19 Feb 2015
Brisac Gonzalez get green light on Paris urban development project
BY Alice Davis
London-based architecture practice Brisac Gonzalez has received planning permission for a multi-million dollar mixed-use project in Paris, France.
Developer Paris Habitat – France’s biggest public housing agency – is building the residential and leisure complex in the 17th arrondissement of Paris in Clichy-Batignolles. It’s part of the first phase of a wider urban development project where a new 54-hectare (133-acre) eco-district is being constructed on the former railway site of Les Batignolles.
Brisac Gonzalez’s design for the £28m (US$43m, €38m) complex includes a 3,200sqm (34,444sq ft) sports centre with a gymnasium of three sports rooms, 60-unit apartment block, primary school and retail. A further residential building is being designed by Paris-based Antoine Regnault Architecture.
The Clichy-Batignolles eco-district combines a diverse variety of social housing designed by French architecture firms, with ample public parks and leisure space.
A highlight will be the 10-hectare (124-acre) Martin Luther King Park, designed by Atelier Jacqueline Osty and Atelier François Grether. The park features "high-quality landscaping and sports facilities with a symbolic focus on the seasons, the human body and water,” according to the Clichy-Batignolles brief.
The urban development also features an entertainment and leisure cluster – with a 7-screen cinema, plus leisure, retail and cultural spaces – developed by Sodearif + Nexity and designed by TVK + Tolila Gilliland.
The entire Clichy-Batignolles development is expected to be completed by 2018/2019.
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