MONTPELLIER, France — “It looks like a toothbrush. It’s quite strange,” said the Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto. He was speaking about his first project in France, a mixed-use residential ...

If Harrods food hall were burning and I could grab only one thing before I ran from the store that has everything, it would be butter. Not milk, not cream, not Somerset Cheddar, not Normandy Brie ...

The Lez river in Montpellier has welcomed a striking new structure to its shores. The L'Arbre Blanc towers 17 stories over its surroundings in the southern French city, offering an abundance of ...

(The first BASE jumper, by Time’s reckoning, was a Frenchman named Louis-Sébastian Lenormand, who parachuted off a Montpellier observatory tower in 1783.) Of course, the practice wasn’t ...

From the Winning Team: The new multipurpose tower called L’Arbre Blanc (The White Tree) is designed for housing, a restaurant, an art gallery, offices, a bar with a panoramic view and a common ...

London-based Farshid Moussavi Architecture has won a competition to design a residential tower in Montpellier, France. The so-called “Lot 2” project will be the first of 12 new buildings in ...

Guinness World Records at first rejected a tower replica that Richard Plaud made from more than 700,000 matchsticks. But on further review, the organization said it might have been too "heavy-handed." ...

A futuristic cone-shaped tower featuring balconies sprouting in all directions is set to dominate the skyline in Montpellier, France, after winning a competition to become the city's second ...

The sight of a bushy, white, curvilinear 17-story tower in the city of Montpellier, France, could stop you in your tracks. And this is before you notice that the balconies of this mostly residential ...

L’Arbre Blanc is the work of four architects: Sou Fujimoto, Manal Rachdi, Nicolas Laisné and Dimitri Roussel. The foursome came together after Montpellier city council launched a design competition in ...

Roof plan. A well-tempered signal in the heart of Montpellier, the emblematic Higher Roch tower is one of the components of this vast program on lot III of the ZAC, a program called City Roch (12 ...