Future Paris - DUO Towers by Jean Nouvel

The East side of Paris is the future, a new dawn, a promise… Eastern Paris is slowly coming into focus, building up and taking form, completing and modifying an unfinished context. This project is about building its summit, its culminating point for the beginning of the century. It is also about creating a character, a singularity that is in relation with the reality of the site, that reveals its particular beauty, that relies on it to invent and strengthen the attractiveness of the place. Among others, three parameters must be taken into account to orient the project: – The perspective of the Avenue de France. – The location adjacent to the river of rails that lead into the heart of the city. – The location adjacent to the Paris ring boulevard, from which the project can be seen as an identifying landmark The site does not have landmark status in the perspective of the Avenue de France. It is not visible from the sidewalk of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France. A slight inc