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[View2saintmartin]

^I don't see it happening anytime soon.

But Ile Seguin is on the move;

http://www.ileseguin-rivesdeseine.fr/

Minato, ma soeur vit sur l'avenue Jean Baptiste Clément, juste au nord de la station pont st cloud à Boulogne (ligne 10).

[Galik]

Soon you can add this tower in the slyline of Paris: La Tour Horizons de Jean NOUVEL


Tour Horizons = Skylines Tower

[Minato Ku]

It is official, it is now possible to build buildings over 37m in inner Paris. It was voted by Paris council.
Three towers over 150m are already planned.
-180 tall Triangles tower in the 15th arrondissement
-180m tower in the 13th arrondissement
-160m new Paris high Court in the 17th arrondissement

[Swede]

How controversial was the vote? was it a narrow vote? did the media hype the impending destruction of all of old Paris?

A blanket ban for the entire city was too drastic IMO, but I'm sure some arrondissements will stay max 37m.

[R@ptor]

Originally Posted by Swede

A blanket ban for the entire city was too drastic IMO, but I'm sure some arrondissements will stay max 37m.

That's what I was thinking. I don't think we will ever see a skyscraper in the 1st or 4th arr.

[Minato Ku]

I don't know all the detail of it, it is maybe still forbidden to build skyscrapers in the most central arrondissement.
The skyscrapers planned in inner Paris are in the 13th, 15th and 17th arrondissement.


I hope to see new skyscrapers and high-rises in Montparnasse, Montparnasse tower would feel less sole and it could give a new life to the south of this district.
The south of Montparnasse district is bit too much 70's for my taste.

[Swede]

I could get behind a plan like that. Those concrete midrises being the tower are far more of a blight on the Paris skyline than tour Montparnasse ever was.

[Minato Ku]

Les Halles

















http://www.parisleshalles.fr

[Minato Ku]

Originally Posted by Minato Ku

Office building in the 5th arrondissement.

[mousquet]

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

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





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 This article is a bit outdated (pretty sure it's 32 floors instead of 35 and it'll never be completed for 2011) but it still says what the building's about.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





They've just begun the preliminary work which should take about 3 months then the foundations should come by may. See this 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]

Originally Posted by Minato Ku

Hermitage Plaza
Architect : Foster
323m twin towers
Mixed use.



http://www.hermitage-immo.fr/fr/lib/...TAGE_Plaza.pdf

Interview of Ermin Iskenderov, 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.

[Sinha]

Subway: a bypass around Paris

According to a document obtained by AFP before the officialization of the agreement, the global 32,4 billion euro investment gets except rolling stock. It is planned that 11,9 billion euro for the modernization of the existing network and 20,5 billion euro for the network of automatic subway, including the continuation of the line 14 of subway in the North and in the South of Paris and a bypass around the capital including two bows(arcs) in the East, of which the one allowing a sideboard in close crown since Saint-Denis. The plan and the technical modalities of this bow(arc) in close crown will be defined following a mission of study appointed by Maurice Leroy before March 30th, 2011, associating Val-de-Marne and Seine-Saint-Denis.

The State intends to assure(insure) the sideboard by the " realization of an operational automatic subway from 2020 ", the region by a " bus at high level of service on the tray(plateau) ", " who can evolve afterward towards a streetcar ", specified the document

http://www.lefigaro.fr/flash-eco/201...transports.php
Map
http://www.megalopolismag.com/wp-con...%A9-commun.pdf
Government
http://www.ville.gouv.fr/IMG/pdf/Pro...EtatRegion.pdf

[Minato Ku]

Some pictures of the Claude Bernard redevelopment area in the 19th arrondissement.

[Swede]

The weather combined with the grey concrete gives the update quite a bleak look
In the first pic it looks like the city ends after the bridge! What's at the other side of that green fence?

[mousquet]

This should be stuck in between the MacDonald and Périphérique boulevards (19th arrondissement, north-east central Paris), neighboring Aubervilliers. There was nothing much so far over there but there's a pretty big plan on the way to develop several blocks of apartments, offices and retails. That's good news, this area has been neglected and unsafe for ages indeed.
By the way the project includes a mixing of 'social housing' as they say over here, which consists in local-government-owned apartments for rent affordable to the lowest incomes, with some regular private apartments meant for the middle class whose incomes are more comfortable. This type of mixing is a rather new concept over here which is expected to save the lowest wages being cut off from the rest of the world in some poor areas turning into hopeless ghettos. it shall work hopefully.

[Swede]

Originally Posted by mousquet

By the way the project includes a mixing of 'social housing' as they say over here, which consists in local-government-owned apartments for rent affordable to the lowest incomes, with some regular private apartments meant for the middle class whose incomes are more comfortable. This type of mixing is a rather new concept over here which is expected to save the lowest wages being cut off from the rest of the world in some poor areas turning into hopeless ghettos. it shall work hopefully.

Sounds like an excellent idea, it'll be interesting to see what the effects are, both short-term and long-term.
Same with mixing residential, offices and stores. Something that's vanishingly rare in Sweden since the 30s, sadly.

[mousquet]

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

Originally Posted by BFM

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 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 :


(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.

[Minato Ku]

A residential building approved in the 13th arrondissement.




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