JVS Posted March 14, 2009 Report Posted March 14, 2009 Sarkozy recebe os dez arquitectos que imaginam a "Grande Paris" de amanhã 14 Março '09 Paris, 14 Mar (Lusa) - As dez equipas internacionais de arquitectos encarregados de pensar a futura "Grande Paris", para realizar a reforma urbanística que se impõe na congestionada capital francesa, apresentaram sexta-feira os seus projectos ao presidente francês, Nicolas Sarkozy. Aumentar a fonte do texto do Artigo Diminuir a fonte do texto do Artigo Ouvir o texto do Artigo em formato �udio Imagine-se um "Central Park" a dois passos de um bairro desfavorecido onde os parisienses iriam passear, as grandes artérias da capital francesa transformadas em "avenidas verdes" e um comboio de alta velocidade para os que vivem nos subúrbios. Este projecto é considerado como o mais ambicioso desde que o barão Haussmann revolucionou a cidade em meados do século XIX, dotando-a de largas avenidas, e da célebre avenida dos Campos Elísios. Três laureados do prestigiado prémio Pritzker aceitaram o desafio: o britânico Richard Rogers, um dos que conceberam o Centro de Arte Moderna Pompidou, e os franceses Jean Nouvel e Christian de Portzamparc. Para as 10 equipas - compostas de arquitectos, de geógrafos, de meteorologistas ou ainda de artistas - tratava-se de imaginar uma metrópole europeia daqui a 30 anos, que seria o primeiro centro urbano verde "pós-Quioto" e cujas fronteiras de estenderiam para além da Paris actual. Após nove meses de trabalho, os arquitectos fizeram um diagnóstico: os subúrbios desfavorecidos às portas de Paris não são apenas feios. Estes bairros, situados longe de zonas comerciais, do emprego e do centro de Paris são uma aberração urbanística. "Não conheço nenhuma cidade onde o coração esteja a este ponto separados dos seus membros ", afirma Richard Rogers. Contrariamente a Londres que tem oito milhões de habitantes - subúrbios incluídos - Paris alberga dois milhões de pessoas e seis milhões de outras amontoam-se nos arredores limítrofes administrados por autoridades locais autónomas. Os projectos, que acabam de ser divulgados, seis franceses e quatro estrangeiros, serão examinados a 17 de Março num debate organizado pela Cidade da Arquitectura e do Património. Para que os cidadãos possam opinar, a instituição vai expor as maquetas das dez equipas finalistas, entre elas os franceses dirigidos por Jean Nouvel, Antoine Grumbach, Yves Lion, Christian de Portzamparc, Roland Castro e Djamel Kouche. As outras quatro equipas, todas elas europeias, são liderada pelo arquitecto alemão Fin Geipel, o britânico Richard Rogers, os italianos Bernardo Secchi e Paola Vigano, e os holandeses de MVRDV, Winy Maas, Jacob Van Rijs e Nathalie de Vries. Depois de uma primeira selecção, estes dez estudos finalistas receberam há um ano o encargo de imaginar como devia ser o desenvolvimento urbano e o equipamento territorial da "Grande Paris", isto é, do conjunto da aglomeração parisiense e da região de Ile de France de que faz parte. Cada equipa contou com 200.000 euros para elaborar as suas propostas, que deviam partir da realidade existente e ter como horizonte 2030. Jean Nouvel, juntamente com uma impressionante equipa de artistas e intelectuais, defende o projecto "Nascimentos e renascimentos de mil e uma felicidades parisienses", em que propõe a criação de "eco cidades" onde combinar a alta tecnologia do desenvolvimento duradouro com elementos vegetais. Um dos mais audazes, Antoine Grumbachm, propõe dar a Paris o porto marítimo do que carece enlaçando a cidade ao mar graças ao Sena, como eixo que teria o seu extremo no Havre (noroeste), "Não esquecer a poesia de Paris" é uma das premissas chave da equipa de Roland Castro: a melhoria urbanística da cidade deveria passar por um grande envolvimento da sociedade capaz de transformar o habitante em construtor. Com Christian de Portzamparc, o importante é que os diferentes pólos da cidade estejam bem ligados, que lojas, escritórios e casas se entrelacem num plano que terá, entre outros elementos aeroportos, estações e um metro exterior que sobrevoaria e rodearia Paris. Yves Lion, do grupo Descartes, propõe a criação de "20 cidades sustentáveis", cada uma com cerca de 500.000 habitantes, para recrear um sentimento de pertença a um território. Quanto aos arquitectos estrangeiros, o britânico Richard Rogers, um dos autores do Centro Pompidou de Paris, concebe a criação de um Paris metropolitano "policêntrico", com uma ideia de cidade responsável com o meio ambiente. Os italianos Bernardo Secchi e Paola Vigano, de Studio 09, propõem uma "cidade porosa" que dê espaço à água e que multiplique os intercâmbios biológicos, enquanto a equipa holandesa de Winy Maas (MVRDVR) jogou com a densidade e a eleição paradoxal de uma "Paris mais pequena". TM. Lusa/Fim inhttp://tv1.rtp.pt/noticias/index.php?t=Sarkozy-recebe-os-dez-arquitectos-que-imaginam-a-Grande-Paris-de-amanha.rtp&article=208116&visual=3&layout=10&tm=4Architects reveal plans to redesign Paris Responses to Nicolas Sarkozy's vision for a new 'Grand Paris' include a verdant landscape like New York's Central Park, and a system of motorways through the city centre Agnès Poirier guardian.co.uk, Friday 13 March 2009 12.55 GMT Parisian architect Roland Castro's vision for a greener Paris in La Courneuve. Photograph: Castro Denisoff/AFP/Getty Images Today, French president Nicolas Sarkozy will receive the ten architects selected to create Le Grand Paris. Richard Rogers is one of them. Earlier this week, they each gave a 30-minute presentation of their visions (see it here). The task is herculean, the mission quasi-impossible, but the challenge absolutely irresistible for any ambitious architect. For he or she knows that, as Paul Goldberger writes in the New York Times, "politics and architecture have always been inseparable in this city". And that "Parisians, with their long and deep commitment to the idea that the city is in the most profound sense a public place, feel that Paris is very much their own possession." The most visited city in the world, here is a capital whose great talent has been to interweave the grandeur of its official buildings with the everyday charm of its many quartiers. Or as ex-Parisian and writer Adam Gopnik puts it in his book Paris to the Moon: "Paris marries both the voluptuous and the restricted. It is not the yeses but the noes of Paris, not the licences it offers love but the prohibitions it puts in its way that make it powerful. " The challenge however is not to reshape Paris, but rather to extend its inherent beauty to its outskirts, les banlieues – a web of small villages, some terribly grand and chic (Neuilly, Versailles, Saint Mandé, Vincennes, Saint Germain-en-Laye), others modest and provincial-looking (Montreuil, Pantin, Malakoff, Montrouge, Saint Gervais) and others still, socially ravaged and architecturally dehumanised (La Courneuve, Clichy-sous-bois). And also to link them. But how do you bring together so many different styles and the city's "enormous disparity", as Richard Rogers calls it, into one Grand Paris – especially when the city is so clearly defined geographically by its gates, shadows of former fortifications, and now le périphérique, the circular road encasing Paris? The simple answer is: by being bold. But also by understanding the fabric of French society and its psyche. The different sketches and 3D renditions of the ten projects make audacious and compelling viewing (see them here). Antoine Grumbach proposes to build the Greater Paris along the Seine right up to the harbour of Le Havre. He may have taken inspiration from Napoleon who once said: "Paris-Rouen-Le Havre: one single city with the Seine as its main road." Water is also an idea the Italians Bernardo Secchi and Paola Vigano have developed: their Paris is laid out as a "sponge" in which waterways are the new motorways. Christophe de Portzamparc proposes to build four "archipelagoes" and create the biggest European rail station in the north suburb of Aubervilliers. Yves Lion offers the vision of a Paris engulfed in forests and fields where every citizen would cultivate their own vegetable patch. Richard Rogers offers to cover up railway lines that dissect the city by placing huge green spaces and networks above them. In the most brutalist, Le Corbusier-esque project, the Dutch practice MVRDV imagines a tower-block in place of the Sorbonne and motorways cutting through the heart of Paris. As a Parisian born and bred, I thought the most convincing presentation came from Parisian architect and sometime presidential candidate Roland Castro. He seems the only one to really understand the Parisian mentality, the importance of architecture and politics, grandeur and charm, poetry and citizenship. He not only suggests moving the Elysée Palace to the tough north-eastern suburbs, but also proposes to create new cultural landmarks and governmental buildings, together with a New York-style Central Park on the grim housing project of La Courneuve. The idea is to inject grandeur (as conveyed by the cultural and official institutions) and if possible, beauty, to Paris's many environs. in http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2009/mar/13/architects-reveal-grand-paris-redesignAfter the Pompidou, can Rogers transform the secret, shabby, divided side of Paris? Ten of the world's most renowned architects present their strategies for a dramatic overhaul of the world's most visited city Ten of the world's most renowned architects present their strategies for a dramatic overhaul of the world's most visited city The proposals by Richard Rogers' group aims to unite Paris's disparate communities. Photograph: Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners It's the world's most visited city, a tourist dream of grand, historical buildings and cobbled charm. But Paris's secret shame has always been the horror lurking behind its peripherique ring road - the moat that protects the city's 2 million people from at least 6 million others who live outside in high-rise, ethnic ghettoes or suburban sprawl, choked by dismal public transport and shabby green space. Now Nicolas Sarkozy wants to answer the critics who call him a cultural philistine by plunging into his new love for architecture and creating a Greater Paris that would be world's most environmentally friendly and boldly designed metropolis. When the president invited 10 of the world's most renowned architects to the Elysée last year and lauded architecture as art that the citizen "does not need a ticket for", Paris sat waiting for him to announce his own grand building project, along the lines of François Mitterrand's glass pyramid in the Louvre. Today as architects including London-based Richard Rogers, as well as French prizewinners Jean Nouvel and Christian de Portzamparc, present their various strategies for Grand Paris, it is clear that the president is aiming higher than Mitterrand's isolated architectural gems. He wants to style himself as patron of the most ambitious urban overhaul since Baron Haussmann dramatically changed the face of Paris in the mid-19th century when he carved out wide boulevards and the Champs Elysée. But the Greater Paris project to reunite Paris's centre with its neglected outskirts is steeped in controversy as local and national politicians fight over its boundaries, budget, population and new identity before the architectural debate has begun. In an exclusive preview of their strategy, Richard Rogers's group told the Guardian yesterday that the biggest challenge was Paris's "enormous disparity" and the "staggering psychological barrier" between the core of the city and the world beyond the ring-road. "I don't know any other big city where the heart is so detached from its arm and legs," Rogers said at the start of the project. His team of architects, who have worked with the London School of Economics and French sociologists, will today propose a bold plan to unite Paris's disparate communities, beginning by covering over the railway lines that "carve up" the city and creating a vast network of lush parks above the tracks. Mike Davies, director of the project, said: "The train lines going into Gare du Nord and Gare de l'Est are currently canyons of void." He proposed creating "a continuous green space, a green network" miles long that would link the centre of Paris to its deprived north-eastern outskirts. Underneath it, a separate, hidden layer would contain the mechanics of renewable technologies aimed at launching Paris into a low carbon future. The Rogers proposals also call for state intervention to completely overhaul areas such as Clichy-sous-Bois, which exploded in urban riots in 2005. Davies described the high-rises as "separate blocks in space", plonked down in isolation with no identity, city fabric, or village life around them. "The great unwritten and unsaid is that residents tend to be similar ethnic origin. It's not a mixed system," he said. "Monoculture is one of Paris's biggest problems." The plans seek to bring in new, mixed populations to the poor high-rises and the business district La Defence, extend high-speed train lines, create a new metropolitan transport system and cut the myriad layers of local government. Rogers, who changed the face of Paris in the 1970s when he co-designed the Pompidou centre, will present one of 10 competing strategies that go on show to the public next month. But the question remains whether Sarkozy will act on the various proposals and launch Paris's biggest overhaul in centuries. "It has to be at the highest level of modern design," Davies said. "Ordinariness won't draw people there." Other ideas to be unveiled today include the architect Roland Castro's plan to build a New York-style central park on Paris's infamous drab housing projects of La Courneuve, and Christian de Portzamparc's concept for a high-speed elevated train that would run along the ring road. IN http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/mar/12/redesigning-paris-france-architectureGrand Paris: Architects reveal plans to transform French capital Ten of the world's leading architects on Thursday detailed their plans to dramatically transform the French capital into a Grand Paris, in what has been described as the most complex city project ever. Last Updated: 8:09AM GMT 13 Mar 2009 Nicolas Sarkozy, the French president, asked the architects, including Britain's Richard Rogers, to project 20 years into the future and dream up the world's most sustainable post-Kyoto metropolis. Among the more outlandish plans is Antoine Grumbach's proposal to extend the city all the way to the Channel port of Le Havre via Rouen along the Seine, maximising the green possibilities of the river. The idea was already mooted by Napoleon Bonaparte, who said: "Paris-Rouen-Le Havre: one single city with the Seine as its main road." Nicolas Sarkozy accused of ruling France like a 'monarch'Christophe de Portzamparc, the prize-winning French architect, has proposed building four economic "buds" in an "archipelago" around the capital and transferring a huge European train station to Aubervilliers, north of Paris, modelled on London's St Pancras. Roland Castro, the prominent 1968 Leftist who suggested moving the Elysée Palace to the tough northeastern suburbs, has proposed injecting "beauty" into a "Grand Paris of poets", which would include new cultural landmarks in a capital shaped like a huge eight-petal flower and with a New York-style Central Park on the grim housing project of La Courneuve. The Italian architects Bernardo Secchi and Paola Vigano have proposed enlarging the city and laying it out as a "porous sponge", where waterways are given pride of place. Yves Liot would like to create 20 "sustainable towns" of 500,000 within the Paris area. He would also double the number of forests and bring fields to Paris' outskirts so the urban dwellers could cultivate their own fruit and vegetables. Many thought that Mr Sarkozy would follow his predecessors' lead and bequeath one or two magnificent monuments, such as François Mitterrand's Louvre pyramid, Georges Pompidou's Centre or Jacques Chirac's Quai Branly museum. However, the president has set his sights much higher, asking the architects to re-imagine the entire city and its surroundings with concrete proposals but "the absolute freedom to dream". One crucial aim is to end the isolation of central Paris, with its two million inhabitants, which is currently cut off from the six million living in suburbs just outside its ring road, known as "le périphérique". As Rogers, the London-based co-designer of the Pompidou centre, observed: "I know no other big city where the heart is so detached from its arms and legs". His team, working with the London School of Economics and French sociologists, has proposed uniting cut-off communities, notably by covering up railway lines that dissect the city and placing huge green spaces and networks above them. One such green line would stretch all the way from central Paris to the run-down southeastern outskirts, mirroring the line from the Louvre to La Defense to the west of the city. Paris would be stuffed with renewable technologies and re-thought to reduce city dweller's travelling time to no more than 30 minutes per day. His project aims to end the "monoculture" of Paris' suburbs by overhauling high-immigrant enclaves like Clichy-sous-Bois, where urban riots erupted in 2005. Office and living space would be mixed with rich and poor and high-speed train lines extended. Mr Rogers and the other architects were given just 35 minutes on Thursday to explain their strategies for Grand Paris 2030 to a panel of experts. Before these grand plans can progress, the capital will have to resolve complex political wrangling over its administrative boundaries and the effects on different players' power bases. Bertrand Delanoë, Paris' Socialist mayor, among others, is watching closely. The architects will present their projects to the public and take part in a debate next week, and an exhibition of their plans opens on April 29. IN http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/4980639/Grand-Paris-Architects-reveal-plans-to-transform-French-capital.html Friday, 13th March 2009Top architects unveil vision for Paris of the future Imagine a leafy Central Park filled with strolling Parisians where a rundown housing estate now stands, Paris boulevards turned into greenbelts, or a super-fast elevated train for commuters. These are some of the ideas coming from Europe's cutting-edge architects who are unveiling their grand vision for a bigger and greener Paris this month. French President Nicolas Sarkozy last June asked 10 teams of architects and urban planners to imagine a "Grand Paris" that would be among the world's most environmentally-friendly and boldly designed capitals. The project has been billed as the most ambitious since Baron Haussmann dramatically changed the face of Paris in the mid-19th century when he carved out wide boulevards and the famed Champs Elysees. For this plan, the chosen visionaries include three Pritzker Prize winners: Richard Rogers of Britain, who gave Paris the Pompidou modern arts centre, Jean Nouvel, who recently won a bid for a landmark Paris skyscraper and Christian de Portzamparc, considered a leading light on urban re-think. The challenge for the 10 teams was imagining a European metropolis in 30 years' time that would be the world's first "post-Kyoto" green urban centre and whose borders would extend beyond the city's current two-million residents. After nine months of work, the architects have come up with a diagnosis on what ails Paris: its grimy suburbs are not only an eyesore, but an affront to urban living, far removed from shops, workplaces and Paris city centre. Unlike London which has around eight million people in the city and its suburbs, Paris is home to just two million citizens while at least six million more are scattered across nearby suburbs under separate local governments. "We need to plant some beauty where there it is now mostly ugliness," said Roland Castro whose team has tackled head-on the "banlieue" that exploded into rioting in November 2005 and have been marred in sporadic violence since. Mr Castro came up with the Central Park project for La Courneuve, a drab multi-ethnic suburb less than 10 kilometres from the centre of Paris that is also home to one of the region's biggest low-income housing estates. Imagining Greater Paris as a patchwork of places, he also designed a vast national mall, modelled after Washington's open-area park, in Chelles, east of Paris and an opera house in Gennevilliers, on the northwestern fringes. To better connect the suburbs to Paris proper, Portzamparc proposes a high-speed elevated train that would run along the Paris ring road, seen as the barrier between the city and the suburbs. He also called for scrapping the city's main train stations to create a single Europe North station. Metropolitan Paris should not stop at the suburbs but reach out to the sea, according to architect Antoine Grumbach, who proposed building a high-speed train to Le Havre that would be just one hour away from Paris. Groupe Descartes architects suggested tackling global warming through state-of-the-art forest and water management that would bring average Paris temperatures down by two degrees in 2100. Others called for improved transport links with tramways, buses and trains and opening up the Seine River to more barges for freight. From London, the team led by Mr Rogers has taken Mr Sarkozy's call for green living to heart, with plans for rooftop gardens on Paris apartment blocks and turning the main boulevards into greenways for bicycles and pedestrians. But the number one recommendation from the Rogers team has less to do with green architecture and urban renewal than with French politics. "We think that Paris has everything in place to be incredibly successful, but one of the key difficulties is fragmentation of government," said Stephen Barrett, from Mr Rogers's team. "Despite the vast amount of expertise that exists in the city, it's not getting translated into coordinated, coherent action." That's because the city of Paris is broken into 20 districts, its suburbs lumped into seven departments which in turn are part of a regional government that also encompasses Paris. The multiple layers of government are derogatively called the "administrative mille-feuille" after the layered puff pastry. A report by a special task force last week called for doing away with the mille-feuille and creating a single "Grand Paris" from several levels of government, but Mr Sarkozy said he needed more time to consider the prospect. For months Greater Paris has been a hot political issue, with the Socialist opposition that controls Paris city council and the regional government saying Mr Sarkozy's grand urban plans are a right-wing ploy to undermine the left. Still the biggest names in architecture agree Paris is in dire need of a re-design. "When we come out of this economic crisis, wounded but still breathing, the metropolis that will have taken advantage of this time to tackle problems of this magnitude will be the winning metropolis," said urban planner Bernardo Secchi from Venice, one of the 10 participants. in http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20090313/world-news/top-architects-unveil-vision-for-paris-of-the-future'Grand Paris' proposals unveiled Friday 13 March 2009 The architects and urban planners who have spent the last nine months creating The luminaries of the architecture world, including Jean Nouvel and Christian de Portzamparc, as well as city planners from all over the world, have devoted their energy for nearly nine months to designing the new Paris and the new greater Paris area. The scope of their work gives a hint of what the “Grand Paris” project will become over the next few decades. After unveiling the fruits of their labour to the Economic and Social Council on Thursday , the ten architectural firms – six in France and four from other nations – are to present their plans to French President Nicolas Sarkozy on Friday. The head of state began overseeing the project on June 4, 2008, hoping to quickly implement a “strong, original, and realistic” project to develop Paris. Sustainable development, transportation, and facilitating transport between Paris and its suburbs are the three themes tying all projects together – whether they be poetic, utopic, or ecological. To solicit public input, a public debate is planned for March 17 at the Chaillot theatre, and an exhibit of scale models will be shown to the public at the Cité de l’architecture from April 29 to November 22. IN http://www.france24.com/en/20090313-grand-paris-proposals-unveiled-architectural-projects-nouvel-Portzamparc-urban-planning Quote
JVS Posted March 14, 2009 Author Report Posted March 14, 2009 Jah viram a importancia desta noticia. Agora todos os governantes vao pensar em remodelar as cidades. Tem todos os mesmo problema. Nos EUA tambem vao pensar em mudar as cidades. Com a crise do subprime e das hipotecas o modo de vida americano mudou. Quote
JVS Posted March 14, 2009 Author Report Posted March 14, 2009 Rogers unveils plans for Greater Paris (picture gallery) 12 March, 2009 By Anna Winston Rogers Stirk Harbour & Partners has unveiled its proposal to transform Paris by reconnecting the centre with outlying districts to create a Greater Paris in the mould of Greater London. Last March, president Nicholas Sarkozy invited 10 multidisciplinary groups to rethink the future layout of the French capital. Arup and the London School of Economics worked with Rogers to draw up the practice’s proposal for the city, which includes extending the transport network and creating a series of new public spaces. It would also see the suburban sprawl and estates around Paris reconnected to the city by covering the rail lines that currently divide the urban fabric. Mike Davies, project leader at RSHP, said: “Many of the ideas and concepts raised by our team may appear controversial, unacceptable and unrealisable in that the perennial obstacles of cost, politics, socioeconomic priorities, and practical or technical difficulties block their paths. “However, this has always been the case – history has also proved that ideas, new concepts and new paradigms do emerge, survive, blossom, and add to the fabric and the life of the city. “This is in evidence across the Paris region today. Change is everywhere around us.” But he made clear that the proposal was only the start of the process for change, and that any scheme carried forward would need to be investigated in finer detail. “Given the resources and timescale in which to explore such a vast territory, RSHP’s work has been focused on ideas, concepts and principles, and not on fine detail. The detail must be the subject of further studies by expert hands in focused and specific areas.” The plans are part of Sarkozy’s vision to bring architectural design back into the city after a summit with 14 leading architects in September 2007. Norman Foster, who was among the architects consulted, also unveiled a new scheme for Paris at Mipim this week. The 10 Principles for metropolitan Paris by Rogers, Arup and the London School of Economics 1 Restructure metropolitan governance in Île-de-France 2 Build Paris on Paris to create a high-density city 3 Complete the metropolitan transport network 4 Create a polycentric metropolitan Paris 5 Build balanced communities 6 Rebalance the regional economy 7 Bridge the physical barriers of the city 8 Create a metropolitan open space network 9 Reduce the environmental footprint of metropolitan Paris 10 Invest in high-quality design in http://www.bdonline.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=426&storycode=3136155&c=2&encCode=0000000001929d9aTen international architects have been invited by French president Nicolas Sarkozy to present their vision of ‘Grand Paris’ In a bid to overhaul the fragmented city, the French government has launched a consultation process requesting architects including Richard Rogers, Jean Nouvel and Christian de Portzamparc to propose ways to improve one of the world’s most-visited cities. Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners has worked with the London School of Economics (LSE), Arup and a number of French sociologists on the proposal, which it is hoped will unite Paris’s disparate communities. ‘The Paris of today will adapt to the challenges ahead, becoming “Le Grand Paris” of tomorrow, a metropolitan Paris better equipped to face the ecological, socio-economic and urban challenges of the future city,’ said Mike Davies, project architect, in the introduction to a report for the proposal. in http://www.architectsjournal.co.uk/news/daily-news/rogers-proposes-le-grand-paris/1995146.article Quote
JVS Posted March 14, 2009 Author Report Posted March 14, 2009 http://www.france24.com/en//files/element_multimedia/diapo/ss-paris1.jpg Computer image of a project for a bigger and greener Paris, in La Courneuve, by French architect Roland Castro. French President Nicolas Sarkozy has asked 10 teams of architects and urban planners to imagine a "Grand Paris" that would be among the world's most environmentally-friendly and boldly-designed capitals. http://www.france24.com/en//files/element_multimedia/diapo/ss-paris2.jpg Computer image of French architect Roland Castro’s Central Park project for La Courneuve, a drab multi-ethnic suburb less than 10 kilometres from the centre of Paris that is also home to one of the region's biggest low-income housing estates. http://www.france24.com/en//files/element_multimedia/diapo/ss-paris3.jpg Handout picture released by Christian de Portzamparc's studio shows a computer image of a project to better connect the suburbs to Paris proper. Portzamparc proposes a high-speed elevated train that would run along the Paris ring road, seen as the barrier between the city and the suburbs. http://www.france24.com/en//files/element_multimedia/diapo/ss-paris4.jpg Computer image of a project for a bigger and greener Paris, in Le Bourget, a suburb outside Paris, as designed by Christian de Portzamparc, considered a leading light in urban planning. Cutting-edge architects from across the world unveiled their plans for a “Grand Paris” on March 13, 2009 in Paris. http://www.france24.com/en//files/element_multimedia/diapo/ss-paris5.jpg Handout picture released by Castro-Denissof's studio shows a computer image of the Ile de Vitry project by French architect Roland Castro. http://www.france24.com/en//files/element_multimedia/diapo/ss-paris6.jpg Handout picture released by Christian de Portzamparc's studio shows a computer image of a high-speed elevated train that would run along the Paris ring road as part of a project for a bigger and greener Paris. Quote
JVS Posted March 14, 2009 Author Report Posted March 14, 2009 MVRDV proposes scheme for 'Grand Paris' 13 March, 2009 | By Christopher Sell The Dutch practice MVRDV is the latest firm to reveal its vision for the ‘Grand Paris’ project, commissioned by French president Nicolas Sarkozy Practice founder Winy Maas presented the firm’s proposal to the Economic and Social Council of France on 12 March, along with nine other firms. According to the company, the proposal stands for ‘more ambition, more density, more efficiency, more ecology and more compactness.’ It followed a presentation by Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners, which worked with the London School of Economics (LSE), Arup and a number of French sociologists on the proposal, which hopes to unite Paris’s disparate communities. Nicolas Sarkozy commissioned 10 teams of architects and urban planners to imagine an exemplary ‘Grand Paris’ in June 2008. The challenge for the teams was to envisige the European metropolis in 2030 as a ‘post-Kyoto’ green urban centre that allowed for growth beyond the current 2 million Parisians – and provided them with attractive urban environments. The 10 plans will be presented in an exhibition at Cite de l’Architecture, which will be open to the public from the 29 April until 22 November. in http://www.architectsjournal.co.uk/news/mvrdv-proposes-scheme-for-grand-paris/1995181.article Quote
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