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[mousquet]

One more Unibail-Rodamco office project we've been aware of since December 2010. The public study is going on right now. Unibail won't publicly expose the design before they get their building permit because the project is said technically complexed to implement, so they may not know yet accurately how the tower would be themselves. So this is the only tiny render we've got so far.

http://www.ladefense-seine-arche.fr/fileadmin/site_internet/user_upload/2-Lieux/Lieux-DEF-trinity.jpg

It would sit there:
http://img502.imageshack.us/img502/3821/trinitw.jpg

In front of the Areva tower on this picture.
http://img530.imageshack.us/img530/4701/017qbw.jpg

The project involves to develop a partial cover of the Division Leclerc avenue, the building sitting above that avenue. That's what makes it all the trickier since it's supposed to improve the avenue at the same time, still letting it enjoy the daylight and making it greener (more trees), and providing some better pedestrian accesses to the slab above.

Street View of the spot to be partly covered (http://maps.google.fr/maps?q=Avenue+de+la+Division+Leclerc,+Courbevoie&hl=fr&ie=UTF8&ll=48.892924,2.242177&spn=0.011032,0.033023&sll=48.893234,2.240771&sspn=0.005516,0.016512&oq=avenue+de+la+divi&hnear=Avenue+de+la+Division+Leclerc,+Courbevoie,+Hauts-De-Seine,+%C3%8Ele-de-France&t=h&z=16&layer=c&cbll=48.893774,2.24089&panoid=0L5pNfuuzL5q5WYdPWBJog&cbp=12,187.44,,0,-9.08), the tower would sit above right there between the CNIT building on the right and the Areva tower on the left.

The building would be composed of 3 blocks (thus its name), 2 of them being 110 and 140 meters tall, and I still don't know what the 3rd block would be. Maybe a pedestal or a mid-rise stuck to the 2 taller blocks.

Those speaking French will have more details on pss-archi's dedicated thread (http://www.pss-archi.eu/forum/viewtopic.php?id=32000&p=5). We'll update this when we've got more anyway.

[mousquet]

Wait, we've got a couple of better rendering pictures though, but they're too large to be displayed in a thread.

Render 1 (http://www.defense-92.com/photos/TRINITY-VUE_1_EGLISE.jpg)

Render 2 (http://www.defense-92.com/photos/TRINITY-VUE_7_AERIEN_LECLER.jpg)

I think it looks nice but I still wonder what exactly happens to the avenue that's widely covered by the extended slab. The lower part of the tower under the slab is supposed to make it look better.

Enlarging the 2nd render shows how the project connects the slab to the streets. Lots of stairs, each provided with an elevator though. The escalator at the foot of the Séquoia tower (to the right on the 2nd render) already exists, an elevator would be added to it. Of course connecting that slab to its surroundings is now an obsessive requirement to all projects.

I'm guessing the 3rd block of the building that I was missing would actually be the central green column on the 1st render.

The building permit would have been granted to Unibail in November, work would begin in early 2013. The slab extension has to come first, then construction of the building proper would start from early 2014. The whole thing would be completed by late 2015.

[AJphx]

La Defense is so interesting, and seems to be pretty unique in the world, with it totally unorganized urban layout. All these new tower and buildings in La Defense sit in strange angles, squeezed between buildings, over roadways, with circular bridges and stairways connecting them to plazas. I love it. Despite being another high-rise cluster like anywhere else, Paris found a way to keep it unique (or unintentionally it turned out that way).

[Dylan Leblanc]

Nice, thanks for posting!

[Minato Ku]

http://jeanspiri.typepad.fr/.a/6a0120a865205c970b0162fd22d76f970d-800wi

http://www.ladefense-seine-arche.fr/uploads/tx_inprogramme/TRINITY.jpg

Building and demolition permits
http://www.defense-92.fr/photos/ph50007.JPG
Picture by Spoudzzi.

Note that the building permit say that the height of the tower is 167m, I think that it includes the spire.

[mousquet]

Yeah! loving how dense that side of the esplanade is getting, it's gonna be great.
But where in hell are our NIMBYs?? Oh come on! any lil' appeal, dear NIMBYs? Really, I'm a little surprised we didn't hear of anything yet from them. They seem so freaking busy and upset about Phare and Hermitage that this might even go unnoticed... Don't you think we've got something like an efficient tactic to build several towers at a same time in la Défense, Minato? just propose a supertall, then the way is clear for anything smaller.
:D

[Minato Ku]

So, I have the height: 167m with the Spire and 151m without.

Some pictures from the building permit.

(Note height NGF:, the ground is at 48m NGF.)
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[Minato Ku]

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[mousquet]

*Relief* LOL As D2 and Majunga are nearly complete, I was afraid of a total extinction of cranes over la Défense. But work on this is to begin sometime soon. Far from super tall, still good to increase the high-rise density around the huge pedestrian square facing the arch, and to improve pedestrian connections to Courbevoie's neighborhoods.

Here's a short telegram from yesterday in French reporting the upcoming construction.

http://www.businessimmo.com/contents/42039/la-defense-les-travaux-de-trinity-vont-commencer?&utm_source=depeche&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=26067-depeche-la-d-fense-les-travaux-de-trinity-vont-commencer-20-03-2014-11-25

:superwhip:oldlady:

[warrior mode] No rest till our highrise district is an actual glory, huh! [/warrior mode]

[mousquet]

Workers are on the site, launching the preliminary tasks. We've got those higher res. renderings on pss-archi.

http://img4.hostingpics.net/pics/32952220140417000603.png

http://img4.hostingpics.net/pics/761242Tourtrinity.jpg

http://img4.hostingpics.net/pics/591416trinity2.jpg

http://img4.hostingpics.net/pics/540093trinity3.jpg

http://img4.hostingpics.net/pics/797421trinity4.jpg

Ah, looks like we might have some nice glass to this. Massing as seen on the 2nd rendering is questionable, so materials would better be attractive.

I tell you what, I'm still hurt from Carpe Diem's cladding made in bloody China. :irked: Although honestly, tower First got some materials made in France, I believe, that don't look any much better than Carpe Diem's.
This Trinity thing just can't do any worse than those 2.

[mousquet]

Delivery delayed to the 1st half of 2018 in the Unibail yearly results, frozhalf reported on pss-archi.

[vincent !]

the Site at February 4th 2015 :

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[vincent !]

Under Construction !

1/2

Yesterday :

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[vincent !]

2/2

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[mousquet]

Mad mad respect to engineers, anywhere in the world... This thing must've caused some little headaches to them.

Whatever, La Défense's infrastructures may be the weirdest in the country, it seems they could deal with any site and make something decent of it.
Just ask them for what's impossible and bring the necessary money along, they'll do it anyhow.

[vincent !]

This saturday :

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[vincent !]

This 29th October :

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[vincent !]

This 15th november:

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[LondonParis]

Can we move this thread to "under construction" ? I think it is now clear this tower is u/c

[vincent !]

Today, 11th january :

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[mousquet]

We have some sample of the façade.
Courtesy of cochise75.

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Must be looking decent for a so-called "3rd-world shithole" country like ours.
Lol. Uh, that quote is not mine, huh. It's by some of our gentle and so stylish American friends. :haha:

Now seriously, I'm rather concerned about the massing, as often when it comes to high-rise buildings here.

https://s27.postimg.org/uu6u2zov7/trini.png

The central column is supposed to make it appear as 3 distinct blocks, hence the name of the building that refers to 3 different aspects of it instead of anything annoyingly religious by the way, but I fear it might still look too wide like some large limp wall that would obstruct connections to its surroundings, while improving connections over the district as a whole should remain the upmost priority.
However, there'll be some shops by the base to make it feel easier if I recall correctly, but maybe not to the foot of the tower proper, which is a pity.

Hard to tell from renderings anyway, especially when the overall layout of the area is the most complex (most uselessly complicated, one should say) you could think of.

[vincent !]

13th february :

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[LondonParis]

Here is a picture showing what the construction team is currently building.

http://www.itech-innov.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Base-tour-Trinity-image-a-la-une-2.png

[LondonParis]

Photos by Vincent Montcuit

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[LondonParis]

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[LondonParis]

Photos by Vincent Montcuit

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[LondonParis]

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[colemonkee]

Wow, so they're building this thing over the road?

[LondonParis]

Wow, so they're building this thing over the road?

Yes they are ! Was there two days ago, it's pretty awesome to watch !

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CONSTRUCTION UPDATES :

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[vincent !]

This 27th of september, at night :

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[LondonParis]

CONSTRUCTION UPDATE

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[LondonParis]

CONSTRUCTION UPDATE :

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By Vincent1746

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[Urbannizer]

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Chantier tour Trinity - Paris la Défense (https://flic.kr/p/29eAnVv) by Vincent Montcuit (https://www.flickr.com/photos/103688875@N05/), on Flickr

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Chantier tour Trinity - Paris la Défense (https://flic.kr/p/29eAonT) by Vincent Montcuit (https://www.flickr.com/photos/103688875@N05/), on Flickr

[mousquet]

Wow, so they're building this thing over the road?

They just extended the gigantic "slab", the artificial pedestrian ground that stretches out maybe over a couple of square miles upon roads. It is really huge.
Most the district was built this way since it got started in the late 1950s. Pedestrians above, cars underneath. That was so called modern urban planning back then.
Maybe you visit someday, so you can realize.

Probably some interesting engineering feat, but it's time to stop extending it, because people want ordinary urban layout back.
It wasn't such a good idea to completely segregate cars over that large area. Driving there is pretty hellish, and the slab always felt like it missed some significant urban element without any regular street open to cars.
It could feel better if it was properly refurbished, but that will take billions of dollars. They can't afford refurbishing it all overnight.

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[mousquet]

Mouais... More of that kind of spandrel glass to remind of the 1960's.
I was expecting something sleeker, disappointed by this one.

[mousquet]

It doesn't seem pitiful after all.
If you look closer, glass seems thick like some triple glazed window, which is some high-end insulation, everything but cheap.

ZeusUpsistos taking pictures for pss-archi.eu and for the French-speaking subforum of skyscrapercity.com.

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Some contemporary French utilitarian nature within myself is just telling me that this ain't too bad.
It's just not any latest fancy design over here, but who cares here?
I bet you'd feel better about it...

We have too many fancy buildings that you'd badly envy over here already.
More than enough. ;)

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Link : https://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=1278835&page=46
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[mousquet]

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A picture to show everybody over here, so they finally can understand...

The dark building by Norman Foster's firm should've been 10 times as tall.

And that pitiful fake building on the right in the foreground should've never been built.
It looks like a disgrace, a mere insult in the middle of the real older buildings.

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https://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=1278835&page=49
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Pics by ZeusUpsistos

[mousquet]

This may be seen as complete by now, no longer under construction.
I'm adding a few pics to let people on here know.

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trinity_01 (https://flic.kr/p/2mcVStn) by mousquet (https://www.flickr.com/photos/188601255@N03/), sur Flickr

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trinity_02 (https://flic.kr/p/2mcVSsF) by mousquet (https://www.flickr.com/photos/188601255@N03/), sur Flickr

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trinity_05 (https://flic.kr/p/2mcR2Gm) by mousquet (https://www.flickr.com/photos/188601255@N03/), sur Flickr

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trinity_06 (https://flic.kr/p/2mcR2EC) by mousquet (https://www.flickr.com/photos/188601255@N03/), sur Flickr

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trinity_07 (https://flic.kr/p/2mcZTVu) by mousquet (https://www.flickr.com/photos/188601255@N03/), sur Flickr

[colemonkee]

I really like this one. It has a sort of Norman Foster or Richard Rogers-esque quality to bringing the structural and functional elements of the core to the exterior. My only two gripes are the grates on the left side of the core not being a consistent color (that will age very poorly) and the fact that the architects were way too ambitious in the renderings of the greenery on the right side of the core. Otherwise, this is a really nice use of the space and a pretty great stuctural accomplishment.

[mousquet]

My only two gripes are the grates on the left side of the core not being a consistent color (that will age very poorly) and the fact that the architects were way too ambitious in the renderings of the greenery on the right side of the core.

Something residential along these lines, called Bosco Verticale in Milan, Italy actually worked.
I think it's even worth posting it on here in case you wouldn't have seen it yet.

lqvmjAJWS7A

However, it has always failed in Paris so far, despite the promises of a number of renderings.
You'd end up thinking some developers and architecture firms have been into some gross greenwashing.

The couple of residential buildings in Milan must require a special treatment of sorts that was never actually or seriously tried over here.
The result is effective and convincing to their Bosco Verticale anyway.

[colemonkee]

^ Yeah, there are some really good examples from southeast Asia as well with pretty lush greenery on buildings, so it's certainly possible. Maybe they just need time to grow out.