Palais de la Musique et des Congrès

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East facade of the building (2018)

The Palais de la Musique et des Congrès (also "PMC"; German  Music and Congress Palace ) is a multi-purpose event building in Strasbourg , France . The original design by Le Corbusier was never realized. The building was erected in three phases until 1975, 1989 and 2016.

Since 1976 the Palais has been the main venue for the Orchester philharmonique de Strasbourg (Strasbourg Philharmonic).

location

The building is located in the north-east of the city, not far from the exhibition grounds and the Europaviertel. It is located south of the Aar on Rue Richard Strauss in the Wacken district. There is a stop for buses and tram lines B and E nearby. During the last renovation, parking spaces were reduced to green spaces; the remaining parking spaces are on the west side of the palace.

history

In the early 1960s, the Strasbourg Philharmonic wanted the Palais des Fêtes to be modernized . It was built in 1903 as a singing house and expanded in 1921 to include the “Salle de la Marseillaise”. Since there was also a need for a modern congress center, Mayor Pierre Pflimlin turned to the world-famous architect Le Corbusier. He made the first drafts and a wooden model with curved shapes. However, Le Corbusier died in August 1965 before he could come up with final plans.

The Palais de la Musique et des Congrès was built in 1973-1976 by the architects François Sauer, Paul Ziegler and André Dahan in a completely different style and in the shape of a hexagonal building. This is now the Salle Érasme with 1870 m² and 1876 seats. The building was blown on October 16, 1975. The construction of a second separate wing took place in 1989, it was built on a polygonal floor plan. Its event hall, the Salle Schweitzer , today has 1265 m² and 1182 seats. A thorough renovation and modernization took place between 2012 and 2016. The palace was given a third wing with an area of ​​8000 m², the event hall, the Salle Cassin, with 515 seats on 571 m². The polygonal floor plan was removed.

In addition to the three large halls, the building has 23 other event rooms for 20 to 440 people, 10,000 m² of exhibition space and other areas for entertaining guests.

description

After the extensive renovation in 2016, the palace consists of three wings with the floor plan of irregular hexagons that overlap each other. The area of ​​the building is 45,000 m². The facade is made of glass, with prismatically shaped steel supports in front of it. After the architecture firm Dietrich / Untertrifaller Architekten won the international competition in 2011, the project was implemented from 2013 to 2016 with the support of the local architects Rey-Lucquet et associés (Thierry Rey, Serge Lucquet and Olivier de Crécy).

Art in architecture includes a large sculpture in the outdoor area by Henry Moore : “Lying figure in two pieces: cut” (1981, lying in two parts, cut up ). A tapestry was made in 2015 by Marc Petit (* 1961).

Web links, sources

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ archi-wiki.org: catalog photo of the Musée d'Art moderne et contemporain de Strasbourg (MAMCS) (accessed on September 19, 2018)
  2. ^ Tous nos espaces . (French; accessed on September 20, 2018)
  3. ↑ Qui sommes-nous? . (French; accessed on September 20, 2018)
  4. ↑ archi-wiki.org: Rey-de Crécy (atelier d'architecture) . (French; accessed on September 20, 2018)

Coordinates: 48 ° 35 ′ 51.8 "  N , 7 ° 45 ′ 26.3"  E