Forum des Halles - Paris (France)

Forum des Halles 16/12/2022 09h48

A vista view from under the La Canopée

of the shopping mall Forum des Halles on a morning in December.

 

La Canopée

La Canopée is a structure built above the Châtelet-Les-Halles metro and RER station and the Mall Forum in the quartier Les Halles

Inaugurated on April 6, 2016, the Canopy embodies the architectural solution adopted at the end of the international competition of July 2007 to modernize and restructure the center of gravity of the Ile-de-France metropolis inherited since the destruction of the Halles de Baltard.

 

Known as having been the "belly of Paris", this place was given a role in the urban renewal of the center of Paris from the start of the food supply activity in the 1960s. des halles” proves to be the opportunity to create a nodal point of the Parisian transport network on the scale of Ile France but also, with a national and international opening. On this network are connected quality stations as well as two of the main French airports.

 

Architect: Patrick Berger

Owner: Westfield Forum des Halles

Construction: 2012-2016

Heigth: 14.5 meters

RER: Châtelet-Les Halles

Métro: Châtelet & Les Halles (1, 4, 7, 11, 14)

 

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