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Edouard VII district

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An impressive and delicate renovation.

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Project

Edouard VII district

Client

Sogeprom

Program

Restructuring of office buildings, housing, theaters. Creation of a conference center, hotel residences and shops

Location

Paris 9°, France

Delivery

1999

surface area

100,000 m²

Architects

Bechu & Associés
Associated Architect : Urquijo / Macola / Valle

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It is by relying on history that the heart of the block will be redesigned.

Six years will be necessary to deliver the 100,000 m² of this impressive and delicate renovation. It is by relying on history that the heart of the block will be redesigned where new green spaces, courtyards and squares will bring back light to reoxygenate them.
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Rue Édouard VII will be returned to the city by becoming a communication axis protected from urban nuisances.

While the hotels on rue Caumartin and the Haussmannian facades of the boulevard will be restored, rue Édouard VII – regaining the spirit of the grand boulevards – will be returned to the city by becoming a communication axis protected from urban nuisances. The reasoned superposition of the geometric layouts of Aubert (18th century), Haussmann (19th century) and Nénot (1911) reorders the space by hierarchizing it to generate a city within the city. Coach passages and Parisian courtyards ensure the temporal and spatial transition between styles, heritage and modernity, public and private domains, each sliding one over the other, from one to the other.
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The new interior constructions complete and continue the history by transcribing in a current language the architectural elements inherited from the pas.

In the same spirit, the new interior constructions complete and continue the history by transcribing in a current language the architectural elements inherited from the past: stone beds, projecting bodies, organization of base, mezzanine, floors and crownings (more contemporary).

Molding and horizontal cornices reinterpreted in negative; ceiling height decreasing from noble floors to more free attic ones as they are set back; roofs with elliptical curve adorned with prompter's box dormers; rotunda recovering an old staircase... Now housing 70 apartments and a hotel residence, 36,000 m² of offices and 8,000 m² of shops, a conference center and an inter-company restaurant, a theater and a music hall, 560 parking spaces and an underground coach park, this project demonstrates that preserving is also transforming.

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