<ul><li>Architecture firm Studio Gang has completed the John W Boyer Center in Paris, a mass-timber academic building and the firm's first project in France.</li><li>The building, designed as a vertical campus, features a hybrid timber-and-steel structure and a facade covered with limestone-covered fibreglass batons.</li><li>The design aims to amplify social connections and promote scholarly collaborations and cultural exchange between the University of Chicago and the city of Paris.</li><li>To adhere to Paris regulations requiring the use of natural materials, the building incorporates a mass timber grid and limestone sourced from local quarries.</li></ul>

Studio Gang completes mass-timber academic building in Paris

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