Description
An apartment in a Roger Anger building
Offering open views over Montmartre and the Eiffel Tower, this apartment is located in an emblematic building designed by architect Roger Anger.
Set on a high floor of the Résidence Artois-Flandre, this dual-aspect property offers a surface area of 64.34 sq.m (Carrez Law).
The entrance opens onto a living room and a separate kitchen. Both rooms have access to an 8.4 sq.m loggia. A hallway leads to two bedrooms, a bathroom, and separate toilets.
The apartment has retained its original features, including built-in cupboards, joinery, parquet flooring, and tiling.
It requires renovation work and offers strong potential for reconfiguration, notably the possibility of combining the living room and kitchen.
The property is completed by a parking space and a cellar.
Sculpting living spaces
Built in 1961 by Roger Anger in collaboration with Mario Heymann, Pierre Puccinelli, and Liliane Véder, the Résidence Artois-Flandre is a major architectural work.
Its distinctive rotating plan, reminiscent of a windmill’s blades, and its façade rhythmically articulated by concrete fins and loggias, create a striking interplay of volumes and light. The characteristic setbacks of the façade, typical of the architect’s style, ensure an outward opening for every room while breaking the monotony of straight lines.
The building’s aesthetic boldness is expressed through the choice of original materials, including prefabricated concrete, glass mosaic, and dark joinery. The discontinuous geometry of the façades blends functionality with architectural poetry. With its triple aspect, fluid spaces, and visual perspectives, the apartment embodies this sculptural approach to housing.
A project of urban utopia
Rooted in the modernist movement of the 1960s, this project marks the first stage of an ambitious but unfinished urban utopia. Architect Roger Anger applies here the principles of an architecture that is functional, aesthetic, and social.
Breaking with the standards of its time, the building stands out for its experimentation with curved forms and dynamic volumes. It also illustrates post-war technical innovation, notably through the use of prefabricated concrete and a spatial organization designed to enhance residents’ well-being.
Roger Anger
Rhythmic façades structured by discontinuous geometry in his Parisian buildings, curved volumes in his urban utopias. The architecture of Roger Anger (1923-2008), original and difficult to categorize, draws inspiration from kinetic art to shape space as a sculptural whole. These artistic correspondences explain his sensitivity to decorative and visual arts, where each project becomes a work in its own right.
A major figure of 20th-century architecture, the richness of his career led him to design bold projects such as the utopian community of Auroville in India, where he was able to fully express his humanist and poetic vision of housing. In Paris, he also built several residential buildings, putting into practice the originality of his aesthetic research and his innovative approach to urban space.
