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Jean Nouvel’s ’’Duo Towers’’ will be new comic strips of Paris

United Kingdom Architecture News - Jul 07, 2015 - 09:49   11519 views

Jean Nouvel’s ’’Duo Towers’’ will be new comic strips of Paris

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Jean Nouvel designs a new iconic twin-towers of Paris. This new mixed-used building complex will be a new ''comic strips'' in the Bruneseau-Masséna district of Paris. After Hezog &de Meuron's ''Triangle'' approve, Paris gains a new characteristic building in the eastern border of the Bruneseau-Masséna.

On April 24th 2012, Ateliers Jean Nouvel qualified for the Duo project initiated by investors Ivanhoe Cambridge and the client Hines. The project includes a mixed-use building complex with offices, hotel, retail stores surfacing 105.250 sq meters on the BA3 plot in the Bruneseau-Masséna district situated within the urban development project "Paris-Rive gauche".

Jean Nouvel’s ’’Duo Towers’’ will be new comic strips of Paris

situation plan

The B3A plot with a surface area of 8.800 sq meters is situated on the eastern border of the Bruneseau-Masséna. It is lined in the east side by the circular boulevard and in the south side by the railway network of the train station Paris-Austerlitz. The project consists of two towers: a 180 meters high office tower with retrail stores on the ground floor and another tower approximatively 120 meters high ment to house a hotel as well as retail stores and offices. According to the studio, works are due to begin early 2014.

Jean Nouvel’s ’’Duo Towers’’ will be new comic strips of Paris

Jean Nouvel’s ’’Duo Towers’’ will be new comic strips of Paris

Jean Nouvel’s ’’Duo Towers’’ will be new comic strips of Paris

Jean Nouvel’s ’’Duo Towers’’ will be new comic strips of Paris

Jean Nouvel’s ’’Duo Towers’’ will be new comic strips of Paris

Jean Nouvel’s ’’Duo Towers’’ will be new comic strips of Paris

Jean Nouvel’s ’’Duo Towers’’ will be new comic strips of Paris

Jean Nouvel’s ’’Duo Towers’’ will be new comic strips of Paris

Jean Nouvel’s ’’Duo Towers’’ will be new comic strips of Paris

Jean Nouvel’s ’’Duo Towers’’ will be new comic strips of Paris

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