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Switching Sides

“We saw their new home before they did!” exclaims Noa Peer, one of the founders of OUI (an acronym for the Office for Urban Innovation and, of course, the French word for ‘yes’). OUI architects were engaged by the new owners to make a Paris home for a young family eager to take up a new life after the confinement imposed by a worldwide lockdown.

The pandemic changed everything, as the saying goes. The ever-so-chic Parisian suburb of Neuilly has the priceless advantage of being on the doorstep of the Bois de Boulogne, an expanse of forest

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