New Palace of Justice Paris

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Panorama with the Palace of Justice in the center
completed Palace of Justice
Photo from the early construction work

The New Palace of Justice (French: Cité judiciaire de Paris , approximately City of Justice ) was completed in June 2017. The 160 meter high skyscraper on the ring road near the Porte de Clichy in the north-west of the city in Paris replaces the existing Palace of Justice in the city center. The architect is Renzo Piano . He had designed the Center Georges-Pompidou in 1977. The building is located in the Quartier des Batignolles district in the 17th arrondissement near the suburb of Saint-Denis .

The Tribunal de grande instance de Paris and other courts in the city moved there in 2017, as did the police headquarters from the previous building 36, quai des Orfèvres . The building has 38 floors. The five- to eight-story base is open to the public. There are planted terraces on the 8th, 19th and 29th floors. The roof garden on the 8th floor alone has an area of ​​7,000 square meters. The building has 104,000 square meters of floor space. 50,000 square meters of the total of 62,000 square meters of the facade are glazed.

Justice Minister Christiane Taubira presented the project in 2012. It belongs to the era of French President François Hollande . In centralized France, it is customary for state presidents to erect large buildings in order to be remembered. With Georges Pompidou this was the Center Georges-Pompidou, with François Mitterrand the national library , with Jacques Chirac the Museum of Non-European Art and the Philharmonie de Paris and with Nicolas Sarkozy the Balard project .

In January 2013 it was approved by Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault . The foundation stone was laid in May 2015. It is a public-private partnership with the French company Bouygues .

The Palace of Justice was built in an area with no other skyscrapers and is therefore an important landmark with its iconographic silhouette . In terms of urban planning, it is part of the Grand Paris concept , which envisages upgrading the communities around the metropolis. The nearest metro station is Porte de Clichy .

See also

Web links

Commons : Tribunal de Paris  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Information on the projets-architecte-urbanisme.fr page , accessed on May 30, 2016 (French)
  2. ↑ Information on the website of the Paris Police Headquarters of January 27, 2015 , accessed on May 30, 2016 (French)
  3. ↑ Information on the website of a Swiss tour operator, July 27, 2015 ( Memento of the original from May 30, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed May 30, 2016 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.frantour.ch
  4. ↑ Press release on reuters.com , accessed on May 30, 2016 (French)
  5. ↑ Ullrich Fichtner , Julia Amalia Heyer: A festival for survival. DER SPIEGEL, May 28, 2016, pp. 16–23, here p. 21.


Coordinates: 48 ° 53 ′ 41 ″  N , 2 ° 18 ′ 31 ″  E