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Architects: Studio Contini
- Area: 693 m²
- Year: 2020
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Professionals: Giancarlo De Lisi, Giampaolo Vecchi, Buia Nereo s.r.l.
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On the banks of the river Seine, just east of the Île de la Cité and downtown Paris, stand the four glittering towers of the National Library of France. Bent around the outskirts of a public esplanade, these towers are Dominique Perrault’s modern take on the age-old Parisian tradition of monumental public architecture. The project is both volume and void, enclosure and exposure, a juxtaposition of contrasting ideas that is as reverent of its place in a thousand-year-old legacy as it is deliberately self-critical.