L'Opera Restaurant; all photos from Architectural Record by Roland HalbeToday's ArchiPic is the L'Opera Restaurant in Paris, France. This building is not new by any means. It was first built in 1875, but its old features didn't deter the architect from renovating the inside space and turning it into a beautiful, modern, and Opera-filled restaurant. Renovated by Odile Decq Benoit Cornette Architects, the inside has, obviously, a defined contrast from the exterior. "Because of the building's heritage, Decq could not touch its stone surfaces or block the view of the ornate pendant suspended from the domed ceiling. And to enable the space to revert to its original state, every new element had to be removable at the end of the restaurant's limited term," says Architectural Record.
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