Schools and libraries are among the latest public buildings in France to be designed with natural materials, following a French law informed by the sustainability aspirations of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. The Environmental Regulation 2020 (RE2020), which came into effect in 2022, aims to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions of France’s new builds and promote the use of bio-based materials such as mass timber. France’s former minister for cities and housing Julien Denormandie announced plans for the regulation in 2020, stating that the encouragement of bio-based construction materials was informed by the construction of the 2024 Paris Olympics complex. Most of the venues at this year’s Olympic Games in Paris were existing or temporary structures, but the few newly built projects were made largely from low-carbon materials. In this roundup, we collect eight recently completed and upcoming public buildings in France made from natural and bio-based materials.