PARIS Projects 13 Created 04-Jul-16 By andrea gallo, napoli, Italy Musée du Quai Branly Jean Nouvel museum Bibliothèque Nationale François Mitterand Villa la Roche Communist Party Headquarters Meditation Space Pink Ghost 9 Memorial des Martyrs de la Deportation 10 BHV Homme 11 Saguez and Partners shop 5 Islam Arts Department 12 Rudy Ricciotti museum 6 Atelier Brancusi 13 Renzo Piano atelier 7 Tadao Ando memorial space, religion 4 Oscar Niemeyer government, office Maison de Tristan Tzara Georges-Henri Pingusson memorial space Jean Nouvel exposition space, museum, office 3 Le Corbusier private house, museum, gallery Fondation Cartier Adolf Loos private house Dominique Perrault square, library, landmark 2 Origami Building 14 Manuelle Gautrand office 8 Périphériques es art, sculpture, square http://wwwmimoaeu/users/ndrw/guides/paris/ 1
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 Client 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/ndrw/guides/paris/ 2
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 Client 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/ndrw/guides/paris/ 3
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, Client 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/ndrw/guides/paris/ 4
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 Client 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/ndrw/guides/paris/ 5
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 Client 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/ndrw/guides/paris/ 6
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/ndrw/guides/paris/ 7
photo: Périphériques architectes photo: Périphériques architectes Pink Ghost Place Furstemberg 75006 Paris In the framework of the second edition of the Contemporary Art Exposition Saint-Germain-des-Près, Périphériques es were invited to participate with an installation on Place Furstemberg The Pink Ghost was a 'sculptural transformation' of the centre of the square with a 'preservation' stance Made of pink epoxy, the installation enveloped four trees and a streetlight to a height of 25 metres and covered the entire surface of the small central square While the covering work was being done, the architects cleverly 'slipped' about 20 chairs and five coffee tables under the resine, to turn this exterior urban space into an 'interior' lounge/salon situated outside, in a way that raises questions about the status of public space in the city After its removal from the square, Pink Ghost was rebuilt in the French pavilion at the Biennale of ure in Venice, as a memory of the plaza and its new use photo: Périphériques architectes Floor area/size 5-2002 200 m², Artist, Interior architect, Landscape architect, Urban planner Client Périphériques es peripheriques Comité Saint-Germain-des-Près The work has been deconstructed http://wwwmimoaeu/users/ndrw/guides/paris/ 8
Maison de Tristan Tzara Avenue Junot 15 75018 Paris The modern-style house was built in 1926 by Austrian architect Adolf Loos for the poet & writer Tristan Tzara founding father of Dadaism and his wife, the painter, Knitson The rigidly functionalist Maison Tristan Tzara, built in Montmartre, was designed following Tzara's specific requirements and decorated with samples of African art It was Loos' only major contribution in his Parisian years Project is not public! 1926 Client Adolf Loos Tristan Tzara cost photo: Costin Constantin http://wwwmimoaeu/users/ndrw/guides/paris/ 9
photo: Matthew Turner photo: Matthew Turner Memorial des Martyrs de la Deportation Square de l'ile de 4th arrondissement 75004 Paris The Mémorial des Martyrs de la Déportation is a memorial to the 200,000 people deported from Vichy to the Nazi concentration camps during the Second World War It is in Paris, on the site of a former morgue, underground behind Notre Dame on Île de la Cité It was designed by French modernist architect, writer, teacher and town planner Georges-Henri Pingusson and opened in 1962 photo: Matthew Turner 1962 Georges-Henri Pingusson patchworks134 Located directly behind Cathédrale Notre-Dame, in a small park right on the edge of the island nearest metro station is Cite which is on the purple line (M4) http://wwwmimoaeu/users/ndrw/guides/paris/ 10
BHV Homme Rue de la Verrerie 36 75004 Paris A distinctive store has been created here using simple means The architecture is influenced by one of the green facades by Patric Blanc, appearing here as an architecturally framed wall rug 2007 Saguez and Partners Nazar photo: Nazar Leskiw http://wwwmimoaeu/users/ndrw/guides/paris/ 11
photo: Nazar Leskiw photo: LISA RICCIOTTI Islam Arts Department Musée du Louvre 1 75001 Paris The idea of covering the Cour Visconti with a glass roof would hark back to a nineteenth-century concept for a space that, until today, has looked at the sky We proposed the creation of a sail-like glass and metal canopy set back from the historic facades on all sides, floating over the galleries like golden, iridescent cloud that filters daylight A two layered metallic mesh (gold outside, silver inside) envelopes a system of waterproof glass panels and the "cloud" structure, a free-form double lattice system of round steel tubes, thicker where it is fitted to the load-bearing columns and thinner at the edges The interior mesh, lined with a honeycomb panel, serves as the ceiling for the galleries The 3D geometry of this skin required extensive computer modelling, to determine the positions and inclination angle for each of the triangles panels 9-2012 Main designer, Rudy Ricciotti Mario Bellini s Nazar photo: Nazar Leskiw http://wwwmimoaeu/users/ndrw/guides/paris/ 12
photo: Renzo Piano s Atelier Brancusi Place Georges-Pompidou 1 75004 Paris Constantin Brancusi arrived in Paris in 1904 after attending the Bucharest School of Fine Arts He created the majority of his works in his Paris studios Shortly before he died, he bequeathed his studio and all its contents to the French government on condition that the Musée National d'art Moderne reconstitute the studio as it had been in its original location near Montparnasse Renzo Piano reproduced Brancusi's studio on one side of the Place Georges Pompidou, next to the eponymous Centre The layout of the studio has been reconstituted down to the last detail with Brancusi's sculptures, photographs, manuals, discs and tools to satisfy the artist's wish to have his work displayed in its entirety photo: Nazar Leskiw 1995 Renzo Piano Nazar http://wwwmimoaeu/users/ndrw/guides/paris/ 13
photo: Manuelle Gautrand s photo: Manuelle Gautrand s Origami Building Avenue de Friedland 26 75008 Paris This office block stands on avenue Friedland, a few hundred yards from the arc de Triomphe The brief called for an upgrade in two parts: the main building on a 20 meter-wide strip on the avenue, and an extension in the rear, between two courtyard gardens At ground floor level, the lobby plays on transparency between the street front and the main garden The building in the rear of the lot is more private, and it is there that the cafeteria and meeting rooms are laid out, with garden space on both sides On the avenue façade, the architects imagined dressing out the windows with an origami arrangement of marble panels, to express elegance and modernity The panels are composite, a film of marble mounted on a twin layer of glass This second skin is translucent and acts as a breast wall to ensure privacy as well as filter daylight, creating a soft interior atmosphere photo: Manuelle Gautrand s 2011 Manuelle Gautrand Nazar http://wwwmimoaeu/users/ndrw/guides/paris/ 14