Parigi 2011.Projects 24

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1 Parigi 2011 Projects 24 Created 01-Aug-11 By andrea rizzuti, roma, Italy Private House Bucharest, Romania Radu Teaca private house Arab World Institute Cinémathèque Française Jussieu 16M Atrium Masséna Housing Seine Rive Gauche housing Bibliothèque Kandinsky 7 Leisure center "Curial" 14 Parc André Citroën 15 Musée du Quai Branly 16 Meditation Space 17 Paris, Tadao Ando memorial space, religion 8 Our Lady of the Ark of the Covenant Church 18 Paris, ASure-Studio church 9 Rue des Suisses 19 Paris, Herzog and De Meuron housing 10 House and studio Ozenfant 20 Paris, Le Corbusier atelier, private house 11 Paris, Périphériques es culture, library, office Rue de Meaux Housing Paris, Jean Nouvel museum Paris, Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners auditorium, congress centre, exposition space, library, museum 6 Paris, Badia-Berger architectes social housing Centre Georges Pompidou 13 Paris, Jean-Paul Viguier SA d'ure park Paris, Beckmann N'Thépé housing, mixed-use development 5 Paris, Périphériques es university Student Housing Ménilmontant Paris, Air ure community centre, culture, leisure, youth house Paris, Jakob + MacFarlane cafe, commercial space, office 4 Paris, Gehry Partners auditorium, cinema, library, museum Cité de la Mode et du Design Paris, Hamonic + Masson student housing Paris, Jean Nouvel culture, library, museum 3 Pavillon Suisse 21 Paris, Le Corbusier student housing 12 Paris, Renzo Piano housing Espace Citroën 22 Paris, Manuelle Gautrand showroom 1

2 Villa la Roche Paris, Le Corbusier private house, museum, gallery 23 Renaissance Wagram Hotel Maison de Verre 25 Paris, Pierre Chareau private house 24 Paris, Christian de Portzamparc hotel Villa Savoye 26 Poissy, Le Corbusier private house 2

3 photo: Stefan Tuchila photo: Stefan Tuchila Private House Strada Constantin Dobrogeanu-Gherea Bucharest Romania Nicolae Ceausescu's neo-stalinist regime has achieved architectural notoriety by forbidding any sort of individual initiative, instead building huge compounds and erasing whole swathes of the historical city centers These urban and peri-urban areas - poor neighborhoods, unbuilt zones within apartment block ensembles, former slums and villages on the urban periphery have become the hunting grounds for the private dream home These new buildings never seek to connect to the place, clearly asserting their autonomy Aesthetically, such houses are difficult to classify It is not bland Western-style suburbia, but bulky buildings ranging from the expanded American model, through small châteaux to neo-classical perversions Sometimes a building will exhibit genuine architectural qualities This house proudly presents its neo-modernist vocabulary A carefully composed structure of planes, masses and voids, it achieves a kind of monumentality through the emphasis on its spatial elements Project is not public! 2006 Main designer, Associate architect Associate architect Radu Teaca Artline SRL Peter Marx Tiberiu Nica private Stefan_Ghenciulescu photo: Stefan Tuchila Located on the northern outskirts of Bucharest, near Bucuresti Baneasa International Airport 3

4 photo: IMA photo: IMA / Georges Fessy Arab World Institute Rue des Fosses-Saint-Bernard Paris In 1980, 18 Arab countries concluded an agreement with to establish the AWI to spread knowledge and research the Arab World s language, and its cultural and spiritual values, reflecting the opinion, that the Arab world - its civilization and values, its past and future - needs to be better known and understood in the West It supplies cultural information in a wide range of media: libraries, electronic databanks, a conventional, glass-case museum, audio-visual displays, and an outreach program of touring exhibits and performances as well This is not an Arab building, but an occidental one, it s not pastiche, like the Paris Mosque, but modern and from an urban point of view The Institute is a hinge between 2 cultures and histories Certain symbolic items like the moucharabiehs whose polygons of varying shapes and sizes, create a geometric effect recalling the Alhambra It AWI has been conceived equally by Jean Nouvel, ure-studio, Pierre Soria and Gilbert Lezenes photo: IMA Floor area/size m² Main designer, Jean Nouvel ASure-Studio Gilbert Lezenes Pierre Soria Institut du Monde Arabe MI_MOA Daily from 10:00 to 18:00 except Mondays Library: 13:00 until 20:00 except Sunday and Monday Métro : Jussieu, Cardinal-Lemoine, Sully-Morland Bus : 24, 63, 67, 86, 87,

5 photo: isida photo: isida Cinémathèque Française Rue de Bercy Paris The Cinémathèque is setting up in the building which was initially conceived by the architect Frank O Gehry known as the famous Bilbao Guggenheim museum architect The Cinémathèque building was wittily named "the dancer raising her tutu" by its creator It faces a park on one side and features a reception hall which makes use of space and light in a very nice way, contrasting with the elevation made of white stone on the side facing Bercy Street The inside spaces, reconverted by the architect Dominique Brard, make use of an abundance of inclined planes which enable communication between the different volumes and the great number of overlaped levels [from the project's website] Cinémathèque Française hosts the largest archive of films, movie documents, and film-related objects in the world It holds daily screenings of a variety of films from all over the world photo: isida 1994 Main designer, Interior architect Gehry Partners Dominique Brard isida Temporary and permanent exhibitions: During the week from 12 pm to 7 pm, open until 10 pm on Thursdays Saturday and Sunday from 10 am to 8 pm ural tour for individuals: every first Sunday of the month at 11 am Metro: Bercy - Lignes 6 and 14 Bus:

6 photo: goa Cité de la Mode et du Design Quai d'austerlitz Paris In Paris's 13th arrondissement, Parisian architects Jakob + MacFarlane have converted the existing concrete skeleton of a former warehouse into a center for design and fashion The architects constantly explore all forms and 'non-forms', which is visible in this project: parasitical volumes in apple-green spindles colonize the entire façade photo: goa Floor area/size m², Interior architect, Landscape architect, Urban planner Jakob + MacFarlane goa Institut Français de la Mode Metro : Gare d'austerlitz The building lies directly next to the Seine between the Pont Charles de Gaulle and the Pont de Bercy 6

7 photo: Andre Staalenhoef photo: Luc Boegly Jussieu 16M Atrium Place Jussieu Paris photo: Luc Boegly Jussieu Campus consists out of a regular grid of 6-floor wings and is generally decried as an architectural failure The hollow space under the buildings enables wind to build up its force, the regular grid plan is confusing and polluted with asbestos It has increasingly degraded, leaving its facade covered in graffiti The new 16M building extends and completes the grid plan that architect Edouard Albert designed in the 60s; based on the existing system, but at the same time deforms it: where Albert laid out a single patio, Périphériques planned two The façades are glazed on the same pattern as Albert s existing building But the glass metal skin composed of ten types of panels perforated with circular holes of different sizes give the façades complex and variable depth At ground floor, the existing slab on which the university buildings are built folds up in an origami-like orange ramp to even up the levels in a fluid movement Floor area/size m² Périphériques es EPA Jussieu peripheriques The campus is served by the Paris Métro station Jussieu, as well as numerous bus lines 7

8 photo: Piotr Krajewski Masséna Housing Rue Françoise Dolto Paris Almost all of Paris s social housing authorities have revamped their building strategies The shift dates to the inauguration of Mayor Bertrand Delanöe, a socialist and a design advocate who, with others, knew the banlieue was an issue long before the riots The city is now building better social architecture, aiming to reverse social housing s negative stigma One of these projects is an unusual concrete building, built for the Société Anonyme d Economie Mixte Immobilière Interdépartementale in the formerly industrial Masséna area by Beckmann-N Thépé The building s center is carved out about three levels up to create a lofted courtyard, while side portions are also cut out to create several rooftop gardens The structure contains 48 flats, commerce, and an underground garage (text from ural Record) Project is not public! Floor area/size m² Beckmann N'Thépé pkrajewski_pl photo: Piotr Krajewski 8

9 photo: Piotr Krajewski Seine Rive Gauche housing Rue Françoise Dolto Paris Social housing situated in revitalized Seine Rive Gauche district in Paris The two building contain 79 flats Floor area/size m² Badia-Berger architectes OPAC de Paris pkrajewski_pl photo: Piotr Krajewski 9

10 photo: Michael Buschor photo: Michael Buschor Centre Georges Pompidou Place Georges Pompidou Paris Centre Georges Pompidou is a complex in the Beaubourg area of the IVe arrondissement of Paris, near Les Halles and the Marais It houses the Bibliothèque publique d'information, a public library, the Musée National d'art Moderne, and IRCAM, a centre for music and acoustic research The building was designed by the architects Renzo Piano, Richard Rogers and Sue Rogers and engineers Peter Rice and Edmund Happold, whose design was not popular at first However, under the guidance of its first director, Pontus Hultén, it quickly became a noted attraction in Paris The Pompidou 'revolutionized museums,' the Pritzker jury said, 'transforming what had once been elite monuments into popular places of social and cultural exchange, woven into the heart of the city The characteristic piping is colour-coded according to the contents: yellow for electricity, red for transport, blue for water, and green for air' [Wikipediaorg] photo: Michael Buschor 1977 Main designer, Interior architect Services engineer Contractor Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners Gianfranco Franchini Renzo Piano Ove Arup and Partners Grands Travaux de Marseilles Ministère des Affaires Culturelles, Ministère de l Education Nationale Buschi Museum, Exhibitions 11am-9pm, ticket counters closed at 8 pm Rooms closed at 850 pm Late night openings for certain exhibitions, as indicated on the website, Thursdays and Fridays to 11 pm Ticket counters closed at 10 pm Atelier Brancusi: every day, except Tuesdays, 2-6 pm To avoid queuing up, best after 5 pm Public Reference Library (Bpi): Weekdays: pm Saturdays, Sundays & public holidays: 11 am-10 pm Metro Stations 'Rambuteau', 'Hôtel de Ville' or 'Châtelet - Les Halles' 10

11 photo: Luc Boegly photo: Luc Boegly Bibliothèque Kandinsky Place Beaubourg Paris On the third level of Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, one will find the Graphic Art's studio and offices and the National Museum of Modern Art's documentation offices, reading room and Warehouse Eventhough the reading room, the public space of the floor, spreads in a central position, the glass, the material used in the project, eclipses the dense occupation of the place Transparent, opaque, bright or mirror, it values R Rogers and R Piano's building and lets light reach the center of the floor Furniture and working people are hidden by transparent glass panels made of mirrors, 140m high This composition turns the space in a kind of game place where people appear and disappear through transparent glass or hidden by mirrors, letting the image hint at activity but never revealing it photo: Luc Boegly Floor area/size m², Artist, Interior architect, Landscape architect, Urban planner Périphériques es peripheriques Centre Georges Pompidou Underground Line 11: Rambuteau 11

12 photo: Viktor Ramos photo: Viktor Ramos Rue de Meaux Housing Rue de Meaux Paris The residential complex in the 19th district of Paris is composed of 220 low cost apartments The homes all face a central internal garden planted with birch trees Research into the grain and color of materials led to the creation of a ' double-skinned' facade system and the use of terracotta Project is not public! 1991 Landscape designer Renzo Piano Desvigne & Dalnoky R'egie Immobilière de la Ville de Paris + Les Mutuelles du Mans Naomi photo: Viktor Ramos Take the subway to Jaurès 12

13 photo: Hervé Abbadie photo: Hervé Abbadie Student Housing Ménilmontant Rue de Ménilmontant 109/ Paris While climbing the steep and bustling road of Ménilmontant the student residence slowly reveals itself in a series of paradoxes: deeply rooted in the context of the Parisian apartment block, it also stands out as something unexpected and intriguing The strict street alignment imposed by planning regulation is punctured by a two-storey porch, bursting with colour and light, begging the viewer to look deep into the heart of the Parisian block where a hidden world awaits: two rows of former workshops, rehabilitated into 16 loft apartments, a street-like space between The spatial connection between these workshops and the porch, accentuated by a topographical shift, provides a vibrant outdoor gathering space for the students Here, a consistent approach to colour and lighting is established that subsequently continues throughout all of the building's circulation zones photo: Hervé Abbadie Project is not public! Floor area/size m² Contractor Building costs consultant Hamonic + Masson Capaldi SIBAT Paris Habitat Hamonic-Masson Metro Gambetta 13

14 photo: Air ure photo: Air ure Leisure center "Curial" rue Curial Paris "A bunch of colours in the middle of grey towers" The modernization of Curial center is an answer to the problems caused by the integration of existing buildings in urban spaces generated by the enclosing of housing buildings With a work of conversion and distortion, the front is fully re-modelled and offers a game of colours and forms In that way, the building bring some offbeat in a neighbourhood suffering from a severe texture The environmental approach is expressed in: Heat recovery ventilation; Controlled consumption; Materials with low grey energy; Solventless paint photo: Air ure Floor area/size m² Air ure Ville de Paris Hacienda 9h-18h every day 14

15 photo: Lotje van Ooststroom photo: Lotje van Ooststroom Parc André Citroën Quai André-Citroën Paris The park occupies the site where the Citroën factory stood from The park is split into several parts The White Garden is tree-lined, with little foliage which opens on to the neighboring area In its center there is a patio with white flowering plants The Dark Garden is a sort of enclosed labyrinth, highly shaded with very dense and dark vegetation and terraces giving on to a small square The Central Park consists of a large, rectangular expanse of lawn, diagonally sliced by a walkway On the south side of the lawn are two very large, fifteen meter-high greenhouses, which also function as sitting-rooms and are themed in correspondence with the adjacent Theme Gardens Both greenhouses are bordered by dozens of closely trimmed Magnolia trees and separated by a pavement of 120 individual dancing fountains This futuristic park was supposed to foreshadow the leisure spaces of the third millennium, but is that reflects today s reality? The opinions are unfortunately various photo: Lotje van Ooststroom Floor area/size m² Main designer, Jean-Paul Viguier SA d'ure Berger & Anziutti Alain Provost François Seigneur Gilles Clement Patrick Charoin SEMEA 15 City of Paris, Directorate of Parks, Gardens and Green Spaces Landscape designer Cooperating designer Landscape designer Project manager Contractor The park is open from dawn to 6 pm on weekdays, and from 9 am to 6pm on weekends and holidays Lotje Entrance at Rue Balard By bus: Batobus, Quai André Citroën By subway: 10 Javel ; 8 Lourmel, Place Balard By train: C, Boulevard Victor 15

16 photo: musée du quai Branly Nicolas Borel photo: musée du quai Branly Nicolas Borel Musée du Quai Branly Quai Branly Paris Mitterrand sprinkled Paris with bold landmarks, from Pei's glass pyramid at the Louvre to Dominique Perrault's National Library Georges Pompidou built the colorful machinelike museum Like its predecessors, Chirac s new Quai Branly has stirred considerable resentment Defiant, mysterious and wildly eccentric, it is not an easy building to love Its jumble of different structures, set in a lush green garden on the bank of the Seine in the shadow of the Eiffel Tower, hardly conforms to notions of Parisian monumental elegance Yet, Jean Nouvel's design creates a kaleidoscopic montage of urban impressions And once you give yourself over to the experience, you may find it the greatest monument to French popular culture since the Pompidou The building combines angular glass walls with futuristic cubes of bright color and outside, a green wall of thick vegetation, suggestive of a forest or a jungle An enormous curved glass wall shields the garden from cars roaring by An urban oasis photo: musée du quai Branly - Nicolas Borel Floor area/size m² Supplier Jean Nouvel Trespa Etablissement public du Musée du Quai Branly MI_MOA Open Tuesday to Sunday, from 10 am to 6:30 pm, and on Thursdays, till 9:30 pm Closed Monday The museum is next tot the Eiffel Tower Entry to the museum is via rue de l Université or via Quai Branly Metro : Iéna (line 9), Alma-Marceau (line 9), Pont de l Alma (RER C), Bir Hakeim (line 6) Bus : line 42 Eiffel Tower stop; lines 63, 80, 92: Bosquet-Rapp stop; line 72 Musée d art moderne Palais de Tokyo stop River shuttle : Eiffel Tower stop (Batobus, Bateaux parisiens et Vedettes de Paris) Paying car park accessed via 25 quai Branly 16

17 Meditation Space Place de Fontenoy Paris At the very end of the patio of the Japanese garden, with access to the right, is the 33m2, cylindrical, one-story structure is paved with granite exposed to the atomic bombing of Hiroshima on 6 August 1945, subsequently cleaned and used for the floor and base of the pond Commissioned by UNESCO to symbolize peace and to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the adoption of UNESCO's Constitution Financed through Japanese private donations amounting to approximately 5 million French Francs photo: Piotr Krajewski 1995 Tadao Ando pkrajewski_pl General phone number: +33 (0) Access to the public only on guided tour reservation early in advance Visible behind the gates of Unesco, however By train: RER B from Roissy CDG to Paris St Michel station, every 4 to 15 minutes from 5 am to midnight, fares, combined metro-rer ticket, 770 Take metro line 10, direction Boulogne Pont de St-Cloud to Ségur station This will take you about one hour from Roissy CDG 17

18 photo: Gaston Bergeret photo: Gaston Bergeret Our Lady of the Ark of the Covenant Church Rue d'alleray Paris This church for 350 parishioners in Paris is located on Rue d'alleray and includes a presbytery of 4 apartments Floor area/size m², Interior architect, Urban planner ASure-Studio ure-studio Association Diocésaine de Paris photo: Gaston Bergeret 18

19 photo: Piotr Krajewski Rue des Suisses Rue des Suisses Paris This is the first project in Paris by the Herzog De Meuron team on an unusual site in the 14th Arrondisement not far from Gare Montparnesse The result of a 1966 competition sponsored by the Paris public housing agency Régie Immobilière de la Paris (RVIP), the project is built on three interconnected parcels that include infill sites on two sides of a long perimeter block that face a long narrow plot on the interior of the block The infill buildings are built to the neighbourhood height of 7 floors, while the interior slab is only 3 floors in height Entry to the interior of the block is made beneath the infill buildings In addition to the 4 story difference in building height, the long narrow block designed as a free-standing element in a long narrow garden and is protected with curving rolling wooden blinds that are in sharp contrast to the folding metal blinds that cover the façades of the street buildings The three buildings contain about 60 flats and basement parking Project is not public! 2000 Herzog and De Meuron pkrajewski_pl photo: Piotr Krajewski 17/19 Rue des Suisses/Rue Jonquoy, 14th 19

20 photo: Laurent David Ruamps House and studio Ozenfant Avenue Reille Paris The house and studio in Paris for Le Corbusier's friend the painter Ozenfant is an early example of 'minimal' architecture, a prototype of the Domino house and a manifestation of some of the principles which Le Corbusier was to set out in his famous 'five points' It possessed a geometrical clarity inside and out which has since been lost with the elimination of the north-light roof and its replacement by a flat one Project is not public! 1922 Le Corbusier Amédée J Ozenfant Michael_Noordam photo: Michael Noordam Metro: Porte d'orléans (line 4) RER: Cité Universitaire (line B) 20

21 photo: goa photo: goa Pavillon Suisse Boulevard Jourdan Paris Cité universitaire was founded in 1921 to provide accommodation and support for foreign students in Paris, with a number of residential pavilions endowed by different national communities The pavilion adheres to Le Corbusier's 'five points of architecture', but with a number of developments since the Villa Savoye The free façade and horizontal window have become a continuous glazed curtain wall, on the south side of the building (above) The pilotis have developed from thin columns to six massive reinforced concrete 'dog-bones' or 'thighs' with their characteristic figure-of-eight cross section to withstand winds While the client accepted the student rooms being raised in mid air, the public spaces were required to be on the ground The plan accommodates them in a separate block sitting on the earth, its curvaceous form contrasting with the simple slab of the student accommodation (text from wwwgalinskycom) photo: goa 1930, Artist, Interior architect, Landscape architect, Urban planner Le Corbusier goa Committee of Swiss Universities & Station RER B: Cité Universitaire Bus: 67, 21 and T3 21

22 photo: Maarten Helle photo: Maarten Helle Espace Citroën Avenue des Champs-Elysées Paris The car manufacturer with the handsomest (red-and-white) garages is undoubtedly Citroën Following in the footsteps of founder André Citroën, who regarded architecture as an important part of his marketing strategy, architect Manuelle Gautrand built the company the ultimate showroom on the Champs-Elysées in Paris Gautrand used the glass of the faceted window as a symbol of the marque's creativity and innovativeness She fused the corporate logo with the façade structure: the frame is made up of inverted V-shapes Behind the skin is the spectacle of a completely open space in which cars are displayed in a metres-high tower 2006 Manuelle Gautrand Citroën HelleBeelden photo: Maarten Helle Located in the 8th arrondissement Metro Station 'Franklin D Roosevelt' is close by, as well as 'George V' 22

23 photo: Michael Noordam photo: Michael Noordam Villa la Roche Square du Docteur-Blanche Paris Villa La Roche was built as a home for Raoul La Roche, a Swiss banker and collector of avant-garde art Among other things, the house would serve as a private gallery to display La Roche's extensive art collection Built in a private Paris courtyard, the house had major constraints imposed by the site and its zoning restrictions, including a north orientation, existing trees and height and boundary limitations Inside the building, to display the art, an architectural promenade was made, a theme inspired by Le Corbusier's visit to the Acropolis in 1911 and repeated most strikingly in his Carpenter centre for the Visual Arts nearly forty years later The promenade goes up and down staircases, leads you through tight spaces, in-between balconies, open surveys, down ramps and into a beautifully lit library This idea of a spatial sequence was re-invented by many modern architects, after Le Corbusier 1925 Main designer, Le Corbusier Pierre Jeanneret Raoul La Roche Michael_Noordam photo: Michael Noordam 10 am to 1230 pm to 6 pm (Mondays 130 pm - Fridays 5 pm) Saturdays 10 am to 5 pm Closed : Sundays, Monday mornings and public holidays The villa is open to the public, administered by the Fondation Le Corbusier, which is based in the adjoining Villa Jeanneret at 8 square du Docteur-Blanche For reservations please call or visit wwwfondationlecorbusierassofr he villa is ten minutes' walk west of Jasmin metro station line 9 (Jasmin) / liges 9 and 10 (Michel-Ange - Auteuil) Bus : line 52 (La Fontaine - Mozart) / Line PC : (Suchet - Raffet) 23

24 photo: Bjorn Utpott Renaissance Wagram Hotel Avenue de Wagram Paris aris-arc-de-triomphe-hotel/ Located on Wagram avenue, this new hotel (also called: Renaissance Paris Arc de Triomphe Hotel) is located right where the Empire Theater used to be The façade is characterized by undulating horizontal glazed bands This great glass plaiting accommodates the rooms bow windows to free sight towards the Étoile and the Ternes The 2 lower levels accommodate the boutiques as well as a large porch, which opens onto a court garden and leads to the Salle Wagram photo: Bjorn Utpott Floor area/size m² Christian de Portzamparc ALTAREA Group Bjorn_Utpott Tel: Hotel, located right where the Empire Theater used to be and a short walk from the Champs-Élysées and the Place de l Étoile, Restaurant and Boutiques 24

25 photo: Michael Noordam photo: Michael Noordam Maison de Verre Rue Saint-Guillaume Paris Interior designer Chareau joined efforts with licensed architect Bernard Bijvoet to design what would be part gynological clinic for Dr Dalsace and part private residence for the doctor and his wife, Annie The remarkable Maison de Verre (glass house) was inserted into an existing building and is one of the greatest houses of the International Style, adding materials the movement had never used before in such an extent to create a work of architectural genius -- a structure that is fully functional and fully aesthetic in its simplicity The steel frame allowed for complete freedom of internal space The glass block wall itself, is able to stand alone without a heavy frame breaking its pattern Ventilation through the glass block wall is provided by a series of movable traps A not-so-complicated weight and pulley system opens the window panels, allowing for natural ventilation This unique system causes a minimum of visual impact on the glass facade of the structure photo: Michael Noordam Floor area/size m² Main designer, Pierre Chareau Bernard Bijvoet docteur Dalsace Michael_Noordam The house is still inhabited by the grandchild of the original client The Maison de verre is open for a limited number of visits by appointment Group visits for schools of architecture are given priority The visits will be organized on Fridays at 2 and 3:30PM and are limited to a maximum of 10 people per group Language: English Duration: 1,5 hours Costs: 20,- pp for teachers/students; 40,- pp for other visitors For more info and reservations: mdv31@orangefr Métro : 12, Rue du bac 25

26 photo: Viktor Ramos photo: Viktor Ramos Villa Savoye Rue de Villiers Poissy The Villa Savoye, also called "Les Heures Claires" in Poissy, which was built by Charles-Edouard Jeanneret, better known as Le Corbusier, and Pierre Jeanneret between 1928 and 1931, is considered as one of his major works, and even as one of the masterpieces of 20th century architecture The villa was designed for a rich insurer, Mr Savoye, and was the result of several years of formal research which revolutionised the traditional codes of residential architecture The building was constructed in the form of a white parallelepiped with a smooth exterior surface punctuated by a row of windows It is supported by thin pillars and topped by a roof-terrace The house sits in the middle of a field, a prime example of a new architectural vision photo: Viktor Ramos 1931 Main designer, Le Corbusier Pierre Jeanneret Mr Savoye boeboe (subject to change!) Open: 1st March to 30th April: from 10 am to 5 pm 2nd May to 31st August: from 10 am to 6 pm 1st September to 31st October: from 10 am to 5 pm 2nd November to 28th February: from 10 am to 1 pm and from 2 pm to 5 pm Closed: Mondays On the Paris/Rouen main road; 33 km from Paris, 19 km north of Versailles From Paris Porte de Saint-Cloud: A13, direction Rouen exit 7, Poissy by the D153 From Paris Porte Maillot: la Défense then A14 direction Rouen exit 6, Poissy by the D153, RER A: Poissy Tél : (33) laurentmichel@monuments-nationauxfr for more visiting information, or see wwwville-poissyfr and for group reservations or guided tours 26