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Quick Facts:
General information:
Status: Proposed
Type: Office, monument and retail
Location: La Défense(Courbevoie, France)
Construction started: 2010
Completed: 2013
Opening: 2013
Height: Antenna spire 296 m (971
Technical details:
Floor count 71
Floor area 130,000 m2 (1,400,000 sq ft)
Design and construction:
Architect Morphosis (Thom Mayne)
Developer Unibail
Structural engineer IBE Consulting Engineers (MEP[disambiguation needed])
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The Phare Tower (Tour Phare, commonly called Le Phare in French), in English, "Lighthouse Tower", is a planned approx. 300-meter-tall skyscraper with 71 floors designed as a green building to be built in Courbevoie (Hauts-de-Seine), France, in the La Défense district of suburban Paris. The building is being designed by Los Angeles-based Morphosis, headed by architect Thom Mayne, and is scheduled to be completed in 2014. When completed, it will be the tallest skyscraper in Paris and one of the tallest in the European Union. Read more at Wiki
About The Architect
Thom Mayne (b. January 19, 1944, in Waterbury, Connecticut) is a Los Angeles-based architect. Educated at University of Southern California (1969) and the Harvard University Graduate School of Design in 1978, Mayne helped found the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc) in 1972, where he is a trustee. Since then he has held teaching positions at SCI-Arc, the California State Polytechnic University, Pomona (Cal Poly Pomona) and the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). He is principal of Morphosis, an architectural firm in Santa Monica, California. Mayne received the Pritzker Architecture Prize in March 2005.
Mayne was a member of the Holcim Awards global jury in 2006 and a member of the Holcim Awards jury for region North America in 2005. He presented a keynote address at the 3rd International Holcim Forum 2010 in Mexico City
Thom Mayne, with Livio Santini, James Stafford and Michael Brickler, founded Morphosis in 1971. Michael Rotondi joined the firm in 1975 to develop an architecture that would eschew the normal bounds of traditional forms. Morphosis’s design philosophy arises from an interest in producing work with a meaning that can be understood by absorbing the culture for which it was made. Read more at Wiki
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Product Description
One of the few truly visionary architects of large-scale commissions working today, Thom Mayne
won the 2005 Pritzker Architecture Prize, his field's most prestigious award. Mayne's influential firm Morphosis, founded in the early 1970s, has maintained an avant-garde presence among contemporary architecture firms even as it has garnered high-profile, big-budget commissions around the world. Since Rizzoli published Volume I of the Morphosis series in 1989, the Los Angeles-based firm has attained the highest levels of international esteem and influence as it continues to push its intricate modernism into new territory. In the tradition of its three comprehensive and visually groundbreaking predecessors, this fourth volume packs 575 illustrations into its tour of Morphosis's activity at the turn of the twenty-first century. And like other series of Rizzoli monographs, the Morphosis series is considered the authoritative record of the firm's work. New works covered in Volume IV include the extraordinary Cal Trans Headquarters in Los Angeles, housing designed for New York's 2012 Olympics bid, the San Francisco Federal Office Building, the NOOA Satellite Operations Facility, and major housing projects in Toronto and Shanghai constructed of glass and high-tech materials demonstrating the appealingly iconoclastic modernism of Thom Mayne and Morphosis.Product Details
Hardcover: 416 pages
Publisher: Rizzoli (May 2, 2006)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 9780847828036
ISBN-13: 978-0847828036
ASIN: 0847828034
