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Office for communication and design
run by Benoît Santiard & Guillaume Grall
www.buildingparis.fr “Building can be seen in very material and systematic terms because you build with bricks, concrete, steel, and windows. But in our view, building means first and foremost thinking.” Anne Lacaton et Jean-Philippe Vassal, interview with Mathieu Wellner in Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, edited by Muck Petzet and Florian Heilmeyer, Hatje Cantz, 2012.
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We are very happy to have been commissioned to design a poster for the art exhibition "Regionale 17, Beyond the Real" at Kunsthalle Basel (26. Nov 2016 – 08. Jan 2017), including Camille Holtz amazing photographs. It was the perfect occasion to work with her images and use Knif, the font we designed with Axel Pelletanche Thévenart, available at A is for apple Type foundry ;) (Thanks Claudio Vogt for the pictures!)
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The latest issue of Marnes, documents d'architecture is out! This fourth volume is the biggest so far with 480 pages and 480 images. Among others, it includes texts by Denis Meadows, Rem Koolhaas, Nathalie Roseau, Éric Alonzo, Jürg Conzett, Oswald Mathias Ungers and Sébastien Marot. We are happy to launch it tomorrow night at Librairie Volume, 47 rue Notre-Dame de Nazareth, 75003 Paris (France). See you there!
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KNIF (pronounce [Ka-neef]), the sharp-as-a-knife monospaced typeface we designed with @axel_pellethev and developed with @emirigaud has just been released by A is for... Type foundry! 🔪 #type #typeface #typedesign #design #knif #release http://www.aisforapple.fr/fonts/knif-mono
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KNIF (pronounce [Ka-neef]), the sharp-as-a-knife monospaced typeface we designed with Axel Pelletanche Thévenart, and developed with Émilie Rigaud, has just been released by A is for… Type foundry. Buy it now to start cutting your texts! ;) http://www.aisforapple.fr/fonts/knif-mono
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We just updated our website with images of the signage project for BETC new offices in Pantin, made with T&P Work UNit (Marie Lejault with Catherine Geel & Sophie Breuil). It features bespoke typefaces we designed with Geff Pellet and signpainting by Alaric Garnier. Pictures by the amazing Julien Lelievre ;) http://www.buildingparis.fr/images/#magasins
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WE FRAC! We designed and printed 50 000 newspapers for the first national open doors weekend through the 23 FRAC (Fonds Régionaux d'Art Contemporain) around France, organized by Platform on the 5 & 6th of november. Each newspaper unfolds into 3 posters to be plastered on the wall. You can find them this week in advance at FIAC in Paris.
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Some words about the soon-to-be-released (at A is for apple foundry) font KNIF that we designed with Axel Pelletanche Thévenart on the Ligature.ch website. Stay tuned! http://ligature.ch/2016/10/axel-pelletanche-thevenart-interview
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See you Thursday at Pavillon de l'Arsenal! B)
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We art directed and designed "Portrait d'agence", a special issue on Chartier Dalix architectes, to accompany the last issue of AMC Archi magazine (n°253). It features commissioned photographs by Myr Muratet, Takuji Shimmura, David Foessel, Luc Boegly and texts by Aurélien Huguet and Aurélien Bellanger. This is our second collaboration with Chartier Dalix and probably not the last one! ;)
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Back to business! Thrilled to see the big signage project we did with T&P Work UNit for BETC new offices in Pantin coming to life. Pictured: our friend Alaric Garnier at work with Sean Barton on some big sign painting. More images coming soon!
Building Paris designs sleek and considered book for furniture designer Pierre Paulin
Thanks It's Nice That for this feature! http://www.itsnicethat.com/articles/building-paris-pierre-paulin-book-050816
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We'll be talking today at Maison de l'architecture en Île-de-France as part of the 3rd architecture book fair. Come!
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The latest issue of Marnes is out! This fourth volume is the biggest so far with 480 pages and 480 images. Among others, it includes texts by Denis Meadows, Rem Koolhaas, Nathalie Roseau, Éric Alonzo, Jürg Conzett, Oswald Mathias Ungers and Sébastien Marot. We are happy to launch it tomorrow night at Librairie Volume, 47 rue Notre-Dame de Nazareth, 75003 Paris (France). See you there!
Marnes 4 now available 🍾🎉👯 ! avec Sébastien Marot & Dennis Meadows, Rem Koolhaas, Jeant Taricat & Maurice Rotival, Natahlie Roseau, Joseph Fenton, Eric Alonzo & Jürg Conzett, Caruso St John, O.M Ungers. Le tout graphic designé par Building Paris ! #librairievolume #communicatingarchitecture #bookporn #graphicdesign #buildingparis #carusostjohn #jurgconzett #remkoolhaas #oma #ungers #omungers
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