A group of leading French architects have denounced a plan to renovate the Gare du Nord, one of Paris’s main train stations, calling the designs that would turn the station into a glassy, mammoth, restaurant-filled shopping mall “indecent,” “absurd” and “unacceptable.” — The New York Times
Plans to drastically expand and modernize Paris's foremost train station were unveiled in 2018 with a commitment to meet the increased travel volume during the Olympic Summer Games in 2024 and cope with the more complex arrival procedures of British nationals in the post-Brexit era.
An open letter signed by leading architectural figures, including Pritzker Prize laureate Jean Nouvel, now sharply rebukes the renovation plan.
"Forcing hundreds of thousands of people to walk through commercial spaces becomes unbearable when this gift to trade goes with long and unnecessarily complicated journeys," recites the New York Times a section of the letter which was published in Le Monde this week. "This project is unacceptable and we demand a rethink from floor to rafters."
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Jean Nouvel would rather have his plantes in the sink replicated there.
"Jean Nouvel and leading French architects"
subtly pointing out that Nouvel is not a leading French architect
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