Pathé Foundation in Paris
- Andreas Gabriel
Die Fondation Jérôme Seydoux-Pathé holds the archive of one of the film industry’s oldest firms. The foundation’s headquarters have been inserted as a new core in a triangular block in Paris’s 13th arondissement. The entrance facade, which is on the historic preservation register, was restored with great care. Behind it a glazed reception space presents a view of a garden courtyard and the organic forms of the main building. The latter rises up on just a few columns above a glazed ground storey. It docks onto the neighbouring buildings via the stairway and the three snout-like protrusions.
