- Philharmonie de Paris
The Philharmonie de Paris, a great symphonic concert hall of 2,400 seats and whose construction had been postponed for about twenty years, should complete the
Cité de la musique in2012 in theParc de la Villette inParis .Mainly dedicated to the welcoming of great symphonic formations, the Philharmonie de Paris will present other forms of musical expression, which notably call upon a sound system, such asjazz orworld music .The announcement was made on 6 March, 2006 by the Minister of Culture and Communication Renaud Donnedieu de Vabres, the Mayor of Paris
Bertrand Delanoë and the Director of theCité de la musique and of theSalle Pleyel Laurent Bayle , during a press conference on the reopening of the Salle Pleyel, now linked with the Cité.As far as acoustics are concerned, the concert hall will distinguish itself from the strictly frontal models and will favour an enveloping of the stage by the audience, based on the model of the Berlin Philharmonic, in order to intensify the feeling of intimacy between the performers and their audience.
The Philharmonie de Paris will accommodate administrative offices for several orchestras, an educational centre, exhibition spaces and a restaurant, as well as the infrastructures necessary for the logistics and for the technical equipment, and a car park.The cost of the construction of the new auditorium should reach 170 million euros, taken care of equally by the State (Ministry of Culture and Communication) and the Ville de Paris, which however do not exclude a contribution from the Île-de-France Region or private financing.
In
2007 ,Jean Nouvel won the architecture competition for the construction of the auditorium. He brought in Brigitte Métra as his partner, and the Marshall & Day agency in partnership withNagata Acoustics for the acoustics.
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