Be careful, make no mistake about it! This intertwining of grassy hills, whose convex curves curve gently and open to the sky, is not a gigantic skateboard ramp. Welcome to the Hungarian National Museum of Ethnography (home to 250,000 exhibits from the Carpathian Basin), inaugurated last summer on the edge of Budapest’s new museum district in Budapest’s city park, Varosliget. After its “magic mushroom” – the cultural building of the House of Music (Sou Fujimoto) – the Hungarian studio Napur Architect persists and signs in the biomimetic approach with a building with a landscaped roof melted in nature, of which 60% of the structure is buried in the ground. The other singularity? A glass curtain wall surrounding the garden. The frame that dresses it is made up of half a million pixels: small cubes, inserted into an aluminum grid laser-cut by a special robot, which are inspired by local and international ethnographic motifs§

Follow the leader* ! From the Comédie-Française, which adjoins the gardens of the Palais-Royal, to the Marie bridge, which connects the two banks of the Seine, passing by the Théâtre du Châtelet and that of the City, the pipes of Pompidou and the arcades from the Place des Vosges. From the alleys of the Jardin des Plantes to the Palais omnisports de Bercy, stopping off at the François-Mitterrand library. From the heights of the Montmartre hill to the foliage and elegant Haussmann buildings of the Plaine-Monceau… A real pocket companion complete with geographical maps so you don’t get lost, the Guide de l’archi à Paris brings together eight itineraries to do on foot or by bike. His point? Make us (re)discover the heritage of urban landscapes and architectural achievements scattered in all the districts of the capital. The open sesame for anyone who wants to look at the City of Light differently and revisit its history. Good walks!

* Guide to architecture in Paris, by Philippe Simon (Alternatives, 144 p., €14).

8 %

This is the share of French people who have moved in the last six months. In the next six months, 7% plan to do so. In the longer term, 25% would like to move: 7% in more than six months, 18% not yet sure when.

Ipsos.Digital study for the neoinsurer Acheel.

László Incze (x6) – György Palkó (x2) – muséee budapest/sp