Arcinspiration

Manuelle Gautrand Architecture have completed the Origami office building in Paris, France.

Situated within 200 metres from the Arc de Triomphe and now hosts the French headquarters of the Barklays Capital Bank. The building was designed and developed with a strong sustainability approach. The façade is dressed in a double skin of glass and, in an origami manner, with its pleated marble pattern it forms a sun-screen in front of a curtain wall. It gives a desired mineral touch which thus contributes to the building’s integration into the neighborhood.