Known for his architecture of witty subterfuge executed on limited budgets, Edouard Francois has moved up a gear with this latest project in the upscale and historically protected 8th arrondissement of Paris. Francois is more used to working on the margins, jazzing up social housing blocks with planted gabions (AR May 2000) or supersize pots of bamboo (AR September 2004), so when asked to remodel and expand the Hotel Fouquet in a part of Paris where even a simple curtain wall can trigger a planning brouhaha, his options might be regarded as limited. Not so.
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