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Terms and conditions apply11-21 Rue dAlsace, Paris: Conversion of a Parisian Building
Muriel Gremillett
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Format: Book
Pages: 144
Publisher: Les Archives d'Architecture Moderne
Date Published: Jun 2009
Stock Code: 67030
Binding: Paperback
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Its the story of a renaissance. The renaissance of a building nestling up against the Gare de lEst, a building which, in its architects imagination, was to express the might of the newly established Eastern Railways Company. Over the years, this railway city has fallen into disrepair and has been cut off from its surrounding district. That is, until today, some two years after renovation work began, following the SNCFs sale of the building in June 2006 to the Commissioners of Works, Atemi, and ING Real Estate.
Here the work carried the added demand of respecting the building's history, which located between the Gare de l'Esr and Gare du Nord and spread over 25,000sqm symbolised the forward looking aspirations of SNCF and French Railway. The architect, Anthony Bchu, was given the task of renovating the edifice without betraying its history, of giving new life to 11-21 rue dAlsace in its original colours: the pale pink tones of the brickwork, the blue of the decoration punctuating its faade. The renovation also included the re-creation of a glass roof in its original location, a new pedestrian passage, a street between the Gare du Nord and the Gare de lEst and the installation of the worlds largest private hanging garden. A renaissance completed in Autumn 2008.
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