The problem of the building is the Main structure is too much robert stern! The plastic shape, looks really great, the problem is to be too much Facade, and that idea don’t be continue all over the building…but it is easy explained because the fact, it’s a restore, and the old structure is used to control the costs.
But, without being any kind of masterpiece it’s is for sure a great building, and for who, you said that it is “one more bad building by the Seine”, I can’t stop thinking what river got better on his edges? In a Distance from here of two Km you got the Library of France of Perrault, in the other side the house of cinema of Frank Gehry, …and you got also the faculty of architecture of Frederic Borel, and the Institute of Arabian World of Nouvel…saying just the most relevant..