21.   The opera house, designed by a French architect, Jean-Marie Charpentier, has a curved roof that opens toward the sky like a giant offering plate.

22.   The spiffy ocher dreamed up by the French architects has been smoothed and eroded and peeled by time and humidity.

23.   The staff accompanying me told me that the well-known French architect Gustave Eiffel had designed the building.

24.   Today, many French architects still associate modern architecture with progressive social content.

25.   Also on show are sketches for buildings by Antoni Gaudi and other Catalan designers who were inspired by the work of French architects.

26.   APTV looks at the plans and talks to the French architect and engineer.

27.   The art nouveau building with its multiple neo-Doric colonnades was designed by French architect George Parcq.

28.   The construction will turn the bustling but low-rise Mediterranean metropolis into something akin to Manhattan or Hong Kong, visiting French architect Jean Nobel told the Tel Aviv weekly.

29.   The Palais des Congres convention center near the Bois de Boulogne, has been revamped by prize-winning French architect Christian Portzamparc.

30.   A group of French architects and engineers which visited Shanghai this month warned that the pace of development was too rapid and haphazard.