PARIS | Full Summary of Projects

[Minato Ku]

Recladding Gallieni tower

http://img214.imageshack.us/img214/8500/fondbureauxtr8.jpg

http://img261.imageshack.us/img261/240/1000530bl2.jpg

[Minato Ku]

Boulogne Billancourt redevellopment area.

http://www.cyberarchi.com/images/articles/11573_24_z.jpg http://www.cyberarchi.com/images/articles/11573_23_z.jpg http://www.cyberarchi.com/images/articles/11588_06_z.jpg http://www.cyberarchi.com/images/articles/11588_05_z.jpg


Some Renderings.

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http://www.cyberarchi.com/dossier/albums-photos/index.php?dossier=75&article=11573
http://www.cyberarchi.com/dossier/urbanisme/index.php?dossier=74&article=11588

[Sinha]

Renovation for Moulins de Pantin

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http://img170.imageshack.us/img170/3156/1000573gw7.jpg

[kenratboy]

Looks like a lot of amazing projects happening in the city! You have done a lot of work to post all of this, thanks!

[Minato Ku]

Projet Canal - Porte d'Aubervilliers

Other renders.

http://img76.imageshack.us/img76/1705/777777hm7.png
Even if the crowd in this rendering is multicultural, it is always weird to see how it is unrepresentative of the local population. :rolleyes:

http://img520.imageshack.us/img520/195/777777777fh7.png

http://img520.imageshack.us/img520/7661/7777777gp9.png

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[Minato Ku]

In the same place, Parc du millénaire an office complex.

http://img387.imageshack.us/img387/921/planparcplaquettepage5ztk3.jpg

http://img511.imageshack.us/img511/8541/66600687bg9.jpg

http://img509.imageshack.us/img509/9626/13294gdeuk2.jpg

http://img120.imageshack.us/img120/8355/vpefinalzok8.jpg

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The first buildings were completed the last year
http://img151.imageshack.us/img151/586/parcdumillft0.jpg


The Docks near La Villette become a very interresting place, the industrial wasteland disappear, the subway line 12 will be extended at Aubervillier in 2012. A big swimming pool complex, some high-rises...
Even without the Olympic game this place will change in a good way (Not difficult to be better than old warehouses :D )
I need to say that Aubervillier is the 5th poorest municipality in Paris metropolitan area. :yes:

[Grumpy]

Who allowed the autorisation to built buildings over 250m at LD , EPAD only ?

[New Brisavoine]

The urban area of Paris expands further. 4.5 km² (1.7 sq. miles) of farmland is going to be urbanized on the northeastern fringe of the Paris urban area, in the commune (municipality) of Gonesse. This area is where farmland is currently the closest from the center of Paris, only 16 km (10 miles) from Notre Dame Cathedral as the crow flies. When you arrive in Paris on the motorway from Calais, Lille, and Brussels, this is the farmland you can see on the right side of the motorway past Paris-CDG Airport. The reason why this area has remained undevelopped so far is because it is stuck between Paris-CDG Airport and Paris-Le Bourget Airport, and so French authorities have frozen any development to prevent potential tensions between future residents and CDG Airport, the 2nd busiest European airport and soon-to-be busiest European airport.

I don't know if they have changed the rules, but the urbanization of 4.5 km² of farmland immediately north of Paris-Le Bourget Airport has been given the green light. This is still a good 3 km (1.8 miles) from Paris-CDG Airport, but that's the closest from CDG it has been allowed to develop land for many years.

For a bit of perspective on this: the population of Greater Paris is currently increasing by 85,000 inhabitants every year, a figure much higher than in the 1990s, and much higher than French authorities had anticipated. In Europe only Madrid has experienced a higher population increase than Paris in recent years. It is estimated that 60,000 dwellings need to be built every year in Greater Paris just to accomodate the population growth and prevent an already tense housing situation from becoming frankly dramatic. If this pace of construction is not reached (currently only 35,000 dwellings are built every year in Greater Paris, far fewer than needed), then probably Greater Paris will revert to the dramatic situation experienced in the 1930s-1950s (sky-high rents, generalized illegal subletting of crowded apartments, lots of illegal slums springing up in the suburbs, many homeless people sleeping in the street). French authorities have already seen with horror two illegal slums appearing in the suburbs of Paris in the past three years, built by poor newly-arrived immigrants. This had not been seen in Paris since the last slums were razed in the 1970s. These two slums have since been razed, but it's only a matter of time before new ones appear if the pace of housing construction doesn't accelerate.

In red the commune of Gonesse within Greater Paris. The area to be urbanized is in the southern part of the commune.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/3/30/Gonesse_map.png/642px-Gonesse_map.png

Here is a view of the winning project selected by the jury. The winning team is Swiss and Dutch (Güller & Güller: architects; DHV: economic strategies; Ernst Basler & Partner: infrastructures; Paul van Beek Landschappen: landscape architect). The jury selected the project offering the highest urban density, and the highest environmental sustainability (lots of public transportation, such as a new branch of the Paris RER serving this new urban district). The long awaited motorway between Villepinte and Saint-Gratien will apparently also be built (colored brownish-orange on the render below, running towards the upper-right corner). This motorway will run parallel to the A86 inner orbital motorway and the Francilienne outer orbital motorway, approximately half-way between the two, linking the northeastern and northwestern suburbs.

On the render below, the south is up, the north is down. The motorway heading to Lille and Belgium is on the left. The center of Paris lies 16 km (10 miles) in the distance past the upper-left corner of the render. The airport on the render is Paris-Le Bourget Airport. Paris-CDG Airport lies 1.9 km (1.2 miles) beyond the lower-left corner of the render. Compacité = compactness.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3171/2450610837_77010d4ccc_o.jpg

[New Brisavoine]

This view shows the area as of now. The area to be developped is to the left of the big motorway (only a small part is visible). This picture is upside down compared to the render above. Here on the picture the north is up and the south is down. If you pay attention you can see on the render above the big motorway interchange visible here on the foreground.

http://img502.imageshack.us/img502/2378/900pxgonesseechangeura1vh5.jpg

[New Brisavoine]

A description of the project on Güller & Güller's website. They claim it is the last major land reserve inside the Paris metropolitan area, which is of course not true, but I guess they got a bit carried away by their victory in the selection process. Lol. The entire area covers 10 km² (1000 ha), but only 4.5 km² will be actually built-up, the rest is farmland destined to remain undevelopped (at least for now).

Triangle de Gonesse - development strategy and masterplan for the airport corridor in Paris

chef de projet: Mathis Güller
client: EPA Plaine de France

In a time when most European metropolis find their planning options around their airports increasingly limited, Paris is considering the development of its largest strategic reserve of 1000ha – the Triangle de Gonesse – positioned in-between the airport of Charles de Gaulle and le Bourget. The development of this last major land reserve inside the metropolitan area is a unique opportunity to reposition Paris as a city of excellence.

Our team Güller Güller – DHV – EBP - Van Beek won the urban planning competition in 2008 and is now commissioned to elaborate a long-term development strategy for the Triangle de Gonesse in the heart of the airport corridor of Paris Charles de Gaulle, as well as an urban masterplan for 2 million m2 of real estate development. The project aims at creating a real “airport corridor” for Paris, a new “axe de compétitivité”, concentrated around a bundle of new public transportation infrastructure and benefitting from the attractiveness of the openness of the periurban agricultural landscape.

The masterplan for the development of the Triangle de Gonesse will distinguish itself as a milestone in ‘sustainable urbanism’.

http://www.ggau.net/dreams/projects/GG47.htm

General map of the area. Paris-CDG Airport is partly visible in the upper-right corner. Paris-Le Bourget Airport is towards the lower-left corner, colored pale yellow. Farmland destined to remain undevelopped are colored pale green. The new branch of the RER is the red line I suppose. Apparently two RER stations planned in the densest part of the new urban district.

http://www.ggau.net/images/projects/GG47/GG47_planstrat2.jpg

[New Brisavoine]

The urban area of Paris expands further. 4.5 km² (1.7 sq. miles) of farmland is going to be urbanized on the northeastern fringe of the Paris urban area, in the commune (municipality) of Gonesse. This area is where farmland is currently the closest from the center of Paris, only 16 km (10 miles) from Notre Dame Cathedral as the crow flies. When you arrive in Paris on the motorway from Calais, Lille, and Brussels, this is the farmland you can see on the right side of the motorway past Paris-CDG Airport. The reason why this area has remained undevelopped so far is because it is stuck between Paris-CDG Airport and Paris-Le Bourget Airport, and so French authorities have frozen any development to prevent potential tensions between future residents and CDG Airport, the 2nd busiest European airport and soon-to-be busiest European airport.

I don't know if they have changed the rules, but the urbanization of 4.5 km² of farmland immediately north of Paris-Le Bourget Airport has been given the green light. This is still a good 3 km (1.8 miles) from Paris-CDG Airport, but that's the closest from CDG it has been allowed to develop land for many years.

For a bit of perspective on this: the population of Greater Paris is currently increasing by 85,000 inhabitants every year, a figure much higher than in the 1990s, and much higher than French authorities had anticipated. In Europe only Madrid has experienced a higher population increase than Paris in recent years. It is estimated that 60,000 dwellings need to be built every year in Greater Paris just to accomodate the population growth and prevent an already tense housing situation from becoming frankly dramatic. If this pace of construction is not reached (currently only 35,000 dwellings are built every year in Greater Paris, far fewer than needed), then probably Greater Paris will revert to the dramatic situation experienced in the 1930s-1950s (sky-high rents, generalized illegal subletting of crowded apartments, lots of illegal slums springing up in the suburbs, many homeless people sleeping in the street). French authorities have already seen with horror two illegal slums appearing in the suburbs of Paris in the past three years, built by poor newly-arrived immigrants. This had not been seen in Paris since the last slums were razed in the 1970s. These two slums have since been razed, but it's only a matter of time before new ones appear if the pace of housing construction doesn't accelerate.

In red the commune of Gonesse within Greater Paris. The area to be urbanized is in the southern part of the commune.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/3/30/Gonesse_map.png/642px-Gonesse_map.png

Here is a view of the winning project selected by the jury. The winning team is Swiss and Dutch (Güller & Güller: architects; DHV: economic strategies; Ernst Basler & Partner: infrastructures; Paul van Beek Landschappen: landscape architect). The jury selected the project offering the highest urban density, and the highest environmental sustainability (lots of public transportation, such as a new branch of the Paris RER serving this new urban district). The long awaited motorway between Villepinte and Saint-Gratien will apparently also be built (colored brownish-orange on the render below, running towards the upper-right corner). This motorway will run parallel to the A86 inner orbital motorway and the Francilienne outer orbital motorway, approximately half-way between the two, linking the northeastern and northwestern suburbs.

On the render below, the south is up, the north is down. The motorway heading to Lille and Belgium is on the left. The center of Paris lies 16 km (10 miles) in the distance past the upper-left corner of the render. The airport on the render is Paris-Le Bourget Airport. Paris-CDG Airport lies 1.9 km (1.2 miles) beyond the lower-left corner of the render. Compacité = compactness.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3171/2450610837_77010d4ccc_o.jpg

[New Brisavoine]

This view shows the area as of now. The area to be developped is to the left of the big motorway (only a small part is visible). This picture is upside down compared to the render above. Here on the picture the north is up and the south is down. If you pay attention you can see on the render above the big motorway interchange visible here on the foreground.

http://img502.imageshack.us/img502/2378/900pxgonesseechangeura1vh5.jpg

[New Brisavoine]

A description of the project on Güller & Güller's website. They claim it is the last major land reserve inside the Paris metropolitan area, which is of course not true, but I guess they got a bit carried away by their victory in the selection process. Lol. The entire area covers 10 km² (1000 ha), but only 4.5 km² will be actually built-up, the rest is farmland destined to remain undevelopped (at least for now).

Triangle de Gonesse - development strategy and masterplan for the airport corridor in Paris

chef de projet: Mathis Güller
client: EPA Plaine de France

In a time when most European metropolis find their planning options around their airports increasingly limited, Paris is considering the development of its largest strategic reserve of 1000ha – the Triangle de Gonesse – positioned in-between the airport of Charles de Gaulle and le Bourget. The development of this last major land reserve inside the metropolitan area is a unique opportunity to reposition Paris as a city of excellence.

Our team Güller Güller – DHV – EBP - Van Beek won the urban planning competition in 2008 and is now commissioned to elaborate a long-term development strategy for the Triangle de Gonesse in the heart of the airport corridor of Paris Charles de Gaulle, as well as an urban masterplan for 2 million m2 of real estate development. The project aims at creating a real “airport corridor” for Paris, a new “axe de compétitivité”, concentrated around a bundle of new public transportation infrastructure and benefitting from the attractiveness of the openness of the periurban agricultural landscape.

The masterplan for the development of the Triangle de Gonesse will distinguish itself as a milestone in ‘sustainable urbanism’.

http://www.ggau.net/dreams/projects/GG47.htm

General map of the area. Paris-CDG Airport is partly visible in the upper-right corner. Paris-Le Bourget Airport is towards the lower-left corner, colored pale yellow. Farmland destined to remain undevelopped are colored pale green. The new branch of the RER is the red line I suppose. Apparently two RER stations planned in the densest part of the new urban district.

http://www.ggau.net/images/projects/GG47/GG47_planstrat2.jpg

[Grumpy]

Paris booming :eek:
@ jef :could you please resize your pictures,thank you

[Minato Ku]

Not really, Paris is just a 10 milliom inhabitants city, it is normal that a city of this size has many projets.
As Brisavoine said we need build 60,000 new dwellings per years, even with these projects we are far to this number. :(

[Minato Ku]

19th arrondissement.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d1/Paris_19e_arr_jms.gif/150px-Paris_19e_arr_jms.gif


Ma Cite, a new commercial and activity center of 25,000m² in La Villette.

This would be inside the building of La Cite des Sciences et de l'industrie. (Sciences and industrial technology museum)

Pictures by Sinha
http://img238.imageshack.us/img238/9493/dscf0081uf1.jpg

http://img265.imageshack.us/img265/671/dscf0093bs5.jpg

Picture by JP
http://irgendwo.free.fr/villettenuit/7.jpg

Those who have visited La Cite des Sciences would be suprised but over 30% of this huge building is empty.


http://img407.imageshack.us/img407/6145/lavillettepopup02wm4.jpg

http://img81.imageshack.us/img81/5943/lavillettepopup03fz1.jpg

Opening date : mid 2010

http://www.batiactu.com/data/21092006/21092006-153738.html

http://www.apsysgroup.com/Website/site/fra_accueil_centresenprojet_france_lavillette.htm

[10101000]

19th arrondissement.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d1/Paris_19e_arr_jms.gif/150px-Paris_19e_arr_jms.gif


Ma Cite, a new commercial and activity center of 25,000m² in La Villette.

This would be inside the building of La Cite des Sciences et de l'industrie. (Sciences and industrial technology museum)

Pictures by Sinha
http://img238.imageshack.us/img238/9493/dscf0081uf1.jpg

http://img265.imageshack.us/img265/671/dscf0093bs5.jpg

Picture by JP
http://irgendwo.free.fr/villettenuit/7.jpg

Those who have visited La Cite des Sciences would be suprised but over 30% of this huge building is empty.


http://img407.imageshack.us/img407/6145/lavillettepopup02wm4.jpg

http://img81.imageshack.us/img81/5943/lavillettepopup03fz1.jpg

Opening date : mid 2010

http://www.batiactu.com/data/21092006/21092006-153738.html

http://www.apsysgroup.com/Website/site/fra_accueil_centresenprojet_france_lavillette.htm


WOW, nice place.:yes:

[Grumpy]

today the new tower for LD is going to be chosen: Tour Signal (http://www.tour-signal-ladefense.com/en/index.html)

[Fabb]

Nouvel won !

I'm happy for him... but I still need to fall for his project.
Better than Libeskind's or Wilmotte's anyway.

[Sinha]

Nouvel for Signal tower(301m)

http://img156.imageshack.us/img156/9108/defzj3.jpg

http://img156.imageshack.us/img156/7250/def2gr6.jpg

http://ladefense.nuxit.net/photos/mynight/n1.jpg

http://ladefense.nuxit.net/photos/mynight/n2.jpg

http://ladefense.nuxit.net/photos/mynight/n3.jpg

http://ladefense.nuxit.net/photos/mynight/n4.jpg

http://ladefense.nuxit.net/photos/mynight/n5.jpg

http://ladefense.nuxit.net/photos/mynight/n6.jpg

http://ladefense.nuxit.net/photos/mynight/n10.jpg

Site de la Défense – Les plus belles vidéos de La Défense (http://www.ladefense.fr/goodies_videos.php#centre)

[austin242]

do not change the eiffel tower it would be a mistake no matter what.

[Sinha]

http://www.archicool.com/expos/signal/001.jpg

http://www.archicool.com/expos/signal/002.jpg

http://www.archicool.com/expos/signal/003.jpg

http://www.archicool.com/expos/signal/004.jpg

http://www.archicool.com/expos/signal/005.jpg
Signal tower by J Nouvel:

http://www.archicool.com/expos/signal/006.jpg

http://www.archicool.com/expos/signal/007.jpg

http://www.archicool.com/expos/signal/008.jpg

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http://www.archicool.com/expos/signal/011.jpg

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http://www.archicool.com/expos/signal/013.jpg

http://www.archicool.com/expos/signal/014.jpg

http://www.archicool.com/expos/signal/015.jpg

http://www.archicool.com/expos/signal/016.jpg

[muppet]

The Paris Philarmonie is truly stunning. It will be yet another massive landmark for the city:

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2007/06/03/arts/03ouro_CA0ready.jpg

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2007/04/14/arts/design/14hall600.jpg

http://www.arkitectrue.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/04/paris03.jpg

[Fabb]

Hopefully it won't be a white elephant.
I mean, I like classical music, but who else does nowadays ?

[Sinha]

Update Gallienie tower-Bagnolet

http://img139.imageshack.us/img139/5067/1001043ow1.jpg

http://img524.imageshack.us/img524/1615/1001044in9.jpg

http://img71.imageshack.us/img71/6845/1001048nk2.jpg

http://img170.imageshack.us/img170/8640/1001049bc0.jpg

[Sinha]

Update Franklin tower-Montreuil

http://img178.imageshack.us/img178/9828/1001030rr2.jpg

http://img519.imageshack.us/img519/724/1001031jl7.jpg

http://img359.imageshack.us/img359/8513/1001125ce5.jpg

[Sinha]

Update Jussieu tower-Paris 5

http://img387.imageshack.us/img387/3304/1001242bs0.jpg

http://img168.imageshack.us/img168/5138/1001243tb7.jpg

http://img178.imageshack.us/img178/7876/1001250uf7.jpg

[Sinha]

Issygreen project by Jacques Ferrier:

http://img511.imageshack.us/img511/4720/1001182sd7.jpg

http://img257.imageshack.us/img257/9160/1001184em9.jpg

http://img178.imageshack.us/img178/3481/1001193fa9.jpg

http://img84.imageshack.us/img84/746/1001194jm1.jpg

http://img146.imageshack.us/img146/6522/1001192mn3.jpg

[Minato Ku]

Two big buildings by Foster in La Garenne Colombe, it will be just near the northwestern extention of the T2 light rail.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/99/La_Garenne-Colombes_map.svg/150px-La_Garenne-Colombes_map.svg.png


http://d3.cache-hardy.skyrock.net/d33/tdtronics/pics/1846863081_1.jpg

http://d3.cache-hardy.skyrock.net/d33/tdtronics/pics/1846861587_1.jpg

[Fabb]

That's nice.
It may end up being frightening and uninviting, but it looks nice.

[Sinha]

Update Grands Moulins de Pantin:

http://img329.imageshack.us/img329/2722/1001273oh3.jpg

http://img503.imageshack.us/img503/1075/1001301fe7.jpg

http://img103.imageshack.us/img103/6305/1001325ww1.jpg

http://img81.imageshack.us/img81/1025/1001312xv0.jpg

http://img114.imageshack.us/img114/7605/1001319kq6.jpg

http://img388.imageshack.us/img388/4744/1001330bs9.jpg

[Sinha]

2 tower in Levallois Perret confimed 2 X 165m:

http://editorial.batiactu.com/images/normal/20080630_162107_int5.jpg

http://editorial.batiactu.com/images/normal/20080630_162157_int-1.jpg

http://editorial.batiactu.com/images/normal/20080630_162228_int2.jpg

http://editorial.batiactu.com/images/normal/20080630_162320_int3.jpg

http://editorial.batiactu.com/images/normal/20080630_162420_int4.jpg

http://editorial.batiactu.com/images/normal/20080630_162003_ext.jpg

http://editorial.batiactu.com/images/normal/20080630_161916_les-tours-exterieur.jpg

Sources des rendus : http://editorial.batiactu.com/edito/tours-de-levallois-686.php

[Minato Ku]

Paris to scrap ban on high-rise tower blocks
8 July 2008
Agence France Presse

Paris city council on Tuesday moved to scrap a 30-year-old ban on high-rise buildings, a decision that could revolutionise the capital's skyline but which is fiercely opposed by green politicians.

The Socialist mayor of Paris, Bertrand Delanoe, has championed a change to rules that currently limit the height of inner-city buildings to 37 metres (122 feet), despite polls showing that two-thirds of Parisians oppose the change.

On Tuesday, Paris city council voted to launch a public consultation on plans to build towers of up to 200 metres at six emblematic sites just inside the city walls.

Part of wide-ranging regeneration plans, the towers would mix shops, offices and childcare centres. Delanoe also backs the construction of new 50-metre apartment blocks to counter a shortage of affordable housing in the capital.

The 37-metre ceiling was brought in 1977 to call a halt to a string of high-rise projects -- including the Montparnasse tower south of the River Seine -- that were quickly seen as failed experiments in urbanism.

"We will not repeat the mistakes of the past," Delanoe told the city council before the vote.

Consultations will begin in January to measure support for each of the projects, according to city councillor for urbanism Anne Hidalgo, who said she hoped work on the first ones could begin in 2012.

City authorities could start accepting architect bids early next year for two disused railway sites, in Batignolles in the northwest of the capital and Massena in the southeast, she added.

French star architect Jean Nouvel, who last month won a contract to build a new skyscraper in La Defense business district west of Paris, has criticised the taboo on high-rises, saying they should be allowed even in the city centre.

"This is not about undermining our heritage. But we have to stop thinking that Paris is a museum-city," Nouvel told Le Parisian newspaper. "Paris is not finished... If vertical buildings can enrich the heart of the capital, why deprive ourselves?"

But others warn that a badly-designed tower can blow apart the social fabric of a neighbourhood.

"Tower blocks ruin the most precious asset of European cities: public spaces," said French architect Henri Gaudin. "They wipe out a whole territory."

Delanoe's plans are fiercely opposed by the French Green Party, who voted against on grounds of energy efficiency.

"Tower blocks are urbanism's equivalent of the four-wheel drive car: flashy machines that devour energy," Green Party councillor Rene Dutrey charged.

President Nicolas Sarkozy's right-wing UMP party, though it backs plans for high-rise offices, also voted against the proposals on the grounds high-rise social housing would create a "time-bomb" for the city.

"In 10 years we will still have all the same problems, but it's worse to have social problems reaching up 50 metres than 37," said UMP councillor Jean-Francois Lamour.

Delanoe was blocked from changing the planning rules during his first term as mayor by his Green Party allies on the city council.

But the mayor was comfortably re-elected in March without support from the Greens, allowing him to take a second shot and push through the change with the help of the Socialists' left-wing and centrist allies.

"Parisians are uncomfortable with the very idea of high-rise buildings: polls say so quite clearly. But the duty of public officials us to be guided by the general interest, rather than polls," Delanoe said ahead of the vote.

[Minato Ku]

Places in inner paris where high-rises could be build.

http://img140.imageshack.us/img140/5030/298614932lf0.jpg


Massena Quai d'Ivry

http://img389.imageshack.us/img389/6816/cimg2679sg7.jpg

http://img300.imageshack.us/img300/4562/dsc01617ne9.jpg


Bercy Charenton.

http://img137.imageshack.us/img137/6903/dsc01563vl0.jpg


Porte de Montreuil

http://img386.imageshack.us/img386/5876/dsc01217de8.jpg

http://img376.imageshack.us/img376/1484/dsc01221av9.jpg


Porte de la Chapelle

http://img258.imageshack.us/img258/9559/cimg7090sv7.jpg

Like you can see except in Porte de Montreuil and Porte de Versailles (not posted here) these areas are waste lands.
It is better than nothing but I would like to see new towers in more central location like Montparnasse.

Some of towers project were already know.
The +100m new Paris court Hall in Massena.
The 150m-200m hotel in Porte de Versaille.

According the rumors the hotel in Porte de Versaille look like a bit at LBT. :haha:

[Fabb]

According the rumors the hotel in Porte de Versaille look like a bit at LBT. :haha:

A LBT mini me ?
I hate the idea.
I would be ashamed if that was true.

[Sinha]

Paris 13-Magasins Généraux

http://img391.imageshack.us/img391/6061/1001537wj8.jpg

http://img392.imageshack.us/img392/183/1001544bg1.jpg

http://img261.imageshack.us/img261/2979/1001548ih5.jpg

http://img403.imageshack.us/img403/9599/1001543on6.jpg

http://img183.imageshack.us/img183/8273/1001554xe9.jpg

[andi204]

:D
this green thing makes me laugh.
it looks cool though!

I think Paris worths a second visit ?!

[10101000]

:D
this green thing makes me laugh.
it looks cool though!

I think Paris worths a second visit ?!

I like it.

[Minato Ku]

2 tower in Levallois Perret confimed 2 X 165m:
http://editorial.batiactu.com/images/normal/20080630_161916_les-tours-exterieur.jpg

Sources des rendus : http://editorial.batiactu.com/edito/tours-de-levallois-686.php

The construction of these twin towers began, with 164m high these are the first 150m+ buildings u/c outside la Defense since Montparnasse tower.

__________________________________________

Speaking of 150m+, the project about a 180m hotel in Porte de Versailles become more and more serious, saying rumor is not so true because it is written in the press. :)
There is big change ofr this tower to be build. If it is, this tower will become the first skyscraper build in inner paris since Montparnasse tower.

[Minato Ku]

I am a bit late.

Paris to scrap ban on high-rise tower blocks
8 July 2008
Agence France Presse

Paris city council on Tuesday moved to scrap a 30-year-old ban on high-rise buildings, a decision that could revolutionise the capital's skyline but which is fiercely opposed by green politicians.

The Socialist mayor of Paris, Bertrand Delanoe, has championed a change to rules that currently limit the height of inner-city buildings to 37 metres (122 feet), despite polls showing that two-thirds of Parisians oppose the change.

On Tuesday, Paris city council voted to launch a public consultation on plans to build towers of up to 200 metres at six emblematic sites just inside the city walls.

Part of wide-ranging regeneration plans, the towers would mix shops, offices and childcare centres. Delanoe also backs the construction of new 50-metre apartment blocks to counter a shortage of affordable housing in the capital.

The 37-metre ceiling was brought in 1977 to call a halt to a string of high-rise projects -- including the Montparnasse tower south of the River Seine -- that were quickly seen as failed experiments in urbanism.

"We will not repeat the mistakes of the past," Delanoe told the city council before the vote.

Consultations will begin in January to measure support for each of the projects, according to city councillor for urbanism Anne Hidalgo, who said she hoped work on the first ones could begin in 2012.

City authorities could start accepting architect bids early next year for two disused railway sites, in Batignolles in the northwest of the capital and Massena in the southeast, she added.

French star architect Jean Nouvel, who last month won a contract to build a new skyscraper in La Defense business district west of Paris, has criticised the taboo on high-rises, saying they should be allowed even in the city centre.

"This is not about undermining our heritage. But we have to stop thinking that Paris is a museum-city," Nouvel told Le Parisian newspaper. "Paris is not finished... If vertical buildings can enrich the heart of the capital, why deprive ourselves?"

But others warn that a badly-designed tower can blow apart the social fabric of a neighbourhood.

"Tower blocks ruin the most precious asset of European cities: public spaces," said French architect Henri Gaudin. "They wipe out a whole territory."

Delanoe's plans are fiercely opposed by the French Green Party, who voted against on grounds of energy efficiency.

"Tower blocks are urbanism's equivalent of the four-wheel drive car: flashy machines that devour energy," Green Party councillor Rene Dutrey charged.

President Nicolas Sarkozy's right-wing UMP party, though it backs plans for high-rise offices, also voted against the proposals on the grounds high-rise social housing would create a "time-bomb" for the city.

"In 10 years we will still have all the same problems, but it's worse to have social problems reaching up 50 metres than 37," said UMP councillor Jean-Francois Lamour.

Delanoe was blocked from changing the planning rules during his first term as mayor by his Green Party allies on the city council.

But the mayor was comfortably re-elected in March without support from the Greens, allowing him to take a second shot and push through the change with the help of the Socialists' left-wing and centrist allies.

"Parisians are uncomfortable with the very idea of high-rise buildings: polls say so quite clearly. But the duty of public officials us to be guided by the general interest, rather than polls," Delanoe said ahead of the vote.

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Places in inner paris where high-rises could be build.

http://img140.imageshack.us/img140/5030/298614932lf0.jpg


Massena Quai d'Ivry

http://img389.imageshack.us/img389/6816/cimg2679sg7.jpg

http://img300.imageshack.us/img300/4562/dsc01617ne9.jpg


Bercy Charenton.

http://img137.imageshack.us/img137/6903/dsc01563vl0.jpg


Porte de Montreuil

http://img386.imageshack.us/img386/5876/dsc01217de8.jpg

http://img376.imageshack.us/img376/1484/dsc01221av9.jpg


Porte de la Chapelle

http://img258.imageshack.us/img258/9559/cimg7090sv7.jpg

Like you can see except in Porte de Montreuil and Porte de Versailles (not posted here) these areas are waste lands.
It is better than nothing but I would like to see new towers in more central location like Montparnasse.
_____________________________________________

The project about a 180m hotel in Porte de Versailles become more and more serious.
There is big change ofr this tower to be build. If it is, this tower will become the first skyscraper build in inner Paris since Montparnasse tower.
Its design would be Triangular

A render by Cyril (It is not the real design of the tower that is actually unknow. It is just to give an idea of how could be the tower in this area)

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3133/2720894466_2c4acbb7c7_b.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3133/2720894466_93ca2313a5_o.jpg

[Minato Ku]

The construction of the Levallois Perret twin towers began

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b6/Levallois-Perret_map.svg/150px-Levallois-Perret_map.svg.png

http://editorial.batiactu.com/images/normal/20080630_161916_les-tours-exterieur.jpg
http://editorial.batiactu.com/edito/tours-de-levallois-686.php

With 164m high these building are the first 150m+ highrises under in construction outside la Defense since Montparnasse tower.
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A new proposal for la Defense Tour AVA

http://www.ladefense.fr/images/dynamic/events/projetava-web.jpg

AVA Tower by Manuelle Gautrand Architectes : 142 m /58,700m².
Opening planned in 2011

[Minato Ku]

A render by Cyril (It is not the real design of the tower that is actually unknow. It is just to give an idea of how could be the tower in this area)

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3133/2720894466_2c4acbb7c7_b.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3133/2720894466_93ca2313a5_o.jpg

[Swede]

Paris to scrap ban on high-rise tower blocks
8 July 2008
Agence France Presse

Paris city council on Tuesday moved to scrap a 30-year-old ban on high-rise buildings, a decision that could revolutionise the capital's skyline but which is fiercely opposed by green politicians.
They claim to be green and oppose building tall? I'm tired of these fake-greens.

On Tuesday, Paris city council voted to launch a public consultation on plans to build towers of up to 200 metres at six emblematic sites just inside the city wallsI like that idea. specific sites that will get concentrations of taller buildings, like mini-La Defense.

The 37-metre ceiling was brought in 1977 to call a halt to a string of high-rise projects -- including the Montparnasse tower south of the River Seine -- that were quickly seen as failed experiments in urbanism.
Because it was the height that made them fail in urbanism? height has nothing to do with it.

"This is not about undermining our heritage. But we have to stop thinking that Paris is a museum-city. Paris is not finished... If vertical buildings can enrich the heart of the capital, why deprive ourselves?"Hear, hear!

But others warn that a badly-designed tower can blow apart the social fabric of a neighbourhood.

"Tower blocks ruin the most precious asset of European cities: public spaces," said French architect Henri Gaudin. "They wipe out a whole territory."

Delanoe's plans are fiercely opposed by the French Green Party, who voted against on grounds of energy efficiency.

"Tower blocks are urbanism's equivalent of the four-wheel drive car: flashy machines that devour energy," Green Party councillor Rene Dutrey charged.
Who said anything about 60s style highrise commieblocks and Le Corbousier style urban planning? These guys are totally missing the point!:hell:

[Minato Ku]

Yeh, these fake Green are a problem in Paris, with them the traffic decrease but the traffic jam increase.
They are for the public housing but not inside the bourgeois district so they prefer ghetto as social diversity.... They dream of the Paris of Amelie Poulin :hell:
Outside Paris green are not against high-rises.

[Sinha]

Issy's project-Mozart tower

http://www.issy.com/UserFiles/Visuel2(1).jpg

http://img143.imageshack.us/img143/8287/1001906ob8.jpg

http://img367.imageshack.us/img367/3739/1001970on0.jpg

http://img362.imageshack.us/img362/9140/1001975uq6.jpg


Bouygues Immo

http://www.issy.com/UserFiles/bouygue_siege_la_proue2.jpg

http://img98.imageshack.us/img98/7196/1001911mg7.jpg

http://img396.imageshack.us/img396/6851/1001926ym7.jpg

http://img244.imageshack.us/img244/8900/1001982jl7.jpg

http://img516.imageshack.us/img516/2109/1001927no1.jpg

EOS (Microsoft Europe)

http://img352.imageshack.us/img352/205/1001924wo4.jpg

http://img141.imageshack.us/img141/6886/1001933vy7.jpg

http://img369.imageshack.us/img369/4905/1001935ng8.jpg

http://img395.imageshack.us/img395/1262/1001936tz2.jpg

http://img396.imageshack.us/img396/5193/1001937bz5.jpg

http://img353.imageshack.us/img353/4446/1001944wm2.jpg

[Minato Ku]

Recladd of Tour Altais-Montreuil (88m) in Montreuil (eastern inner suburbs)

http://img143.imageshack.us/img143/8991/sanstitre4pq6.png

http://img249.imageshack.us/img249/6426/11793992027vu4.jpg
picture by Sinha

http://www.philia.fr/index_altais.php

[Minato Ku]

Finally the 180m tower in Porte de Versailles by Herzog and Meuron.


http://img217.imageshack.us/img217/4812/nouvelobsae4.jpg

http://tempsreel.nouvelobs.com/file/565636.jpg

http://tempsreel.nouvelobs.com/file/565637.jpg

http://tempsreel.nouvelobs.com/file/565638.jpg

http://tempsreel.nouvelobs.com/file/565639.jpg

http://tempsreel.nouvelobs.com/file/565640.jpg

http://tempsreel.nouvelobs.com/file/565641.jpg

http://tempsreel.nouvelobs.com/file/565642.jpg

http://tempsreel.nouvelobs.com/file/565643.jpg

[Sinha]

Paris 15-Porte de Versailles-Herzog & De Meuron:
http://editorial.batiactu.com/images/normal/20080925_175420_vue-peripherique.jpg

http://editorial.batiactu.com/images/normal/20080925_174241_vue-rue-de-vaugirard.jpg
http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?p=3822269

[Jonovision]

Wow! They really went for something different on this one. Can't decide if I like it though. Looks quite massive.

[muppet]

that's an instant icon methinks

[Clarchitect]

A render by Cyril (It is not the real design of the tower that is actually unknow. It is just to give an idea of how could be the tower in this area)

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3133/2720894466_2c4acbb7c7_b.jpg


Well, I think Cyril's render looks better - more elegant and more “neighbourhood-friendly” - than the actual project which seems a bit narcisistic (true: in a narcissitic city ;) ).

[Hoodrat]

H & D are so out there...love it!

[Sinha]

Grands Moulins de Pantin

http://shutter02.pictures.aol.com/data/pictures/23/008/74/CD/D6/50/MUpj1ltEvV1at7ifVzebIaTCEyOaVzga0300.jpg

http://shutter08.pictures.aol.com/data/pictures/27/002/39/FF/51/43/fwStiSOz8iDrJJK-kiWq1EEFB12qm-Fk0300.jpg

http://shutter04.pictures.aol.com/data/pictures/15/006/3F/9F/37/10/mjzqDysPh84UCDWoSSdHhI+3f8COilWV0300.jpg

http://shutter02.pictures.aol.com/data/pictures/16/004/77/67/5D/6B/NsKEf3VyJAJSa92NvIGoxqrcJDmviTIP0300.jpg

http://shutter05.pictures.aol.com/data/pictures/16/006/5E/5B/AF/CF/wkaNnB2Fjp2xeKu45u+NVqa14C0kSo+d0300.jpg

http://shutter02.pictures.aol.com/data/pictures/15/001/75/BD/4C/06/OFkj4eMYLAJE14dTFizT3irk8Ltb8gUb0300.jpg

http://shutter03.pictures.aol.com/data/pictures/15/006/7F/FA/75/72/7q781uuZ7CawFJmqmt2UYyknkOtym+jg0300.jpg

http://img231.imageshack.us/img231/4480/1002666sw1.jpg

http://img505.imageshack.us/img505/8246/1002667yk0.jpg

http://img80.imageshack.us/img80/4143/1002668nr8.jpg

http://img383.imageshack.us/img383/4932/1002669rp3.jpg

http://img391.imageshack.us/img391/4323/1002670wg5.jpg

http://img258.imageshack.us/img258/6166/1002671ws7.jpg

http://img231.imageshack.us/img231/1426/1002672fk5.jpg

http://img117.imageshack.us/img117/6923/1002674lc0.jpg

[Sinha]

Update Franklin tower in Montreuil

http://img207.imageshack.us/img207/2738/1002526yu6.jpg

http://img386.imageshack.us/img386/63/1002527hw8.jpg

http://img386.imageshack.us/img386/1977/1002531im7.jpg

http://img147.imageshack.us/img147/3280/1002533tz4.jpg

http://img412.imageshack.us/img412/5876/1002534pz0.jpg

http://img241.imageshack.us/img241/155/1002535fy7.jpg

http://img234.imageshack.us/img234/6125/1002540oq9.jpg

http://img514.imageshack.us/img514/784/1002544kl7.jpg

http://img84.imageshack.us/img84/3587/1002653ga8.jpg

[fridayinla]

Additional renderings of the Herzog and de Meuron glass pyramid. The architects claim the building will cast no shadows! More information here:

http://sinkingcities.com/2008/11/shadowless-building/#more-216

http://sinkingcities.com/img/hdm_paris4.jpg

http://sinkingcities.com/img/hdm_paris2.jpg

http://sinkingcities.com/img/hdm_paris3.jpg

http://sinkingcities.com/img/hdm_paris1.jpg

[colemonkee]

The architects claim the building will cast no shadows!
And my poo smells like roses! Seriously, if anyone believes this claim, they deserve to live forever in the dark shadows of this building, doomed to complain until the bitter end about height, density, shadows and quality of life.

The rest of us can sit on on a cafe, sipping our lattes, wondering aloud in the world's most beautiful language why anyone in their right mind would build a deconstructionist version of the Ryugyong Hotel in the heart of Paris. Then we'd be distracted by the beautiful people walking by on the sidewalk, forgetting momentarily that we are skyscraper nerds.

[Minato Ku]

Four towers proposed in Massena (13th arrondissement)

The vision to build high-rises in Massena is not but as we learnt few month ago, this area is one where high rises could be build inside inner Paris.
Massena is a big railward vasleland inside the big Paris rive gauche redevellopment area next to the Peripherique in southeastern inner Paris. With Bercy and the redevelopment of the dockland in Ivry, this is maybe the birth of the big eastern business district that Paris lack.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3017/3074487081_3985209e15_o.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3212/3074487589_f6a185412b_o.jpg

[Minato Ku]

:previous: A bit too much cliche for the big multicultural metropolis that is Paris.
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Four towers proposed in Massena district (13th arrondissement)

The vision to build high-rises in Massena is not but as we learnt few month ago, this area is one where high rises could be build inside inner Paris.
Massena is a big railward vasleland inside the big Paris rive gauche redevellopment area next to the Peripherique in southeastern inner Paris. With Bercy and the redevelopment of the dockland in Ivry, this is maybe the birth of the big eastern business district that Paris lack.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3017/3074487081_3985209e15_o.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3212/3074487589_f6a185412b_o.jpg

[10023]

:previous: A bit too much cliche for the big multicultural metropolis that is Paris.

Yes, but that cliche is what brings me back to Paris again and again.

If I wanted skyscrapers and graffiti and ethnic food, I'd stay in New York.

[R@ptor]

/\

Is that next to the Biblioteque Nationale?

[KRIS6981]

Yes "Biblioteque Nationale" is above " rue de Tolbiac"

[Grumpy]

A lovelly continuation of the Avenue de France development.
The 4 blocks built over the railroad tracks just south of the Rue de Tobiac are also new proposals right ?

[Minato Ku]

Actually this picture is in Boulevard Massena where the T3 will run.
But I think that extending avenue de France outside the Peripherique in Ivry is a good idea.

[Bergenser]

This (http://editorial.batiactu.com/images/normal/20080925_175420_vue-peripherique.jpg) building is increadible looking!

[Minato Ku]

Hotel Renaissance in Avenue de Wagram near the Champs Elysees
Architect Cristian de Portzamparc

Pictures by JP.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3283/3144656209_0c38447bdd_o.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3219/3145487118_0bdfb58267_o.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3238/3144658191_4facaa576e_o.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3123/3145484910_74a2c2e48c_o.jpg

[Swede]

I LOVE that kind of contrast. Beautiful old buildings wall-to-wall with new beautiful buildings.

[Prahaboheme]

Yes, but that cliche is what brings me back to Paris again and again.

If I wanted skyscrapers and graffiti and ethnic food, I'd stay in New York.

Paris has it's share of all 3 of those things -- especially graffiti and ethnic food.

[Sinha]

e-architect 12/01/09

Docks de Paris

http://img440.imageshack.us/img440/4291/docksdeparisjm120109nbpty6.jpg

The Docks of Paris is a long, thin building built in concrete at the turn of the last century. It was a depot for goods brought up the Seine by barge, which were deposited, and then transferred to dray or train.
The city of Paris launched a competition to create a new cultural program and building on this site. Whether or not to keep the existing concrete structure was a choice left to the participants.
Jakob+MacFarlane opted to retain the existing structure and use it to form and influence the new project.[...]
http://www.e-architect.co.uk/paris/docks_de_paris.htm

[Urbain]

Ma foi! Où sont-ils ses Parisiens? Aucuns commentaires de leur part sur ce site!!

[muppet]

^ I was just about to say.

[Sinha]

Update Franklin tower

http://img519.imageshack.us/img519/2452/1003533gh3.jpg

http://img149.imageshack.us/img149/9906/1003532bq9.jpg

http://img519.imageshack.us/img519/8139/1003534jo1.jpg

http://img519.imageshack.us/img519/3899/1003538yl8.jpg

http://img136.imageshack.us/img136/7039/1003535di5.jpg

http://img246.imageshack.us/img246/1418/1003540ve8.jpg

http://img136.imageshack.us/img136/5972/1003541xx5.jpg

http://img136.imageshack.us/img136/88/1003543ji1.jpg

[Sinha]

Update Galliénie tower.Porte de Bagnolet

http://img166.imageshack.us/img166/7372/1003457wx3.jpg

http://img407.imageshack.us/img407/7525/1003460xf8.jpg

http://img212.imageshack.us/img212/4848/1003465md0.jpg

http://img220.imageshack.us/img220/4364/1003467qo8.jpg

http://img504.imageshack.us/img504/2829/1003468ec4.jpg

http://img81.imageshack.us/img81/6426/1003470fr8.jpg

http://img297.imageshack.us/img297/2967/1003469yt5.jpg

[Sinha]

Grands Moulins de Pantin

1
http://img209.imageshack.us/img209/7630/1003483kz9.jpg
2
http://img255.imageshack.us/img255/9260/1003487iz1.jpg
3
http://img207.imageshack.us/img207/5120/1003490yt8.jpg
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http://img522.imageshack.us/img522/8751/1003493ay8.jpg
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http://img522.imageshack.us/img522/4069/1003491bi0.jpg
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http://img150.imageshack.us/img150/2413/1003495zm4.jpg
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http://img530.imageshack.us/img530/2048/1003498vo7.jpg
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http://img80.imageshack.us/img80/7176/1003502vd1.jpg

[Sinha]

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http://img187.imageshack.us/img187/6258/1003504cf9.jpg
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http://img243.imageshack.us/img243/7949/1003505ek3.jpg
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http://img243.imageshack.us/img243/848/1003523hl2.jpg
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http://img232.imageshack.us/img232/5601/1003530rg0.jpg

[Minato Ku]

OKABE

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b4/Le_Kremlin-Bic%C3%AAtre_map.svg/200px-Le_Kremlin-Bic%C3%AAtre_map.svg.png

Okabe is a new shopping mall with office in Le Kremlin-Bicêtre (southern inner suburbs) located next to Le Kremelin Bicetre subway station at 500m of the Peripherique.
72.000 m²
Architects : Valode et Pistre
To be opened in 2010.

http://f.imagehost.org/0730/09-01-24_02_55_56.jpg

http://f.imagehost.org/0681/09-01-24_02_35_46.jpg

http://f.imagehost.org/0920/09-01-24_02_36_26.jpg

http://f.imagehost.org/0622/09-01-24_03_09_12.jpg

http://www.okabe.fr/sites/okabe/local/cache-vignettes/L700xH446/5-28dc3.jpg

http://f.imagehost.org/0823/09-01-24_02_35_06.jpg

http://f.imagehost.org/0620/Plan_du_centre_Okabe-3-16ab0.jpg

http://f.imagehost.org/0521/09-01-24_02_51_50.jpg

http://f.imagehost.org/0928/09-01-24_02_53_51.jpg

http://f.imagehost.org/0821/09-01-24_02_54_44.jpg

[Higherisbetter!]

Thanks Minato Ku for sharing that project for Massena aera. But is that Yves Lion's project? Why is the SEMAPA showing another project on its website? I'm wondering how serious that new proposal is knowing that constructions already started in this aera.

[Minato Ku]

Hermitage Plaza
Architect : Foster
323m twin towers
Mixed use.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3643/3346555087_fb111eed26_o.jpg http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3589/3347391740_c91951752e_o.jpg

http://www.hermitage-immo.fr/fr/lib/pdf/Brochure_HERMITAGE_Plaza.pdf

[Jonovision]

Those are awesome looking twins. The way they spin 90 degrees really plays havoc on my brain. lol

[Minato Ku]

Picture of Okabe in February

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[Minato Ku]

Tour Mozart (100m)

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Pictures by Cyril.

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[Minato Ku]

Sarko's €35bn rail plan for a 'Greater Paris'
By John Lichfield, Wednesday, 29 April 2009
The Independent

A driverless, 24-hour, regional metro system, in the shape of a giant figure eight, will connect Paris to its troubled suburbs by the year 2020, President Nicolas Sarkozy announced today.

M. Sarkozy promised a recession-busting, €35bn investment in new and existing rapid transit systems to help to create a single "Greater Paris" from a jumbled conurbation of 12,000,000 people in the space of 10 years.

"The economic crisis can only be beaten by grand projects," M. Sarkozy said. "There could be no grander project than to create a Greater Paris."

In a speech inaugurating an exhibition of ten architects' visions for a "Grand Paris", President Sarkozy also promised a drive to create a million jobs in the Paris area over 20 years and to build 70,000 homes a year in the capital and its suburbs. He called for a brand new underground station for high-speed, long distance trains at La Défense, just west of the city proper, and the plantation of a new forest near Charles de Gaulle airport to absorb carbon emissions.

There would also be a need, he said, for new "monuments" to rival the Eiffel Tower or the Arc de Triomphe. These would be constructed outside the present city boundary to create the image of a single, dynamic, greener and larger "Paris for the 21st century".

To the disappointment of some, and delight of others, M. Sarkozy side-stepped the anguished question of whether to establish a new political entity for a "Greater Paris", to match Greater London. He said that he wanted to create a "project" for the whole of the Paris area without becoming bogged down in political arguments.

Critics doubt whether a de facto Greater Paris can be achieved without an agreement on eroding the administrative boundaries between the city of Paris (pop 2,000,000) and its surrounding suburbs. President Sarkozy's suggestion yesterday that planning laws should be relaxed to allow the rapid building of new railways, homes and tower blocks also aroused deep suspicions.

The political and economic barriers and poor transport links between Paris and its "banlieues" contributed to the alienation and deprivation which fuelled the suburban riots of November 2005. The British architect Richard Rogers says that he knows "of no other large city in which the heart is so detached from the limbs".

Lord Rogers' team was one of ten invited by M. Sarkozy to put forward suggestions for the development of a "Grand Paris" for the 21st century. The ideas will be on display at the Grand Palais, off the Champs Elysées, from tomorrow.

In his speech opening the exhibition, President Sarkozy promised a ten year programme, starting in 2010 or 2011, to improve rail links between Paris and its two airports and hundreds of satellite towns. He offered Euros 21bn for the "Big Eight": a 130 kilometres (80 miles), driverless, 24-hour metro system in the form of two large loops, joining across the centre of the city.

The northern loop would have a branch to Charles de Gaulle airport and would also – with heavy symbolism - pass through the troubled towns of Montfermeil and Clichy-sous-Bois, where the 2005 riots began. The southern loop would link the centre of the city to, amongst other places, Orly Airport and Versailles. President Sarkozy also promised another Euros 14bn for the extension and re-equipment of existing Metro, regional metro (RER) and suburban railway lines.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/sarkos-euro35bn-rail-plan-for-a-greater-paris-1676196.html

[Sinha]

Worldarchitecturenews 30/04/09

€35billion pledged to redesign Paris

“We need to think big”, said French President Sarkozy yesterday as he revealed ten works by architects invited to help redesign a 'Greater Paris', and pledged an investment of €35billion towards improving transport.
In an effort to reunite Paris, currently divided by a predominant ring road around the centre of the city, Sarkozy is promising a 130 km automatic metro line which will ease commuter suffering and conjoin the outer suburbs, universities and the central business district. [...]
http://www.worldarchitecturenews.com/index.php?fuseaction=wanappln.projectview&upload_id=11515

[Sinha]

130 km automatic metro line for Greater Paris

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[Sinha]

E-architect 7/05/09

Le Grand Pari de l'agglomération parisienne

On 17 September 2007, French President Nicolas Sarkozy marked the inauguration of La Cité de l’architecture & du patrimoine by stating his wish for international consultation on a «new comprehensive development project for Greater Paris» which would bring together the professional expertise of ten architecture and urban planning agencies.The consultation process was launched at the beginning of 2008 and is being overseen by a steering committee made up of representatives of the State, the City of Paris, the Île-de-France Regional Authority and the Île-de-France Mayoral Association, with the support of a scientific committee of 23 qualified figures led by architect Paul Chemetov and geographer Michel Lussault. President Sarkozy appointed the minister of Culture and Communication to coordinate the consultation process.[...]
http://www.e-architect.co.uk/paris/le_grand_paris.htm

[Swede]

130 km automatic metro line for Greater Paris
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So what's the black ring? LRT? RER? Metro?

Having both these lines plus the existing lines... awesome.

[Minato Ku]

It is Arc Express metro projet, with the large other metro project, the chance to be build is low.

[Swede]

And the new proposed red line, how likely is that one? If that one gets built I could se a complimentary figure-8 line lying the other way (with the line thru the Cite going northeast to southwest, if you get how I mean).

[Minato Ku]

:previous: This metro project is very recent, it could be greatly modified.
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North Eastern Paris redevelopment area.

Nowaday this area is a industrial wastle land in the edge of the 18th and 19th arrondissements between the Peripherique beltway and the track of Gare de l'Est.

Some high-rises could be built in the western hedge of this area in Porte de la Chapelle

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[Minato Ku]

Usually we don't show the little project or construction as there is too many and most are quite boring.
Anyway these one intterested me, it is two building in the same street in Clichy.

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[Minato Ku]

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Pont d'Issy towers (250,000m²)
Three buildings.
The lowest is an residencial building of 50m
The tallest building is 150m tall with office.
Architects : Hasegawa and Françoise Raynaud

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[Minato Ku]

Actually I was wrong about Pont d'Issy towers.

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As you see the heigh of the tallest tower (Tour 2) is 200m, not 150m.
150m is the heigh of the second tower (Tour 1).

The Tour 2 of Pont d'Issy towers is the tallest building proposed outside la Defense.
I hope I will more 200m+ or 150m+ tower outside La Defense.

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Residencial building around.
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[Minato Ku]

A model of the first skycrapers since the tour Montparnasse taht could be build inside the peripherique.
http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showpost.php?p=3822356&postcount=205

Tour Unibal (180m) in Porte Versailles

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[Sinha]

Zac Massena Paris 13

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[Sinha]

ZAC Clichy-Batignolles / Pont Cardinet Paris 17

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[Sinha]

Tour Mozart (100m)

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[Sinha]

Bouygues Immo

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[Swede]

I like that style^ but I think it's not quite there yet in terms of technology. It's not a clear glass wall like in the renders, the structure is istll too visible. Not really a complaint about that building in particular (I do like it), but more against the renders that fudge the truth.

[Jonovision]

Is that blue padding on the bars gonna be removed? I think doing that would make it resemble the renders quite a bit more. Would look more clean.

[Minato Ku]

Of course these blue padding will be removed.

[Sinha]

Gallienie 1 -Qualis in Bagnolet

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