Moreau Kusunoki, a French-Japanese architectural studio, has completed a groundbreaking residential timber tower in Paris, deviating from conventional large-scale housing design. Situated in a newly established residential center in the southeastern part of Paris, the tower rises 50 meters high and encompasses over 70 homes. Despite its seemingly typical clean and minimalist exterior, the distinguishing feature lies in the strict grid defining its volumes, constructed entirely from wood rather than concrete or stone. The architects, Hiroko Kusunoki and Nicolas Moreau, emphasize the grid's function as an inhabited wall, serving as a filter to create distance from the densely built urban environment. The tower, meeting high environmental standards, houses 77 units, features airy shared spaces, a ground-floor art gallery, and an on-site restaurant, embodying the architects' vision of a greener, more human, and ecological future city. Moreau Kusunoki has collaborated with izé to design and develop a range of door knobs, a bell push, signage, and keyhole cover. Crafted in casted brass, the collection is characterized by the subtle balance between the robustness, tactility and simpleness in silhouette and materiality. The sculptural, abstract quality of the series draws inspiration from Mesopotamian earth artifacts. The terne deep matt skin and the weight of hollow casted metal reveals the layers of careful work by hands which will be washed by use in time, and shine even more in its long life.