Dominique Perrault Architecture shared with us their winning proposal in the international architecture competition launched by General Electric Capital Real Estate for the requalification of the Pont de Sèvres Towers. Their design response, which could at first appear minimalist, proposes a luminous landmark for one of the most ambitious programs in the service sector of the Western Paris area. More images and architects’ description after the break.
Citylights expresses contemporary urban signatures, but also unites with the surrounding metropolis which is gradually building up. Through a non-historicist practice of architecture, Dominique Perrault preserves and completes the existing devices to establish Citylights in the geographic reality of a transforming territory. He keeps a certain attachment to the strong geometry of the towers, to the variable heights and layout of the floors. This geometric severity contributes paradoxically to the modernity of the architecture, which today tends to favor the biomorphic all too often.
