A Change of Skin by Atelier du Pont
PARIS – Barren, stark and inaccessible, the concrete ‘Square Vitruve’ real-estate project in Paris took no account of the human scale, the benefits of vegetation or social urban design. A product of the 1970s and ‘80s, the development didn’t consi
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