THE NATIONAL LIBRARY OF FRANCE AND THE SUSTAINABLE METROPOLIS
DPA EDITIONS, 2015
PUBLICATION
PU-059
DETAILS
Project management
Gaëlle Lauriot-Prévost
Author
Dominique Perrault
Publishing house
Éditions DPA
Printing
Paris, France
Year of publication
2015
Number of pages
63
Languages
French
Status
Publication
SYNOPSIS
The idea for this booklet arose from a conversation between Dominique Perrault and Bruno Racine in the spring of 2015. With an international conference on climate change – which it was hoped would prove decisive – in the pipeline, the time was ripe to consider ways of ‘greening’ the Bibliothèque nationale de France, whose four towers have become a dominant feature of the Parisian skyline. Advances in materials since the BnF was built now offer a glimpse of solutions that were once unrealistic. This study outlines one such solution. Can yesterday’s utopia become tomorrow’s reality?
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