La Seine Musicale
La Seine Musicale is a cultural center in the Paris region , southwest of Paris on the Seine island Île Seguin near Boulogne-Billancourt . It was inaugurated on April 21, 2017 with a concert by Bob Dylan . It covers an area of 36,500 m². The building, designed by architects Shigeru Ban and Jean de Gastines , looks like a ship. Around the glass-clad, spherical facade in the center of the building, a photovoltaic sail moves with the path of the sun. The construction time was three years, the costs amounted to 170 million euros. On the island named after the chemist Seguin , there was previously a large Renault production plant , which was demolished in 2005.
The Auditorium concert hall can accommodate up to 1,150 guests. For the walls, 1,700 individually corrugated pieces of pine were put together in a honeycomb shape. The Tokyo office Nagata Acoustics was responsible for the acoustics concept , which had already devised those for the Paris Philharmonic and the Elbphilharmonie. Unlike in Hamburg, however, it is not the contrasts that are emphasized here in the sound, but rather harmony, which is also optically realized by the wooden wickerwork on the walls. The house orchestra is the Insula Orchestra under the direction of Laurence Equilbey . At concerts there are also cheap tickets for five euros. The great hall, La Grande Seine , holds 4000 (seats only) to 6000 seats. All kinds of music are supposed to be performed there. There are also rehearsal rooms for musicians - Les Riffx Studios -, a singing school, seminar rooms, a press center and restaurants. From the fourth floor you have an all-round view of the surroundings.
The Métro with its line 9 leads to the nearest terminus Pont de Sèvres , a rapid transit connection is planned. The complex was created as a public-private partnership , which is why the Tempo-Île Seguin consortium has been able to make a profit here for 30 years until La Seine Musicale will fall to the Hauts-de-Seine department .
On December 12, 2017, the extraordinary or additional world climate summit One Planet Summit (“One Earth Summit”), announced by French President Emmanuel Macron at COP 23 in Bonn in November 2017, took place here.
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- From April 2017: La Seine Musicale - the new music culture center on the Seine France.fr, accessed on April 24, 2017.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Spectacular Philharmonic opens Deutschlandfunk, April 23, 2017.
- ^ A b c Susanne Benda: New concert hall opened near Paris . Stuttgarter-Zeitung.de, May 15, 2017.
- ^ Futuristic concert hall in Paris opens Wiener Zeitung, April 22, 2017.
- ↑ a b Thomas Hahn: Newly used industrial site. The Seine Musicale in Paris , Bühnentechnische Rundschau special volume 2017, pp. 12–16.