[REPLAY] S2#69🇺🇸🇬🇧 Itv, "Revival of the 3M Tower, a manifesto project"

Remember (CDAS2#24), the French headquarters of the firm 3M was delivered in the new town of Cergy-Pontoise in France in the late 1970s (1976-1978). It was a very finely designed and ingeniously calculated tower, with self-supporting facades, without cladding, designed by the architect Paul Depondt (Phd Harvard 1957), using a steel structure known as Cor-Ten and situated on a vast wooded site, a lung in the heart of the city.The change of land policy by 3M and the decisions of the city of Cergy condemned the tower to demolition in 2015. The demolition of the tower is completed in 2021. In its place, an operation of 1300 concrete dwellings will be completed in 2024. Seduced by Paul Depondt's architecture, sensitive to my thesis work on the subject, resolutely against urban zoning, two pugnacious French architecture students, Duncan Driffort and Antoine Leriche, decide in 2019 to design a manifesto diploma project for the revival of the tower, yet aware that it will eventually be demolished. They are now brilliantly graduated. In this issue of Com d'Archi S2 #69, in English, they introduce themselves, they explain the reasons for their choice and explain their project.Image teaser © Antoine LericheSound engineering : Julien Rebours___If you like the podcast do not hesitate:. to subscribe so you don't miss the next episodes,. to leave us stars and a comment :-),. to follow us on Instagram @comdarchipodcast to find beautiful images, always chosen with care, so as to enrich your view on the subject.Nice week to all of you ! Hébergé par Acast. Visitez acast.com/privacy pour plus d'informations.