Explore the redevelopment of a 130 hectare former industrial and train track area in the Southeast of the city between the Bibliotheque Nationale and the new University of Paris Diderot campus. The Paris of the future is being invented and new ways to build a dense city are under way in what is seen as the new university neighborhood.
Bibliothèque Nationale
The icon of the new urban zone Paris Rive Gauche, offers a wide-open space with a view of the Seine within its four towers that metaphorically represent open books.
New developments of the Seine and Social Housing projects
We stop in front of new developments of the Seine borders such as the new Simone de Beauvoir Bridge by Dietmar Feichtinger or the Institut de la Mode et du Design by Jacob & MacFarlane and see the evolution of social housing projects in Christian de Portzamparc’s open block quartier.
New university campus
New constructions and the renovations of the old mills of Paris by Rudy Riciotti and Nicolas Michelin are at the heart of the new Paris Diderot University.
High Rise buildings
The end of the Avenue de France and the new projects by Hammonic et Masson, Edouard Francois and Jean Nouvel : the “Duo Towers” are in planning.
The Pavillon de l’Arsenal
presents the history and actuality of Parisian Architecture and Urban-planning. It shows the evolution of Paris over the centuries, its current development and its future projects on the scale of the street, the city and the neighborhood.