Galeries Lafayette chooses Google future world HQ architects for its Champs-Elysées store

By

Jean-Paul Leroy

Published
Feb 10, 2016

After a call for tender among architecture firms launched last July, the Galeries Lafayette department store has hired the Bjarke Ingels (BIG) group to head the architectural project for its future store at 52 avenue des Champs-Elysées, Paris.

BIG hails from Denmark and operates offices in Copenhagen and New York. The firm is currently working on projects such as Google's future world headquarters in California, as well as those of 21st Century Fox, and of News Corp. at New York's Ground Zero.

The new store is set to open in the last quarter of 2018, at the former Virgin premises, with a 9,000 m² retail area.