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Yacht Club de Monaco, Monaco

Foster + Partners-designed Yacht Club de Monaco enjoys official opening celebrations

The Foster + Partners-designed Yacht Club de Monaco has opened to much fanfare, attended by HSH Prince Albert II, Lord Norman Foster and the wider design team. The club’s members were also welcomed to the new facility which takes its inspiration from traditional sailing vessels and integrates sustainable design principles throughout.

Referred to by the practice as ‘a celebration of sailing’, the Yacht Club de Monaco rises on the waterfront through a series of terraces that resemble decks, offering far-reaching views out to sea and inland to the nearby Formula 1 Grand Prix circuit. Lord Foster said: “The building is a little like a city in microcosm, with schools, parks, offices, restaurants, a network of interior circulation ‘streets’ and a hierarchy of public and private, social and functional spaces.

“It is a continuation of Monaco’s dense urban fabric, as well as the Yacht Club’s traditions and will be an important part of civic life. Every child in Monaco learns sailing at some stage during their education and those lessons will be in the new building - as a result, the Yacht Club will become even more rooted, in a public sense, in the Principality and part of its cultural and urban fabric.”

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