...Read more
October 29, 2017 • 26m
A masterpiece of geometry and of architectural precision, the library is one of Lous Kahn's last works. Louis Kahn reinvented lib...Read more