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The Ministry of Culture in Paris.
By SAM LUBELL
Published: March 29, 2013
While many world capitals feed off the energy of modernity, Paris is
loved because it represents an escape from it. So when most people visit
the city, their agenda involves visiting monuments like the Louvre, the Hôtel de Ville and Notre Dame. The baby of the group is the Eiffel Tower, built in 1887.
Ed Alcock for The New York Times
The Louvre's Islamic Art Wing exhibition space sits under a wavy golden canopy.
But for lovers of contemporary architecture, Paris can be a surprisingly
rich place. The latest crop of French architects is producing some of
the best new work the city has seen. They are an eclectic group
comfortable taking large risks while still melding the work into an
august context. The buildings are a far cry from past examples of modern
Paris design, like the clunky Tour Montparnasse, the badly dated Opéra Bastille and the cold skyscrapers of La Défense,
the Modernist business district to the city’s west. These architects
are producing treasures sprinkled amid the dense historic fabric. Often
the contrast between old and new makes these buildings all the more
striking. They are sleek diamonds in an aging rough.
Ministry of Culture
If you walk out of the Louvre and travel less than five minutes north, you can find a gem hidden in plain sight: the architect Francis Soler’s
Ministry of Culture and Communication, which he completed about eight
years ago. To unify a 19th-century classical building with a
contemporary addition, he put a latticelike metallic screen (an
abstraction of a Renaissance painting) over both. On a gray day, the
covering disappears into the sky. On a bright day, it glows. The only
public interior space is the ultramodern lobby, with lacy filaments
hanging from the ceiling. It’s worth a visit, as the ministry offers
free information about its cultural events here.
Ministry of Culture, 182, rue Saint-Honoré; www.culture.gouv.fr/culture/182/.
The Louvre
Some modern monuments are right under most tourists’ noses, in the
city’s historic center. One of the newest is the Louvre’s Islamic Art
Wing, which opened last September. The exhibition space, designed by the French architect Rudy Ricciotti and the Italian architect Mario Bellini, sits under an undulating golden canopy in the middle of the museum’s neo-Classical Visconti Courtyard.
The canopy’s surface is a grid of tensile metallic mesh resembling a
flying carpet, a Bedouin tent, a Middle Eastern souk or waves of water,
depending on your perspective. History is still everywhere around you
(catch a glimpse of the courtyard to assure you of that), but the
overall sensation is quite energetic.
A dramatic cut in the floor at the far end takes you down to another
level of treasures. The black surfaces fade into the background,
bringing to the fore remarkable and previously unexhibited items:
jewels, flasks, vases, tablets, lamps, plates, even entire tile floors.
Musée du Louvre, Palais Royal, louvre.fr/en.
Citroën
This is one of the most daring new pieces. Manuelle Gautrand (one of the few female architects in the bunch) designed this showroom, called C42,
for the automaker Citroën, which bursts from the street wall of the
Champs-Élysées. Unveiled in 2007, it has a glass-and-steel facade that
climbs aggressively and is formed from abstracted chevrons, Citroën’s
symbol. Inside, a stack of revolving turntables showcases the cars. You
can circle your way up, stopping to hop into a car or to catch the
views.
Citroën, 42, Champs-Élysées; citroenet.org.uk/miscellaneous/champselysees/c42/c42-1.html.
Docks of Paris
Perhaps the most adventurous of these new modern monuments is the Docks of Paris. Redesigned by the architects Jakob + MacFarlane, the complex was once a turn-of-the-last-century depot for goods hauled by boats on the Seine. Now it’s home to the Cité de la Mode et du Design, which includes a fashion school, a few hip shops and, on the roof, restaurants and bars.
When you see the Cité from the nearby Pont d’Austerlitz, its lime-green
glass-and-steel armature, which winds and warps its way up and down the
length of the old docks, resembles a giant bug perched atop the Left
Bank. Climbing the stairs at the riverside edge of the building is
exhilarating and disorienting, but it rewards with fantastic views, and
with restaurants and bars whose walls and roofs are made of sloping
berms of earth. The docks were mostly deserted when I visited them in
the winter, but the roof is said to be boisterous come summer, when
crowds of students and curious residents make their way onto the
structure.
Docks of Paris, 34, quai d’Austerlitz; paris-docks-en-seine.fr.
Musée du Quai Branly
Just a couple of blocks from the Eiffel Tower is a museum that is
literally overshadowed by Gustave Eiffel’s masterwork. Jean Nouvel’s
Musée du Quai Branly, opened in 2006 as a repository of indigenous work
from around the world, is an eclectic, nervy composition of bright
colors and jutting fragments. Its riverside facade is covered with a
planted wall by the French botanist Patrick Blanc. Another wall contains
glass covered with forest imagery and large display boxes protruding
from the building’s edge like children’s blocks. The offices are inside a
much cooler glass cube.
The main exhibition space is raised on columns, allowing for the entire
ground level to be taken up by a modern park. Inside, the traditional
museum experience is replaced by a snaking path lined with leather walls
that twists you here and there through exhibitions of native artwork,
masks, jewelry, clothing, weapons, totems, living spaces and much more.
Another interior highlight: a giant narrow window framing the entire
Eiffel Tower.
Musée du Quai Branly, 37, quai Branly; quaibranly.fr/en/.
A Host of Other Gems
There are many more contemporary treasures if you’re willing to travel
even farther out, toward the edge of the city, where history has a much
lighter grip. Essentials include the wow-inducing buildings of the aptly
named Paris firm Périphériques: in the 17th Arrondissement, to the city’s northeast, is Cardinet Quintessence, a residential building clad in a mesmerizing prismatic aluminum skin, and just outside the city is Banlieues Bleues, a factory complex turned music center in Pantin, a suburb.
Also in the 17th Arrondissement is Édouard François’s Flower Tower,
a residential building enshrouded in potted plants along its balconies.
And just a few blocks south of the Boulevard Périphérique is the
architect Renzo Piano’s EMI Music France headquarters, a villagelike collection of buildings inspired by the area’s sawtooth-roofed factories. The list goes on and on.
Cardinet Quintessence, 155, rue Cardinet.
Banlieues Bleues, 9, rue Gabrielle Josserand, Pantin; banlieuesbleues.org.
Flower Tower, 23, rue Albert Roussel.
EMI Music France, 118, rue du Mont Cenis, emimusic.fr.
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