Triangle Tower Project in PARIS
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How and why to justify a project derogatory with PLU ?
What real interest for the Parisians?
and for the Exhibition Center at the Porte de Versailles (PARIS EXPO)?
How this Triangle Tower project correspond to a desire of Parisians to see towers as new buildings?
The majority of the Parisians when they were consulted were against the erection of towers in Paris.
Why dismembering the exhibition site in the middle, (at all costs) while claiming to reinforce it?
The organization proposed by the City requires to separate the soil and the contracts between the exhibition site on the one hand and the Triangle project on the other hand, which are entrusted by contract to distinct entities, which disallow any coherence overall in the restoration and the later operation of the park, and leaves the city responsible and debtor of all the problems and risks of interfaces, of multiple constraints and inaccuracy in the contracts!
How the creation of surfaces of offices does take part in the functions, the viability and the perenniality of the Exhibition site?
The Tower Triangle will cut down by 6,000 m2 Hall 1 of the Exhibition site in Paris.
That is the destruction of an existing surface 10 times greater than the projected Atrium (600 m2).
The surface of the park reduced by the basis of the tower is 7600 m² at which must apparently be added a service road to be created, 12 m wide along the entire length.
In addition the creation of the garden of 8,000 m², part of which is already in the public domain of the road will reduce the surface area of6000 m² more.
5 000 jobs created by the Triangle Tower?
The construction of surfaces of offices, even modern ones, to the amount of 5 000 work stations, does not create any extra job in Paris region.
This sales argument proposed in particular by Mrs. Hidalgo is particularly fallacious, and emblematic of communication approach at the political level.
At the best, one can hope for, bring back to Paris some employment which would have found place in many recent constructions of offices within Issy-lès-Moulineaux, or avoid the renovation of offices more easily accessible in the center of Paris, .
The phase of work financed on the investment will create a non perennial activity, temporarily, but for the profit of industry outside Paris and essentially non-Parisian workers.
Also given the convention of balance, signed with the State, office space unaccompanied by housing is constrained, the offices of Triangle Tour are not additional offices, but offices not built elsewhere in the city!
How this building will improve transport, traffic and parking conditions at the Porte de Versailles?
Only 300 parking lots would be envisaged, as announced during the briefing of September 1, 2011, a doubling compared to the preliminary draft.
"La volonté de la Ville est de réduire autant que possible le nombre de places de stationnement dans le projet Triangle pour inciter l'usage des transports publics." (Enquiry file)
Which contribution to the installation of the logistics of the Park to decrease the harmful effects with the residents?
Coach parking Avenue Ernest Renan (Mayors 2011).
"Opération Triangle" Private project?
Why present as a private project, a project which answer an irrepressible desire of the Mayor, but that he cannot finance on finances of the city,
which do not meet the needs for the operator of the Park (until 2026), operator who does not propose to carry it out (with its expenses), because it does not have either nor the need for it, nor the means,
project which can be done only with the will and the complicity of the City?
project which requires the intervention of an external investor without competition, the dismemberment of the surface of the Exhibition site, and the anticipated questioning (because of the Prince) of the concession in progress.
This project is private only by the source of funding, which augurs nothing in the public interest, by the privacy of users tenants to find, the possibilities of gains for the private developer in the event of possible resale to an unknown investor.
Private project, a transaction, "which costs nothing to Parisians", half of the area in question is performed by the City and at his expense. (8000 m² treated as garden cf. Investigation file)
Private project which the contracting authority of the revision of the PLU is Town Hall (source investigation commissioner).
This operation can not be done without the fierce determination of the City or at least the benevolent complicity of the municipal team.
An illusory symbolic system for the international appeal of the Exhibition site! 三角塔 个金字塔在巴黎 هرم في باريس Pirámide de París
The 7 million annual visitors are Parisian, "françiliens", provincial or foreign.
The French will come to Paris, and will not arbitrate with Milan, Birmingham, Vienna, Barcelona or Frankfurt.
The foreigners will come especially for international professional exhibition which have undoubtedly often vocation to be held in Villepinte, nearer to CDG the airport of international arrival, and modernity mark of the Capital.
If they have some time left, they will come to Paris to see the Eiffel Tower….
As for the exhibitors or organizers of exhibition, will they choose a site because it will be in the shade of a high-rise office building?
Even if it's the 307th project in the world (2006) of a well known cabinet of architect ?
An architectural gesture inappropriate in this location for the Exhibition Centre!
The monumental entrance of the Porte de Versailles marked by four towers carrying banners inscribed with the inventory of historical monuments and refurbished, will be totally optically crushed for visitors walking on arrival by public transport, by the building proposed, both by its height, its massive appearance and proximity.
This is not a distant signal, that the park needs to signal its location far and facilitate orientation at the time of modern travel by public transport, often underground, or automotive with GPS.
At greater distance, and especially in the international aspect, it is only the image reproduced on posters, on screens,that appeals, for its originality, as the stadium of Beijing or the Tower of Belem and not by its height .
The principle of strong symbolic marking the entrance to the park by the arc of a circle formed by these four elements will be called into question.
The creation of a new public path dessserte, complete to blur the meaning.
For the visitor, the Hall 1 will be provided with a greatly reduced inlet passage, inappropriate at major events (Auto, Agriculture, Foire de Paris).
What is the real goal and contents of this project?
Expected recovery of business tax, for the Town hall of Paris, in an activity other than exhibition grounds, the building being judiciously located in the Parisian part of the park?
But does the business tax (taxe professionelle) still exist?
Vanity of municipal officials for a free symbol, a guarantee of re-election?
Private speculative financial transactions of an international group that has a little earlyer to 2008 joined Viparis Porte de Versailles and sell a good price office buildings in the heart Defence to Lehman Brothers before its bankruptcy?
Dialogue, criticism and controversy:
What hidden agenda for the future of the Exhibition site of the Porte de Versailles? (Paris 15)
A park that some already see rather privileging the behaviour of congress than of large .
“At the conclusion of the restoration, the Exhibition site could become a park of congress or exhibitions with much less harmful effects”, underlined, as a conclusion, at the meeting of September 1 Philippe Goujon, mayor of XVème district of Paris.
It is the hardly buckled advertisement of the programmed disappearance of the great emblematic demonstrations, the Exhibition of agriculture, the Fair of Paris, the World Exhibition of the Car, the Nautical trade fair, relegated to Villepinte, accessible by car or by the RER only, to the detriment from the Parisian habitants and the finances of the city?
The obligation of the operator to accomodate the two important demonstrations that are the Fair of Paris and the Exhibition of Agriculture belongs to the points that the Mayor considers explicitly and briskly to call into question in the motivesof denunciation of the current concession of 1987, thus authorizing the reduction and the reassignment of surfaces.
What made Unibail Rodamco of the CNIT accessible by the subway?
Why doesn't the building have the initial destination envisaged, any more, but the project is, however, maintained in its identical original form?
The 400 rooms luxury hotel and convention facilities originally intended are no longer considered in the Triangle Tower,
The total area remains unchanged, and consists of 95% in offices. Result of the public consultation?
Operation Triangle: no housing, no housing
There is no question, and was never intended to build homes, this type of building being hardly adapted to it in ecological and economic conditions.
How to obtain best profitability for the operator?
No housing, thus no constraint of minimal share of social housing .
No housing thus no minimal constraint of parking lot (1/100 m2).
No (or little) of carpark thus less investment per m2 of office.
88,000 m² of offices and 1,500 m² of trade at the ground floor
Which height for the project (Giant Pyramid Herzog & de Meuron)?
180 m in height, almost as high as the Montparnasse tower
In his initial dash the architect dreamed of 211 m in order to exceed the Montparnasse Tower.
At 180 m the triangle is in fact a Trapezoid!
The current tower that one sees on the left, cylinder mirror of elliptic section, is 68.50 m high, for a twenty-story and 600 people,(IGH of 21.257 m² SHON) built in 1977 (and initially associated with a twin tower according to the architectural common places of the time) was limited in height compared to the preliminary draft (33 levels) by the same Minister, Robert Galley, moving from defence to town planning.
At the time of the second phase of realization, the ministry for defence (Pierre Joxe) gave up the construction of such a great height building, taking into account the constraints of safety for the IGH and the corresponding ownership costs (permanent team firemen) and a low building (C) in arc of circle was substituted.
The initial building is currently in major restoration (already at the end of 30 years!).
The reduction to 180 m of the Triangle project is also probably intended to avoid the classification as ITGH: very great height building. Constitute a very great height building, any body of building whose low floor of the last level is located at more than 200 meters compared to the level of the highest usable ground, for the machines of the public services of help and fire control.
No, helicopters are not a problem! ?
The VFR route south of Paris at low altitude, very busy along the peripheral areas of the old fortifications, usually not built, for reasons of safety and noise abatement, leaving as much as possible Vanves and Issy homes to the south and to the north Paris homes at the same distance.
Which side will change the paths to the detriment of local residents?
The location of the Triangle Tower is located in the clearance of the airport of Issy les Moulineaux (Paris) with the corresponding card set to PLU and accessible on the Internet, is not attached to the investigation file .
A project much heavier than the Eiffel Tower!!
The Eiffel tower weighs 7,000 T, how much weighs a tower of 92,500 m2 floors (SHON)?
130,000 tons for Tour Montparnasse.
The Eiffel Tower constituted an unequaled technological exploit at its time, was justified within the framework of a World Fair, was conceded for one limited time and remained dis-mountable.
Incidentally it is allowed to note that Unibail-Rodamco owns 8% of the operating company and that its representative within the board of directors meets there the representatives of the city.
Work of foundation envisages piles of 35 m depth and 2 m in diameter under the 4 floors of basements.
What commitment and guarantee to dismantle the Tower Triangle is underwritten by the sponsoring company?
The concession of the Eiffel Tower would not run until 1969!
To which entity may be subscribed in a credible way such a guarantee to a 80 years horizon?
What responsibility for our municipal officials in the long-term management of the heritage of the City?
During the September 1st meeting, a complete absence of awakening about the long run was expressed, without reserve… Which use for the town of such a building (in which state) 80 years from now?
What compensation to be poured in the event of an anticipated rupture (as for the Park)?
The reversibility of the presence of such a carcass in the sky of Paris is not easy.
Whereas the removal of the garden, of the nursery, reallocation of commercial space, the closing or the prohibitory pricing of the view-point for technical or safety reason is obviously easy.
What "Skyline" !
Tour Eiffel Tour Bouygue(Issy) Pullman, F, A Tour Triangle Tour Montparnasse
View from the Terrace of Meudon, or hiding the day facade behind the gates of the Lycée Michelet.
Which financial guarantee or clause of protection in the event of bankruptcy of the sponsoring company Unibail-Rodamco?
Which guarantee in the event of a stop in the course of construction?
Apparently the only security required in the protocol is that of the company Unibail-Rodamco.
How the City can dispose of land without partially renegotiating or denouncing the current concession of the Exhibition site, which runs until 2026 and under which conditions?
Is this the reason for the anticipated termination of the running concession being announced now(07/2011)?
Can one compare the Triangle project with the project Balardgone/Hexagone?
in nearby sectors and at close dates:
| Porte de Versailles | Balard |
| 2017 | 2014 |
| triangle project | Hexagonal Balardgone//Pentagon "à la française" |
| Private initiative (?) | public initiative |
| Modification of PLU | without modification (or almost) |
| 180 m even 211 m | Respect from the height limit at 25m/37m.
(43 m for natural ventilation). |
| Perception of a moderate rent | payment of a rent corresponding with use: 130 million euros per annum (incl. services) |
| Duration of the concession 80 years | Restitution to the State at the end of 30 years.(60 years for 'West Horn'). |
| No later need or use planned for the City | Offices for the Ministry for Defence |
| 5000 people | 10.000 people (+ 5000) |
| 535 million € | 600 million € |
| Unibail-Rodamco | Opale Défense :
financial
34 % CDC contrôle étatique
...
33 % industrial (Bouygues, Sodhexo, Thalès, Dalkia ..) |
| ?? | 7.700 m² photo-voltaïc pannels to produce 10 MWhep/Y |
What is the actual content of the Memorandum of Understanding with the City (not found on Paris.fr)?
The text of the Protocol, heralded as available online (paris.fr), in response to a specific and explicit question at the meeting of September 1st, seems in fact not accessible!
Seek protocol of the Triangle tower between the Town of Paris and Viparis or the SCI Tour Triangle
Seek Paris.fr site about the protocol of the Triangle tower
The only elements available are those of the deliberation of the council of Paris.
who mentions
I thus propose to you to authorize the signature of the draft-agreement annexed to the present project of deliberation, as well as the deposit of application for permits building and other authorizations necessary to the realization of this project.
Except that the appendix does not appear in the document on line on the website of the city ......
But became accessible on line if seeking well…
How was made the choice of the company Unibail-Rodamco? (partner within Viparis)
Apparently without competition nor invitation to tender.
Aren't these possible good reasons also applicable to the questioning of the concession of the Park?
Which link with the role of the Unibail company in the restoration of "Les Halles" ?
A very interesting link on the vision of the customers tenants of Unibail and the possibilities that offers to the Town hall, lease for construction and denunciation before term of concession,
The blog of the tradesmen tenants of Unibail-Rodamco: plain-against-uni.over-blog
The press articles from association accomplir
Same methods of negotiation do they have course?
Will it be necessary tomorrow (30 years from now) to alienate the ground also to finance an expensive restoration?
Why push this project now, regardless of a renovation of the park which is now announced, as well as a challenge in advance of the concession?
This maneuver having for result the freezing during present term of office of the decisions affecting the very long term and thus the possibility to negotiate now compensations of any kind.
Considering separately the two projects does not make sense, the presence of the Tower limiting the freedom of approach in the possibilities of renovating the exhibition center at the Porte de Versailles, especially since the construction of such a building is collateralized by the area of the park, either at ceiling level density, shade, energy efficiency.
Which is the nature of the financing and its consequences?
budget of investment: 535 million euros net of tax according to Unibail (in 2011).
lease with 80 years construction, “with a share fixes of 2 million euros per annum, and a variable share from 2,5 to 4 million”
How to analyze the subscription of a new concession and the compensation envisaged in term for assessment of company, possibility of debt, financial engineering and banking financing?
Which guarantees the City did have to concede and which engagements to subscribe, which risks to insure?
What is the counterpart for the City?
A thin rent of a few million euros annual, corresponding to a very weak share (10%?) of rents corresponding to the usable surface of the building, whereas in Paris it is the pressure of land which is dominating in the costs.
That means that it is the City, that, by waiving his ground rent actually finances the work on credit .
Which motivations for the decision makers?
Symbolic? financial? why such a support of Anne Hidalgo and Bertrand Delanoë in particular?
Our admiration of the money? Our love of the market?
Today, that do we want to tell by rise in the sky in a stacking in offices occupied by business firms and deprived?
According to Denis Dessus, vice-president of the National council of the architects in an article of "Le Monde"
Why this symbol? What does it mean?
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why a triangular or pyramidal tower?
How to build 92,500 m2 out of 7,600 m2 of ground without profiting from exorbitant prerogatives?
In the same district of 15th on a private ground, are in construction 7,500 m2 of residences for 3,126 m2 of ground and the realization of 55 parking lots.
How to mingle the impossible to circumvent modification of PLU with completely independent operations?
A presentation with the Balard operation of the ministry for defence, and the replanning of the (river)banks is organized in Town hall, in particular 15th district during the 2 usual months of holidays of the Parisian inhabitants!
What reality for the proclaimed ecological concerns?
The energy assessment seems to be able to be reached only by global calculation on the level of the exhibition site.
For the restoration of the Park, the evoked vegetalized cover and the photovoltaic panels (pretexts) will be in the shade of the Tower!
During the recent restorations, however, of the East part hall 5 for example), none of these concerns was implemented.
How to present as pros, a creation of green area (8.000 m2) which is only the reduction in the usable surface of the Exhibition site and the removal of an existing photovoltaic roof (BP station), completely independent of the construction of the building?
This is an additional concession of the City to make pass the work, but which could just as easily be decided independently.
At the time of this project, a public garden of approximately 8.000 m2 located along the boulevard Victor will be arranged by the City by using, for a part, of-way taken from the logistics base of the Park and, for another part, of-way currently located on the public domain of roadway system.
Moreover this green area will be in the shade of the once built Tower!
This disappearance of open space for the exhibitors in front of Hall 1, will harm the attraction of the Exhibition site for certain demonstrations, nautical trade fair, houses of wood etc, which will be seen (early or late) relegated to Villepinte, with the detriment of Paris, and Parisian but not of the Viparis operator (or other) which manages the two places!
Finally it is not a question of a clear creation of green area, since the displacement of the logistic zone which was established there, towards the side-walks of the avenue de la porte d'Issy, condemns the access of the public to this space, currently open and shaded and completely released except periods of exhibition where it ensures the functions of carpark for visitors or exhibitors.
Moreover, when reviewing the PLU it is not even ranked in the green area (P15-16)!
How the purpose of the dialogue is to dress up and justify the project, meeting other needs?
Project with variable geometry:
Lowering from 211 m to 180 m for less shocking height, at the risk to denature the architectural gesture.
Addition of a garden to make pass the pill to the ecological sensitivities.
Nursery daycare of 25 places…
View-points accessible to the public thanks to a panoramic elevator, but giving a commanding view of nearby buildings and attracting a flood of additional tourists, announced but subjected to complementary technical studies and the safety and security constraints.
Suppression of the hotel and spaces of congress (initial justification) due to problematic profitability (or envisaged as the same justification for one second phase of renovation!).
Addition of retail space on ground floor, to connect Paris and Issy, but which do not requires at all to build a Tower.
Resumption of the luxury hotel and convention space under a new independent project of renovation with new (?) operator whereas the Triangle project is locked without competition with the current one or his emanation.
And now (11/2011), justification of the operation, not by enhancing the activity of the park, but by diversifying the business district in a different activity!
Operation Triangle is deliberately conceived to violate the existing approved local plan of town planning.
The absence of objection or reserve shows the contempt in which the municipal team holds the rules of town planning, which since Haussmann made the beauty and the harmony of the City.
Obtaining an exemption from the ceiling of 25 m and 37 m will constitute a generalizable precedent.
Changing the PLU includes not only exceeding the heights, for which only an attempted justification through an architectural gesture may be seeked but also other key issues that do not:
The change in PLU of the urban area UGSU (large urban service areas) that commit use as fairgrounds and prohibits housing and offices in the urban area UG that permits offices, is the way chosen to make the project profitable.
There is no lack of UG in the vicinity, the Park area is surrounded by areas of this type.
This is in no way modernity, nor beauty, nor an architectural gesture or international symbolic one, all cities have offices, while few have parks exhibit of this size downtown.
Moreover the area extracted along is not in an area under-employed or unusable, but the heart, and the more valuable because the better served by public transportation.
How to justify such a revision of the PLU? exorbitant and unjust!
The allocation to the area taken of a quite extravagant 12.2 COS coefficient, instead the usual value of 3, to allow the construction of a reduced base area.
Nothing prevents the project to allocate a base surface corresponding to compliance with the COS 3, C.O.S. which is respected in the program of similar size and destination of the Horn West, contemporary, on the opposite end of the adjacent parcel of the Department of Defence, already an UG area.
The base surface to extract the Park would be 30,000 m2, substantially one half of the hall 1.
This would provide a garden of more than 22,000 m2, regardless of the logistics area at the edge of the Marshals Blvd.
Only the City Hall in its asset management, does not want to sacrifice, and to compensate by the same amount the present operator of the park.
This is in no way modernity, nor beauty, nor an architectural gesture or international symbolic one,
The City does not apply to itself the rules it requires from others.
This arrangement with the rules is intended that financial worries.
Under these conditions it appears questionable as which rule should be maintained and if they actually have real meaning, if their maintenance is effective only if no project is actually constrained by them.
The objection will be that the area of the park will be reduced to a greater extent, but if it is so easy to increase the COS, without any limit, why not apply the same method to all the UGSU area of the Park, buildings of the type of Hall 7, could provide a high exhibition area equivalent on a smaller footprint.
Why this architectural approach in the absence of a real town planning process?
Town planning consists in carrying out a reflexion of insertion of the projects within the city and their environment.
No moment is taken into account the "Palais des sports" as an architectural object, or metropolitan equipment.
The Triangle project is launched and carried out without coherence with the balardgone, and especially completely independently of any restoration of the park, announced then separately!
And now (11/2011), justification of the operation, not by enhancing the activity of the park, but by diversifying the business district in a different activity!
Why place hall 1 in the shade of the Tower Triangle before claiming to want to renovate it, by photovoltaic panels and a vegetalized roof?
Viparis invested in such a step for its buildings in Villepinte, but did not build there any Triangle tower!
It's Paris which makes the interest of the Tower and not the Triangle Tower which makes the interest of an Exhibition Center or Paris.
What interest for tenant companies to have offices in the tower Triangle?
In fact given the form, hardly 5% will have a spectacular view towards PARIS, other surfaces will be satisfied with a vision of the southern suburbs, peripheral freeway and neighbouring zones.
The shape of the tower does not adapt well to the provision of large usable Open space plateaus.
Why choose a tower, Triangle Tower, 30 minutes away of La Défense and the center of Paris rather than in La Défense?
Why choose a building difficult to access during one or two months every year (during the great Expos)?
Exhibition in Issy
Issy-les-Moulineaux accomodates the exhibition dedicated to the project “Triangle Tower” of Monday 5 Tuesday September 20 to the Workshop of Town planning and Sustainable development to the Municipal Administrative center 2nd floor - 47, rue du général Leclerc
How this Triangle project can be classified of general interest? !
It is the means under consideration by the Town hall to initiate a procedure of revision of PLU.
But if the public utility is not recognized, the project will not be done.
It is what it is necessary to show.
The Exhibition site constitutes a vast domain of public space of general interest, accessible to the exhibitors and visitors and managed by a private ad hoc structure VIPARIS.
The Triangle project has for only goal and effect, long-term privatization of this public space, at the only ends of commercial and office real profitability .
What role for the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Paris (CCIP)?
The CCIP is asked to give advice to the public inquiry following the implementation of the simplified revision PLU, and noted that following an audit by KPMG, the Council of Paris, on July 12, launched a consultation early concession of the Exhibition which ran until 2026.
The land is intended to be granted to Viparis, merger of Unibail-Rodamco and the CCIP, in the form of operating lease for 80 years.
why is it said that Unibail is developer, client and investor?
Obviously involved , the CCIP has so far held a modest and discrete role, and should probably be able to develop an autonomous economic and documented rationale, taking particular account of the preservation of the future of the City park at Porte de Versailles.
The public survey for the simplified revision of PLU Operation Triangle
The public survey for the simplified revision of the local plan of town planning will take place from November 17 to December 20, 2011 (a register will be placed at the disposal of the Public at the Town hall of 15th district and it will be possible to meet the investigating commissaire).
At the conclusion of this official enquiry, and after a vote of "Conseil de Paris" the “application for Permit Building” may be deposited .
The Operation Triangle public enquiry is open.
Only the economic crisis as in 2008 can save ourselves the Triangle tower?
The unexplainable perseverance of the Town hall should not be underestimated, as certain Green elected officials still hoped for, three years ago.
"Because of the economic crisis, the project, which was initially to be out of the ground in 2013, will not finally be completed until 2016 to 2017."
Is it not significant that the project announced with fanfare in 2008, is not already out of the ground, if he was really in the public interest and essential to the radiation of the Parc des Expositions?
B. Delanoe AFP (25/09/2008): “During the serious economic crisis, it is necessary to dare where one can continue to undertake, with much wisdom, with the sense of realities, because one should not break down our dynamics for the economic appeal of Paris” in connection with this “exceptional building”, of an “amazing beauty”.
The overall design of the Triangle project is not suitable for the twenty-first century, post-Fukushima!
The project design of 2006, is still based on a world where power is plentiful and mostly maintained at all times, which no longer meets the conditions feasible now.
This type of building requires the guarantee of permanent electrical power for its elevators and the safety of its users. However the general evolution of the energy market, with the concurrency of the market, the disappearance of national monopolies regulators, backed on State, the risks caused by potential nuclear accidents, such as Japan showed, the risk in under-investment by private operators such as California has shown, in a European context and review of national energy policies, is such that the guarantee of permanent supply of electricity can not be assured.
While less tall buildings within the current limits, which are not IGH, can ensure continuity of operation with displacement through staircases, in regular recurring periods of low energy supply.
The location of generators and locally corresponding dedicated stock of hydrocarbons to ensure continuity of supply is not feasible in an urban context so dense, for non-strategic offices.
In this context coverage of all existing or new halls of new forms by solar roofs would be a more suitable upgrade.
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There is an urgency with the opening of the public inquiry ...
If you can not participate in the survey during working hours, the only date :
Saturday, December 10, 2011, 9 am to 12 pm (with investigators).
Participate on site or remotely
Post your comments and observations on the register of inquiry at the Town Hall 15th.
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Establishment and sight of artist:
GoogleMaps of the site
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to be compared with the plan of establishment (Paris 75015):
Artist view by Herzog & De Meuron (project to 211 m? of Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron) 
The communication between the large Park in the East (on the left) and the small park, currently ensured by a road underground under the tram (and on the top of the Subway) and a footbridge emerging in the middle of the hall is called into question, the tower extending its Northern point to the right of the outlet of the underground road and the footbridge destroyed replaced by a new communication to establish, along the peripheral, further away from the entry and emerging far away in a corner of what will remain from Hall 1 .
This architectural "parti pris", prejudicial with the operation of the exhibition center, is the consequence of the choice to dismember the park and the Triangle tower and to treat both always separately, on the urban, economic and legal plans.
Aerial view:
The Triangle tower project (traced red) separates the Exhibition Center into two parts and place the small park in its shade:
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(South up summer morning shadow)
(11/13/2011) listen 2'30" to 5'
