Four years after completing his remarkable 'Sprouting Building' in Montpellier (AR May 2000), Paris-based architect Edouard Francois' appetite for offbeat solutions to standard briefs remains undiminished. His latest housing block in the 17th arrondissment of Paris is a variation on the Montpellier project, replacing the gabion cages in which planting gradually takes root with an instant diaphanous screen of vegetation that seductively sheathes a low-rise residential tower in a lush green external skin.
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