Phare Tower, France
Architecture | 06.08.2007 | 5 Comments
Morphosis won the International Competition for the design of the “Phare�? Tower (Lighthouse), the centerpiece of a redevelopment in the business district, La Défense, just outside of Paris. Mayne beat out the likes of Norman Foster and Rem Koolhaas to win the competition. Its expected completion date is 2012…
“There’s a fluidity, a sensuousness, a softness to the form as it reaches to the sky,” he said, describing the asymmetric twist of the building, which swells out over an elevated lobby in the lower portion before tapering off to a thicket of wind turbines on the roof. Mayne says it will be “a prototype for a green building” with a wind farm generating its own heating and cooling for five months of the year and a movable “double skin” to cut the heat from direct sunlight through the windows.
“Moving around the tower, it appears to shift continually, distinct from different vantage points – not a single image, but a dynamic structure that responds to its site, environment, and performance requirements.�? Thom Mayne, Morphosis Design Director.
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Yansen
4 years ago
it is awesome building, very creative and uniquely crown on top.
Well need special lighting to enhance the ambience and the building as well.
need assisting please feel free to email us at yansen@lightingimages.com.au
thanks
Yansen
sstq
3 years ago
Good introdution.Still I really want to know its high technical management. And if I can see bigger and clearer picture,that will be much great.
Thank a lot.
maru
1 year ago
it is a very interesting project especially the wind turbine on roof top. i would like to know more those wind turbines
Montgomery Roth
11 months ago
THis project has not started yet but it will perfectly fit into “la defense” business district. Its original rounded shape will contrast with the “defense Arch”.
http://www.montgomeryroth.com
Abraham
7 months ago
Will this building justify the investment. Or, will it be a white elephant, that will haunt the conscience of mankind? When we spend ostentatiously, do we ever pause to imagine the pain of that child in Somalia, who does not even have clean water to drink. We have become so hardened of heart, that our innovation, profit and greed surpasses all other feelings. Will we be bereft of compassion, if we were to see our own child left to die of hunger and thirst, abandoned in the dirt? It is time for all, and that includes architects too, to give humanity a thought.