Paris! Projects 29 Created 22-Dec-12 By lelu carmis, Rosario, Argentina Jussieu 16M Atrium Périphériques es university Musée du Quai Branly Arab World Institute Tower Flower Bibliothèque Nationale François Mitterand Villa la Roche Espace Citroën Centre Georges Pompidou Fondation Cartier 7 Parc André Citroën 14 Le Grand Louvre 15 Cinémathèque Française 16 Meditation Space 17 Tadao Ando memorial space, religion 8 Rue des Suisses 18 Herzog and De Meuron housing 9 Masséna Housing 19 Beckmann N'Thépé housing, mixed-use development 10 Notre Dame de Pentecôte 20 Franck Hammoutène church 11 Jean Nouvel exposition space, museum, office Communist Party Headquarters Gehry Partners auditorium, cinema, library, museum Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners auditorium, congress centre, exposition space, library, museum 6 Manuelle Gautrand showroom 13 IM Pei museum Le Corbusier private house, museum, gallery 5 Dominique Perrault square, library, landmark Grande Arche Jean-Paul Viguier SA d'ure park Edouard François social housing, housing 4 Jean Nouvel culture, library, museum Johann Otto von Spreckelsen exposition space, landmark, office Jean Nouvel museum 3 Cité de la Mode et du Design 21 Jakob + MacFarlane cafe, commercial space, office 12 Oscar Niemeyer government, office http://wwwmimoaeu/users/lelu-lelu/guides/paris%21/ Pavillon Suisse 22 Le Corbusier student housing 1
Maison du Brésil Le Corbusier student housing Cité de Refuge Parc de la Villette Passerelle Simone de Beauvoir Our Lady of the Ark of the Covenant Church Eiffel Tower 28 Passage Marche Saint-Honore 29 Ricardo Bofill office, square 25 Mur pour la paix 30 Jean-Michel Wilmotte pavilion, sculpture 26 Feichtinger es bridge 24 Bernard Tschumi s leisure, park, urban plan Gustave Eiffel landmark, watch-tower Le Corbusier health care, social housing 23 UNESCO 31 Marcel Breuer government 27 ASure-Studio church http://wwwmimoaeu/users/lelu-lelu/guides/paris%21/ 2
photo: Andre Staalenhoef photo: Luc Boegly Jussieu 16M Atrium Place Jussieu 2 75005 Paris http://wwwepajussieufr/ 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 2006 16700 m² Périphériques es EPA Jussieu peripheriques The campus is served by the Paris Métro station Jussieu, as well as numerous bus lines http://wwwmimoaeu/users/lelu-lelu/guides/paris%21/ 3
photo: musée du quai Branly Nicolas Borel photo: musée du quai Branly Nicolas Borel Musée du Quai Branly Quai Branly 37 75007 Paris http://wwwquaibranlyfr/ 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 6-2006 76500 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 http://wwwmimoaeu/users/lelu-lelu/guides/paris%21/ 4
photo: IMA photo: IMA / Georges Fessy Arab World Institute Rue des Fosses-Saint-Bernard 1 75005 Paris http://wwwimarabeorg 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 1987 25263 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, 89 http://wwwmimoaeu/users/lelu-lelu/guides/paris%21/ 5
photo: Jeroen Apers photo: Jeroen Apers Tower Flower Rue Albert Roussel 23 75017 Paris "Flower Tower" is a bit of a misnomer since bamboo isn't a regularly flowering plant (bamboo generally dies after flowering, and most species are long lived, so you connect the dots), but it sounds better than "Bamboo Building" I guess This Parisian apartment block features a green facade of bamboo planted in 380 large concrete pots embedded in the balconies Project is not public! Floor area/size 6-2004 2600 m² Edouard François OPAC de Paris Apers photo: Jeroen Apers http://wwwmimoaeu/users/lelu-lelu/guides/paris%21/ 6
photo: Jeroen Apers photo: Jeroen Apers Bibliothèque Nationale François Mitterand Quai François-Mauriac 1 75706 Paris http://wwwbnffr/ On 14 July 1988, François Mitterrand announced the construction and the expansion of one of the largest and most modern libraries in the world, intended to cover all fields of knowledge, and designed to be accessible to all, using the most modern data transfer technologies, which could be consulted from a distance, and which would collaborate with other European libraries In July 1989, the services of the architectural firm of Dominique Perrault were retained After the move of the major collections from the rue de Richelieu, the National Library of opened to the public on 20 December 1996 It contains more than ten million volumes The new complex consists of a large esplanade and four identical L-shaped towers, whose form recalls the shape of an open book This architecture was controversial; many considered it too costly, and not very suitable to the storage of book collections Indeed, wooden boards had to be set up at the windows to protect the books from the light photo: Jeroen Apers Floor area/size 4-1995 365178 m² Security consultant Services engineer Dominique Perrault Séchaud & Bossuyt HGM Guy Huguet SA Ministère de la Culture Apers Take the RER to the Library's own station, Bibliothèque François Mitterand http://wwwmimoaeu/users/lelu-lelu/guides/paris%21/ 7
photo: Michael Noordam photo: Michael Noordam Villa la Roche Square du Docteur-Blanche 10 75016 Paris http://wwwfondationlecorbusierassofr/ 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 - 130 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 +33 1 42 88 41 53 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) http://wwwmimoaeu/users/lelu-lelu/guides/paris%21/ 8
photo: Maarten Helle photo: Maarten Helle Espace Citroën Avenue des Champs-Elysées 42 75008 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' http://wwwmimoaeu/users/lelu-lelu/guides/paris%21/ 9
photo: Michael Buschor photo: Michael Buschor Centre Georges Pompidou Place Georges Pompidou 1 75191 Paris http://wwwcentrepompidoufr 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: 12-10 pm Saturdays, Sundays & public holidays: 11 am-10 pm Metro Stations 'Rambuteau', 'Hôtel de Ville' or 'Châtelet - Les Halles' http://wwwmimoaeu/users/lelu-lelu/guides/paris%21/ 10
photo: Philippe Ruault photo: Philippe Ruault Fondation Cartier Boulevard Raspail 261 75014 Paris http://fondationcartiercom/ In 1994, the Fondation Cartier moved, exchanging Jouy-en-Josas near Versailles for the boulevard Raspail in the heart of Paris Its new premises were designed by Jean Nouvel, an architect celebrated in and throughout the world for the unique way in which he dematerializes architectural structure He also famously designed the Institut du Monde Arabe (1987) and the Musée du Quai Branly (2006), both in Paris For the external façade, he designed a glass screen running parallel to the boulevard Raspail that would prolong the boulevard s perspective Behind this transparent wall, a cedar of Lebanon planted by Chateaubriand in 1823 emerges from a monumental flower pot clad with multi-colored mosaics, a witty creation by the Italian designer Alessandro Mendini Above the entrance to the building rises a wall of plants commissioned in 1998 from Patrick Blanc, a specialist in tropical botany and the creator of this innovative design photo: Patrick Gries Floor area/size 1994 11300 m² Structural engineer Jean Nouvel Arup Gan Vie boeboe Daily, except Monday, from 11-20:00 hr On Tuesday evenings its open until 22:00 hr The Fondation Cartier is on the east side of the boulevard Raspail in the 14th Arrondissement Either walk North from Denfert-Rochereau (RER Line B or Metro lines 4 and 6) or walk South from Raspail (Metro lines 4 and 6) Bus numbers 38 and 68 stop at Denfert-Rochereau http://wwwmimoaeu/users/lelu-lelu/guides/paris%21/ 11
photo: Viktor Ramos photo: Viktor Ramos Communist Party Headquarters Place Colonel Fabien 2 75019 Paris http://wwwpcffr The avant-garde building conceived by Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer has become super hip In 2000, Italian fashion house Prada rented the building to present its collection Niemeyer has created a beautiful building He wanted a simple construction without ornament The walls of the Place du Colonel Fabien have kept the marks of the wooden boards used to build them Oscar Niemeyer said the headquarters was ''a piece of work which will constitute in this city, I am sure, an example of contemporary architecture, and even, permit me to say, a tourist attraction'' The main conference room with metal slates hanging vertically on the walls is situated below ground level and has Niemeyer desks and chairs The room's dome (see the satellite images) is on the lawn in front of the curved six-story main building, sheathed in glass 1972 Oscar Niemeyer Communist Party Naomi photo: Viktor Ramos open Monday through Friday from 9 am to 4 pm; tours by appointment by can be arranged by e-mail at vbenoit@pcffr or at 011-33140401212 or 01 40 40 12 12 Take the subway to Colonel Fabien, or Jaurès or Bolivar http://wwwmimoaeu/users/lelu-lelu/guides/paris%21/ 12
photo: Dirk Verwoerd photo: Dirk Verwoerd Grande Arche Rue Carpeax 92044 Paris http://wwwgrandearchecom/ The Grande Arche de la Fraternité is a monument in the business district of La Défense to the west of Paris It is usually known as the Arche de la Défense or simply as La Grande Arche An international design competition was launched at the initiative of French president François Mitterrand Danish architect Johann Otto von Spreckelsen (1929 1987) designed the winning entry to be a 20th century version of the Arc de Triomphe: a monument to humanity and humanitarian ideals rather than military victories After Spreckelsen's death in 1987, his associate, French architect Paul Andreu, completed the work The Arche is almost a perfect cube (width: 108m, height: 110m, depth: 112m The two sides house government offices The roof section, exploited by is an exhibition centre 1990 Main designer, Johann Otto von Spreckelsen Paul Andreu City of Paris boeboe photo: Dirk Verwoerd Open 7 days a week : 10am / 8pm from the 1st of April to the 30th of September 10am / 7pm from the 1st of October to the 31th of March Take the subway to La Défense Call 01 49 07 27 55 or email tourisme@grandearchecom http://wwwmimoaeu/users/lelu-lelu/guides/paris%21/ 13
photo: Lotje van Ooststroom photo: Lotje van Ooststroom Parc André Citroën Quai André-Citroën 75015 Paris The park occupies the site where the Citroën factory stood from 1915-1970 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 1992 130000 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 http://wwwmimoaeu/users/lelu-lelu/guides/paris%21/ 14
photo: João Pereira de Sousa photo: João Pereira de Sousa Le Grand Louvre Place du Palais Royal 2 75001 Paris http://wwwlouvrefr/ The central courtyard of the museum, on the axis of the Champs-Élysées, is occupied by the Louvre Pyramid, which serves as the main entrance to the museum This leads into a new central circulation space for the main wings of the galleries and as a visual centre point for the vast sprawling exterior The challenge for celebrity architect IM Pei was to create a design that would accomplish its task while at the same time allow the Louvre Museum to remain the focus of attention The solution he came up with was a series of glass pyramids The structures jut into the sky to draw the gaze of tourists and let them know this is where they should be But at the same time it allows both them and the Parisians the ability to see through it and revel in the elder architectural masterpiece The project also included the construction of a shopping mall, cultural center, an auditorium, and parking garages photo: João Pereira de Sousa 1989 Contractor IM Pei Dumez François Mitterrand Lotje The museum is open every day except Tuesday Admission to the Louvre is free on the first Sunday of every month Take the Metro (Lines 1 or 7) to the station Palais Royale Musée du Louvre, and follow signs to the museum; The following bus lines stop in front of the Pyramid: 21, 24, 27, 39, 48, 68, 69, 72, 81, 95, and the Paris Open Tour bus; An underground parking garage is available for those coming by car The entrance is located on avenue du Général Lemonnier It is open daily from 7 am to 11 pm; If you come by Batobus, get off at the Louvre stop, quai François Mitterrand http://wwwmimoaeu/users/lelu-lelu/guides/paris%21/ 15
photo: isida photo: isida Cinémathèque Française Rue de Bercy 51 75012 Paris http://wwwcinemathequefr/ 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: 24 http://wwwmimoaeu/users/lelu-lelu/guides/paris%21/ 16
Meditation Space Place de Fontenoy 7 75007 Paris http://wwwunescoorg/ 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)1 45 68 10 00 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 http://wwwmimoaeu/users/lelu-lelu/guides/paris%21/ 17
photo: Piotr Krajewski Rue des Suisses Rue des Suisses 17 75014 Paris http://17ruedessuissesmirrorzcom/ 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 http://wwwmimoaeu/users/lelu-lelu/guides/paris%21/ 18
photo: Piotr Krajewski Masséna Housing Rue Françoise Dolto 75013 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 2004 4850 m² Beckmann N'Thépé pkrajewski_pl photo: Piotr Krajewski http://wwwmimoaeu/users/lelu-lelu/guides/paris%21/ 19
photo: Yuri Palmin photo: Piotr Krajewski Notre Dame de Pentecôte Place de la Défense 3 92053 Paris http://catholiquesaladefenseceffr/ The Notre Dame de Pentecôte Church was designed by Paris-based architect Franck Hammoutène with his competition winning design The giant translucent glass wall at the front of the church is 115-feet tall but only 31 inches thick and can be seen from 2 km away The building won the 2002 DuPont Benedictus Award 2001 Franck Hammoutène pkrajewski_pl photo: Dirk Verwoerd http://wwwmimoaeu/users/lelu-lelu/guides/paris%21/ 20
photo: goa Cité de la Mode et du Design Quai d'austerlitz 75013 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 2008 20000 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 http://wwwmimoaeu/users/lelu-lelu/guides/paris%21/ 21
photo: goa photo: goa Pavillon Suisse Boulevard Jourdan 7 75014 Paris http://wwwfondationsuissefr 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 1000-1200 & 1400-1700 Station RER B: Cité Universitaire Bus: 67, 21 and T3 http://wwwmimoaeu/users/lelu-lelu/guides/paris%21/ 22
photo: goa photo: goa Maison du Brésil Boulevard Jourdan 7L 75014 Paris http://wwwmaisondubresilorg This housing block at the Cité Universitaire complex in Paris was designed by Le Corbusier for Brazilian students and researchers 1953, Artist, Interior architect, Landscape architect, Urban planner Le Corbusier goa Brazilian Government photo: goa Monday - Friday: 0800-1200 & 1300-2000 / Saturday: 1000-1300 & 1400-2000 Station RER B: Cité Universitaire Bus: 67, 21 and T3 http://wwwmimoaeu/users/lelu-lelu/guides/paris%21/ 23
photo: goa photo: goa Cité de Refuge Rue Cantagrel 12 75013 Paris The Salvation Army Refuge in Paris was Le Corbusier's first opportunity to create accommodation for the urban poor The compact site provided the chance for a radical approach both to bringing in light and space and to laying out the entrance halls to accommodate the Salvation Army's reception process The core of Le Corbusier's design was the dormitory slab with a sheer glass curtain wall Critical to the success of this south-facing glass wall was to have been a technologically ambitious system of double glazing and air conditioning ('respiration exacte') These were never built as intended, and the sheer skin of the wall was lost to Le Corbusier's trademark brises soleils later on in an attempt to prevent the inhabitants from overheating In the spirit of the free plan, Le Corbusier took the entrance hall components out of the dormitory block, constructing a geometric pathway through separate reception buildings outside (text from wwwgalinskycom) photo: goa 1929, Artist, Interior architect, Landscape architect, Urban planner Le Corbusier goa Armée du Salut (Salvation Army) Telephone: 01 53 61 82 00 Take the RER to Bibliothèque François Mitterand, and choose the Rue du Chevalaret exit Walk south along Rue du Chevalaret, and at the first junction turn backwards right up rue Cantagrel The Refuge is a few meters up on your right http://wwwmimoaeu/users/lelu-lelu/guides/paris%21/ 24
photo: goa photo: goa Parc de la Villette Avenue Jean Jaurès 211 75019 Paris http://wwwvillettecom The former site of the slaughterhouse of La Villette was transformed into a public parc, designed on the principle of layered pathways and the well-kown folies (red dots on a grid) photo: goa 2000, Interior architect, Landscape architect, Urban planner Bernard Tschumi s goa By underground: Porte de Pantin (Grande Halle): Line 5 (Bobigny - Place d'italie) Porte de la Villette: Line 7 (Villejuif-Louis Aragon / La Courneuve) More info at wwwratpfr By bus: Porte de Pantin (Grande Halle): line 75, 151, PC 2 and 3 Porte de la Villette (Cité des Sciences): 75, 139, 150, 152, PC2 and PC3, Station Porte de la villette http://wwwmimoaeu/users/lelu-lelu/guides/paris%21/ 25
photo: goa photo: Nazar Leskiw Passerelle Simone de Beauvoir Connecting Quai François Mauriac and Quai de Bercy 785013 Paris The Passerelle Simone-de-Beauvoir (in iti ally known by the pro vi sio nal name of passerelle Bercy-Tolbiac) is a bridge so lely for pe de stri ans and cy clists across the Seine River in Paris This elegant connection between the Bibliotheque Nationale de and the Parc de Bercy was designed as a lens towards the river on two levels The bridge was constructed in its whole in advance and positioned from transportation boats onto its place It is the 37th bridge on the Seine to Paris It is lo ca ted bet ween the bridges of Pont de Bercy and Pont de Tolbiac and links up the 12th and 13th ar ron dis se ments of Paris Its nea rest Paris Metro sta tion is Quai de la Gare photo: Matt Ludbrook 2006 Feichtinger es City of Paris goa Metro: Line 14, Stop 'Bibliotheque François Mitterand' / RER: Line C, Stop 'Bibliotheque François Mitterand' http://wwwmimoaeu/users/lelu-lelu/guides/paris%21/ 26
photo: Gaston Bergeret photo: Gaston Bergeret Our Lady of the Ark of the Covenant Church Rue d'alleray 81 75015 Paris This church for 350 parishioners in Paris is located on Rue d'alleray and includes a presbytery of 4 apartments Floor area/size 1998 1600 m², Interior architect, Urban planner ASure-Studio ure-studio Association Diocésaine de Paris photo: Gaston Bergeret http://wwwmimoaeu/users/lelu-lelu/guides/paris%21/ 27
photo: Roderick Trompert photo: Roderick Trompert Eiffel Tower Avenue Gustave Eiffel 75007 Paris http://wwwtour-eiffelfr For the Universal Exhibition of 1889, a date that marked the centenary of the French Revolution, the Journal Officiel launched a major competition to study the possibility of erecting an iron tower on the Champ-de-Mars The tower would have a square base, 125 metres on each side and 300 meters high The project proposal by entrepreneur Gustave Eiffel, engineers Maurice Koechlin and Emile Nouguier and architect Stephen Sauvestre was chosen out of a total of 107 The construction of the Eiffel Tower in 1889 was Eiffel's crowning achievement His career as an entrepreneur would come to an end with the failure of the Panama Canal project From then on, he devoted his time to operating the Tower and to various experiments in air resistance, the observation of meteorology and especially the installation of a giant antenna for the earliest radio broadcasts Indeed, it is because of these experiments that the Eiffel Tower is still standing, since it was initially built to last 20 years photo: Bjorn Utpott 3-1889 Gustave Eiffel Bjorn_Utpott The Eiffel Tower is open every day all year long, - from 9:30am to 11:00pm, January 1 to June 17 and August 29 to December 31 from 9:00am to midnight, June 18 to August 28 During Easter weekend and the spring vacation the Tower will remain open until midnight Access to the top may be temporary closed due to unfavourable weather conditions or too many visitors Tickets to the Tower are sold until 9:30pm Tickets to the first and second floors will be sold until 10:00pm Contact client services: 33 (0)8 92 70 12 39 (call charges per minute) http://wwwmimoaeu/users/lelu-lelu/guides/paris%21/ 28
photo: Nazar Leskiw photo: Nazar Leskiw Passage Marche Saint-Honore Rue du Marché Saint-Honoré 1 75001 Paris The new ensemble on the square consists of two glazed row buildings that form a common passage under a shared roof As this building type, typical for Paris, is functionally turned into modern architecture, the overall shape of the timeless gabled house model is brought up to date photo: emdxorg 1996 Ricardo Bofill Nazar http://wwwmimoaeu/users/lelu-lelu/guides/paris%21/ 29
Mur pour la paix Rue du Champ de Mars 1 75007 Paris The pavilion by Clara Halter and Jean-Michel Wilmotte in front of the Jaques-Ange Gabriels Military Academy on the Mars exercise field exhorts the wonders of peace 2001 Main designer, Artist Jean-Michel Wilmotte Clara Halter Nazar photo: Nazar Leskiw http://wwwmimoaeu/users/lelu-lelu/guides/paris%21/ 30
photo: UNESCO photo: Nazar Leskiw UNESCO Place de Fontenoy 7 75007 Paris Inaugurated on 3 November 1958, the Headquarters of UNESCO is the most international building in Paris both in terms of the membership of the Organization it houses, currently standing at 186 Member States (1 July 1997) and in terms of its construction, for it is the combined work of architects of three nationalities : Marcel Breuer of the United States of America, Pier Luigi Nervi of Italy and Bernard Zehrfuss of ; selected by an International Committee of five : Lucio Costa of Brazil, Walter Gropius of the United States of America, Charles Le Corbusier of, Sven Markelius of Sweden and Ernesto Rogers of Italy ; the American architect, Eero Saarinen was also consulted and Eugene E Callison, an American engineer directed the construction site The Y=shaped administrative building, nicknamed the "three-pointed star", fits harmoniously in Place de Fontenoy alongside the Ecole Militaire photo: Jacqueline Poggi 1977 Main designer, Marcel Breuer Bernard Zehrfuss Pier Luigi Nervi Nazar http://wwwmimoaeu/users/lelu-lelu/guides/paris%21/ 31