At the turn of the mill­en­nium, Paris, once the “ca­pi­tal of 19th Cen­tury Eu­rope” has re­su­med its po­si­tion as one of the lea­ding ar­chi­tec­tu­ral cen­tres of the world. Over the past few de­ca­des, the am­bi­tious plans of suc­ces­sive French Pre­si­dents have re­sul­ted in a Paris stud­ded with dis­tinc­tive, boldly-designed, high qua­lity con­tem­porary ar­chi­tec­ture. This study fo­cu­ses on buil­dings erec­ted in the past ten years in­clu­ding pro­jects which are still under con­struc­tion. These are not just the in­ter­na­tio­nally ac­clai­med ar­chi­tec­tu­ral mas­ter­pie­ces such as Le Grand Lou­vre, the Parc de la Vil­lette or the Bi­blio­the­que de France, but also major context-related plan­ning sche­mes such as the Bercy or the Andre Ci­troen parks. Pro­jects de­si­gned to meet the ever­y­day re­qui­re­ments of city-dwellers, such as go­vern­ment hou­sing sche­mes and com­mu­nity de­ve­lop­ments have also been selec­ted for in­clu­sion. The study is both a cri­ti­cal ana­ly­sis of older and more re­cent de­ve­lop­ments in the Pa­ri­sian ci­ty­scape in re­la­tion to their his­to­ri­cal back­ground, and it re­veals the pan­orama of present-day ar­chi­tec­tu­ral pro­jects.