The
project
The project of the new Bibliothèque Nationale de France (French National
Library) was designed to replace the historical Quadrilatère Richelieu
site, located in the centre of Paris. The latter, made up of old and often-modified
buildings, had become both too cramped and less and less suited to the functions
of conservation, enriching of contents, specialised research, and public
use.
The new Bibliothèque Nationale is located on the site of Tolbiac,
alongside the Seine, in a previously industrial sector of the capital that
is undergoing a vast urban rehabilitation.
This new unit is made up mainly of a base, receiving a vast public esplanade
and surrounding a garden, as well as four towers in the shape of open books
with a fully glazed facade.
The library has more than 2,000 reading places for researchers and
more than 1,500 places for the public. It covers some 350,000 m²
of floor area. Studies started in 1990 and it was opened by the President
of the Republic F. Mitterrand in April 1995.
The operation represented a total investment by the state of more than €1 billion,
of which approximately €600M excluding VAT was for the construction
itself.
| The
Client |
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ETABLISSEMENT
PUBLIC de la BIBLIOTHEQUE de FRANCE
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| Prime
contractor |
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Dominique
PERRAULT, Contracted Architect
Technip TPS, Project management and Engineering of technical
contracts
SECHAUD & BOSSUYT, Structural Engineering
SYSECA, Engineering of Low Current and Automatic Document Handling
contracts
HGM, GTC Engineering
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| The
assignments of
Technip TPS |
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Technip TPS
carried out the full range of management and technical engineering
assignments of the project. |
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