Place-making at the Madeleine
Place-making at the Madeleine
h2o architectes
Building Books, December 2020
Paperback | 6-3/4 x 9-1/2 inches | 80 pages | 73 illustrations | French/English | ISBN: 9782956781561 | 19 ?
PUBLISHER'S DESCRIPTION:
Place de la Madeleine conjures up images of delicious confectionery and other fine foodstuffs as well as illustrious funerals. With a tight budget and many constraints, h2o architectes have pulled off a major use revolution at the Madeleine by giving back 4,500 square metres to pedestrians?a huge gain of 40% that was achieved almost by stealth, no opportunity having been lost to claw back space from the automobile. What, therefore, in the context of that hyper-dense urbanity could be a finer gift to Parisians than the one thing they almost never encounter: flexible open space in its purest form" h2o architectes, founded by Charlotte Hubert, Jean-Jacques Hubert and Antoine Santiard, is a Paris-based firm working on projects of various types and scales, from housing to public space and cultural facilities. The office is dedicated to architectural, heritage and urban creation and reprogramming.
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One of the most memorable images in Openings, the monograph on Paris's h2o architectes, is a photograph showing models of straight and curved benches stacked on platforms and inserted into a box as if they are drawers. The benches are green, like most standard benches in many cities around the world, but they are curved, reminiscent o...
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