Posted October 9, 200618 yr just announced. its for some sort of louis vuitton art museum and yikes -- it will go up in the bois de boulogne: octobre 3, 2006 Gehry To Build a Cloud for the White City (en) It's officially everywhere in the papers this morning, but I suppose when the richest man in France helps announce a work by the most controversial architect around, it's bound to make news. Frank Gehry is coming to Paris once again to build one of his signature buildings for luxury goods company LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton. "Bernard Arnault, chairman of LVMH," reports the NYTimes, "said the institution would be known as the Louis Vuitton Foundation for Creation. He described it as a logical follow-up to LVMH’s extensive sponsorship of the arts. 'Its aim is to underline French creativity in the world,' he said." The building will no doubt become one of Paris' more talked about museums (which is a hard item to pull off in a town like this), stemming from its architecture, but for also becoming a home for pieces from Picasso, Mark Rothko, Damien Hirst, Jean Dubuffet, to name a few. According to IHT, "The 4,200-square meter (45,200 sq. feet) museum, made mostly of glass and with numerous sharp angles, is expected to go up in the vast Bois de Boulogne park on Paris' western edge between next year and 2010 — at a cost of some €100 million (US$126 million)." Gehry called the assignment "heavenly," and said that Paris was his favorite city. Mayor Bertrand Delanoe said, "My intuition tells me ... that this will be your masterpiece." Despite possible future rumblings surrounding the venture, the unveiling was a definitely a celebration. So far, it's been called a greenhouse, a cocoon, and a cloud. Parisist is thinking of calling it, "Crouching Lapin, Hidden Construction Costs." Will it interrupt the landscape? Will it be too shiny? Will the costs of materials and construction skyrocket due to Gehry's unusual structural swoops, twists and edges? Or will it be a lovely addition to Paris' long history of phenomenal museums? Only time will tell... Whatever it will become, Parisist has no doubt that we'll be discussing it. The -Ist network has a history of covering related news of his groundbreaking and sometimes problematic Gehry creations, from Laist's coverage of his hometown influence, to Chicagoist's investigation into his copyrights in Chicago, to Seattlest's recount of the f(l)ailing rock and roll museum, to Gothamist's West Side musings and the hotly-debated New Brooklyn. What do you think of the new building? Is its unusual structure is beautiful or is it an eyesore for Paris? Is Gehry a repetitive hype machine or a visionary? And is Delanoe right to think that this project will overshadow the Bilbao Guggenheim in Gehry's legacy? lots 'o links here on parisist blog: http://www.parisist.com/archives/2006/10/03/gehry_to_build_a_cloud_for_the_white_city_en.php
October 13, 200618 yr Reminds me something like the greenhouse at the botanical gardens in cleveland and paris probably paid quite a few million more
October 15, 200618 yr There is no practicality to anything this guy does. I don't like the design at all. I think Gehry's stuff is entirely over rated.
October 15, 200618 yr I used to think that his projects were just an attempt to be overly different which made them kind of shitty. But the Disney Hall in LA is amazing and really works well. I think this building is genuninely different from his others and from anything else that is out there, and I think it looks damn good. I particularly like the coloring of some of the glass and the left lean to the building.
October 16, 200618 yr ^we'll see. the coloring of the new iac looked really cool and opaque like that too in the renderings. in the end in reality it came out to have this bizzare frit and it looks like a suburban outer ring highway office building.
October 22, 200618 yr i think i would like it better if it were more symmetrical, but if the inside is lit up in different colors like the drawing shows it will be pretty
September 30, 200816 yr ooh la la or oh lo lo? :-o Le Projet Triangle, Paris, France Friday 26 Sep 2008 Paris: History in the making New policy paves way for first inner city tower since 1977 A historic shift in the French capital’s strict planning rules this summer has opened the way for the first of a series of dramatic new towers. For over thirty years Paris has laid low in the building stakes with a ban on buildings over 37 m in height brought in under Jacques Chirac’s rule when he was Mayor of Paris in 1977. But on Thursday the first tower to be built in the French capital’s inner city, following the lifting of the ban in July, was revealed. Officials in Paris voted to lift a ban on high rise buildings in the French capital in a bid to combat the city’s housing shortage and invigorate the city’s economic status. This decision has left the path clear for 20 high-rise designs, first flaunted by the current Mayor Bertrand Delanoe in November last year and following the inauguration of President Sarkozy, to be approved. The first of these designs to be approved is Herzog & de Meuron’s Le Projet Triangle which will stand at Porte de Versailles in Southern Paris. The design was showcased by Deputy Mayor, Anne Hidalgo yesterday who said in her blog: “Paris is indeed now part of the first world capitals in tourism business, trade fairs and exhibitions. Since 2001, the City of Paris has always radiated at the heart of its priorities economic development, employment and innovation. In a context of European and global competition increased, this ambition must now be translated in concrete by reinforcing its economic attractiveness.” The design features a pyramidal block structure which will rise to 200 m and Hidalgo hopes that this design will “provide the city of Paris a true symbol commensurate with its economic vitality”. Others may be less excited about the prospect of a tower in the heart of the city however with 62% of the Parisian population opposed to high rises in the city. While Paris holds three regions for tall buildings on the outskirts, including La Defense to the West, the Triangle will be the third tallest structure in the inner city after the Eiffel Tower and Tour Montparnasse in the Montparnasse region. Herzog & de Meuron, however, have no doubt about the ability for the Triangle to integrate into the Parisian landscape. They explained how this would be the case: "The Triangle is conceived as a piece of the city that could be pivoted and positioned vertically. It is carved by a network of vertical and horizontal traffic flows of variable capacities and speeds. Like the boulevards, streets and more intimate passages of a city, these traffic flows carve the construction into islets of varying shapes and sizes. "This evocation of the urban fabric of Paris, at once classic and coherent in its entirety and varied and intriguing in its details, is encountered in the façade of the Triangle. Like that of a classical building, this one features two levels of interpretation: an easily recognisable overall form and a fine, crystalline silhouette of its façade which allows it to be perceived variously." They claim the building will restore the historical axis formed by the rue de Vaugirard and avenue Ernest Renan where the structure will stand. Due for completion in 2014 the tower will contain offices, a conference centre and a 400 bedroom hotel. Niki May Young News Editor http://www.worldarchitecturenews.com/index.php?fuseaction=wanappln.projectview&upload_id=10397 commentary: http://curbed.com/archives/2008/09/30/architecture_watch_herzog_de_meurons_parisian_pyramid.php?o=0
September 30, 200816 yr Interesting............. But I am jealous of their "not enough housing" problem!
September 30, 200816 yr i think it's incredibly innapropriate, it looks like something from outer space smashed down on paris. They might want to ease into abolishing the height restriction before hammering mount doom down peoples throats.
September 30, 200816 yr McCleveland - LOL It looks like something out of Alien Vs. Predator or a place where Mojo Jojo would live.
September 30, 200816 yr I'm not joking, i was legitimately thinking of alien vs. predator when i wrote that. It actually looks quite creepy to me.
September 30, 200816 yr I'm not joking, i was legitimately thinking of alien vs. predator when i wrote that. It actually looks quite creepy to me. You're preaching to the choir man!
September 30, 200816 yr ...mount doom... lmao! :laugh: now please stop you're killing my head with my hellish hangover! :bang: hmm. it is ridiculously out of place. it would be ok in la defense, but less striking and i guess that is part of the point. one thing to definately like about it...mixed use: "the tower will contain offices, a conference centre and a 400 bedroom hotel." say here's a thought -- can you imagine if this le projet triangle & the 56 leonard jenga tower were built right next to the bird's nest stadium? that would be quite a herzog & de meuron fantasy trio.
September 30, 200816 yr Yeah, I don't like this, either. And I'm actually a huuuuge fan of modern architecture. When it's not gaudy and something akin to the Luxor in Vegas.
September 30, 200816 yr what the hell is that hideous skywalk for in the 2nd rendering? I say no to this. There has to be a better way!
September 30, 200816 yr this is eerily similar to "the worst building in the world". That looks scary as hell. Where is that?
September 30, 200816 yr It's a hotel (well the shell of it) in Pyongyang, North Korea - left unfinished for about 10 years; allegedly they've restarted work on it. clevelandskyscrapers.com Cleveland Skyscrapers on Instagram
September 30, 200816 yr this is eerily similar to "the worst building in the world". That looks scary as hell. Where is that? :wink: http://www.urbanohio.com/forum2/index.php/topic,16759.0.html
October 1, 200816 yr That Paris building is very Montreal, indeed. "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
October 27, 2024Oct 27 all about the interesting redevelopment of the eole-evangile triangle — ÉOLE-ÉVANGILE ‒ PARIS'S FIRST ZERO-EMISSIONS NEIGHBORHOOD THE PROJECT UPGRADES A FORMER INDUSTRIAL SITE IN THE 19TH ARRONDISSEMENT … Conceived as a large-scale community garden, the Éole-Évangile new real-estate development stands in a strategic position in the 19th arrondissement, between the RER railway lines, the Petite Ceinture tracks, and the Rue d'Aubervilliers road, which connects existing neighborhoods with the new ZAC Macdonald (Macdonald Planned Development Zone). Located near Paris's Périphérique ring road, Parc de la Villetteand the future Condorcet university campus, the project area features a high degree of accessibility, which will soon be further increased thanks to the Grand Paris Express metropolitan network. Before the design competition was called by Paris's administration and won by TVK in 2016, the site today occupied by Éole-Évangile stood derelict. After the La Villette gas works closed, back in 1955, only the brick hall ‒ still today present on the site ‒ bore witness to the area's industrial past. The project by TVK marks its rebirth, creating 118 real-estate units, offices, a 130-room hotel, a youth hostel and a 164-unit student residence, as well as 159 homes for young workers. more: https://www.theplan.it/eng/architecture/ole-vangile-pariss-first-zero-emissions-neighborhood
May 14May 14 I took the picture below back in September 2024. Night and day progress in those 8 months!
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