Tour Phare, La Défense
“Projet Phare” Rather than produce a sculpted object-signifier or an overstated symbol, we wish to construct a building that draws on historical and natural (physical) necessity. The task is to reinvent the spirit of the place, interpreting the constraints of the site and putting cutting-edge technology at the service of a monumental form perceived as inevitable. The grounds in which the edifice will be anchored and the air into which it will rise are fundamental components of the materiality and clarity of the monumental construction. The new La Défense tower will be an efficient working tool and an optical machine functioning from the interior toward the exterior and from the exterior toward the interior. It will be a spectacle in itself, with all the dynamics and the variety that that implies. Form, structure and materials will be inseparable in their contributions to the whole. The building will be at one and the same time an imprint on the air and an inscription in the soil, centred on the hollow footprint of a cylindrical penetration into the earth. Depending on standpoint, the tower will appear to be slender, to have the form of a blade or that of a sail.
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