Le Monde Headquarters
Rather than demolishing the original concrete office block, the project strips it back to its structural skeleton and transforms both its identity and its presence in the street.
- Status
- Built
- Client
- Le Monde Journal
- Program
- Office building restructuring.
- Architect
- Atelier Christian de Portzamparc, AND Studio, collaboration
About
A double-skin glass envelope wraps the long volume, with a 36-metre façade silkscreened with doves by the cartoonist Plantu. A light-filled atrium cut through the core brings the editorial newsrooms together.