Seine news

Seine Design have created a €5.4m (US$6m, £4.6m) floating guinguette – a small restaurant and dance hall – with glass-panelled sides and a glass roof ... More

Construction work has begun on the Athletes Village for the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games. The 51-hectare site in the Seinte-Saint-Denis district in north ... More

A floating art museum dedicated to urban art, including graffiti and street art, has docked on the River Seine in Paris at the foot of ... More

French architecture studio SCAU have won the design competition to create an Olympic stadium and leisure park in the suburbs of Paris, with their vision ... More

Four design teams have been shortlisted for a project to reimagine the Eiffel Tower's visitor experience. Groups led by AL_A, Gustafson, Porter + Bowman, Agence ... More

The French government has unveiled an ambitious plan to renovate Paris’s landmark Grand Palais and create a cultural boulevard linking the historic site with the ... More

Concerns over flooding have forced Paris’s Louvre to initiate emergency protocols in order to protect the historic institution’s collection. The River Seine is expected to ... More

The Pritzker-winning architect Shigeru Ban has completed the dramatic Mount Fuji World Heritage Center in Japan’s Yamanashi prefecture, with a design that mimics the famous ... More

As 2017 draws to an end, CLAD looks back at some of the most significant leisure buildings, both big and small, that have opened this ... More

Commuters could soon get their exercise fix on the train to work, thanks to a new double-decker carriage design that includes onboard spin bikes. German ... More

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has officially approved plans to transform Paris into an Olympic Park for the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games – a ... More

New York architects SO – IL and French firm Laisne Roussel have won an international design competition to integrate new buildings and public spaces into ... More

Shigeru Ban’s €170m (US$189.4m, £145.2m) concert venue for Paris has opened on an island in the Seine. Designed with French architect Jean de Gastines on ... More

Delegates are heading to Paris ahead of the European Association of Zoos and Aquaria’s (EAZA) European Zoo Educators Conference (EZE), which kicks off in the ... More

International design and innovation office Carlo Ratti Associati, in collaboration with Dubai’s Museum of the Future, have developed a digitally-operated reflecting canopy to provide shading, ... More

Here are some of the stories that appeared on CLAD this week, from the announcement of the world’s best building to new projects for OMA, ... More

Parisian gym-goers could soon be powering scenic boat trips along the River Seine on a fitness vessel that harnesses energy from passengers’ workouts. The Paris ... More

Here are some of the most popular stories that appeared on CLAD this week Monday Zaha Hadid Architects and Glenn Howells Architects were named as ... More

Citysurfing, a company that makes eco-friendly floating structures, has partnered with the Elegancia Hotel Group to create a hotel and bar located on the River ... More

Two major museums in the heart of Paris have been temporarily closed so that their priceless works can be moved to higher ground amid the ... More

A series of "never before released fashion collaborations" have been released this week by the New York office of international architecture practice OMA. The studio ... More

Architects Foster + Partners have confirmed that the Hermitage Plaza, a mixed-use development planned for Paris, France has been granted 'permis de construire' - the ... More

A 65-bedroom hotel called Rafayel is to be built at the new Falcon Wharf Development in Battersea, London. The eco-friendly five-star hotel will also offer ... More