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Villejuif Gustave Roussy Station / Dominique Perrault Architecture

Pilar Caballero — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 07:00:00 +0000

The Villejuif-Gustave Roussy Station aims to erase the threshold between the open public space and the closed space of the station by blurring the limits of the city. Its helicoidal architecture on the surface exerts a centripetal force on the urban fabric which draws it towards the space that has been completed underground. The large concrete cylinder with its molded wall, flooded with light, is traversed, and enlivened by footbridges and escalators. Here, the sky of this inverted skyscraper is simply the ground level of the city. Natural light pours all the way down to the platforms located some fifty meters below. The sky is above the railways. This exposed infrastructure is given maximum visibility and incorporates the logic of construction. The architectural layout is part of the urban cityscape. By erasing in the ground and prolonging uses and views between the surface and the subterranean domain, it unifies the vertical dynamics of access to the transport network. The architectural treatment transfigures this infrastructure now become architecture. Without walls or façade, the architecture of this station sunken into the ground is not in opposition to the city or anything else. It frees the horizon and disappears from the urban silhouette, swallowing up with it then bit of sky. - Dominique Perrault, 2024

Albi Grand Theater / Dominique Perrault Architecture

Karen Valenzuela — Sat, 14 Dec 2019 17:00:00 +0000

The Albi Grand Theatre is going to transform the texture of the city as well as its cultural influence. This building appears as an outstanding architectural symbol, on the outskirts of the historic centre. We have given priority to the presence of the Grand Theatre instead of the cinemas, in order to organize around it a network of public spaces and of cultural facilities. The Grand Theatre will be its centre.

Dominique Perrault's Crystalline Glass Scheme Wins Competition for Underground Multi-Modal Hub in Seoul

Patrick Lynch — Wed, 01 Nov 2017 16:30:00 +0000

Dominique Perrault Architecture has been selected as the winner of an international competition to design the Gangnam International Transit Center, a new multimodal hub and shopping center located in the heart of Seoul, South Korea.

New Mechanics Hall - ME Building / Dominique Perrault Architecture

Fernanda Castro — Thu, 12 May 2016 03:00:00 +0000

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The Pont de Sèrves Towers – Citylights Renovation / Dominique Perrault Architecture

Diego Hernández — Tue, 05 Apr 2016 02:00:00 +0000

The Pont de Sèvres Towers, renamed Citylights following a complete restructuring, were built in 1975 by architects Badani and Roux-Dorlut. Bearing witness to the era’s architectural modernity, they stood high and dense in the midst of a barren urban territory. The restructuring turned this sense of “isolation” into an asset, on a socio-economic as well as an urban level. The project we conducted is a renovation, re-structuring and an unveiling of the towers’ self-evident resources.

Piazza Garibaldi / Dominique Perrault Architecture

Karen Valenzuela — Mon, 01 Sep 2014 00:00:00 +0000

Located in Naples, the Piazza Garibaldi, designed by Dominique Perrault Architecture, is one of the most important and complex transportation hubs in the Neapolitan transportation system. This infrastructure project, which includes a metro station, offers the opportunity to upgrade this lively urban space bustling with activity. More images and architects’ description after the break.

DC Towers I / Dominique Perrault Architecture

Cristian Aguilar — Fri, 28 Feb 2014 01:00:00 +0000

When an architect delivers a building it is always an extremely emotional moment, marked by the end of a long process of mediation, from absolute potentiality of early sketches to fine tuning in situ of final details. An actor, for a time, in the endless development of territories, the architect exits the scene. He hands over the controls to those he has been working for. This is the moment when architecture transitions from the intellectual, conceptual state to the fundamentally physical and real.

Palais des sports de Rouen / Dominique Perrault Architecture

Daniel Sánchez — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 01:00:00 +0000

The functions are very clearly distinguished. Sports areas are situated in the central part of the building, the reception space is in the south wing of the building along the Lillebonne Street and the administrative and services areas in the north wing. There are two sports halls with flexible seating capacity for up to 6 000 and 864 people respectively.

Olympic Tennis Centre / Dominique Perrault Architecture

Sebastian J — Fri, 18 May 2012 01:00:00 +0000

In the prospect of being a candidate for staging the Olympic Games in 2016, the Spanish capital has begun a campaign to build spectacular facilities among the Olympic Tennis Centre. Working in an indistinct peripheral area, the issue at stake was not so much to design a building as to stage manage architectureand invent scenery.

La Liberté / Dominique Perrault Architecture

Nico Saieh — Thu, 03 May 2012 01:00:00 +0000

“La Liberté”, social housing and office building, has been realized within a constant collaboration between the client, the architect and the City of Groningen.

Hotel ME Barcelona / Dominique Perrault Architecture

Sebastian J — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 00:00:00 +0000

Designed for the Habitat group in Barcelona and now managed by ME, this hotel integrates the two dimensions that compose the identity of the Catalonian capital: the horizontality of its grid, legacy of the Cerdà plan, extending all the way to the sea, and its dynamic verticality exemplified by the Sagrada Familia and Mount Tibidabo looming over the sight.

Ewha Womans University / Dominique Perrault Architecture

Sebastian J — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 00:00:00 +0000

Engineering: Perrault Projets, Paris (Architectural Engineers); VP&Green Ingenerie, Paris (Structural Engineers); HL-PP Consult, Munich (Building Services); Jean-Paul Lamoureux, Paris (Acoustic), Rache-Willms, Aix-la-Chapelle (Facades)

Court of Justice of the European Communities / Dominique Perrault Architecture

Diego Hernandez — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 00:00:00 +0000

Invited to create a new extension and to triple the Court’s capacity from 50,000 sq metres (538,195 sq ft) to 150,000 sq metres (1.6 million sq ft), Perrault’s challenge was not only to increase space but also to give harmony to a building that had already been extended three times. First inaugurated in 1973, when the European Community included only six member countries, the Court of Justice was extended in 1988, 1993 and 1994. As Perrault saw it, the scheme’s challenge was threefold: functional, urban and institutional.

Fukoku Tower / Dominique Perrault Architecture

Sebastian J — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 00:00:00 +0000

This tower project for the Fukoku insurance company takes inspiration from the profile of a gigantic tree whose roots proliferate on the surface of the ground. Splayed at its base, the tower’s outline tapers elegantly as it rises, gracing the city’s skyline with a vertical asymptote. The contrast between the structure’s base and upper regions is accentuated by the treatment of the building’s “bark”.

AD Classics: National Library of France / Dominique Perrault Architecture

David Langdon — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 00:00:00 +0000

On the banks of the river Seine, just east of the Île de la Cité and downtown Paris, stand the four glittering towers of the National Library of France. Bent around the outskirts of a public esplanade, these towers are Dominique Perrault’s modern take on the age-old Parisian tradition of monumental public architecture. The project is both volume and void, enclosure and exposure, a juxtaposition of contrasting ideas that is as reverent of its place in a thousand-year-old legacy as it is deliberately self-critical.