PARIS - projects & updates - Page 11

Swede · #**201** Posted: **Aug 1, 2008, 11:48 AM**

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Originally Posted by Minato Ku

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.

They claim to be green and oppose building tall? I'm tired of these fake-greens.

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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

I like that idea. specific sites that will get concentrations of taller buildings, like mini-La Defense.

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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.

Because it was the height that made them fail in urbanism? height has nothing to do with it.

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Originally Posted by Jean Nouvel

"This is not about undermining our heritage. But we have to stop thinking that Paris is a museum-city. Paris is not finished... If vertical buildings can enrich the heart of the capital, why deprive ourselves?"

Hear, hear!

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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.

Who said anything about 60s style highrise commieblocks and Le Corbousier style urban planning? These guys are totally missing the point!

Minato Ku · #**202** Posted: **Aug 1, 2008, 4:53 PM**

Yeh, these fake Green are a problem in Paris, with them the traffic decrease but the traffic jam increase.
They are for the public housing but not inside the bourgeois district so they prefer ghetto as social diversity.... They dream of the Paris of Amelie Poulin

Outside Paris green are not against high-rises.

Sinha · #**203** Posted: **Aug 2, 2008, 11:37 AM**

Issy's project-Mozart tower

Bouygues Immo

EOS (Microsoft Europe)

Minato Ku · #**204** Posted: **Sep 8, 2008, 11:29 AM**

Recladd of Tour Altais-Montreuil (88m) in Montreuil (eastern inner suburbs)

picture by Sinha

http://www.philia.fr/index_altais.php

Sinha · #**205** Posted: **Sep 25, 2008, 8:42 PM**

Paris 15-Porte de Versailles-Herzog & De Meuron:

http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show....php?p=3822269

Sinha · #**206** Posted: **Oct 28, 2008, 12:40 PM**

Grands Moulins de Pantin

Sinha · #**207** Posted: **Nov 2, 2008, 6:24 PM**

Update Franklin tower in Montreuil

Minato Ku · #**208** Posted: **Dec 1, 2008, 10:34 PM**

Four towers proposed in Massena (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.

R@ptor · #**209** Posted: **Dec 2, 2008, 11:14 AM**

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Is that next to the Biblioteque Nationale?

KRIS6981 · #**210** Posted: **Dec 2, 2008, 11:28 AM**

Yes "Biblioteque Nationale" is above " rue de Tolbiac"

Grumpy · #**211** Posted: **Dec 10, 2008, 1:53 PM**

A lovelly continuation of the Avenue de France development.
The 4 blocks built over the railroad tracks just south of the Rue de Tobiac are also new proposals right ?

Minato Ku · #**212** Posted: **Dec 14, 2008, 5:43 PM**

Actually this picture is in Boulevard Massena where the T3 will run.
But I think that extending avenue de France outside the Peripherique in Ivry is a good idea.

Bergenser · #**213** Posted: **Dec 16, 2008, 11:06 AM**

This building is increadible looking!

Minato Ku · #**214** Posted: **Jan 1, 2009, 1:24 AM**

Hotel Renaissance in Avenue de Wagram near the Champs Elysees
Architect Cristian de Portzamparc

Pictures by JP.

Swede · #**215** Posted: **Jan 2, 2009, 7:52 PM**

I LOVE that kind of contrast. Beautiful old buildings wall-to-wall with new beautiful buildings.

Sinha · #**216** Posted: **Jan 13, 2009, 4:15 PM**

e-architect 12/01/09

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Docks de Paris

The Docks of Paris is a long, thin building built in concrete at the turn of the last century. It was a depot for goods brought up the Seine by barge, which were deposited, and then transferred to dray or train.
The city of Paris launched a competition to create a new cultural program and building on this site. Whether or not to keep the existing concrete structure was a choice left to the participants.
Jakob+MacFarlane opted to retain the existing structure and use it to form and influence the new project.[...]

http://www.e-architect.co.uk/paris/docks_de_paris.htm