Tour Horizons - Boulogne-Billancourt (Hauts-de-Seine), France
N 48° 49.666 E 002° 14.114
31U E 443870 N 5408591
[FR] Le projet a été annoncé en juillet 2006, à l'issue d'un concours remporté par les Ateliers Jean Nouvel. [EN] This project was announced in July of 2006, following a contest in which Ateliers Jean Nouvel was selected.
Waymark Code: WMWP0K
Location: Île-de-France, France
Date Posted: 09/24/2017
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[FR] « Horizons » propose une nouvelle vision de l’immeuble de bureau, c’est un concept de « non tour », il s’agit plutôt d’une stratification, d’un empilement, prétexte à inventer des terrasses, des horizons fictifs, à contraster, à révéler des différences : diversités, interférences avec la nature, dialogues à distance avec la colline Saint-Cloud, révéler l’intention d’habiter quelque part, différemment de son voisin. L’individu qui travaille ici n’est pas considéré comme un numéro, Horizons a été conçu dans l’espoir que l’architecture traduise le respect de chacun et puisse donner à ceux qui la vivent des petits plaisirs, de lumières, de vues, de cadrages, plaisirs souvent oubliés ou considérés comme superflus. C’est peu de choses mais lier plaisir et travail est aujourd’hui trop rare.
[EN] From the website www.jeannouvel.com
"Horizons" proposes a new way of looking at an office tower. This “non tower” is about stratification, about stacking, about finding reasons to invent terraces, fictitious horizons, contrasts, about revealing references, diversities, interferences with nature, a distant dialogue with Saint-Cloud hillside. The intention is for people to feel that the place where they live or work is a specific place that is different from their neighbor’s place. The people who will use this building are not numbers. Horizons has been conceived in the hope that architecture can mean respecting individualities and can offer individual users small pleasures with light, framed views, pleasures often forgotten or considered unnecessary. It is a small gesture but today opportunities for mixing work with pleasure have become rare.
Architect: Jean Nouvel
Prize received: Pritzker Architecture Prize
In what year: 2008
Website about the Architect: [Web Link]
Website about the building: [Web Link]
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