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After publishing books on the quiet corners of London and Amsterdam, artist and writer Siobhan Wall has now focussed her attentions on Paris. I ask her what attracts her at once to cities and...
The name Marcel Hennequet may be largely forgotten in Paris today, but it is engraved into some of the most imaginative interwar buildings in the city. What links the Boulevard Periere in the 17th...
No other part of Paris has undergone such a radical transformation as the 13th arrondissement in the last 50 years, and nowhere is this more visible than at the Olympiades development, celebrating...
Although officially the richest town in France*, Neuilly-sur-Seine is built within a landscape of ruins. In search of these vestiges of destruction amongst the modern-day architecture of affluence....
A building transformed into a giant paint pot might seem surprising, but it is only one of several curiosities on the quixotic Quai d'Austerlitz. Take the lines 5 or 6 of the Metro as they fly...
One of the first posts I wrote on this blog back in 2008 was about a mysterious bricked-up passageway in the 9th arrondissement. Thanks to the recent intervention of a reader who happens to live...
An interactive online map highlights the musical geography of Paris, but what does it tell us about the city? The map, originally created to accompany an exhibition held last year in Paris, plots...
What links a vintage postcard, a forgotten novel and a lost film? The answer - a small room in a Paris left-bank hotel. Since I began posting on Invisible Paris it has always been clear to me that...
In what is already Europe's most crowded capital city, it is perhaps an unenviable honour to be labelled the densest building in Paris. Though undoubtedly hefty and imposing, the building that...
Auguste Perret's Salle Cortot offers a blank exterior to passers by, but its interesting interior can be experienced for free during lunchtime concerts on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays! The...
On and around a condemned building in the Rue de l'Orillon, a group of starlings is currently putting on a performance each evening at dusk. But for how long? Around an hour before sundown they...
Having a fascination with obscure - but atmospheric - vintage Paris postcards, I naturally couldn't resist this curiously framed river shot, taken from the bankside in front of the Hotel de Ville....
I have previously written about the Paris HQ building of the French Communist party on this blog, but last weekend gave me the opportunity to explore the interiors - and to take plenty of...
When researching my recent post on French silent film star Max Linder I was surprised to discover that the studio in which he made most of his films was still standing. At the earliest opportunity...
In the 1980s, Paris and its surrounding towns developed a taste for the post-modern architecture of Ricardo Bofill and his disciples from the 'Le Taller de Arquitectura' movement. To see how their...
Following last week’s list of the most-read posts on Invisible Paris in 2012, here are the five posts that I enjoyed working on the most - but which my audience enjoyed reading perhaps a little...
In a now traditional feature – that everyone waits for with much anticipation – here is the list of the top five most-read posts this year. Next week I will publish a similar feature listing my...
||PART OF A TWIN FEATURE PUBLISHED WITH INVISIBLE BORDEAUX|| Le Petit Parisien, 1/11/1925 The news broke on November 1st - ironically the Toussaint, or the day of the dead. Max Linder, the...
This Sunday, the residents of Boulogne Billancourt to the west of Paris will have an interesting choice to make. Who of Jean Nouvel, Jean Nouvel or Jean Nouvel will they choose to develop the Ile...
In 1917, the French army launched a plan to build a replica Paris in order to fool German pilots and bombers. A book recently published recounts the story. As the First World War dragged on and...
ccconceptccc Dig beneath the newly created Parc Alsace in Levallois and you'll find not a beach but instead one of the biggest supermarkets in the Paris region. A newly constructed park is an...
Counter-Tourism is a term coined by writer and performer Phil Smith (aka Crab Man), and is described as a series of "tactics (which) are designed to transform the way you look at places and to get...
At the end of October I was filmed by a team from CNN for a travel show on Paris. Considering the standing of the other guest presenters involved, it was an honour to be included, and an all-round...
||PART OF A TWIN FEATURE PUBLISHED WITH INVISIBLE BORDEAUX|| For many people a trip to Paris is a kind of modern-day pilgrimage, but for several hundred years the city has also been one of the...
With an exhibition on the later works of the artist Raphael currently running at the Louvre, it is interesting to note an earlier link between the renaissance painter and Paris. An article...
The subject of tall buildings in Paris is still a controversial one, but it is easy to overlook the fact that the first skyscraper was erected in the city over 50 years ago. This particular...
On a curve of the Rue de la Cavalerie, not far from the Ecole Militaire and Eiffel tower, stands a rather grandiose art deco car park. Even more impressive than its exterior though is the fact that...
Think of Montparnasse and you might be tempted to imagine the district's golden age during the années folles in the 1920s. Whilst vestiges of this period remain, the truth is that the most visible...
A study commissioned by a multinational ahead of a new promotional campaign aims to reveal what Parisians consider to be priceless about their city. But what can we learn about Paris and its...
The lawn leading up to the main greenhouse at the Jardin des Serres d'Auteuil would seem to be an ideal spot to place a tennis court - but don't tell that to the garden's regular visitors. A...
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