Alexandre Marcel (1860-1928) was a French architect, best known for his Belle Époque interpretations of "exotic" international architectural styles.
Marcel studied at the Parisian École des Beaux-Arts in the atelier of Louis-Jules André.
His work includes:
the Pagoda Cinema, on the Rue de Babylon, Paris, 1896multiple buildings for the Paris Exposition of 1900, including the Cambodian pavilion, the Spanish pavilion, and four structures for the sea-transport company "Panorama du Tour du Monde", including a "Japanese tower"structures at the Parc Oriental de Maulévrier, Paris, 1899-1913reconstruction of the Japanese Tower at Laeken, outside Brussels, for King Leopold II, c. 1901the new Chinese Pavilion at Laeken, for Leopold II, c. 1902royal racetrack at Ostend, for Leopold IIgrand hall of the Heliopolis Palace Hotel, Heliopolis, Cairo, 1910Baron Empain Palace (Qasr Al Baron), Heliopolis, Cairo, completed 1911Latin Catholic Basilica "Basilique de Notre-Dame", Heliopolis, Cairo, 1910Palace for the Jagatjit Singh of Kapurthala, now Punjab, India, 1911French Embassy, Shiba Park, Tokyo, 1913Lafayette Escadrille Memorial, Villeneuve-l'Étang Imperial Estate, in Marnes-la-Coquette, Hauts-de-Seine, outside of Paris, 1928
