法國總統 Nicolas Sarkozy 邀請十組建築師針對法國首都巴黎未來二十年的發展提出都市計畫，把巴黎建成最具可持續性特色的大都會，令其成為一個「綠色大巴黎」。該計劃的初步構思已於 2009年3月12日公布，據稱，這將是有史以來最複雜的城市發展計劃之一，受邀建築師包括 Christophe de Portzamparc、Roland Castro、Bernardo Secchi、Paola Vigano、Richard Rogers 等人。
很多人原以為，薩爾科齊會效仿以前的總統們，建造一兩座地標建築物，例如密特朗總統請貝聿銘(I. M. Pei)所設計的羅浮宮金字塔、龐碧度的龐畢度中心 Pompidou Centre (Renzo Piano 和 Richard Rogers 所設計)和希拉克請 Jean Nouvel 設計的凱布朗利博物館(Musee de Quai Branly)。
然而，薩爾科齊野心更大，他要求建築師們重新設計整座城市及其周圍地區的形象，並提出具體但“絕對自由發揮”的方案。其中一個重要目標，是結束巴黎市中心的孤立狀態，那里有二百萬居民，他們現時與居住在郊區的六百萬居民割離。
↗ 建築師 Christophe de Portzamparc 對於巴黎未來的的想像
薩 爾科齊的班子與倫敦經濟學院和法國社會學家們合作，打算把互相割離的社區連結起來，特別是把割切城市的鐵路線覆蓋起來，在鐵路在線端建造龐大的綠色空間和 網絡。其中一條綠線是從巴黎市中心一直伸至東南郊區，與現時巴黎西面的羅浮宮至拉德芳斯區呼應，務求把居民每日的交通時間縮減至不多于半小時。
↗ 建築師 Christophe de Portzamparc 對於巴黎未來的的想像
龐碧度中心共同設計者、英國建築師 Richard Rogers 也是應邀提交計劃的建築師之一，他說：“我未見過任何一個大城市像巴黎這樣，心臟與四肢分隔如此嚴重。”
Richard Rogers 和其它建築師在於2009年3月12日僅獲三十五分鐘時間，去向一個專家小組解釋他們心目中的“2030年大巴黎”計劃。建築師們將於下周參與一場辯論，並展出他們的計劃，展覽將於於2009年4月29日開幕。
↗ 建築師 Roland Castro 所提出的計畫，將巴黎變成超大的綠都市 | A computer image of a project for a bigger and greener Paris, in La Courneuve, by French architect Roland Castro
↗ 建築師 Roland Castro 的構想
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Grand Paris: Architects reveal plans to transform French capital
Ten of the world's leading architects on Thursday detailed their plans to dramatically transform the French capital into a Grand Paris, in what has been described as the most complex city project ever.
By Henry Samuel in Paris
Last Updated: 8:09AM GMT 13 Mar 2009
Nicolas Sarkozy, the French president, asked the architects, including Britain's Richard Rogers, to project 20 years into the future and dream up the world's most sustainable post-Kyoto metropolis.
Among the more outlandish plans is Antoine Grumbach's proposal to extend the city all the way to the Channel port of Le Havre via Rouen along the Seine, maximising the green possibilities of the river. The idea was already mooted by Napoleon Bonaparte, who said: "Paris-Rouen-Le Havre: one single city with the Seine as its main road."
Christophe de Portzamparc, the prize-winning French architect, has proposed building four economic "buds" in an "archipelago" around the capital and transferring a huge European train station to Aubervilliers, north of Paris, modelled on London's St Pancras.
Roland Castro, the prominent 1968 Leftist who suggested moving the Elysée Palace to the tough northeastern suburbs, has proposed injecting "beauty" into a "Grand Paris of poets", which would include new cultural landmarks in a capital shaped like a huge eight-petal flower and with a New York-style Central Park on the grim housing project of La Courneuve.
The Italian architects Bernardo Secchi and Paola Vigano have proposed enlarging the city and laying it out as a "porous sponge", where waterways are given pride of place.
Yves Liot would like to create 20 "sustainable towns" of 500,000 within the Paris area. He would also double the number of forests and bring fields to Paris' outskirts so the urban dwellers could cultivate their own fruit and vegetables.
Many thought that Mr Sarkozy would follow his predecessors' lead and bequeath one or two magnificent monuments, such as François Mitterrand's Louvre pyramid, Georges Pompidou's Centre or Jacques Chirac's Quai Branly museum.
However, the president has set his sights much higher, asking the architects to re-imagine the entire city and its surroundings with concrete proposals but "the absolute freedom to dream".
One crucial aim is to end the isolation of central Paris, with its two million inhabitants, which is currently cut off from the six million living in suburbs just outside its ring road, known as "le périphérique".
As Rogers, the London-based co-designer of the Pompidou centre, observed: "I know no other big city where the heart is so detached from its arms and legs".
His team, working with the London School of Economics and French sociologists, has proposed uniting cut-off communities, notably by covering up railway lines that dissect the city and placing huge green spaces and networks above them. One such green line would stretch all the way from central Paris to the run-down southeastern outskirts, mirroring the line from the Louvre to La Defense to the west of the city. Paris would be stuffed with renewable technologies and re-thought to reduce city dweller's travelling time to no more than 30 minutes per day.
His project aims to end the "monoculture" of Paris' suburbs by overhauling high-immigrant enclaves like Clichy-sous-Bois, where urban riots erupted in 2005. Office and living space would be mixed with rich and poor and high-speed train lines extended.
Mr Rogers and the other architects were given just 35 minutes on Thursday to explain their strategies for Grand Paris 2030 to a panel of experts.
Before these grand plans can progress, the capital will have to resolve complex political wrangling over its administrative boundaries and the effects on different players' power bases. Bertrand Delanoë, Paris' Socialist mayor, among others, is watching closely.
The architects will present their projects to the public and take part in a debate next week, and an exhibition of their plans opens on April 29.
很多人原以為，薩爾科齊會效仿以前的總統們，建造一兩座地標建築物，例如密特朗總統請貝聿銘(I. M. Pei)所設計的羅浮宮金字塔、龐碧度的龐畢度中心 Pompidou Centre (Renzo Piano 和 Richard Rogers 所設計)和希拉克請 Jean Nouvel 設計的凱布朗利博物館(Musee de Quai Branly)。
然而，薩爾科齊野心更大，他要求建築師們重新設計整座城市及其周圍地區的形象，並提出具體但“絕對自由發揮”的方案。其中一個重要目標，是結束巴黎市中心的孤立狀態，那里有二百萬居民，他們現時與居住在郊區的六百萬居民割離。
↗ 建築師 Christophe de Portzamparc 對於巴黎未來的的想像
薩 爾科齊的班子與倫敦經濟學院和法國社會學家們合作，打算把互相割離的社區連結起來，特別是把割切城市的鐵路線覆蓋起來，在鐵路在線端建造龐大的綠色空間和 網絡。其中一條綠線是從巴黎市中心一直伸至東南郊區，與現時巴黎西面的羅浮宮至拉德芳斯區呼應，務求把居民每日的交通時間縮減至不多于半小時。
↗ 建築師 Christophe de Portzamparc 對於巴黎未來的的想像
龐碧度中心共同設計者、英國建築師 Richard Rogers 也是應邀提交計劃的建築師之一，他說：“我未見過任何一個大城市像巴黎這樣，心臟與四肢分隔如此嚴重。”
Richard Rogers 和其它建築師在於2009年3月12日僅獲三十五分鐘時間，去向一個專家小組解釋他們心目中的“2030年大巴黎”計劃。建築師們將於下周參與一場辯論，並展出他們的計劃，展覽將於於2009年4月29日開幕。
↗ 建築師 Roland Castro 所提出的計畫，將巴黎變成超大的綠都市 | A computer image of a project for a bigger and greener Paris, in La Courneuve, by French architect Roland Castro
↗ 建築師 Roland Castro 的構想
出處
Grand Paris: Architects reveal plans to transform French capital
Ten of the world's leading architects on Thursday detailed their plans to dramatically transform the French capital into a Grand Paris, in what has been described as the most complex city project ever.
By Henry Samuel in Paris
Last Updated: 8:09AM GMT 13 Mar 2009
Nicolas Sarkozy, the French president, asked the architects, including Britain's Richard Rogers, to project 20 years into the future and dream up the world's most sustainable post-Kyoto metropolis.
Among the more outlandish plans is Antoine Grumbach's proposal to extend the city all the way to the Channel port of Le Havre via Rouen along the Seine, maximising the green possibilities of the river. The idea was already mooted by Napoleon Bonaparte, who said: "Paris-Rouen-Le Havre: one single city with the Seine as its main road."
Christophe de Portzamparc, the prize-winning French architect, has proposed building four economic "buds" in an "archipelago" around the capital and transferring a huge European train station to Aubervilliers, north of Paris, modelled on London's St Pancras.
Roland Castro, the prominent 1968 Leftist who suggested moving the Elysée Palace to the tough northeastern suburbs, has proposed injecting "beauty" into a "Grand Paris of poets", which would include new cultural landmarks in a capital shaped like a huge eight-petal flower and with a New York-style Central Park on the grim housing project of La Courneuve.
The Italian architects Bernardo Secchi and Paola Vigano have proposed enlarging the city and laying it out as a "porous sponge", where waterways are given pride of place.
Yves Liot would like to create 20 "sustainable towns" of 500,000 within the Paris area. He would also double the number of forests and bring fields to Paris' outskirts so the urban dwellers could cultivate their own fruit and vegetables.
Many thought that Mr Sarkozy would follow his predecessors' lead and bequeath one or two magnificent monuments, such as François Mitterrand's Louvre pyramid, Georges Pompidou's Centre or Jacques Chirac's Quai Branly museum.
However, the president has set his sights much higher, asking the architects to re-imagine the entire city and its surroundings with concrete proposals but "the absolute freedom to dream".
One crucial aim is to end the isolation of central Paris, with its two million inhabitants, which is currently cut off from the six million living in suburbs just outside its ring road, known as "le périphérique".
As Rogers, the London-based co-designer of the Pompidou centre, observed: "I know no other big city where the heart is so detached from its arms and legs".
His team, working with the London School of Economics and French sociologists, has proposed uniting cut-off communities, notably by covering up railway lines that dissect the city and placing huge green spaces and networks above them. One such green line would stretch all the way from central Paris to the run-down southeastern outskirts, mirroring the line from the Louvre to La Defense to the west of the city. Paris would be stuffed with renewable technologies and re-thought to reduce city dweller's travelling time to no more than 30 minutes per day.
His project aims to end the "monoculture" of Paris' suburbs by overhauling high-immigrant enclaves like Clichy-sous-Bois, where urban riots erupted in 2005. Office and living space would be mixed with rich and poor and high-speed train lines extended.
Mr Rogers and the other architects were given just 35 minutes on Thursday to explain their strategies for Grand Paris 2030 to a panel of experts.
Before these grand plans can progress, the capital will have to resolve complex political wrangling over its administrative boundaries and the effects on different players' power bases. Bertrand Delanoë, Paris' Socialist mayor, among others, is watching closely.
The architects will present their projects to the public and take part in a debate next week, and an exhibition of their plans opens on April 29.