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Roof in a Garden' Design Wins Paris CompetitionFrench firm Seura, headed by architect David Mangin, has been selected to redesign the Les Halles quarter in Paris.
Seura beat three other firms - AJN (Architectures Jean Nouvel), MVRDV (Winy Maas) and OMA (Rem Koolhaas) - in the final stage of an international competition that was launched in March, 2003.
Seura's winning $267 million design will see the redevelopment of Les Halles, an area of pedestrianized streets around a park, an underground multi-level shopping and leisure complex and a busy underground rail transport hub of metro and fast suburban train lines.
The Paris-based firm's urban design plan includes a 72-foot-wide avenue, which runs lengthways through the rectangular shaped site next to the Eglise Saint Eustache.
The avenue divides a wide grassy area on one side from covered seating areas and pathways on the other, and passes under a 26-foot-high flat glass canopy - measuring 476 feet by 476 feet - that covers underground shopping levels and the entry to the subway interchange station.
Seura's redevelopment of Les Halles means the bulldozing of the existing glass, steel and concrete 70's buildings that were built on the site of the old Les Halles flower, meat and vegetable market.
In the late Sixties, the market was relocated to a Parisian suburb, and the 19th century glass and cast-iron pavili
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