something simple that
is also beautiful and
extraordinary
Further north, the environmental claims stack up better. Sited across the roaring A1 from the Stade de France, and connected by a new pedestrian bridge (sadly closed off for the Games due to overcrowding fears), the €175m aquatics centre is a beacon of what this Olympics stands for: lean, green and a little understated. It will be a boon for an area with the lowest swimming proficiency in the country, where half of all 11-year-olds don’t know how to swim.
“It’s about doing better with less,” says Laure Mériaud of Ateliers 2/3/4, architects of the project with Dutch firm VenhoevenCS. “You can do something simple and efficient that is also beautiful and extraordinary.”
From the article, Plastic-bottle seats and wooden pools: can Paris deliver the leanest, greenest Olympics yet? by Oliver Wainwright, the Guardian’s architecture and design critic.
The Métropole du Grand Paris, has been awarded the “Technical Achievement” prize in the Construction Bois 2024 Regional competition.
On the VenhoevenCS website, the firm listed all the members or the design team, made up of folks from both VenhoevenCS and Ateliers 2/3/4/ and they include Cécilia Gross and Laure Meriaud, Ton Venhoeven, Arjen Zaal, Yves de Pommereau, Jos-Willem van Oorschot, Eraldo Brandimarte, Margot Lamazou, Tjeerd Hellinga, Arjan Pot, Louis van Wamel, Maria Boletou, Julie Fuchs, Yann Tregoat, Jeremy Cassin, Ivo Brandes, Rubing Xu, Nicolas Handtschoewercker, Timothée Pignoux, Wai Ming Lam.
I think a lot these people went to high school with me in West Michigan or at least their cousins did.
It’s about doing better with less!
Something simple and efficient that is also beautiful and extraordinary!
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