Arena 92 – Plenitude Arena
Built for Racing 92, a French club founded in 1882, the arena at Nanterre-La Défense is a stadium with a roof over it.
- Type
- Competition won
- Status
- Built
- Client
- Racing Arena – Jacky Lorenzetti
- Scale
- 117,000 m²
- Program
- Multipurpose rugby stadium and event arena with 10,000 to 40,000 seats, and offices
- Architect
- Atelier Christian de Portzamparc, AND Studio, collaboration
About
The pitch, the stands and the offices sit together in one long, luminous volume.
The same hall is a rugby ground one evening and a concert venue the next. Its capacity moves between 10,000 and 40,000 seats, so the building is defined less by a single use than by its ability to change.
AND Studio worked on the project with Christian de Portzamparc, from the winning competition in 2012 to the finished building, now known as Paris La Défense Arena and later Plenitude Arena.