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The atelier of Christian de Portzamparc

In 1980 Christian de Portzamparc set up his agency sur-rounded, inter alia, by Marie-Elisabeth Nicoleau, EtiennePierres and Bertrand Beau. In 1992, the studio expanded totake in new members such as Bruno Durbecq, Xu Hua andCline Barda and, among others, later welcomed AndrTerzibachian, Frdric Binet and Jean Daniel Boyer. Based in Paris, the agency has satellite offices near buil-ding sites, in addition to offices in New York and Rio deJaneiro, and represents a cohesive team of 80 people,drawn from all corners of the globe.

Hautes Formes

Christian de Portzamparcs beginnings

Christian de Portzamparc was born in Casablanca in 1944.He studied drawing, painting and architecture in the sixtiesat the Beaux-Art school of Paris with Eugne Baudoin andGeorge Candilis. He writes, travels and works actively ontheoretical research.

In 1971, he began his architectural work designing a poe-tic monument, the Water Tower in Marne-la-Valle, develo-ped around the theme of the Tower of Babel, which wasbuilt in 1974 in the center of a crossroad that he had rede-signed. This semi-transparent construction uses water andvegetation to form an architectural landmark in a vast urbanlandscape.

In 1974, in his project for the competition of La Roquette,he created a vast central green-space piazza on the site ofa former prison, surrounded on four sides by a rhythmicseries of buildings and housing units, a rectangular slice offorest, transposed into the city of Paris.City development imposes itself, from the beginning, as thetheme and the central pre-occupation of Christian dePortzamparcs work, a permanent reflection on architecturalspace and city space, their relationships and their evolu-tions.He maintained, already at the beginning of the seventies,that modern urban models must be reviewed, and that areturn to the ancient models of urbanism was impossible.

In 1975, with this in mind, he designed the Rue desHautes-Formes development, a competition won within theProgram for New Architecture for 210 housing units inParis, in the 13th arrondissement. Built with GeorgiaBenamo in 1979, this project demonstrates a concrete refi-ning of his theoretical perspectives, and represents acontemporary architecture woven into a continuity with theexisting city, enhancing and transforming it.The quality of this housing project has been confirmed overthe years by its occupants.

Chteau dEau

In Boulogne, for the TV-Channel Canal Plus, the openblock system operates with great efficiency housing333,560 sq. sf. of prestige offices on the river Seine in seve-ral linked buildings (2000).

In the same spirit, Christian de Portzamparc achieved in2006 a mixed housing and commercial complex Block 1in Almere, Netherlands.

Open block, architecture in the city

With a renewed vision of urban structures, which he callsthe open block, Christian de Portzamparc has achievedmany constructions and competitions in France and abroadfor neighborhood projects and for many small city seg-ments : a collective housing project has been built inFukuoka-Japan (1990) and housing blocks on the edge ofthe Bercy Park, in Paris (1994). An important work of buil-ding remodeling of a 60s development, located PlaceNationale in Paris (1996), and a housing neighborhood inGrenoble (2000) have also been realised.

Rehabilitation and construction, Place Nationale in Paris

Offices of TV channel Canal +, Boulogne

Grande Bibliothque de Quebec - Canada

Bercy housing

Block 1, Almere, Netherlands

Spaces dedicated to music

In the beginning of the 80s Christian de Portzamparc ente-red architectural competitions dedicated to music. The firstone was for a school of music : the Erik Satie Conservatory.He won and built this project in 1981.

His constant passion for music led him participate in aseries of competitions concerning art, music and dancesuch as the Dance School of the Opera of Paris in Nanterre(1983 - 1987), for which he received the Equerre dArgentin 1988 and the international competition for the OperaBastille (in which Christian de Portzamparc was one of thesix laureates out of 500 participants).

The City of Music (Equerre dArgent 1995) was designed fora competition in 1984 at La Villette in Paris. It is oneof the President Mitterrands Grands Travaux, and is com-posed of two separate entities.

The National Conservatory of Music and Dance opened in1990, and the second part, open to the public with theconcert hall and the museum, was inaugurated in 1995.The elliptic concert hall, unique of its kind, has become amajor reference for its acoustic qualities.

Pierre Boulez has been a constant advisor of Christian dePortzamparc on this project with the acoustic specialist XuYa Ying. In 1992, Christian de Portzamparc participated to the com-petition of the International Convention Hall of Nara inJapan. The chamber music hall offers a new way of seeingthrough the geometries of the Moebius strip.

The Luxembourg Philarmonie was inaugurated in June2005. It was the laureate project of an international compe-tition in 1997. Christian de Portzamparcs attitude is toconsider architectural space as an acoustic as well as avisual and a physical experience. This can gradually be feltby the public already from the outside, in the lobby and inthe hall. The essential musical emotion is like a echo of theprogressive perception of the concert hall.

In Rio de Janeiro a new City of Music is being built. Here,Christian de Portzamparc makes a tribute to Brazilianmodern architecture, the grand building presents a subtlemix of curves and straight lines. Its concert room is conver-tible into an Opera hall.

City of music West

City of music Est

Concert Hall in Luxembourg

City of Music in Rio de Janeiro - Brazil

International Convention Hall of Nara

Opra Bastille - Paris - proposed project

These museum projects followed the relatively modest onethat Christian de Portzamparc designed to extend theBourdelle Museum in Paris (1988), a limpid meditation onlight and space in relation to sculpture. In 1993 he workedon a project for a retail center holding 19 movie theaters anda shopping mall in Frankfurt, Germany.

The same year, his project for a cultural cquipment, LesChamps Libres in Rennes, was laureate of an internationalcompetition. This ambitious project housing a museum anda library, opened in April 2006. In Lyon Christian designedan extension of the Croix Rousse Hospital which will becompleted in 2009.

Major Institutions

This experience of large scale programs revealed its capaci-ties later in a series of institutional buildings, either public orprivate, built in the 90s, such as the Law Courts in Grasse(1999), in Paris the extension of the Convention Center,(1994-1999): a program of 441,000 sq.ft. of offices, amphi-theaters, exhibition halls and boutiques, transformed theimage of the institution, the use of the space and the urbanzone at the Porte Maillot entry to Paris. The new FrenchEmbassy in Berlin was inaugurated in January 2003.

In 1995 in Seoul, for the National Museum of Korea, theproject by Christian de Portzamparc was awarded secondprize among 500 projects, just like the Kansas City, Missouriproject in 1999, for the new wing of the Nelson AtkinsMuseum.

Extension of the Bourdelle Museum, Paris - France

New French Embassy - Berlin - Germany

Law Courts - Courts of Justice - Grasse - France

Les Champs Libres, Rennes - France

Towers

From the city to the object Christian de Portzamparc hasworked on towers since his first projects. The CrditLyonnais Tower, a singular object built over a railway station(1995) : a project integrated into the Rem Koolhaas master-plan for Euralille. It was to be followed by the studies for theBandai tower in Tokyo (1994), the Septentrion tower (1996)and the T1 tower (2001) both in La Defense, the HearstTower in New York (2000) and towers in Frankfurt (2002) .

The LVMH Tower in New York (1999) is acclaimed by thepress as New Yorks most important architectural event inthe last thirty years ; and was granted the Business Weekand Architectural Record 2001 award.

A second tower for the group LVMH was designed in 2001.It was to be settled next to the first tower, responding to it inshape and color but also keeping its own personnality.

In 2002 Christian de Portzamparc won the competition forthe new Socit Gnrale tower in Paris - La Dfense, com-pleted in 2008.

Crdit Lyonnais Tower in Lille - France

Socit Gnrale Tower in La DfenseLVMH Tower in New York

Rendering of an extension of the LVMH Tower, abandonned project - New York

A residential high rise on Park Avenue South in Manhattanis in progress since 2002 - construction is due to start inOctober 2008.

City Pieces, urban planning

At another scale, a series of competitions and commissionsfor urban planning and large neighborhood projects haveled to in-depth theoretical research and to the evolution ofnew practical work methods, enabling a re-interpretation ofthe rules of the game. Modern townscaping implies put-ting hazard and unexplored possibilities to work, calling intoaction the variety of forces and factors which characterizesour time. In Montpellier (in progress) in a peripheral sitehalf-way between the city and the country, Christian dePortzamparc has overlayed a rectilinear grid upon the modelof the garden-city.

In studies in Metz (1990) and in Aix en Provence (1989),he composed with the memory of the site by plugging open

block neighborhoods into the urban context.The studies in Bordeaux, Strasbourg, Prague, Sao Paulo,Fukuoka Bay in Japan, or in New York with the Con EdisonProject (2001), have shown that each site carried withinitself surprising virtualities that the projects revealed.The missions of master-planning and co-ordination are cur-rently being conducted in two neighborhoods in Paris:Massna Seine Rive Gauche and Porte dAsnires ; a quar-ter in the south of France in Montpellier and he is studyinga neigborhood in Beijing, China: the logistic port area..In2008, Christian de Portzamparc was among the 10 archi-tects selected by French president Sarkozy to rethink thegreater Paris area.

In 2009, the architect won an international competition forthe planning of the rue de la Loi in Brussels, the adminis-trative heart of Europe.

Gardens of La Lironde in Montpellier

Urban development in the center of Metz - France

Park Avenue South tower in Manhattan - New York (USA)

Secteur Massna - Paris, France

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Tower 400 Park Avenue South Manhattan, New York436 dwellings, 40 stories flatsCommissioned 2002 Client : A+R Kalimian RealityGFA : 480,000 sq.ft. / Height: 475 f.

Astria Bastide Bordeaux-France

108 apartments Commission 2004

To be completed 2009Client: Bouygues immobilier

Surface area: 11 130m

La Tulette neighbourhoodGeneva - SwitzerlandCommissioned 2003

Client : Private

Grenoble - France

Competition, prizewinning entry

1998

Completed 2001

Client: Grenoble Habitat

GFA: 93,612 sq.ft.

De Citadel - Almere, Netherlands

Mixed program in the new town center

Commissioned 2000

Completed 2006

Client: MAB / Eurowoningen BV

GFA : 484,376 sq.ft.

La prairie Au DucNantes - France

154 housing unitsCommissioned 2004 - completed 2008

Client : Groupe Gambetta / Ste CIPLSurface area: 14 500 m net residential, 500 m retail

La Lironde

Montpellier - France (urban project:

Christian de Portzamparc)

Construction of two housing blocks

Commission 1991

Completed 2008

Client: Urbat & Marignan

GFA: 484,376 sq.ft.

Housing completed project

Les Hautes-Formes

Paris - France

6 buildings - 209 dwellings

Prizewinning entry competition 1975

Completed 1979

Client : Rgie Immobilire de la Ville de

Paris (R.I.V.P.)

Fukuoka Apartment Buildings

Isle de Kyushu, Fukuoka, Japan

37 logements rpartis sur 4 immeubles

Commissioned Commissioned 1989 -

completed 1991

Client : Fukuoka Jisho Co, Ltd

GFA Total: 43,055 sq.ft.

Rue Armand-Carrel housing projectParis - France1986 completed 1990

Apartment Buildings Quartier du ParcNanterre - France(GFA Total : 334,445 sq.ft.)competition prizewinning entry 1986completed 1990-1995

Ltzowstrasse housing projectBerlin - Germany1985 completed 1991

Rue de lOuest housing project Paris completed 1987

LAlle du parc, Le Crescent, Le Lafayette Apartment Buildings, Marne-la-Valle - Francecompetition prizewinning entry 1982completed 1985-1988

Erik Satie Foyer Elderly housingParis - France (GFA Total: 18,988 sq.ft.)competition prizewinning entry 1981 completed 1984

Elderly housingrue du Chteau-des-RentiersParis - France (GFA: 24,757 sq.ft.)prizewinning entry 1982 completed 1984

Parc de Bercy

Paris - France

4 buildings including 67 dwellings

Commissioned 1991

Completed 1994

GFA: 80,438 sq.ft.

Rue Nationale apartment-villas, Paris - France

Public Amenity, remodeling and extension

Commissioned 1990, completed 1993-1996

Client: Rgie Immobilire de la Ville de Paris (R.I.V.P.)

GFA Remodeled: 975,092sq.ft - Total New: 100,632 sq.ft

Housing completed projects

Au bord du LacEnghien - France

competition 1981

Belleville GardensParis - France

competition 1982

Nivoli - FiatFlorence - Italia

studies 1994

Cantagrel Renovation

DevelopmentParis - France

competition 1997

Espace Pitot Montpellier - France

competition 1998

Deventer - Netherlands1999

La Joliette Marseille - FranceHotel and housingCompetition 2001, project not selectedClient : Socit Euromede 1 Marseille

Les Catalans Marseille - France

Hotel,housing, restaurants, offices Competition 1991, project not

selectedGFA Total: 322,917 sq.ft.Client : Ville de Marseille

La RoquetteParis - France

Competition 1974

Beirut GateBeyrouth - Lebanon

Dwellings, commercial spacesand offices

Commission 2006Client: Abu Dhabi Investment

HouseGFA: 1,043,023 sq.ft.

Housing Unbuilt projects

Madone Moulins TowersMonacoCommission 2001Activities and dwellingsClient : Private

The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures

Hollywood, Los Angeles, U.S.A.

Competition 2007, prizewinning project

Client: Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and

Sciences

GFA: 3 haCidade da Musica

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Commissionned 2002

To be completed 2009

Client: The town hall of the city of Rio

GFA: 215,200 sq.ft.

Herg museum

Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgique

Commission 2001-may 2009

Client: La Croix de lAigle S.A.

GFA: 47,511 sq.ft.

Cultural Institutions in progress

Cultural Institutions

Cultural Institutions completed projects

Philharmonia Concert Hall

Kircheberg - Luxembourg

Competition 1997

Completed 2005

GFA : 129,167 sq.ft.

Client: Ministry for public works and admi-

nistration of public buildings of

Luxembourg

Cinma GaumontRennes - France

Competition 2003Completed: 2009

Client : Europalaces (Path-Gaumont)GFA : 10,000 sq.ft.

Cultural Institutions completed projects

New Cultural Center - Les champs libres

Rennes - France

Competition

Prizewinning

1993-2006

GFA : 372,431 sq.ft.

Client : The Metropole of Rennes

Extension of the Bourdelle Museum

Paris - France

Competition, prizewinning entry 1988

Completed 1990

GFA: 17,814 sq.ft.

Client : Ville de Paris - Direction des Affaires Culturelles

Cit de la Musique

Phase II - East Part:

Auditorium and Museum

Completed 1995

Cit de la Musique / City of Music

Parc de la Villette Paris - France

Competition prizewinning entry 1984

Client : Ministre de la Culture et de la Communication

Phase I - West Part :

Conservatoire National Suprieur de Musique et de Danse

Completed 1990

Awarded lEquerre dArgent in 1995

GFA: 430,557 sq.ft.

Dance School for the Paris Opera

Nanterre - France

Competition, prizewinning entry 1983

Completed 1987

Awarded lEquerre dArgent Prize in 1988

GFA: 118,403 sq.ft.

Client : Ministre de la Culture

Etablissement Public d'Amnagement de la Dfense (EPAD)

Cultural Institutions completed projects

New York City Opera,

New York, USA

Commission 2004. Stopped.

Cultural and housing facilities

Surface area : Opra (public space) : 64,583.46 sq.ft /

Housing : 656,598.5 sq.ft

Client : A+R Kalimian Reality - New York City Opera

Grande Bibliothque du Qubec (Great Library of Quebec)

Montreal - Canada

Competition 2000. Project not selected.

Surface area : 37 000 m net

Client : Ville de Montral

Cultural Institutions unbuilt projects

Sheick Zayed Museum

Saadiyat Island, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

2007. Commissions. Not selected.

Program:5 galleries Museum

Client : Abu Dhabi Government, Tourism Development &

Investment Company (TDIC)

Surfaces : 139,930 sq.ft.

Nelson Atkins Extension Kansas City - USA

Competition 1999. Not selected.Museum of Arts - Salles d'expositions permanente et temporaires, espace

d'enseignement, caf, boutique, bibliothqueClient : The Nelson Atkins Museum

School of Architecture

Marne-la-Valle - France

Competition 1995. Not selected.

Program : Construction of an architecture school for 500 stu-

dents, then 1200 students.

GFA: 155,861 sq.ft.

National Museum of Korea

Seoul - Korea

International competition. Project classed second out of 600

2nd prize 1995

GFA: 2,152,789 sq.ft

Client : Korean Ministry of Culture and Sport

New Concert Hall and Cultural Center

Copenhagen - Denmark

Competition - 2nd prize 1994

Client : The city of Copenhagen

Cultural Institutions unbuilt projects

Banda Cultural Complex - Tower

Tokyo - Japan

Competition - prizewinning entry 1994

Cultural facility / offices / housing / restaurants.

GFA: 75,347 sq.ft

International Convention Hall

Nara - Japan

Competition 1992. Not selected.

Client : The city of Nara

Higher Municipal School of Fine Arts

Paris- France

Competition 1991. Project stopped.

GFA : 161,459 sq.ft.

Client : The city of Paris

Opra Bastille

Paris- France

International competition 1983

Finalist

Client : Ministry of Culture

Point du Jour

Boulogne Paris - France

1996 completed 1999

GFA : 329,376 sq.ft.

Client : Nexity-Sari

Tenant : Television channel

Canal+

BouygueImmobilier HeadquartersIssy les Moulineaux-ParisCommision 2004 - completition september 2009Surfaces : 24 000 m SHON totaleOffices : 19 300 m / Retail : 500 m / Commercial : 585 mClient : Bouygues Immobilier

Socit Gnrale Headquarters

Paris la dfense- France

Competition in 2001, delivered in 2008

GFA: 730,000 sq.ft.

Client : Groupe Socit Gnrale

Client assistant : ORCADIM

Developer : Nexity-Sari, Vinci

Office spaces in progress

Office spaces

Office spaces completed projects

LVMH Louis Vuitton Tower

New York - USA

1995 - 1999

GFA: 98,463 sq.ft.

Client: LVMH

1999 - project to extend the LVMH Tower

on the corner of Madison Ave.

Project stopped.

Crdit Lyonnais Tower

Eurallile

Lille - France

1991 completed 1995

GFA: 195,204 sq.ft.

Client : Nexity-Sari

Headquarters for the press

group, Le Monde, Paris

Commission 2001- completed

2005

Remodeling of a 1960s office

building

GFA: 194,949 sq.ft / Client :

Bouygues Immobilier

Landlord : DB Real Estate -

Tenant : Le Monde

Projet T1 ZAC Danton

Paris La Dfense

Competition 2001 . Project not selected.

Height : 165.20 m

Client : SARI

Office spaces unbuilt projects

Law Courts - Courts of Justice

Grasse - France

Competition

Prizewinning entry 1993

Completed 1999

GFA: 275,556 sq.ft.

Client : The Ministry of Justice

Extension of the Hospital de la Croix-Rousse

Lyon - France

Competition, prizewinning entry 1999, to be

completed in 2009

GFA: 500,000 sq.ft.

Client : Hospices Civils de Lyon

Rhne Alpes County Hall, Lyon- France

Competition

Prizewinning entry 1996, to be completed in 2009

GFA: 470,00 sq.ft.

Client : Conseil de la Regionnal Rhone Alpes

Public Institutions in progress

Public Institutions

Public Institutions completed projects

New French Embassy

Berlin - Germany

Competition

Prizewinning project 1997

Completed 2003

GFA: 182,986 sq.ft.

Client : Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Public Institutions completed projects

Water Tower

Marne-la-Valle - France

1971 completed 1974

Client : Etablissement Public d'Amnagement de la

ville nouvelle de Marne la Valle (EPAMARNE)

Bandstand - Music

Kiosque

Nanterre - France

completed 1994

Extension Palais des Congrs, Porte Maillot - Paris - France

Competition - prizewinning entry 1994

Completed 1999

GFA : 441,000 sq.ft. - added to the existing convention center

Client : Socit Immobilire du Palais des Congrs S.I.P.A.C.

Developer : The Chamber of Commerce and Industry

Aroville

Commercial pole for Roissy Airport

Roissy - France

2004 - Competition

Boutiques, restaurants, Entertainment, public services.

Client : Unibail.

Surface : 1,087,155 sq.ft

Commercial & Entertainment spaces in progress

Commercial & Entertainment spaces

Commercial & Entertainment spaces completes projects

Citron Atutomobiles

International Car Shows

Europe 1998 - 2005

with E. Pierres / Ronka

2006 Winery Cheval BlancSaint Emilion, Bordeaux

France2006 Winery Murlo Italy

Cinema and Theater

Le Mans - France

Competition prizewinning project

1998 - project stopped

Office spaces and commercial gallery

Avenue Wagram, Paris

Commission 2000 - project stopped

Boutique Ungaro

Paris Hamburg, Hong-Kong, London, Los Angeles, Tokyo, Taipei,

Zurich...,

the first of these boutiques is located on the

Avenue Montaigne in Paris 1989

Client : Emmanuel Ungaro

New Cinema Multiplex

Strasbourg - France

Competition 1997

Client : Path

Concours organis par la ville de Strasbourg

So Bella

Apartment buildings overhanging a commercial area on Las Vegas

main high street

Las Vegas Avenue - The Strip, Las Vegas, USA

Invitation for proposal 2005

GFA : 1,250,000 sq.ft.

Client : MGM MIRAGE

Commercial & Entertainment spaces unbuilt projects

Renaissance Mariott Hotel

Avenue Wagram, Paris

Commission 2003- completion 2008

Surface area : 8 500 m SHON

Client : GEREC - Groupe Alta Rea

Caf Beaubourg

Paris - France

1985 completed 1986

GFA: 5,705 sq.ft.

Client : Gilbert Costes

Eurodisney Hotel Complex

Marne-la-Valle - France

Competition 1988

Client : Eurodisney

Hotels completed projects

Hotels

Hotels unbuilt projects

Restaurants & CafsRestaurants & Cafs projets livrs

Furniture for Fukuoka Apartment Buildings

Fukuoka, Japan

1989 completed 1991

GFA Total: 43,055 sq.ft.

Client : Fukuoka Jisho Co, Ltd

Furniture for the

Caf Beaubourg, 1985

Carpet - Savonnerie Manufacture,

Les Gobelins, 1998-2005

350 x 460 cm

Carpet inspired by a pastel from Christian de Portzamparc, first architect,

since Le Corbusier, to have worked with the national manufactures.

Client : Ministre de la Culture et de la communication

Boxes, 1989

Furniture Design

Riverside Center.

New York - U.S.A.

Commission 2005

Urban project/ dwellings / commercial

spaces / offices

GFA: 297 000 m on 3 hectares

Client : Extell Development

The greater Paris Challenge

Paris - France

International consultation for the developing of the Greater Paris

Area

Client : Prsidency of the Rpublic

Rue de la loi Administrative heart of Europe.

Bruxelles - Belgium.

International competition, laureate, March 2009

Urban project / Public space / residential / retail / offices

GFA: 880.000 sqm

Client : Brussels region, the European commission.

Master planning in progress

Master planning

Sector Massena Urban Development Paris - France

Competition, prizewinning entry 1995

Under construction

GFA: 3,659,731 sq.ft. on 35 acres

Client : The City of Paris

Developer : Socit dEconomie Mixte dAmnagement de la

Ville de Paris (SEMAPA)

Les Jardins de la Lironde

Montpellier - France

1991- Under construction

GFA: 2,045,143 sq.ft. on 86,5 acres

Client : Urbat & Marignan

International competition for maritim urbanisation

Monaco

Competition 2008, not selected

Client : Foncire Maritime SAM

Surface:275 000m on 10ha

Project team : Atelier Christian de Portzamparc, Atelier

Elizabeth de Portzamparc, OMA Rem Koolhaas, Frank

Gehry

Master planning unbuilt projects

Con-Edison,

East River project

New-York 2001

Competition - not selected

Client : FSM

Atlanple - Technological Park

Nantes - France

Competition

Prizewinning entry 1988

Working studies 1988-1994

Beijing - China

Commission 2003

1-Urbanism : Site plan design

Surface area : 1 000 000m

2-Architecture : Two blocks (image)

Surface area : 46 000m et 27 000m

Client : Hua Yuan group-Kerry properties

Master planning unbuilt projects

Fukuoka Marinoa DevelopmentFukuoka - Japan 1997

Development of the Renault District Paris - France Competition 1995

Study for the La Dfense Nanterre Axis France Competition 1994

Chasse Terrain Housing Development Breda -Netherlands Competition 1994

Sector III Urban Development Scheme, Marne-la-Valle 1993

Development of the Ponts Jumeaux DistrictToulouse - France1991 plans approved for urbanism 1993GFA: 2,152,783 sq.ft. on 25 acres

Development of the Place de lEtoile Le Noudorf Strasbourg - FranceCompetition 1991GFA: 430,556 sq.ft.

Sector IV Urban Development Scheme

Marne-la-Valle

France

Call for ideas 1989

Client : EPAMARNE

Urban Development, Marne-la-Valle with Antoine Grumbach1970-1976

Redevelopment of Coislin Square

Metz - France

Competition 1990

GFA: 484,374 sq.ft.

Client : Uniblor - Espace

Promotion

Urban Development Scheme

for the Sextius Mirabeau District

Aix-en-Provence - France

competition - placed second equal

- 1989

GFA: 1,097,919 sq.ft. on 39,5

acres

Client : Ville dAix-en-Provence in

association with

Urbat : Marseille, Montpellier and

Fonta : Toulouse

Port de la Lune Docklands - Redevelopment Bordeaux - call for ideas 1989, GFA: 37 acres

Santo andr

Sao Paolo - Brazil

1999

80 000m

Client : The city of Santo Andr

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Prizes, Distinctions and Honours2008 Grand Pari

Christian de Portzamparc has been selected for an international research and development consultation that aims togather suggestions and strategic development plans for the Parisian municipality

2008 Awarded the Crateurs sans Frontires trophypresented by the Ministry for Foreign Affairs for his creative work that has attracted particular attention abroad

2006 The Collge de France called him to be the holder of the first chair in Artistic Creation

2005 MIPIM Award - for the remodelling of the building for the press group Le Monde in Paris

2004 The Great Urbanism Prize awarded by the Ministry for Development and Urbanism and selected by an international jury to congratulate a workwith achievements of high quality combined with city vision and philosophy articulating theoretical concepts and concrete realisations, while developing an optimistic vision for the future through his works and writings.

2002- Member of the jury for the Radio France Culture prize La Ville Lire for literature whose themetoday focuses on the concept of the city

2001 Business Week and Architectural Record Awardfor the LVMH Tower in New York (U.S.A.)

1998 AIA: Christian de Portzamparc becomes an honorary fellow of the American Institute of Architects and is licensed inthe state of New York.

1995 querre dArgentawarded by the French press group Le Moniteur for the City of Music Conservatory of Music and Dance in Paris

1994 The Pritzker Prize of Architecture - awarded by the Hyatt Foundation

1993 Great National Prize of Architecture - awarded by the French Ministry of Urbanism and Transport

1992 Mdaille dArgent - awarded by the French Academy of Architecture.

1990 Great Prize of Architecture of the City of Paris - awarded by the Mayor of Paris.

1989 Commandeur de lOrdre des Arts et des Lettres - awarded by the French Ministry of Culture.

1988 querre dArgent - awarded by Press Group Le Moniteur for the Dance School of the Paris Opera.

1985-91 President of the E.S.A. - a private architecture school in Paris

1982 Member of the publication committee Architecture, Movement, Continuity

Publications"Writing and Seeing Architecture", conversations between Christian de Portzamparc and Philippe Soller, translated byCatherine Tihany, published by the University of Minesota Press, 2008

"Rver la ville", illustrated publication of the biographic exhibition, by Sophie Trelcat, Paris, published by Le Moniteur, 2007

Architecture: figures du monde, figure du temps, text by Christian de Portzamparc for the Collge de Franceinaugural lecture, January 2006, published by the Collge de France / Fayard

Grand prix de lurbanisme, Christian de Portzamparc, published by the Ministry for Urbanism and Development, 2004

Christian de Portzamparc biography by Gilles de Bure, published by Terrail, 2003

Voir Ecrire conversations between Christian de Portzamparc and Philippe Sollers, published by Calmann-lvy, 2003

"Gnalogie des formes" a book of Christian de Portzamparcs hand sketches and paintings. Interview with Christian dePortzamparc, by Danile Rivire and Jacinto Lageira, published by Dis Voir, 1996

"Christian de Portzamparc" biography, text by Christian de Portzamparc, N. Jankovic, J. Lucan, P. Virilio, published by Arc en Rve Birkhauser, 1996

"Christian de Portzamparc" biography, text by Jean Pierre Le Dantec, published by Aux ditions du Regard, 1996

"Disegno e forma dellarchitecttura per la citt", biography, text by Riccardo Florio, published by Officina Edizioni,1996

Le Geometrie come matrici generative del designo di projetto by R. Florio about the Cit de la Musique, published by Facolt di Architectura delle Universit dgli Studi di Palermo, 1993.

"Christian de Portzamparc" biography, text by Bernard Huet, Jacques Lucan, Franois Chaslin, Olivier Chaslin, Christian de

Exhibition catalogues " In the city", A bilingual catalogue for the exhibition In the City, with an essay written by Hans van Dijk,Jonge Hond Publishers, the Netherlands"Rver la ville"an illustrated publication of the biographic exhibition, by Sophie Trelcat, Paris, published by Le Moniteur, 2007"Scnes d'Atelier" texts by Philippe Sollers, Alain Guiheux, Marc BdaridaInterview with Christian de Portzamparc by Richard Scoffier, exhibition catalogue for the Georges Pompidou Center, 1996"Christian de Portzamparc Urban situations"by J. Lucan, published by Aux editions, Gallery MA - Tokyo - Japan, 1991

Issues Deconstruction and Post-Deconstruction : Architecture Without Measuring by Dr. Mashary Abdullah Al-Naim, Albenaa, volume 27, number 206, December 2007La Philharmonie de Luxembourg, interview with Christian de Portzamparc by M. Brausch.published by Fonds dUrbanisation et dAmnagement du Plateau de Kirchberg, 2003The LVMH Tower by Joseph Giovannini, interview with Christian de Portzamparc by Franis Rambert, special issueof Connaissance des Arts, 1999Architecture d'Aujourd'hui, 1997.Occulum, 1997.Plus Architecture, 1996.GA Document n27 Tokyo 1990 (west wing of the City of Music)"G.A.Document extra 04" Interview of Christian de Portzamparc by Y.Futagawa . Tokyo, A.D.A edita, 1995.La Cit de la musique by Philip Jodidio, Franis Rambert, and an interview of Christian de Portzamparc by BrigitteMarget.Special issue of Connaissance des Arts n spcial 66, 1995."G.A.Document extra 04" interview with Christian de Portzamparc by Y.Futagawa, Tokyo, published by A.D.A edita,1995.La Cit de la musique by Philip Jodidio, Franis Rambert and an interview with Christian de Portzamparc byBrigitte Marget. Special issue of Connaissance des Arts n spcial 66, 1995GA Document n'44 (east wing of the City of music) September 1995

La Hua Xu Architect DPLG, French registered architect Studio Director

La Hua Xu is one of Studio Managers leading the ninety person architectural team in major projects at the Atelier Christian de Portzamparc. Graduated in 1985 of Tsinghua University in Beijing and awarded of a public scholarship, she came to France in 1986 where she has got diplomas of Architect DPLG and master degree in The Architecture and Economy of Cultural Facilities. Since 1991, she has collaborated with Christian de Portzamparc in projects of various scale and nature, as both head designer and project manager on:

Urban projects: The Grand Paris Project, presidential consultation on a Paris development strategy, 2008-2009 Master plan of Beijing Logistics-Port Residential Area, 1 000 000m of housing and retails, 2003 Master plan of Con Edison Area in New York, 2001 Master plan of Pitkovice Residential Area, Prague, 1993, 1500 dwellings

Cultural or public facilities: High Court in Grasse, 1993-1999, realized New Cultural Center Les Champs Libres in Rennes, 1993-2007, realized French Embassy in Tokyo, 2006, Taichung Metropolitan Opera, Taipei, 2005 Chinese Museum of Cinema, Beijing, 2002 National Oriental Languages and Civilizations Institute in Paris, 1994

Office Tower: Coolsingel Tower in Rotterdam, 70 000m head office, 2007, design in progress Granite Tower of the Socit Gnrale in La Dfense, 75 000m, 2001-2008, realized

Residential: Residence LIles Extenso in Nantes, 14 500m of apartments and retail, 2004, realized The Beijing Logistics-Port Residential Area, Bloc A and B of 80 000m of housing and retail, 2003 Koren House, Tel-Aviv, Israel 2002

She also contributed actively in the following projects:

Master plan of the Riverside Area in New York, 2006, in progress Residential project in Montpellier, 2005, realized Music Hall in Aix-en-Provence, 2004 Master plan of the Zeil project, 210 000m of mixed use area, Frankfort, Germany, 2002 Croix Rousse Hospital in Lyon, 2000, under construction Master plan of the Massna Sector - Paris seine Rive Gauche, 1995-2008, realized Nara International Convention Center, Japon, 1992 High Court in Bordeaux, 1992 Fine-Arts School of City of Paris, 1991

She worked equally as project manager or head designer outside of the firm on projects as:

Urban projects: Urban design of the Place of Theater in Prigueux, 2000, realized Master plan of the new town Bandar Nusajaya, Malaysia, 1997 The Universal Trade & Exhibition Centre on a man-made 5,000,000ms island in Zhuhai, China, 1998

Cultural or public facilities: Renovation of Royal Theater of Compigne, 1990, realized Arago High School, Villeneuve St Georges, 1989, realized Conference and Exhibition hall in the International Town of Lyon, 2000 The School of Music of Strasbourg, 1999 Media Library of Rueil-Malmaison, 1998 Beaujon Complex, Paris, (schools, gymnasium, swimming pool and residential) 1988

Offices: Head office of BMS-UPSA in Rueil-Malmaison, 2000, realized Office Bloc M7 in the Massena Sector, Paris 1999, realized Head office of HAVAS publicity in Issy-les-moulineaux, 1999 Head office of Dutch Post AG, Bonn, Germany, 1999

Duccio Cardelli DPLG Architect Dottore Architetto of the Architecture University of Florence Italy

Duccio Cardelli is a project manager who has worked with Christian de Portzamparc since 2001. He graduated in 2000 at the Universit degli Studi di Firenze and obtained a special mention. He has collaborated in projects of various scale and nature, from individual housing to Cultural Facilities.

At Christian de Portzamparc studio, he has been involved in the following projects:

As Project Manager of:

Residential: - Residential Building, Amsterdam Street New York City, 2004 2006

Urban projects: - Development over the see for the City of Monaco, from Mars 2007 to February 2008. Contest - Riverside South Development, lots LMN, New York City, Feb. 2006 to December 2006.

Cultural or public facilities: - Extension for the Roland Garros Tennis Site, new tennis stadium, 2009. Contest.

- City of Music, Darat King Abdullah II, Amman, Jordan, from February 2008 to April 2008. - Main Hall New Philharmonic House, Paris, Feb. 2007. - New York City Opera + main hall, New York City, 2004 2006 - Roland-Garros Stadium, Paris, from February to May 2009

Commercial buildings - Leccetella, Murlo winery. Sienne, Italy, from June 2006 to present

Mix used Tower: - Main Tower, Equestrian City King Abdullah, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, from April 2007 to present.

As P.M. Assistant on:

Cultural or public facilities: - City of Music, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2002 2003 (construction process) - Philharmonic House of Luxembourg Luxembourg, 2001- 2002 (constructed)

Residential: - Residential Buildings, Beijing, China, 2003 2004

Offices: - Main Building Bouygues Immobilier, Issy-Les-Moulineaux, Paris, 2004

He also contributed actively in the following projects: - Archipel Theater, Perpignan, France 2005

- 400 Park Avenue South, Residential Tower, New York City, 2005 - Residential Building, Amsterdam Street New York City, 2004 2006 - Herge Museum, Louvain la Neuve, Belgium, 2004 (constructed)