Repurposing of La Poste du Louvre by Dominique Perrault Architecture
Channel: A As Architecture
Date: 2019-02-08

Through its redevelopment, the Louvre Post Office will remain a strategic site for Paris’s postal services. It will make room for more innovative services and adapt its facilities to cater to the changes in public use and expectations. The new Post Office will be a vibrant, open and accessible space in a rapidly changing area of Paris. The new Louvre Post Office building will provide much more than postal services. 

The former industrial hub will turn into an urban center, opening its doors to a broad range of customers, across all backgrounds and generations. It will become a shared space for all to meet - Parisians and tourists, employees and students, families and Post Office staff. In addition to its traditional postal function, the newly renovated building will provide public facilities including a police station, a nursery and a coworking space; commercial services such as a hotel, offices and late-night shops; as well as affordable public housing.

Another remarkable feature of the project is the ground floor of the building, which will be entirely redesigned to create a large central, open-ceiling arena which will be accessible to all.
This central square is conceived as a meeting space for passers-by and customers. In the same spirit, the green roof will be open to the public for all to enjoy the unique view on Paris rooftops. Source by Dominique Perrault Architecture. Info project https://goo.gl/iebrb7

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