[Fabb]

A rendering of Air² tower 220m 2011

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1217/1448898039_884677c74e_o.jpg

I actually like this project.

Hopefully the real thing won't be a shortened version.

[Minato Ku]

The Russian Company Hermitage SAS plans to build in Paris an analogue of the Federation Tower, which is currently under construction in Moscow. The 300 meter high tower with the total floor area of 250 000 square meters will be constructed in La Défense business district of Paris and promises to become the highest residential building in Europe. Beside apartments, there will be an apart-hotel and offices. The parent company of Hermitage SAS will build also an office tower with the floor area of 120 thousand square meters within the limits of Paris Conurbation.

The both towers are estimated at €2.5 billion. However, the French party hasn’t confirmed the project yet. Hermitage SAS has got several similar residential projects in France.
http://www.russia-ic.com/news/show/5077/

[Xeelee]

That tower looks nice

[Sinha]

Recladding of the tour Franklin in Montreuil (Eastern inner suburbs of Paris)

http://img413.imageshack.us/img413/6001/dscf0388ak4.jpg

http://img263.imageshack.us/img263/6105/1002508pv5.jpg

http://img263.imageshack.us/img263/6408/1002512gh9.jpg

http://img144.imageshack.us/img144/1057/1002514sf2.jpg

http://img98.imageshack.us/img98/3089/1002515xb5.jpg

http://img124.imageshack.us/img124/8161/1002516bm2.jpg

http://img511.imageshack.us/img511/1/1002517hs0.jpg

http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/152/1002566kg9.jpg

http://img204.imageshack.us/img204/53/1002567oy0.jpg

http://img204.imageshack.us/img204/6474/1002569ru6.jpg

[Minato Ku]

According the last Paris Crane survey published by Driver Jonas (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drivers_Jonas).
There were actually in Central Paris and the inner suburbs (700 km²) 1,930,000 m² or 20.8 million sq ft of office (Buildings over 1,000 m²) under in construction the 30 september
According Jonas it is the first time that they see a such high number in a crane survey.
Paris Crane Survey Nov 2007 (http://www.businessimmo.info/_documents/wbg_lettre/paris_crane_nov07_final.pdf)

So Paris is western European city wich build the most office.

[Minato Ku]

Sorry for all these posts but it was a long time that it was not updated.

Postal Bank HQ Chaix and Morel
Paris 6th arrondissement
http://i20.tinypic.com/ekhmqs.jpg

T8 office building Rudy Ricciotti
Paris 13th arrondissement
http://irgendwo.free.fr/projetarchi/ricciottiZACRG.jpg

Housing building Nasrine Seraji
Paris 14th arrondissement Porte d'Orleans
http://img75.imageshack.us/img75/7285/jour1km8.png

Housing building Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa
Paris 16th arrondissement
http://www.lemoniteur-expert.com/depeches/picto/D3ENYT8HCsanaaréelle2.jpg

Average Office buildings Porte de Saint Denis
Saint Denis
http://www.webimm.com/documents/visuel_sec2/19003_gde.jpg

Office Building Françoise-Hélène Jour
Saint Denis
http://i23.tinypic.com/2gt57ht.jpg

Student housing Building Métra & Associés
11th arrondissement near Belleville

http://img105.imageshack.us/img105/9041/metraparis11coupezy0.jpg

http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/6780/metraparis11planmassecb2.jpg

http://img45.imageshack.us/img45/5370/metraparis11perswo4.jpg

© Métra & Associés
http://www.brigittemetra.com/projets_paris11.html#[/

[Minato Ku]

Stade Jean Bouin
A new rugby Stadium in the 16th arrondissement of Inner Paris

The stadium (22 000 seats) designed by Rudy Ricciotti will be built in the XVI arrondissement. Works start in 2009 and will be finished in 2011.


http://www.lemoniteur-expert.com/depeches/picto/D3KCDSSXSJB%20GRAND.jpg

http://www.lemoniteur-expert.com/depeches/picto/D3KCF1MD4JB2GRAND.jpg

http://www.stade.fr/dbimages/Image/inside_actualite/popup/071108_jeanbouin2_b.jpg

http://www.stade.fr/dbimages/Image/inside_actualite/popup/071108_jeanbouin1_b.jpg

Several video

http://www.stade.fr/stade-tv/player/view/286

http://www.stade.fr/stade-tv/video/view/288

http://www.stade.fr/stade-tv/video/view/289

http://www.stade.fr/stade-tv/video/view/290

http://www.stade.fr/stade-tv/video/view/291


National Archive 2011 Fuksas
Pierrefitte sur Seine
http://www.emoc.fr/images/operations/Centre%20archives%20nationales/perspouestG.gif
http://www.emoc.fr/images/operations/Centre%20archives%20nationales/sequenzaG.gif

EOS building (Microsoft regional hq) Val de Seine business district
Issy les Moulineaux

http://img81.imageshack.us/img81/9918/1040388839e24a815e6abag0.jpg

http://img81.imageshack.us/img81/2601/10403857058a5d4f7101bup1.jpg

http://www.issy.com/UserFiles/eos_exterieur_2.jpg

http://www.pasodoble.fr/PSD%20HTML/Image/Generali011248.jpg

http://img81.imageshack.us/img81/3241/10412305108e71ec7432bxd5.jpg

View of the district
http://img81.imageshack.us/img81/4172/104038301990c546919bbof5.jpg

http://img155.imageshack.us/img155/6237/eos1do1.jpg

http://img524.imageshack.us/img524/2969/eso2af3.jpg

A completed office building in the same district.
http://img524.imageshack.us/img524/5559/sodexorc2.jpg
Picture by roseppppp Photos link (http://www.paris-skyscrapers.fr/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=136145#p136145)

Saint Ouen Docks
Saint Ouen northern inner suburbs

http://stickyesman.free.fr/divers/R%e9novUrbaine%20-%20St%20Ouen.jpg (http://stickyesman.free.fr/divers/R%e9novUrbaine%20-%20St%20Ouen.jpg)


Beaugrenelle commercial center
15th arrondissement of inner Paris

The construction will start soon.

http://www.apsys-international.com/Images/imagesSite/ImageBeaugrenelleH.jpg
http://www.apsys-international.com/Images/Upload/Phototheque/FRANCE/Beaugrenelle-01.jpg
http://www.apsys-international.com/Images/Upload/Phototheque/FRANCE/Beaugrenelle-02.jpg


New building for Necker hospital
15th arrondissement of Inner Paris

http://www.lemoniteur-expert.com/depeches/picto/D3JIAUFOGnekergrande.jpg

[Minato Ku]

Redevelopment and renovation of Gare Austerliz.
5th and 13th arrondissement of inner Paris
Inner Paris
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9d/Paris_13e_arr_jms.gif/280px-Paris_13e_arr_jms.gif

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2417/1720963915_5b51d04020_b.jpg

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Batignolles redevolpment area
Located in the 17th arrondissement of inner Paris near the track of Saint Lazare station
Inner Paris
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/66/Paris_17e_arr_jms.gif/280px-Paris_17e_arr_jms.gif


0.43 km²
3,500 appartements (50% of social housing)
12,000 new inhabitants
100,000 m² of offices

It should be an eco friendly district

http://img428.imageshack.us/img428/6274/perimetreclichy4lb.jpg

http://garagnat.free.fr/idf/divers/ibatignolles.JPG

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Rendering of residencial buildings in Seine Arche redevelopment area.
Seine Arxhe is just near la Defense, officially it is not in La Defense authority but it could be soon.

Nanterre, western inner suburbs
Paris and inner suburbs
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b6/Nanterre_map.svg/275px-Nanterre_map.svg.png

By X'TU, housings terrasse 11:
http://i13.tinypic.com/7ycok6a.jpg


By Dusapin-Leclerq, housing terrasse 12:
http://i3.tinypic.com/6x9coq8.jpg

By Dufresne, housing ZAC Rouget de Lisle:
http://i4.tinypic.com/6ozdmww.jpg

student housing , ZAC Rouget de Lisle:
http://i9.tinypic.com/71dawbr.jpg

[Minato Ku]

A truly original proposal has been put forward in Paris France for a structure which is to be named Antismog.

Although it is perhaps the ultimate in environmentally friendly design it looks like our French cousins were smoking some of the grass that theoretically covers parts of this design whilst they were drawing it up.

If given the go ahead the scheme will be located on Canal de l'Ourcq, the futuristic design comes from architectural outfit Vincent Callebaut Architectures.

Looking somewhat like an energy saving light bulb and a mouldy spaceship, the organically designed scheme has two components namely a tower and a pod like structure which looks like it has docked on the railway bridge spanning the canal.

The pod which will be known as the Solar Drop will have a 250 square metre photovoltaic blue roof which will capture the sun and convert it into energy for the pod, the main body of the pod is made up of polyester fibres which is strengthened along its main profiles with steel banding. The whole structure is then covered in titanium dioxide which reacts with ultra violet light to reduce pollution.

As an auto cleaning building it will also be able to absorb and recycle by means of photo catalytic technology the smog cloud generated by the huge amounts of traffic on the near by Parisian belt, hence the name Antismog - clever eh?

Other technologies allow the pod to be totally energy sufficient while two planted arches over the roof of the pod will collect rainwater which will service the needs of the of the exhibition, meeting and café space within the pod which are arranged around a plant purified lagoon.

The tower will reach 45 metres in height and is a wind tower. The core of the tower will be covered in digital screens which will constantly beam the news out whilst other panels will be tactile in nature. A ribbon like banister unfurls itself down the length of the tower the main body of which is moves in accordance with the direction of the dominant wind.

A second polyester fibre structure will be covered with greenery and punctuated with slits which hold the wind turbines. At the top of the tower a suspended public garden will offer spectacular views of Paris.

As a prototype in environmental building and technologies the project could lead the way forward for future sustainable building worldwide but only if it gets approval, which for now remains to be seen.

http://www.skyscrapernews.com/news.php?ref=1261




Anti-Smog is a parasite project set up on the post-industrial urban structure of the Petite Ceinture and the canal de l’Ourcq in the 19th Parisian district. It is a public equipment dedicated to promote the last innovations on the theme of sustainable development in urban area in terms of housing or transport. Its role is to apply all the avant-garde renewable energies so as to fight against the Parisian smog. This smog (smoke + fog) is a bluish to reddish haze. It is the result of the water condensing (the fog) on the suspended dust and the presence of ozone in the troposphere. The smoke is produced in major part by the burning of fossil fuel and is composed of sulphurous gas (such as sulphur dioxide) in addition to the dust on which the water steam contained in the fog condensates itself. This photochemical cloud is associated to many detrimental effects for the health (asthma, infarct, AVC) and for the environment (acid rains, attrition of the building). This project aims therefore at inventing a new architecture able to disasphyxiate the area in which it is set up[...]!

http://vincent.callebaut.org/page1-img-ourcq.html


http://www.skyscrapernews.com/images/pics/1261AntismogIsInTheParisAir_pic1.jpg

http://www.skyscrapernews.com/images/pics/1261AntismogIsInTheParisAir_pic2.jpg

http://www.skyscrapernews.com/images/pics/1261AntismogIsInTheParisAir_pic3.jpg

http://www.skyscrapernews.com/images/pics/1261AntismogIsInTheParisAir_pic4.jpg

http://img80.imageshack.us/img80/6103/ourcqpl03mnx7.jpg

http://img153.imageshack.us/img153/2132/ourcqpl04mri3.jpg

http://img70.imageshack.us/img70/2810/ourcqpl12mgx8.jpg

http://img85.imageshack.us/img85/8597/ourcqpl10mzj6.jpg

http://img143.imageshack.us/img143/5234/ourcqpl14mdg3.jpg

http://img135.imageshack.us/img135/8678/ourcqpl19mad8.jpg

http://img143.imageshack.us/img143/5282/ourcqpl26mas9.jpg

http://img153.imageshack.us/img153/9651/ourcqpl20mgt1.jpg

http://img248.imageshack.us/img248/9130/ourcqpl21mmm4.jpg

[Sinha]

Grand Moulins de Pantin

Update
http://img151.imageshack.us/img151/678/2nm8.jpg

http://img174.imageshack.us/img174/3857/1002935lf3.jpg

http://img296.imageshack.us/img296/864/1002937zt2.jpg

http://img145.imageshack.us/img145/1600/1002940ld7.jpg

http://img150.imageshack.us/img150/5184/1002941pk8.jpg

http://img84.imageshack.us/img84/3963/1002943tk7.jpg

http://img150.imageshack.us/img150/7950/1002945be8.jpg

http://img147.imageshack.us/img147/2732/1002946wf1.jpg

http://img177.imageshack.us/img177/4137/1002949rm1.jpg

http://img177.imageshack.us/img177/944/1002956jk8.jpg

Another rénovation in Montrouge
EVERGREEN

http://img444.imageshack.us/img444/3576/140du8.jpg

http://img180.imageshack.us/img180/6021/14077sl6.jpg

http://img177.imageshack.us/img177/7333/14077gvj4.jpg

http://img177.imageshack.us/img177/1849/14077gdezm5.jpg

# Surface : 76 606 m2

# Disponibilité : Mai 2008 /
http://www.webimm.com/offres/annoncedetails2.asp?annonceID=14077&PStri=cp&PSOrdre

[Sinha]

Tour Carpe Diem

http://img84.imageshack.us/img84/3250/tourcarpediemramsa08011id0.jpg

http://img260.imageshack.us/img260/410/tourcarpediemramsa08011jv1.jpg

http://img220.imageshack.us/img220/7041/tourcarpediemramsa08011sf7.jpg

http://img260.imageshack.us/img260/9387/tourcarpediemramsa08011hf6.jpg

http://img267.imageshack.us/img267/5606/tourcarpediemramsa08011qj3.jpg

http://img89.imageshack.us/img89/7185/tourcarpediemramsa08011eu0.jpg

http://img409.imageshack.us/img409/2574/tourcarpediemramsa08011tm3.jpg
copyright Robert A.M. Stern Architects
http://www.e-architect.co.uk/paris/tour_carpe_diem.htm

[DIESELPOLO]

ugh, parisian architecture seems much more cutting edge than whats going on in american cities! great looking projects, especially the low rises.

[zerokarma]

good updates

[gttx]

ugh, parisian architecture seems much more cutting edge than whats going on in american cities! great looking projects, especially the low rises.

Agreed. Paris has some of the best architecture of any city in the world right now - with towers, certainly, but especially with all the smaller projects. We're jealous over here!

[Sinha]

By dalco on PSS.
Générali:318m
CB21:275m
CB31:240m
http://img215.imageshack.us/img215/4886/30281180yy6.jpg

[Fabb]

We'll be lucky if we get two out if three.

[Minato Ku]

We have big chance to have the three, especially these three towers. :)

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Recladding of Gallieni 1 midrise (78m) in Porte de Bagnolet
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/04/Bagnolet_map.svg/150px-Bagnolet_map.svg.png

http://img146.imageshack.us/img146/826/sanstitre9cm6.png

Picture by Sinha
http://img259.imageshack.us/img259/4981/dscf0127tw4va4.jpg

http://img507.imageshack.us/img507/6343/photo0066dr2.jpg

[Minato Ku]

Twin Towers 165m
Architect : Glaiman & Epstein?

Levallois Perret
inner Paris and inner suburbs map
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b6/Levallois-Perret_map.svg/150px-Levallois-Perret_map.svg.png

http://thed.fr/references/levallois/levallois4.jpghttp://thed.fr/references/levallois/levallois3.jpg

http://thed.fr/references/levallois/levallois.php

[Minato Ku]

Some new renderings of La Defense projects from this video

http://link.brightcove.com/services/link/bcpid1315753446/bclid422535580/bctid1449613807

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2268/2320970445_ff0c522e1c_o.jpg

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2420/2321786178_c769791cb5_o.jpg

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2228/2320970117_94ded7ce61_o.jpg

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2331/2321785750_cdab1be285_o.jpg

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2140/2320969683_fa3e3d680d_o.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3130/2321785340_c9b56acffb_o.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3045/2320969167_2ab77d42a4_o.jpg

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2243/2320969005_4c73dd8c9c_o.jpg

[Minato Ku]

First images: Design for Eiffel Tower visitor platform
11 March, 2008

By Thomas Lane

Sereno Architects doubles visitor capacity at top of Paris' tower as part of 120th anniversary celebrations

These are the first images of a platform to increase the amount of space for visitors at the top of the Eiffel Tower. It has been designed by French firm Sereno Architects as a competition entry being held by tower operator, Société Nouvelle d'exploitation de la Tour Eiffel.

The operator wants to build a platform as part of the Eiffel Tower's 120th anniversary celebrations to help get rid of the huge queues of visitors wanting to go up to the top of the tower.

Sereno Architects design uses a carbon fibre and Kevlar composite to double the amount of space at the top of the tower without adding too much weight.

The architect says the structure is temporary but as the Eiffel Tower was originally going to be taken down after a year the platform could end up becoming permanent.

http://www.building.co.uk/Pictures/436xAny/d/f/o/Eifffel_2.jpg


http://www.building.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=284&storycode=3108430&c=1

It was an hoax.

[Minato Ku]

New renders of La Defense

http://img100.imageshack.us/img100/1982/ladefenserenduhh5.jpg

http://img339.imageshack.us/img339/5134/rendu2kl6.jpg

[Minato Ku]

Finalists of Signal project.

Jacques Ferrier
http://img407.imageshack.us/img407/3356/sanstitre12zg7.png

Norman Foster
http://img81.imageshack.us/img81/3751/image6yz3.png

Studio Libeskind Architect
http://img291.imageshack.us/img291/1002/sanstitre19dc0.png

Wilmotte
http://img169.imageshack.us/img169/5517/sanstitre24pn1.png


Jean Nouvel
http://img181.imageshack.us/img181/9573/sanstitre29vf1.png

The renders are quite bad it is better to see the videos in the official sites.
http://tour-signal-ladefense.com/
http://www.ladefense.fr/goodies_videos.php?id=46#centre

[Grumpy]

What a pity AIR2 is built in a squeezed area of LD , this very nice designed tower desserves a better lot than the actual one.

[Minato Ku]

CB31 tower work will soon begin.



CB 21 Tower

The CB 21 project aims to endow La Défense with a new generation of towers respecting the environment and having a strong architectural identity while at the same time keeping the fundamentals which make Gan Tower one of the symbols of La Défense. At the end of this transformation, which will pair architectural originality and environmental innovation, La Défense will have a new tower with a unique location and visibility; a tower which will be both a testimony of La Défense's history and a reflection of customers' new expectations.

• Location: La Défense 1 • Developer: Groupe Foncière des Régions • Architect: Ateliers 234 – Jean Mas • Opening date: 2011 • Floor area: 100,000 m² (1.1 million sq. ft) • Height: 250 m (820 ft) • Floors: 49

http://www.ladefense.fr/images/dynamic/projets/cb21.jpg

[Minato Ku]

Some picture of the activity in the southwestern business district of Val de Seine

Pictures by Sinha

Tour Mozart (100m) Bouygues HQ

http://img381.imageshack.us/img381/1707/2007100448461ck0.jpg

http://img403.imageshack.us/img403/3159/1003495bx7.jpg

http://img182.imageshack.us/img182/6232/1003496mr7.jpg

http://img245.imageshack.us/img245/6479/1003497tt0.jpg

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http://img528.imageshack.us/img528/9296/1003500ss7.jpg

http://img367.imageshack.us/img367/7731/1003501yw2.jpg

http://img367.imageshack.us/img367/1203/1003502dy1.jpg

EOS : Microsoft European Middle East and Africa HQ

http://www.issy.com/UserFiles/eos_exterieur_3.jpg

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

http://www.issy.com/UserFiles/eos_exterieur_2.jpg


http://img301.imageshack.us/img301/2922/1003518qr0.jpg

http://img440.imageshack.us/img440/8894/1003520pj6.jpg

http://img337.imageshack.us/img337/7965/1003522en7.jpg

http://img253.imageshack.us/img253/6386/1003523ca6.jpg

http://img122.imageshack.us/img122/2166/1003524kt7.jpg

Bouygues real estate HQ

http://img90.imageshack.us/img90/6365/1003511rs3.jpg

http://img150.imageshack.us/img150/7711/1003508ue8.jpg

http://img361.imageshack.us/img361/8328/1003505py6.jpg

http://img246.imageshack.us/img246/5941/1003504jk0.jpg

http://img120.imageshack.us/img120/8500/1003527sn2.jpg


Olivier de Serres midrise recladd

http://img84.imageshack.us/img84/3602/1003552du2.jpg

http://img231.imageshack.us/img231/3101/1003547zg1.jpg

http://img147.imageshack.us/img147/6725/1003548vt2.jpg


DGA Mid-rise (Tour F) reconstruction

http://img222.imageshack.us/img222/8702/citair01mg4.jpg

http://img292.imageshack.us/img292/7199/citair02tv9.jpg
Antoine Petit, AIA, Franck Hammoutène

http://img369.imageshack.us/img369/4694/1003537df0.jpg

[Minato Ku]

Franklin tower recladd Montreuil easyer Paris

http://img85.imageshack.us/img85/1749/1003466nq5.jpg

http://img132.imageshack.us/img132/3645/1003475ze3.jpg

[Minato Ku]

Some screenshots of a video presenting Generali Tower (318m) (by ThAnKs of PSS)

http://l.vicidomini.free.fr/blogpro/?p=55

http://shutter11.pictures.aol.com/data/pictures/17/009/6F/DE/C1/9F/tztGARyio0czLfQkT86JQBRkR9pTP5TE01E0.jpg

http://shutter14.pictures.aol.com/data/pictures/17/005/7B/BF/65/73/XDnbUFKg18OK2w9RpCCs4xi1A4n5IdkR01DC.jpg

http://shutter14.pictures.aol.com/data/pictures/17/006/66/8E/53/33/3xSkZAWJSdKcMbPQyaAtmPwV0uW1kmd801DE.jpg


A video presents the Hermitage project (310m)
_KX1mQALxU8&hl

[Minato Ku]

New rendering of Foster project.
Thanks at Tomton of a french forum (PSS)

http://rechauffementplanete.free.fr/foster/ScreenShot001.jpg

http://rechauffementplanete.free.fr/foster/ScreenShot002.jpg

http://rechauffementplanete.free.fr/foster/ScreenShot003.jpg

http://rechauffementplanete.free.fr/foster/ScreenShot004.jpg

http://rechauffementplanete.free.fr/foster/ScreenShot005.jpg

http://rechauffementplanete.free.fr/foster/ScreenShot006.jpg

http://rechauffementplanete.free.fr/foster/ScreenShot007.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!

[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

[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

http://www.archicool.com/expos/signal/009.jpg

http://www.archicool.com/expos/signal/010.jpg

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

http://www.archicool.com/expos/signal/012.jpg

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 ?

[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.
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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]

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

[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!

[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]

: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.

[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.

[muppet]

^ I was just about to say.

[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

[mousquet]

We've got these 2 office buildings under construction over here at la Défense :

Carpe Diem | 32 floors | 531 ft (162 m)

http://www.defense-92.fr/photos/tourcarpediemramsa08011qj3.jpg

http://www.defense-92.fr/photos/tourcarpediemramsa08011jv1.jpg

The foundations are just done, they're gonna raise the house itself from now. This article (http://www.designbuild-network.com/projects/carpe-diem/) is a bit outdated (pretty sure it's 32 floors instead of 35 and it'll never be completed for 2011) but it still says what the building's about.

Here's the second one :
Majunga | 42 floors | 640 ft (195 m)

http://www.archdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/1286981091-100428-474x1000.jpg

http://www.archdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/1286981107-vue-04-circulaire-aerien-v04-664x1000.jpg

They've just begun the preliminary work which should take about 3 months then the foundations should come by may. See this (http://www.viguier.com/en/details-architecture-projets.php?id_projet=52) for a few more info.

Nothing really spectacular but these 2 will be welcome to densify the area. I think both are officially expected to be completed by late 2013, Majunga might be later in 2014 though. That's all we've got U/C for now; hopefully more will come soon, we still have a bunch of highrise projects on the way at la Défense.

[mousquet]

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

Interview of Ermin Iskenderov (http://www.france24.com/en/20110107-emin-iskenderov-russian-property-developer-hermitage-towers-paris-defense), the CEO of the russian business that's planning this 2+ billion € project of luxury twins. It must have been recorded in late december.
0:50 - I think that story about the symbol of France is a poor joke, he's just not allowed to hurt the people living in historical central Paris that would feel so offended if something from the suburbs were taller than their holy Eiffel tower. La Défense is located in the western inner suburbs indeed.
Let me tell you if this guy succeeds in implementing such a huge project here in Paris, being so young (he's only 34) and not even french, then he's a hero, an amazing entrepeneur. He deserves much of respect for what he's trying, bringing over here something like a bit of what you guys may still call 'american dream'. See what I mean ? he's a foreigner, an outsider to the local system, an immigrant basically, he was totally unknown a few months ago and he may achieve something probably historical for the country because he's daring and courageous. That's the kind of stories this country badly needs. The president has to support him though, it sure helps; he just couldn't make it without that help, big things are sadly hard to make happen over here nowadays, again especially for someone who's a stranger to the local establishment.

[mousquet]

A few news, translating from french some short report of the atmosphere around la Défense.



The big annual meeting of business real estate was ending friday. Professionals of the sector say that investors are there again. Thus la Défense is searching for some means to grow larger.

La Défense would be in a broad boom. The general manager of the local government body (Epadesa) in charge of the business district claims that he's getting some phone calls from the entire world and that there's never been so much money to be invested in real estate.

So there's no lack of investors but they're out of building plots. That is the stake of the boosting plan second phase which should begin within a few months. Some discussions with the (national) government are already in progress.

Nine highrise projects

Thereby Epadesa wants to demolish the circular boulevard to get those plots, that would allow them to provide some more square feet. Still nine highrise projects are already in progress, all are expected to be completed by 2016.

Then tenants remain to be found for most of those projects have been launched without knowing who will occupy the buildings.


Here's the french original (http://www.radiobfm.com/edito/home/99321/le-mipim-sacheve-a-cannes-sur-fond-doptimisme/) from BFM which is a business news radio station.

Well only 2 of those 9 projects are under construction so far, the 2 I showed in a couple of posts above. Epadesa officials seem optimistic though, the recession is officially over.
Epadesa stands for "Établissement Public d'Aménagement de la Défense Seine Arche", which means something like Public Establishment for the Development of la Défense Seine Arche. It is managed by a council whose members are involved in either local or national politics, the district stretching over the territories of 3 suburban towns : Nanterre, Puteaux and Courbevoie.
Demolishing the circular boulevard is probably an excessive word. They've actually been thinking of redeveloping it for long in order to make it friendlier and to connect the district to the neighboring areas, so they've got one more reason to make it at last now.

Here's the current look of la Défense seen from the Arc de Triomphe I guess :

http://ladefense.nuxit.net/photos/mynight/first.jpg
(c) Laurent Blossier

Not bad but Paris metro area counts 12 million inhabitants (more than Chicago) and this is its biggest business district... businesses being actually established all over the region though, thank goodness.

[Minato Ku]

Infact the biggest business district of Paris is on the oposite.
It is QCA, the area around Les Champs Elysées, Opéra.
It hosts much more jobs and offices space than La Defense anyway unlike la Defense, the possibility of developement are few in QCA (I would like to see some skyscrapers near Saint Lazare).

[mousquet]

I have to say I can't understand why some of you guys would like to see some highrise projects around the Saint-Lazare station and even in other parts of the 8th arrondissement when those spots are already amazingly dense and full of nice looking buildings from the Haussmann era. You guys wouldn't demolish them, would you ? No, you never would for sure, they make up a great aspect of the city's beauty and will definitely be preserved, they're too badly precious. However those districts also include some post-Haussmann buildings that look too common, sometimes even ugly and that could be demolished without upsetting anyone, but then the new things replacing those would probably have to abide by the height standards around there to remain in harmony with the older good stuff. I grant you that the height limitations are very arguable, but in fact we've got many other spots that are way more proper than those from the very center to erect some highrises, like some areas of the outer arrondissements (from the 11th to the 20th) as far as central Paris itself is concerned, and of course over many suburban towns. Also it would be good to develop a cluster around the Montparnasse tower, there's enough stuff that can be demolished around I guess.

[mousquet]

Striking renovation in the rougher part of the 17th arrondissement.

Ugly commieblock before:
http://www.lacatonvassal.com/data/images/full/20080414-161344-z251.jpg

http://www.lacatonvassal.com/data/images/full/20080414-173801-z121.jpg

Nice condominium after:
http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6115/6329391736_9f417f2ab3_b.jpg

http://archiguide.free.fr/PH/FRA/Par/P17TourBoisPretreDruLaVa.jpg

:) Yep, all pictures show the very same building, pretty spectacular and exciting, isn't it?
It costed € 10 million to do this, which appears a very fair price to me since in addition to the new facade, the 96 apartments have been extended and all fittings and equipments must have been modernized in there. Great work of architects Frédéric Druot (http://www.druot.net/), Anne Lacaton & Jean-Philippe Vassal (http://www.lacatonvassal.com/) who also own the picures above.

[mousquet]

Oh wow... Am I dreaming? Some fair quality social housing at last?



Housing ZAC Claude Bernard


Project by: Dietmar Feichtinger Architectes
Location: Paris, France
Program: Social housing with 93 apartments (28 apartments with intermediate rent and possibility to buy, 65 social housings, 655 m2 shop area, 1145 m2 offices, workshops for small firms, 78 parkings)


http://www.architecturenewsplus.com/cdn/images/o/n/m/7/nm7ukim.jpg

The building is part of a recently developed area in the North of Paris (19th district).

The main façade — south — faces an urban boulevard — Boulevard Mac Donald. The new tram way under construction will serve the area in a few months. Next to the housing, a school group, offices and facilities have been built.

The main volume of the housing is 10 stories high and measures 45 x 32 m. A small patio lights up naturally the center. Shops situated on the ground floor and offices on the 1st floor complete the building. All apartments are double oriented and a generously outdoor space — balcony, roof, terrace or loggia — are provided for each apartment. The outdoor spaces enlarge naturally the living rooms and dining area. The loggias are about 10 m2; their dimension allows the comfortable placement of a table.

The apartments are laid out on a grid of 3m20 and offer a multitude of types from studios to large 4/5 room apartments. One of the major topics has been the possible evolution by combining the apartments and adapting them to new situations over generations. The plan, composed of modules allows to reorganize and to resize the apartments.

A 30cm low parapet allows vertical openings and assures comfortable natural light in all rooms.

Solar panels on the roof provide hot water. A two stories underground parking contains 78 places, storage rooms and a large department for cycles.

Facade:

The building is well insulated on the outside face of the facade. The top skin is made of polycarbonate cellular panels of three different degrees of transparency. (Transparent, translucent, opaque).

The skin provides a depth (profoundness) to the facade by its transparency, while a film behind the panels uniforms the background. Reflected sunlight gives the building it’s special flair.

The facade of the base of the building (shops and offices) is composed by glass and concrete panels.

One storey:

Workshops with an open height of 5 meters are situated in the courtyard facing the main building.

A delivery area for small trucks is provided. The project proposes a mix of functions in a very high density.

More pictures, including the interior and some plans in their article (http://www.architecturenewsplus.com/projects/2325). They say the project costed € 12.43 million, but another source says 13.43. A bit more or less than 140k per unit anyways. Cool but this is central Paris that's wealthy. When stuff like this is built all over the poor suburbs, I'll be really impressed. BTW the previous post is some social housing as well, but still in the old wealthy center.

[mousquet]

For the very 1st time since its completion in 1972, the 59-story tour Montparnasse (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tour_Montparnasse) is allowed to show off!

http://www.lemoniteur.fr/media/IMAGE/2012/03/20/IMAGE_20120320_17024947.jpg

Le Moniteur (http://www.lemoniteur.fr/181-innovation-chantiers/article/actualite/17025160-mise-en-lumiere-de-la-tour-montparnasse) in French.

Bah okay, this may just be some LED lighting stuff, it seems yet symbolic to me since this lonely tower, lost in old central Paris's skyline, has always been regarded by most as a bad mistake. She may be calling for some fellas to surround her at last, as room could be made around her with no heartbreaking demolition. At least, a recladding is expected. There would be a €100 to 300 million plan to modernize this spot of old Montparnasse.

[mousquet]

Icade promoting their renovation of Eqho (formerly Descartes) in la Défense.

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http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7202/6987409505_965dcdc368_c.jpg http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7189/6987409491_4e93772250_c.jpg

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7205/6841276808_f94ba15514_c.jpg http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7182/6841276794_d0287915c0_c.jpg

Glass canopy, that's the ceiling of the lobby I guess.
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7183/6841276786_0041c5de96_c.jpg http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7044/6841276778_b5be216fc3_c.jpg
All pictures, (c) Javier Urquijo, Icade's flickr (http://www.flickr.com/photos/icade_officiel/).

Tour Eqho, Paris/Courbevoie - district of la Défense:

80,000 m² (860,000 sq ft) of office space - 5,000 employees
40 stories - 140-metre (459 ft) tall
1,090 parking spaces


www.icade-eqho.com

[mousquet]

Estimated averages of residential real estate in Paris proper, March 2012.
Today, €1 = US$1.32

Overall average: €8,370/m² ($1,027/sq ft)

Arrondissement € / m² US$ / sq ft

1st 10,379 1,273
2nd 9,147 1,122
3rd 9,645 1,183
4th 10,811 1,326
5th 10,877 1,334
6th 12,904 1,583
7th 12,658 1,553
8th 10,164 1,247
9th 8,542 1,048
10th 7,264 891
11th 7,993 981
12th 7,899 969
13th 7,882 967
14th 8,514 1,044
15th 8,888 1,090
16th 10,028 1,230
17th 8,573 1,052
18th 7,200 883
19th 6,502 798
20th 6,760 829

Source: meilleursagents.com (http://www.meilleursagents.com/prix-immobilier/paris-75/#mb=48.82574027007308|2.279491424560547|48.877699518857085|2.437419891357422)

Again, there they're not talking about the upscale/luxury housing market, these are the average prices of regular things. That means you may have to pay that kind of prices even for a shithole full of cockroaches. But if you can afford it, then you should be able to fix it decently.

[Minato Ku]

And it is the price for old building.
A new building cost much more.
Easily over €10,000/m² in the edge 13th arrondissement.
Price over 8,000/m² in the edge of the 18th/19th arrondissement between a busy highway and train tracks, in the cheapest area of inner Paris.

To live in inner Paris, you need to be rich or single/in couple without kids (living in a tiny apartment) or very lucky (social housing).

[Minato Ku]

Duo, 175m and 115m high-rises in the 13th arrondissement.
Architect: Jean Nouvel
2018
Offices and hotel

http://www.lemoniteur.fr/media/IMAGE/2012/04/24/IMAGE_20120424_17370987.jpg

http://www.lemoniteur.fr/media/IMAGE/2012/04/24/IMAGE_20120424_17370988.jpg

http://www.lemoniteur.fr/media/IMAGE/2012/04/24/IMAGE_20120424_17370986.jpg
http://www.lemoniteur.fr/155-projets/article/actualite/17370985-duo-immeuble-s-de-grande-hauteur-de-jean-nouvel-se-dressera-a-paris-rive-gauche-en-2018

[Minato Ku]

SoOuest mall in Levallois (western inner suburb)
53,000m²
Opening in late 2012

http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d107/Vincentthomas/Album%204/1979955_38a259ce-93e5-11e1-b8bf-00151780182c.jpg

http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d107/Vincentthomas/Album%204/DSC43481a.jpg

[Minato Ku]

Beaugrenelle mall, 15th arrondissement
45,000m²

http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d107/Vincentthomas/Album%203/DSC16219.jpg

http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d107/Vincentthomas/Album%205/DSC44765a.jpg

http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d107/Vincentthomas/Album%205/DSC44766a.jpg

http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d107/Vincentthomas/Album%205/DSC44771a.jpg

[colemonkee]

Wow, Duo looks amazing! What's the feasibility of that actually being built?

[easy as pie]

wow, i can't believe the prices in paris there, back when i was in the market in 2003, apartments in the 18th around métro jules joffrin were going for under €4000/m² (sometimes much lower) in quality old buildings. and even then, people were raving about how expensive it had become. actually sort of depressing - i blame the foreigners!

[Minato Ku]

:previous: While foreign buyers drive the price up in some price location like Saint-Germains des Pres, le Marais and etc...
They have almost no responsability about the price in the 15th arrondissement and most parts of the city.
The main culprit is the lack of residential buildings under in construction.

Today to have prices under €4,000/m² in a quite centraly area (metro) you need to go in northeastern inner suburbs.

[mousquet]

Wow, Duo looks amazing! What's the feasibility of that actually being built?

Guess no one here can answer at this early point...

I think I read somewhere that the investors want to make sure that at least 50% of the office surface area is leased before starting anything.

Also, any location outside la Défense is obviously unusual to build some tall things, thus a little riskier I guess, although the current mayor is in favor of highrises at the edges of the city proper.

There is yet a cluster of residential towers of the early 70s in the 13th arrondissement. You must get almost the entire fugly thing on that tiny picture.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Paris-13eme-panorama-annote.jpg/798px-Paris-13eme-panorama-annote.jpg
A larger definition (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Paris-13eme-panorama-annote.jpg) is needed to admire their designs. This district is widely responsible for the hatred that Parisians devote to towers. Once in an article, I saw it called a scar on the city.

And there is the national library built in the mid-90s, still in that same arrondissement.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/fr/thumb/9/96/Vue_globale_de_la_BNF1.jpg/800px-Vue_globale_de_la_BNF1.jpg
It's far from seen as a urban planning success, but at least its contemporary facades are much easier than the sorry 60s-70s above.

So since there are already some rather tall things in the arrondissement and there is absolutely nothing yet on the site proper, nor anything exciting around it, people may end up approving it like an improvement somehow.

[stormkingfan]

Duo, 175m and 115m high-rises in the 13th arrondissement.
Architect: Jean Nouvel
2018
Offices and hotel

http://www.lemoniteur.fr/media/IMAGE/2012/04/24/IMAGE_20120424_17370987.jpg



This looks like crap. Don't know what this is supposed to be. I think Paris' image would be better off without them.

In fact, a taller version of these bldgs would fit in Dubai! Sure! We know how hot it is down there, and, why not? These bldgs look like they've been in the sun too long.

[mousquet]

:previous: Mah! :shrug: bon, you're actually not the only one to have that kind of feelings at those renderings. I'm seeing a comment in French saying it looks like a windstorm has unstuck and crumpled the cladding, except that Dubai never came to the guy's mind...

I remember reading that renderings of Jean Nouvel's firm are usually accurate, so if that thing is ever built... well, that should pretty much be it.
As a starchitect, Nouvel is likely of guys who like trying hard to be outstanding somehow, but it's not necessarily wrong, is it?

Here's the best alternate design for the same project, but this is a loser of Christian de Portzamparc.
http://www.lemoniteur.fr/media/IMAGE/2012/06/28/IMAGE_20120628_18021441.jpg
lemoniteur.fr (http://www.lemoniteur.fr/)

Heck, I should finally take a closer look at Dubai. Is it so bad like exclusively made of crap? nah, it must rather feel factitious cause it's all too recent. I swear I don't even care about it, focusing on my good old Paris and the West. :P

[mousquet]

Wondering if this in Issy-les-Moulineaux, a suburb neighboring central Paris, has been mentioned anywhere.
One of the most densely populated municipalities in Europe, Issy-les-Moulineaux has successfully moved its economy from an old manufacturing base to high value-added service sectors and is now located at the heart of the Val de Seine business district, the largest cluster of telecommunication and media businesses in France hosting the headquarters of most major French TV networks.
Since 2005, they've been planning to redevelop 2 large lots along the Seine river, on either side of pont d'Issy, a bridge that connects Issy-les-Moulineaux to Boulogne-Billancourt. They want to demolish all the 80's abandonned low-rise offices on those lots poorly connected to their surroundings because of roads and railways, then completely redevelop them.

In all, the project would include:

230,000 m² (2 million sq ft) of offices at most.
13,500 m² (120,000 sq ft) of housing at least, too few given the needs of the metro area, especially of that part of the inner suburbs.
3,500 m² (31,500 sq ft) of retail at least.
1,200 m² (10,800 sq ft) of public facilities.


These are the office towers to sit on the site in a dense cluster fashion.

http://img812.imageshack.us/img812/9372/ilotaf.png http://img845.imageshack.us/img845/2696/ilotb2.png http://img269.imageshack.us/img269/1751/ilotb1.png
imageshack.us (http://imageshack.us/g/845/ilotb2.png/)

Each is roughly 600 ft tall, 180 m. They'll be surrounded by the residential and retail facilities. The project creates the needed pedestrian areas and connections to seriously improve the site, including along the local quay of the Seine river.

Better description in French and more renderings: http://www.issy.com/UserFiles/ILM_panneauxdeconcertation_27.09.2011_light.pdf

The work is planned to begin next year but delays are likely because of opponents.
We'll append a thread for it when it's under construction.

[mousquet]

Athéna's getting renovated in la Défense...

http://tourathena.fr/index_uk.html

The original glass curtain is not even really old yet (1984) and looks okay:

http://www.pss-archi.eu/photos/membres/390/l/1332339464ubl.jpg
pss-archi.eu (http://www.pss-archi.eu/photos_immeuble-54.html)

Work on it is beginning right now.

There's a war on energy consumption in la Défense, the local market is getting harsh in that respect. Hope they don't change what's getting a little old but still looks really good. That'd be nuts!

[mousquet]

Meliá hotel U/C in la Défense.

http://www.ladefense-seine-arche.fr/uploads/tx_inprogramme/Hotel-Melia-vue-circulaire.jpg http://www.ladefense-seine-arche.fr/uploads/tx_inprogramme/Hotel-Melia-vue-esplanade.jpg

http://www.ladefense-seine-arche.fr/uploads/tx_inprogramme/Hotel-Melia_01.jpg http://www.ladefense-seine-arche.fr/uploads/tx_inprogramme/Hotel-Melia-vue-pont.jpg
La Défense Seine Arche (http://www.ladefense-seine-arche.fr/projets/la-defense/projets/detail/programme/hotel-melia-paris-la-defense.html)


Could be nice...
They've been working on the foundation for a while.
Today by Milo on pss-archi.eu (http://www.pss-archi.eu/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=417633#p417633):

http://www.pss-archi.eu/photos/membres/1094/l/1347122608nym.jpg

http://www.pss-archi.eu/photos/membres/1094/l/1347122651pws.jpg

[Chicago Shawn]

Estimated averages of residential real estate in Paris proper, March 2012.
Today, €1 = US$1.32

Overall average: €8,370/m² ($1,027/sq ft)

Arrondissement € / m² US$ / sq ft

1st 10,379 1,273
2nd 9,147 1,122
3rd 9,645 1,183
4th 10,811 1,326
5th 10,877 1,334
6th 12,904 1,583
7th 12,658 1,553
8th 10,164 1,247
9th 8,542 1,048
10th 7,264 891
11th 7,993 981
12th 7,899 969
13th 7,882 967
14th 8,514 1,044
15th 8,888 1,090
16th 10,028 1,230
17th 8,573 1,052
18th 7,200 883
19th 6,502 798
20th 6,760 829

Source: meilleursagents.com (http://www.meilleursagents.com/prix-immobilier/paris-75/#mb=48.82574027007308|2.279491424560547|48.877699518857085|2.437419891357422)

Again, there they're not talking about the upscale/luxury housing market, these are the average prices of regular things. That means you may have to pay that kind of prices even for a shithole full of cockroaches. But if you can afford it, then you should be able to fix it decently.

These are averages? That is insane. For $800 per square foot you can live in any of the highest end buildings in the center of Chicago, which is very cheap compared any other global city.

If anyone needs more proof Paris is in need of more housing on the market, these price points should do it. Granted, Paris is a special place that commands a high demand for good reasons, but that's where the developers need to be able to step in and fulfill the demand. No metropolitan area can continue to thrive if a large portion of it's center is only accessible to the wealthy or the very poor who have access to social housing.

How far out does one have to travel to rent a 90 sq meter apartment for say 1000 euros per month?

[mousquet]

:previous:
I couldn't agree more. Those sale prices have obviously nothing to do anymore with the average housing quality available within the metro area center, that situation is just farcical.
My feeling is that a status quo satisfies most owners of apartments in central Paris, because it ensures a great value for their goods even without any maintenance effort from them, which leads to shocking situations. You should see rental apartments in the center, so many are in a poor shape, fitted with amenities of the 1950s or so, and easily leased at the price of upscale things because people (students for example) simply don't have a choice. To me, that's a fraud compromising standards of living in the city proper and its neighboring suburbs.
The current national administration claims building some (low-cost) social housing all over the place would solve the problem. I think that's cynical from them. The French socialist party has a political interest in the proletarianization of a significant part of the society, that's it. So they act like the status quo is good for them too.

Paris isn't the only one in Europe to have that issue, though. Rome, London, Moscow are about the same in that respect.


How far out does one have to travel to rent a 90 sq meter apartment for say 1000 euros per month?
It depends on the suburban town you settle in, but in general I'd say roughly 20 miles away from the center does it. You can enjoy an affordable high standard of living in the outer suburbs.

[mousquet]

Renovation of Chartis (http://www.pss-archi.eu/photos_immeuble-57.html) renamed Blanche in la Défense. For the record in this thread:

http://www.defense-92.fr/photos/tour-blanche-la-defense.jpg

Now I don't know what that is, doesn't look like the rendering.

http://www.defense-92.fr/photos/ph54708.JPG

More pics on defense-92.fr (http://www.defense-92.fr/leschantiers.html) by scrolling down. It might be the panels of a first layer. The rendering suggests a 2nd skin, doesn't it?

[Minato Ku]

Perforated shading panels present a dynamic facade for headquarters of the French National Centre for Nuclear Research[/B]

In Montrouge, aaPGR architectes have developed an innovative approach to workplace design that creates architectural identity from the bioclimatic principles of natural light, planting, thermal efficiency and acoustic control. Sited along a busy thoroughfare leading into Paris, the three structures that comprise Park Azur shelter a vast 1hectare landscaped garden and provide a haven of peace in a noisy and dense urban environment.

The garden, designed by the landscape architect Philippe Raguin, forms the centrepiece to which the buildings relate, with views organised from all office levels and the ground floor restaurant. In harmony with the Paris skyline and the surrounding urban fabric, six levels of office and ancillary space provide a total of 24,500 sq m floor area.

Office areas are generous with large column free zones that can be freely reorganised to suit the ever evolving team structures of the building’s users, predominantly made up of engineers. As over 60% of the site area is allocated to the garden, all car parking is underground, where there is provision for recharging electrical vehicles.

Generated from studies of the path of the sun throughout the yearly cycle, façades have been designed as a response to each orientation. They have been fine tuned to reduce solar gain with carefully positioned horizontal and vertical fixed perforated shading panels that allow wide views out towards green spaces and high levels of natural lighting within.

Other sustainable design features include heating and cooling terminals using the principles of natural convection, low energy lighting design with multiple sensors and storage of rainwater on site. Choice of materials, waste management and organisation of the 18 month construction period, have met demanding criteria to reduce the environmental impact of the project. As a result, HQE certification (high environmental quality) and BBC certification (low energy consumption) have been attained.

Hailed as a resounding success by the building’s users and project investors alike, Park Azur sets a path towards the next generation of humane and ecologically sensitive working environments that will revitalise the inner ring of districts outside central Paris.

Source: www.worldarchitecturenews.com (http://www.worldarchitecturenews.com/index.php?fuseaction=wanappln.projectview&upload_id=21049)

http://static.worldarchitecturenews.com/news_images/21049_1_aaprg1.jpg

http://static.worldarchitecturenews.com/news_images/21049_2_aaprg2.jpg

http://static.worldarchitecturenews.com/news_images/21049_3_aaprg3.jpg

http://static.worldarchitecturenews.com/news_images/21049_4_aaprg4.jpg

http://static.worldarchitecturenews.com/news_images/21049_6_aaprg6.jpg

http://static.worldarchitecturenews.com/news_images/21049_5_aaprg5.jpg

[Minato Ku]

Opening of So Ouest mall (Levallois Perret).
53,000m² (570,000 sq ft) of retail space, 100 stores.

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xueqbd_so-ouest-le-nouveau-temple-shopping-de-l-ouest-parisien_news?start=1

http://www.defense-92.fr/photos/ph60090.JPG

http://www.defense-92.fr/photos/ph60091.JPG

http://www.defense-92.fr/photos/ph60085.JPG
http://www.defense-92.fr/lesnewsdeladefense.html

[mousquet]

The Carlyle Group already responsible for the Air² project (http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=197847) in la Défense purchased this obsolete office building in Puteaux.

http://www.pss-archi.eu/photos/membres/523/l/1217966826T.jpg
By Chrispic on pss-archi.eu (http://www.pss-archi.eu/immeubles/FR-92062-2621.html)

Full of asbestos and decaying, Carlyle would be planning a demolition to build something in its place. They talk about starting the work as of 2014 if they get their building permit next year.

It's not located in la Défense proper administratively speaking, that's a significant detail for the possible height of the substitute, but in a contiguous neighborhood and taking part of the district overall skyline.

We've got some renderings of what it could possibly be, but nothing says whether this is the approved design.

http://imageshack.us/a/img827/8115/capturedcran20121127132.png http://imageshack.us/a/img132/8115/capturedcran20121127132.png

http://imageshack.us/a/img404/8115/capturedcran20121127132.png

http://imageshack.us/a/img823/8115/capturedcran20121127132.png

http://imageshack.us/a/img854/8115/capturedcran20121127132.png

http://imageshack.us/a/img443/8115/capturedcran20121127132.png

A design by Nicolas Michelin & Associés (http://www.anmachina.com/?portfolio=the-arago-tower-paris-france), the only one we've got so far, there may be more.

It looks likely to happen given the ugly shape of the current thing (asbestos is much hated of course), Puteaux's mayor being quite in favor of more highrise redevelopments in that area.

[SparksTO]

It's very nice to see that they are going to demolish that building but it looks like they'll keep the small building on the left. It would look a lot better if they demolish the whole thing.

[mousquet]

^ Same obvious feeling. I wonder whether that bar at the front belongs with the rest of that block. There may actually be 2 or more separate lots in there.
Treating it all at the same time would obviously be the best to do.

[mousquet]

This is an office proposal that they call 'Tour Bioclimatique' (got to sound environmentally friendly enough) from Dutch firm UN Studio for Issy-les-Moulineaux.

http://img841.imageshack.us/img841/6717/bioclimatique1.jpg http://img221.imageshack.us/img221/5062/bioclimatique2.jpg

http://img803.imageshack.us/img803/9702/bioclimatique3.jpg

http://img823.imageshack.us/img823/9436/bioclimatique4.jpg

http://img593.imageshack.us/img593/3448/bioclimatique5.jpg
Renderings resized and uploaded on imageshack.us (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/841/bioclimatique1.jpg/)

http://www.unstudio.com/projects/tour-bioclimatique

Don't bet this would ever happen, it's just a nice design.

[colemonkee]

That's a very interesting design. Really piques the curiosity as to how that facade treatment would turn out in real life.

[mousquet]

I compiled a few residential projects in inner suburb Maisons-Alfort that won't build any social housing for it's a right wing town.

Numbers of rooms will include the living room. For example, 4-room means either a living room and 3 bedrooms or possibly a living room, a dining room and 2 bedrooms.

L'Intemporel, 50 units from studios to 4-room apartments.

http://3.visuels.poliris.com/bigs/3/a/2/d/3a2d23bb-7181.jpg http://1.visuels.poliris.com/bigs/1/2/3/7/12370589-6b16.jpg

Studio - 28 m² (301 ft²) - from €165k
2-room - 39 m² (420 ft²) - from €227k
3-room - 52 m² (560 ft²) - from €250k
4-room - 78 m² (840 ft²) - from €342k

Le Carré des Impressionnistes, 17 units from studios to 4-room apartments.

http://www.mdh-promotion.com/images_programmes/MAISONS%20ALFORT%20-%20visuel%202.jpg

Prices for studios and 4-room are not known yet.

2-room - from 41 m² (441 ft²) - from €206k
3-room - from 58 (624) to 75 m² (807 ft²) - from €289k to 382k

Villa Simon, 31 units from studios to 5-room apartments located nearby the town hall in the downtown neighborhood on the right picture:

http://a.visuels.poliris.com/bigs/a/0/6/4/a064f961-90d6.jpg http://8.visuels.poliris.com/bigs/8/4/f/f/84ffc46a-680c.jpg

Studio - 30 m² (323 ft²) - from €221k
2-room - from 34 (366) to 42 m² (452 ft²) - from €250k to 308k
3-room - from 58 (624) to 69 m² (743 ft²) - from €400k to 475k
4-room - 102 m² (1098 ft²) - from €665k
5-room - 99 m² (1066 ft²) - from €622k

L'Éloge, 40 units from studios to 5-room apartments.

http://www.ogic.fr/uploads/images/programme/f0d1c44a4b763e4f0027498313be2bf2785fdc9f.jpg http://www.ogic.fr/uploads/images/programme/c358b7125ce48cb4e58cc9e43b69bfccf885ab54.jpg

http://www.ogic.fr/uploads/images/programme/7cf8f3a69e2924e57db1e5dc4c4eeb8dd9d7500a.jpg http://www.ogic.fr/uploads/images/programme/c0a6f62d64ac9cdcf2358cf400a5846e8d336c18.jpg

Studio - not known yet
2-room - from 43 (463) to 52 m² (560 ft²) - from €285k to 314k
3-room - from 63 (678) to 72 m² (775 ft²) - from €400k to 475k
4-room - from 80 (861) to 85 m² (915 ft²) - from €426k to 518k
5-room - from 95 (1023) to 115 m² (1238 ft²) - from €529k to 874k

Le Metropolitan, roughly 20 units from studios to 5-room apartments.

http://www.gefic.fr/images/com_jea/images/19/preview.jpg

3-room - from 60 (646) to 66 m² (710 ft²) - from €400k
5-room - from 94 m² (1012 ft²) - from €540k

Greenway, 95 units from studios to 5-room (some duplex) apartments.

http://www.peterson.fr/medias/apollo/programme/884/vue-residence-cote-rue-l.jpg http://www.peterson.fr/medias/apollo/programme/884/vue-residence-cote-2-rue-l.jpg

http://www.peterson.fr/medias/apollo/programme/884/vue-residence-cote-jardin-l.jpg

Prices are still unknown, but they'll be just like the previous.

Résidence du Château, no information but it's just the same kind of stuff in town.

http://www.promogim.fr/data/524/pers-maisons-alfort-rue.jpg

http://www.promogim.fr/data/524/pers-maisons-alfort-jardin-small.jpg

I've got more under construction downtown on my mind (living in Maisons-Alfort myself), in some post-modern taste but quite well integrated along the downtown streets.
Well, that's what's up in a random conservative town of metro Paris.

Edit: I'd just add this last downtown building under construction that I like, although I would enjoy some modern things to rise around here. The local post-modernism's not too tacky looking, it's pretty soft but I find we've been getting a little too much of it.

Villa Debussy, 19 units of 2-room to 5-room apartments, including 3 duplex on the 1st floor on the inside of the lot that's fitted with a garden.

http://www.adipromotion.fr/images/Produits/Programmes/27/g-120413_villa_debussy_1_8_mo_jpeg.jpg

This one has some retail space to its street side, that's mostly why I like it.
Also, their duplex interiors look nice.

http://www.adipromotion.fr/images/special/27/vue1.png

http://www.adipromotion.fr/images/special/27/vue2.png

Prices of the 5-room units aren't told yet, but it's gonna be pretty expensive as anything in this metro area where the housing policy's got on everybody's nerves.

2-room - 54 m² (581 ft²) - €340k
3-room - 75 m² (807 ft²) - €480k
4-room - 94 m² (1012 ft²) - €570k

Excuse my English but prices are getting fucked up. We need more housing of different kinds, including residential highrises in the proper neighborhoods (obviously la Défense). Increasing and varying the housing offer is the only thing to restrain prices.

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Renovating a 19th-storey (formerly office) building into apartments in the 13th arrondissement where most highrises are already residential, but somewhat outdated for now.

http://www.paris13-open.com/images/decouvrir-bandeau.jpg

http://www.paris13-open.com/images/voir-bandeau.jpg

http://www.paris13-open.com/

The massing of the building is what it is, but they're using a load of nice materials such as aluminium and oak wood to seriously improve it, so apartments in there will be nicely high end. In addition, the building will incorporate some student rental housing.

More of the interiors:

http://www.paris13-open.com/images/showroom/01.jpg http://www.paris13-open.com/images/showroom/04.jpg http://www.paris13-open.com/images/showroom/02.jpg

Some floor materials for example:

http://www.paris13-open.com/images/showroom/05.jpg

:tup: Good job, hopefully will inspire some further renovations in the post-war high-rise residential district over there.

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Large redevelopment area in Ivry-sur-Seine (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivry-sur-Seine), a Val-de-Marne suburb neighboring central Paris.

Here's something funny:
Politically, Ivry-sur-Seine has historically been a highly supportive pocket for the French Communist Party (PCF). Since 1925, only three individuals have held the office of mayor, Georges Marrane, Jacques Laloë, and Pierre Gosnat, all of which have been Communist Party members.
:haha: Dayum, 3 mayors in 88 years... So welcome to the heavenly domain of the holy red lords of Ivry.

Below is Ivry. The redevelopment area that I'm watching is bounded to the pink outline.

http://www.ivryconfluences.fr/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Localisation2.jpg

A bunch of lots to be redeveloped as of this year in there, the resulting district will be mixed-use.

First, schools. This will be an infant (nursery) and elementary school.

http://www.ivryconfluences.fr/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Groupe-scolaire-pour-page-daccueil.jpg

Mind you that over here, little kids go to school as of the age of 3. They'll enter elementary school at the age of 6.

http://www.ivryconfluences.fr/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Vue-d%E2%80%99ensemble-Photo-de-concours-non-contractuelle.jpg

Children in there will be surrounded by some of their elders since the mid-rise component is a student rental residence. Notice the retail on the first floor.

http://www.ivryconfluences.fr/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Vue-depuis-l%E2%80%99avenue-Jean-Jaur%C3%A8s1.jpg

That's thoughtful but seeing the renderings, I fear that Red Lord goes too cheap on that school. Indeed, once they've paid for their huge and hilariously slow administrations, there's nothing much left for the useful public projects or public maintenance.

Now the middle school.

http://www.ivryconfluences.fr/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Vue-de-lentr%C3%A9e-du-coll%C3%A8ge-depuis-le-parvis1.jpg

http://www.ivryconfluences.fr/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/vue-depuis-le-coeur-d%C3%AElot.jpg

Cool modern design. Say a prayer for materials and maintenance.

There's at least one more education facility to come for the Paris 7 university, but the design's not determined yet.

Let's move on to offices, for the red lords are well aware that they need businesses to fund their policies.

Below is a mixed-use project to renovate a 19th century gristmill, adding a contemporary glass expansion to the historic structures.

http://www.ivryconfluences.fr/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Vue-depuis-la-rue-Moli%C3%A8re2.jpg

http://www.ivryconfluences.fr/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/IVRY-CONFLUENCES-EXPO-AVRIL-2012_MINOTERIE_bat-def_Page_2.jpg
http://www.bremond-immobilier.com/entreprises/fr/s01_home/s01p01_home.php

It will mostly include some office space seemingly meant for some businesses specialized in either urban planning or computer graphics, but also a bit of housing and a café.

And this to host some gerontechnology and biotech businesses that will take advantage of a nearby hospital of which activities are related to theirs.

http://www.ivryconfluences.fr/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Vue-depuis-la-rue-Moli%C3%A8re.jpg

That's all the office designs I found for now. More is planned, though.

Finally, housing will be the biggest part as more housing designs are known.

Below are 2 new buildings. The one along the street includes 40 apartments for sale. A second at the center of the lot will be 16 rental apartments of social housing. There's also some retail to the street level.

http://www.ivryconfluences.fr/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Vue-depuis-l%E2%80%99%C3%AElot-BHV.jpg

Much larger, 150 apartments for sale, 100 (too many in this case) social housing apartments.

http://www.ivryconfluences.fr/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Vue-depuis-la-voie-nouvelle.jpg

http://www.ivryconfluences.fr/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Ivry_expo_ancien-terrain-philips_BAT-def_Page_3.jpg

:rolleyes: Holy red lords, they'll never forget to include too much social housing to ensure their re-election. How do you think they've been there in Ivry for so long? BTW in case you'd be wondering how much a regular (for sale) apartment would cost in a suburb like Ivry, see post #190. It's definitely just about the same as in Maisons-Alfort. Remember the dense inner suburbs are getting as overpriced as central Paris itself.

160 apartments (54 social), some retail and a little business space. This includes the renovation of 2 historic townhouses and a way bigger modern complex to break ground.

http://www.ivryconfluences.fr/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Vue-depuis-l%E2%80%99avenue-Jean-Jaur%C3%A8s.jpg

173 apartments (50 social), some retail and a little business space.

http://www.ivryconfluences.fr/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Vue-depuis-la-voie-pi%C3%A9tonne-en-coeur-d%E2%80%99%C3%AElot.jpg

http://www.bremond-immobilier.com/ms/images/content/realisations_particuliers/logements/le_quai_aux_grains/maisons_zoom_bremond_appartements_quai_aux_grains_ivry_sur_seine.jpg

http://www.bremond-immobilier.com/ms/images/content/realisations_particuliers/logements/le_quai_aux_grains/balcon_zoom_bremond_appartements_quai_aux_grains_ivry_sur_seine.jpg

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http://www.bremond-immobilier.com/particuliers/fr/s03_references/s03p05_fiche_reference.php?id_ref=153

Now following has to be a red lord super special. They want (quote):

a third of young workers
a third of families
a third of old people

in this complex that they call an intergenerational residence, their holy red lord's Residence for All.

http://www.ivryconfluences.fr/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Vue-depuis-la-rue-Pierre-Rigaud.jpg

So, my guess is this is full social housing, totally under the control of the municipal administration. But how in this Republic are they gonna do this? I have no idea. I doubt the law would tolerate any case of discrimination based on age.
Anyway...

124 apartments (37 social) in the 3-building complex below.

http://www.bouygues-immobilier.com/sites/default/files/styles/programm_view_full_carousel/public/logements/030-294J41/images/bi_prg_photo_030-294J41_1.jpg

http://www.bouygues-immobilier.com/sites/default/files/styles/programm_view_full_carousel/public/logements/030-294J41/images/bi_prg_photo_030-294J41_2.jpg

http://www.bouygues-immobilier.com/sites/default/files/styles/programm_view_full_carousel/public/logements/030-294J41/images/bi_prg_photo_030-294J41_3.jpg

http://www.bouygues-immobilier.com/sites/default/files/styles/programm_view_full_carousel/public/logements/030-294J41/images/bi_prg_visuel_hall_030-294J41_1.jpg

http://www.bouygues-immobilier.com/programme-neuf-ivry-sur-seine-villa-moliere

70 apartments, all social housing but the design is decent. So they'll be forgiven if the actual building looks good enough.

http://www.ivryconfluences.fr/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Vue-du-b%C3%A2timent-depuis-l%E2%80%99angle-de-la-rue-Pierre-Rigaud-et-de-la-voie-nouvelle1.jpg

A last one, the renovation of these 2 abandoned brutalist buildings of the '60s into 17 apartments, 7 for sale, social otherwise.

http://www.ivryconfluences.fr/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Tours-de-latelier-de-Montrouge-%C2%A9-Fr%C3%A9d%C3%A9ric-Iriarte-Mairie-d%E2%80%99Ivry-sur-Seine.jpg

You might dislike brutalism as I often do, these are listed in the national historic heritage and seem interesting indeed, so they've got to be preserved.

You find some references to all those projects there if you can read French: http://www.ivryconfluences.fr/
Those all should be built by 2016 at the latest. Again, many lots are to be redeveloped in the area, so there will be much more to come in the few next years.

I made some fun of the local left wing, because I think their so-called social policies are still quite excessive, if not extremist in the case of their Residence for All. However, I would congratulate them for something.
Something I appreciate very much in those projects, they're going decidedly modern, which I find brave and elegant. Those are contemporary projects to fill in the improving suburbs pretty well. Unlike the conservative wimps of my suburb neighboring Ivry (see post #190 right above), that are still traumatized by the failures of post-war modernism and still building too many wannabe stylish post-modern pastiches. I'm merely fed up with that.

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Great news for Ivry! I visited their amazing 70s City Center complex this past summer. Lots of intimidating Sub-Saharan African-types hanging around, doing nothing. I'd like to visit again to see all of these projects completed.

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Mixed-use development under construction in downtown la Garenne-Colombes not far from la Défense along the T2 tram line. The project is designed by superstar Foster + Partners, pretty large (covering several lots along the tram line) and includes everything, offices, housing and retail to the street.


http://www.fosterandpartners.com/data/projects/1523/img0.jpg

http://www.fosterandpartners.com/data/projects/1523/img1.jpg

http://www.fosterandpartners.com/data/projects/1523/img2.jpg

http://www.fosterandpartners.com/data/projects/1523/img3.jpg

http://www.fosterandpartners.com/data/projects/1523/img4.jpg

http://www.fosterandpartners.com/data/projects/1523/img5.jpg

http://www.fosterandpartners.com/data/projects/1523/img6.jpg

http://www.fosterandpartners.com/data/projects/1523/img7.jpg


http://www.fosterandpartners.com/projects/garennes/

You get some pictures of the construction that's well advanced on this French speaking thread. They're currently cladding it.

http://www.pss-archi.eu/forum/viewtopic.php?id=30765&p=5

It looks cool but flat, as usual in France.

Their massing has been adapted to respect the smaller scale of the existing streets behind, while creating a unified frontage along the length of the boulevard.

Okay. By massing, understand mostly height.

It's actually a ZAC (zone d'aménagement concertée) like the previous post about Ivry, but a smaller one. It means an entire section of downtown la Garenne-Colombes is being redeveloped in that sort of French sudden redevelopment fashion, I guess: anything deemed uninteresting in an area is swept away then replaced.

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I forgot to tell the forum about the materials in use for that renovation I was skeptical about, Chartis turning into Blanche (post #182 above). Well, here's a sample of the new panels.

http://www.defense-92.fr/photos/ph71026.JPG
defense-92.fr (http://www.defense-92.fr/leschantiers.html)

I should say I don't really get it yet, because those 2 samples are different, but at least we know they're changing all the glass. The building is now covered in a huge white tarpaulin. We fear oddities so much around here that someone of the French forum wondered - hey folks, this may be their new white cladding:

http://www.defense-92.fr/photos/ph72371.JPG
defense-92.fr (http://www.defense-92.fr/leschantiers.html)

:D

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Thank God there's the moderators of the French forum to read and bring some good stuff. I like this renovation of a social housing building in Noisiel, some 20 km (10 miles) away from the metro center.

http://www.alucobond.com/typo3temp/pics/60415dcaaf.jpg http://www.alucobond.com/typo3temp/pics/f1cd870f15.jpg

http://www.alucobond.com/typo3temp/pics/ddf1eeb6c4.jpg

Pictures are from the site of the business responsible for the material of the facade: http://www.alucobond.com/372.html?&L=2&tx_ttnews[tt_news]=448&tx_ttnews[backPid]=17&cHash=d926ff2c76531c82b809b7da87013e0e

The building is from 1972. The original facade was all concrete, had poorly aged and was energy greedy. It was like this in Cergy since they built 3 of these very same buildings in different towns of the metro area.

http://img509.imageshack.us/img509/3839/tourdesjeunesmaris.jpg
Hosted by imageshack.us (http://img509.imageshack.us/img509/3839/tourdesjeunesmaris.jpg)

121 apartments in the 16-floor building, the renovation costed €4 mi, thus €33,000 an apartment. You get more pictures of the well engineered renovation in this 2 minutes long report if you will.

http://api.dmcloud.net/player/pubpage/4d38417ff325e16c96000049/50d0a89306361d0daf087482/bbc320bec6e04d9795d9a79e23ffc6ab?wmode=direct&start=243

And the article for those lucky able to read French:

http://www.lecourrierdelarchitecte.com/article_4195

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wow, what a tower!

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That's a nice facade reconstruction, no doubt.

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Seeing the report again, in fact, the original concrete remains underneath the coppery looking cladding, they only added some decent insulation to it, which will cut tenants' power bills by roughly 50%. The new materials cover the bare concrete like a coat. An architect explains that there was merely no thermal insulation at all for the building was built prior to the 1973 oil crisis, when people didn't care about energy efficiency yet. So this is not a heavy renovation reshaping everything, they just made the changes required by an energy efficiency certificate, like changing wiriness and gas boilers, they say. But they took care to give it a brand new attractive look at the same time, that's a good job indeed.

Today's renovation possibilities are astonishing and might allow to spare some post-war things from demolition, at least when their layouts are not too poor. Aware of the method in use in this case for example, people familiar with metro Paris will have the bare concrete of these in Nanterre coming to their minds.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6e/Cit%C3%A9_Pablo_Picasso_%C3%A0_Nanterre_vue_de_la_D%C3%A9fense_2000.jpg/1280px-Cit%C3%A9_Pablo_Picasso_%C3%A0_Nanterre_vue_de_la_D%C3%A9fense_2000.jpg
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tours_Aillaud

Quite an eyesore nearby the towers of bank Société Générale in la Défense's skyline, but now we've got an idea of what's possible to them. On the other hand, I wouldn't bet the commieblocks in the background will last forever, because their layout is just as poor as their sorry architecture.

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Something posted on the French forum that will definitely have some effect on any kind of projects throughout the country, from the smallest to the biggest. The national government finally seems to be taking action to help the construction sector that's slow, struggling from the slow economy, to build more housing and to reduce the time of treatment of legal appeals of which the legitimacy will be more carefully watched.

Those curious who can read French will read this press release:

http://www.territoires.gouv.fr/IMG/pdf/130321_DP_version_courte_5_mesures_phares.pdf

They want to make the time of legal processing 2 to 3 times shorter in average. They also want to take action against appeals deemed 'abusive' or 'malicious', those of which the only aim is to make money from their withdrawals. That surely will comfort developers and construction businesses. They say they're in a urge (oh really?), so this should be effective sometime soon.