Modern architecture to film in France
8 of them, 2 with a photo and 1 with practical details the location publishes itself. Every entry links to the location or to the body that manages it.
Contemporary buildings with a strong shape: museums, concert halls, campuses, glass towers and brutalist concrete.
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Centre Pompidou-Metz
Modern architecture
Museum of 2010 under a woven timber roof, with three tubular galleries stacked over a tall glazed forum and terraces facing the railway station quarter.
La Défense
Modern architecture
Purpose-built business district west of Paris with high-rise office towers, an elevated pedestrian esplanade and the Grande Arche at its western end.
Bourse de Commerce, Pinault Collection
Modern architecture
Former 19th-century grain exchange with a circular rotunda and glass dome, renovated by Tadao Ando with an internal concrete cylinder as a contemporary art museum.
Capacity: 800 · Ground-floor Salon and Passage (up to 800 for a cocktail reception or 220 for a seated dinner), Foyer on floor -1 (up to 300 for a cocktail...
Cité de la Mode et du Design
Modern architecture
Former riverside customs warehouse on the Seine reclad in a green glass and steel skin, housing a design school, offices, a club and event floors over the water.
La Cite du Vin
Modern architecture
Twisting glass and aluminium tower on Bordeaux's Garonne quays, built around a wine museum and a top-floor tasting room, with function spaces used for private events and film screenings.
MuCEM
Modern architecture
Marseille museum in a concrete cube wrapped in a black lattice screen, linked by a footbridge to the 13th-century Fort Saint-Jean at the harbour entrance.
Musee des Confluences
Modern architecture
Steel and glass museum at the point where the Rhone meets the Saone, with a raised plinth, angular ramps, a tall crystal hall and dark windowless galleries.
Site Le Corbusier, Firminy
Modern architecture
Le Corbusier's Firminy-Vert complex, completed after his death, with a raw-concrete Unite d'habitation apartment block, a stadium and a church, its visitor centre offering room hire for seminars.
Modern architecture elsewhere in Europe
Other kinds of location in France
- Theatres, arenas and venues 30
- Industrial and derelict locations 36
- Offices, schools and public buildings 23
- Transport and infrastructure 20
- Film studios and backlots 14
- Hospitals, prisons and institutions 15
- Houses and apartments 12
- Hotels and interiors 8
- Castles and estates 14
- Churches and monasteries 10
- Villages and countryside 8
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