Robert Badinter Library, Tribunal de Paris, Paris, France

Robert Badinter Library, a reading room for magistrates named after the French lawyer and politician b.1928, on the 30th floor of the new law courts or Tribunal de Paris, designed by Renzo Piano and built 2014-17 on the Avenue de la Porte de Clichy in the 17th arrondissement of Paris, France. The room is lined with beech panelling and bookshelves, with parquet floor and white furniture. The new building contains the high court of Paris, the police court, the public prosecution service and all Parisian district courts. It is 38 storeys high and resembles 3 stacked blocks reducing in size with height on top of the main building. Picture by Manuel Cohen

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