Guiding Architects, tour: New urban planning in Paris - around the National Library (Fig. 1)

Guiding Architects, tour: New urban planning in Paris - around the National Library (Fig. 2)

Guiding Architects, tour: New urban planning in Paris - around the National Library (Fig. 3)

Guiding Architects, tour: New urban planning in Paris - around the National Library (Fig. 4)

Guiding Architects, tour: New urban planning in Paris - around the National Library (Fig. 5)

Guiding Architects, tour: New urban planning in Paris - around the National Library (Fig. 6)

Tour in Paris:
New urban planning in Paris - around the National Library

The Paris Rive Gauche operation is a vast urban redevelopment project from the Austerlitz station to the périphérique, transforming 130 hectares of former industrial and railway wastelands into a contemporary neighborhood. The project enabled the creation of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, the creation of the new Université Paris Diderot and the covering of the railway tracks to reconnect this territory to the rest of the city. Paris Rive Gauche combines housing (including a significant portion of social housing), offices, shops and public facilities in a logic of urban mix. This emblematic project, still being built, is converting a formerly isolated area into a dynamic neighborhood, where timber-structured buildings such as the University of Chicago by Studio Gang or the housing by LAN, Moreau Kusunoki, Parc Architectes and AAVP coexist with spectacular rehabilitation projects such as Station F by Wilmotte and new Towers such as the Tour Duo by Nouvel.