AWP Selected Press Clips 2011-15

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pavillon lanterne norwegian wood lantern sandnes, norvège

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↘ 1  Børre Skodvin, As Built #08 :

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↘ 5  Philip Jodidio, Public Architecture Now !, Taschen, Köln, 2010

—>  Architetti #38, May 2011, p. 32-40 , ‘Norwegian Wood. The Lantern Pavilion’ by Federica Maietti

↘ 14 Le Moniteur n°5495, 20 march

Lanternen (ouvrage monographique), Forlag, Oslo, 2013

↘ 2  Marc Armengaud, Matthias

↘ 6  A+A (Architecture & Art), n°192,

↘ 10  Séquences Bois, n°85, may 2011,

↘ 15 RUM - Arkitektur Inredning

Armengaud, Alessandra Cianchetta, Roger Connah, Sam Jacob, Rowan Moore, Towards a Climate, Building (with) the Unstable, ouvrage publié à l’occasion de l’exposition monographie à Cornell University, août-septembre 2013, Ithaca (US), Lab Press publishing, Paris, 2013

2011, p. 36-43 ‘When architecture encounter with...’ )

p. 20-23, ‘La Lanterne, un pavillon urbain en Norvège’

—>   Architecture & Detail (China), n°04, 2011, p. 33-35, ‘The Lantern Pavilion’

—>  Frame, 22 feb. 2011, ‘The Lantern Pavilion by AWP & Atelier Oslo’, by Lydia Parafianowicz

↘ 7  AMC hors-série bois, june 2010,

↘ 11 AMC n°192, nov. 2009, p. 143-145, ‘Sandnes –aménagement’

↘ 3  Ariella Masboungi and Raphaël Crestin (dir.), Impulser la Ville : Palmarès des Jeunes Urbanistes, Paranthèses, Paris, 2012

↘ 4  Collective « French Touch », Architecture Optimiste Yearbook 2009, Pyramyd Editions, Paris, 2010

p. 101-103, ‘Kiosk-Lantern’

↘ 8 Architetti, aug.-sept. 2011, p. 14-15, ‘Lantern Pavilion, Sandnes’ by Federica Maietti

↘ 9 Architektura & Biznes, May 2011, p. 66-67, ‘Drewniany Parasol’ by Marta Karpińska

↘ 12 Air France Madame n°129, april/ may 2009, p. 185-187, ‘Dans de beaux bois’, par Marie Le Fort ↘ 13 Mark Another Architecture n°19, april/may 2009, p. 30-31, ‘AWP & Atelier Oslo, fused gothic and wooden architecture in Norway’ by Nils Groot

2009, p. 67 & 74, ‘Une marquise géante en centreville’

Design n°3, March 2009, p. 84-85, ‘Isn’t it good, Norwegian Wood’, by Niklas Singstedt —>  Architecture Today, 01 february 2009, ‘Atelier Oslo/AWP: The Lantern Sandnes, Norway’

↘ 16 Stavanger Aftenblad, 26 sept. 2008, ‘Det var en gang et eventyr’, by Knut Gjerseth Olsen

↘ 17 Arkitektur N°7, July 2008, p. 42-43, ‘Lanternen, Sandnes’

—>  AnOther Magazine, 10 oct. 2013, ‘Alessandra Cianchetta, Architect – Conversations with leading cultural figures’ by John Paul Pryor —>  Design Buzz, 30 sept. 2011, ‘Seven Sustainable Pavilion Designs to Protect the Environment’ by Babita Sajnani —>  Arthitectural, 4 May 2011, ‘Atelier Oslo and AWP/Lanternen’ —>  AECCafé, 22 April 2011, ‘Lanternen in Langgata, Sandnes, Norway by Atelier Oslo/AWP’ by Sumit Singha —>  Headlines, 14 march 2011, ‘Pavilion, Sandnes’ by Dutton R. Hauhart —>  Batiactu, 22 feb 2011, ‘Une Canopée en Bois Se Dresse en Norvège’

—>  ArchDaily, 21 feb 2011, ‘AD Recommends: Best of the Week’ by Sebastian Jordana —>   Architecture Lab, 21 feb. 2011, ‘Norwegian Wood/ The Lantern Pavilion, Norway by AWP & Atelier Oslo’

—>  Europaconcorsi, 14 feb. 2011, ‘The Lantern – Norwegian Wood’ —>  Trend Hunter, 10 feb. 2011, ‘Illuminating Eco Architecture’ by Jordan Markowski

—>  Ymag, 18 feb. 2011, ‘Sandnes/ Lantern by AWP + Atelier Oslo’

—>  Inhabitat, 9 feb. 2011, ‘The Lantern Pavilion: Glowing Contemporary Architecture Made of Sustainable Timber’ by Bridgette Meinhold

—>  Metalocus, 17 feb. 2011, ‘Lantern Pavilion’

—>  e-architect, 9 feb. 2011, ‘The Lantern, Sandnes, Norway’

—>  Archello, 16 feb. 2011, ‘Sandnes/ Lantern’

—>  World Architecture News, 08 feb. 2011, ‘A Guiding Light’

—>  Designboom, 16 feb. 2011, ‘AWP + Atelier Oslo : Lantern’

—>  +mood, 08 sept. 2010, ‘Sandnes/ Lantern, AWP + Atelier Oslo’, par David K.

—>  Detail daily, 15 feb. 2011, ‘AWP + Atelier Oslo, Lantern-ein Haus fur Alle’

—>  The Guardian, 8 April 2010, ‘Public Architecture Now! A New Book Hails Our Boldest Buildings’ —>  AR+ the Architectural Review, 24 mars 2010, ‘Lanternen Sandnes, Ragna Stakland, Norway, AWP Architects + Atelier Oslo’ —>  Wallpaper, 29 jan. 2010, ‘Architecture news : Letter from Norway’ —>  Building Design, 22 jan. 2010, ‘Back to the land’, by James Payne

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↘ 1  Topos #85, Open Space,

↘ 5  ‘A’A’ L’Architecture d’Aujourd’hui,

December 2013, p. 52-59, ‘Learning from La Défense’, by Rafaël Magrou

‘La Défense, le futur des espaces publics’, hors-série, Paris, Août 2013, by Marc Armengaud, Matthias Armengaud, Alessandra Cianchetta, Clément Blanchet, Edwin Heathcote, Daniel R. Ringelstein, Paola Viganò

↘ 2  Le guide des projets urbains, nov. 2013, p. 146-149, ‘Plan-guide des espaces publics de La Défense’ and p. 150-153, ‘De La Défense à la ville’

↘ 3  Le Mook Autrement, Oct. 2013, p. 22-29, ‘à Table Avec Trois Jeunes Urbanistes du Grand Paris’ by Carine Merlino

↘ 4  AMC, n°226, sept. 2013, p. 21-22, ‘La Défense en quête d’une seconde modernité’, by Françoise Moiroux

↘ 6  International Herald Tribune, 31 july 2013, p. 14, ‘Trying to draw La Défense out of its shell’, by Georgi Kantchev ↘ 7  The New York Times, 31 july 2013, p. 1 & 6, ‘Plan aims to enliven Paris’s Financial District, Long Called Soulless’, by Georgi Kantchev

↘ 8  Traits Urbains, n°62, july 2013, p. 22-24, ‘La Défense, un plan-guide dessus-dessous’ by Marie-Christine Vatov

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—>  20 Minutes, 18 Dec. 2012, p. 4 in Defacto Les Infos, ‘Un Plan Guide Pour un Espace Public Reinventé’

—>  ArchDaily, 23 jan. 2013, ‘AWP to announce masterplan for La Défense’, by Lisa Wronski

↘ 1  24 Heures, 25 March 2013, p. 3,

↘ 4  Urbanista.org, march 2013, ‘AWP

‘Réhabiliter les Friches, le Formidable Projet de l’Ouest’, by Cindy Mendicino

wins competition for Orée de Crissier post-industrial urban scheme, Lausanne’ by Lucy Bullivant

↘ 9 Defacto, Les Infos, n°2, dec. 2012,

—>  Le Moniteur, 28 july 2011, ‘L’agence AWP repense les espaces publics des deux côtés de l’Arche de La Défense’, by Eric Leysens

↘ 2  Le Temps de Genève, swiss

—>  FranceBTP, 28 July 2011, ‘DEFACTO choisit AWP pour le plan guide de la Défense’ by Rédaction Francebtp

↘ 3  Ley Outre, Crissier, Ouest

p. 5, ‘Le plan-guide s’expose’

↘ 10  Archithese, may 2012, p.56-59, ‘La Défense ist Frankreich, nicht Paris’, by Hubertus Adam —>  El Mercurio, nov. 2011, p. 94-95, section Vivienda y Decoracion ‘La Nueva Cara de La Defensa’ by Soledad Salgado S. —>  D’Architectures #202, 10 September 2011, p. 50-52, ‘La Défense est-elle le Nouveau Laboratoire de l’Espace Public?’ by Françoise Moiroux

—>  Neuilly Journal, 01 august 2011, ‘DEFACTO retient l’agence AWP pour le Plan Guide de la Défense’

national press, 19 march 2013, p. 9, ‘Friches Urbaines: Crissier prend de l’avance’ by Yelmarc Roulet

Lausannois – L’Orée de Crissier, Mandat d’études parallèles, Rapport du collège d’experts, feb. 2013

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↘ 1  Le Mook Autrement, Oct. 2013, p.

—>  Le Parisien, 24 May 2013, ‘La Ville Lumière vit la nuit depuis deux siècles’

22-29, â€˜Ă Table Avec Trois Jeunes Urbanistes du Grand Paris’ by Carine Merlino

↘ 2  AMC, n°226, sept. 2013, p. 128, ‘Insomnie Capitale’, by Margaux Darrieus —>  Le Monde, 29 June 2013, ‘La part d’ombre de la capitale mise en lumière par la fĂŠe ĂŠlectricitÊ’ by FrĂŠdĂŠric Edelmann

↘ 3  LibĂŠration, 21 May 2013, p. 30-31, ‘Toute la Lumière sur <Paris la Nuit>’ by Sybille Vincendon

—>  Le Parisien, 24 May 2013, ‘Une invitation aux explorations nocturnes’ —>  Pierrick Allain, Lorraine Rossignol, ‘Visite guidĂŠe : l’expo ÂŤÂ Paris la nuit  explore La DĂŠfense. Que devient le quartier d’affaires après la sortie des bureaux ? Visite en compagnie de Marc Armengaud, commissaire de l’exposition ÂŤÂ Paris la Nuit  au Pavillon de l’Arsenal’, TĂŠlĂŠrama, October 3rd 2013, URL: <http://www.telerama.fr/ scenes/visite-guidee-l-expo-paris-lanuit-explore-la-defense,103213.php>

print —>  Pierrick Allain, Lorraine Rossignol, ‘Visite guidĂŠe : l’expo ÂŤÂ Paris la nuit  explore le marchĂŠ de Rungis. Visite en compagnie de Marc Armengaud, commissaire de l’exposition ÂŤÂ Paris la Nuit  au Pavillon de l’Arsenal’, TĂŠlĂŠrama, June 29th 2013, URL: <http://www.telerama.fr/scenes/ visite-guidee-l-expo-paris-la-nuitexplore-le-marche-de-rungis,99630. php> —>  Laurence Garcia, ‘Entre chien et loup : chroniques nocturnes’, with Alain Serres and Marc Armengaud, June 22nd 2013, France Inter, URL: <http://www.franceinter.fr/ emission-le-57-du-week-end-entrechien-et-loup-chroniques-noctures>

—>  D8 le JT, ‘FĂŞte de la musique 2013, Interview de Marc Armengaud’, D8, June 21st 2013 —>  Karine Vergniol, ‘Les sorties du jour: Marc Armengaud de l’exposition ÂŤÂ Paris la nuit â€™, BFM Business, June 5th 2013, URL: <http://www.wat.tv/ video/sorties-jour-marc-armengaud6arnh_5gkv9_.html> Pavillon de l’Arsenal / Cyrille Poy, ‘Comment mieux se dĂŠplacer demain? Interview de Marc Armengaud’, Pavillon de l’Arsenal with Le Journal du Dimanche, 2008, URL: <http:// www.pavillon-arsenal.com/ videosenligne/collection-22-184.php>

↘ 1  Ariella Masboungi and RaphaĂŤl

↘ 5  Ramon Parramon (Editor), Arte, Experiencias y territorios en proceso. Espacio Publico/Espacio social, Idensitat, Actar, Barcelona, 2007

Mouvement, 2004, ‘La Notte’, publication autour de l’ÊvĂŠnement “Notte Biancaâ€? Ă Rome

—>  D’Architectures #157, August/ September 2006, p. 9-14, ‘AWP - De dĂŠtours en contours‌’, by Françoise Moiroux

↘ 9 Institut pour la Ville en Mouvement, 2004, ‘La Notte’, affiche de l’ÊvĂŠnement “Notte Biancaâ€? Ă Rome

Dessine-moi une ville, Editions Le Moniteur, Paris, 2010

↘ 6 Institut pour la Ville en Mouvement, 2007, ‘Troll Book, Moving at Night’, by AWP

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↘ 4 Kieran Long, Hatch: The New

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Crestin (dir.), Impulser la Ville : Palmarès des Jeunes Urbanistes, Paranthèses, Paris, 2012

↘ 2  Le Mook Autrement, Nov. 2011, p. 70-73, ‘Troll par AWP: Oasis Nocturnes Temporaires’ by Marc Armengaud

↘ 3 Ariella Masboungi (dir.),

Architectural Generation, Lawrence King Publishing, London, 2008

Mouvement, 2005, ‘Troll Protocol’, rapport annuel AWP

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↘ 5  EXE, n°13, july-aug-sept. 2013,

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‘AWP / Station d’épuration, Evry, France’

↘ 2  AMC-Une Année d’Architecture

↘ 6 Casabella, n°823, march 2013, p.

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↘ 3  Archistorm, #62, sept.-oct. 2013,

↘ 7  D’Architectures #157, August/

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September 2006, p. 9-14, ‘AWP - De détours en contours…’, by Françoise Moiroux

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—>  AnOther Magazine, 10 oct. 2013, ‘Alessandra Cianchetta, Architect – Conversations with leading cultural figures’ by John Paul Pryor > www.anothermag.com/current/ view/3065/Alessandra_Cianchetta_ Architect

↘ 1  Perspective, nov. 2011, p. 108,

—>  Architecture Lab, 2011, ‘Architectures of the “Parc des bords de Seine”, Carrières-sous-Poissy/ France, by AWP & HHF’

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↘ 3  Le Moniteur, 30 sept. 2011, p. 72,

treatment plant by AWP’ by Amy Frearson > www.dezeen.com/2013/05/16/ water-treatment-plant-by-awp/

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↘ 2  Garten + Landschaft, oct. 2011, p. 38, ‘Dem Niemandsland Seele einhauchen’

‘A Carrières-sous-Poissy, le parc paysager se logera dans une boucle de la Seine’, by Hervé Guénot —>   The Architectural Review, 18 aug. 2011, ‘Follies in a park by AWP + HHF Architects, Carrières-sous-Poissy, Paris, France’, by Catherine Slessor

↘ 4  Wallpaper*, 2011, p. 57, ‘Poissy

—>  Co.Design, Nov. 2011, ‘A trèsmodern park nods to the silly gardens of rich people’ by Susanne Labarre

—>  Inhabitat, 28 October 2011, ‘Dreamy timber pavilions stack’ —>  Daily Wired, 3 oct. 2011, ‘Come rinasce un parco’ by Niccolo Capitani

↘ 5 Archdaily, 20 sept. 2011, ‘Parc paysager des bords de Seine proposal / AWP & HHF’ by Allison Furuto

Galore’ by John Weich —>  DETAIL Daily, Der Architektur- und Design-Blog, 20 sept. 2011, ‘AWP + HHF: Pavillons für Paris Größten Park’

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—>  +mood, 15 sept. 2011, ‘Pavilions and follies of the Parc des bords de Seine/ AWP+HHF’ by David K.

↘ 6  Dezeen, 16 sept. 2011, ‘Parc des Bords de Seine by HHF and AWP’

—>  Building Design, 14 sept. 2011, ‘AWP (Paris) reveal Seine pavilions’ by Andrea Klettner

—>  DesignBoom, 16 sept. 2011, ‘AWP + HHF: pavilions and follies for Parc des Bords de Seine’ —>  Archiscene, 16 sept. 2011, ‘Park in Carrières-sous-Poissy by AWP & HHF’

↘ 7  Europaconcorsi, 14 sept. 2011, ‘Pavilions and follies of the Parc des Bords de Seine’ —>  e-architect, 13 sept. 2011, ‘Follies Poissy, AWP + HHF’

—>  Arquitectura Viva, 15 sept. 2011, AWP + HHF: arquitecturas en el Parc des Bords de Seine

—>  Architectenweb, 6 sept. 2011, ‘Tien follies voor buitenwijk Parijs’

—>  ArcoWeb, 15 sept. 2011, ‘Rio Sena tera parque de 113 hectares ao lado da Villa Savoye, de Le Corbusier’

—>  AECCafé, 19 july 2011, ‘Park in Carriéres Sous Poissy, France by HHF Architects’ by Sumit Singha

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n los últimos años el sector de La Defensa en París ha experimentado fuertes cambios en su composición. El tradicional Arco y sus alrededores –mayormente consagrados al mundo de los negocios– han visto aparecer vanguardistas proyectos residenciales, actualmente en plena ejecución, como el edificio de departamentos proyectado por Farshid Moussavi o el hotel que acaba de adjudicarse el español Rafael de La Hoz. Próximamente, además, se espera que surja en la zona el Arena 92, un nuevo recinto para conciertos. Con todo, el flujo de transeúntes tendrá un aumento tal que resultaba imperioso reacondicionar el espacio con un proyecto urbanístico que abarca 30 mil m . En julio pasado la oficina de re-

Una plaza dura acompañará y realzará la existente “Jetté”, pasarela obra de Paul Chemetoff y Borja Huidobro.

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↘ 2  Sun Xu Yang, Liu Kun, Top One

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Landscape, Pace Books Limited, China, 2012

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Crestin (dir.), Impulser la Ville : Palmarès des Jeunes Urbanistes, Paranthèses, Paris, 2012

↘ 4  AMC, #228 Document, Nov. 2013, p.VI-VIII, ‘Les Jardins de l’Arche & Le Croissant: Prototype de la Ville Durable’

↘ 5  Objectif Grand Paris, Oct. 2013, p. 23, ‘Dans l’Attente de l’Arena’ by David Lortholary

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configuración territorial AWP ganó el concurso para ejecutar la obra, la cual debiera estar entregada el 2014, sorteando una serie de regulaciones y complejidades existentes. Entre ellas la presencia bajo tierra de una de las líneas del Metro y el tren que comunica París con las afueras; y en la superficie la existencia de dos obras que constituyen parte del patrimonio francés: la “Jette” –gran pasarela suspendida que por razones estructurales no puede acoger a un número muy alto de personas–, y el área de jardines proyectada por el arquitecto del paisaje Gilles Clément. El objetivo de la firma AWP es crear una continuidad espacial, entre lo nuevo y lo existente. Transformar el sitio en un lugar donde pasen muchas cosas, “activar” múltiples usos, hacer de él un recinto de conexión entre el barrio de La Defensa y sus alrededores, fortaleciendo su proyección hacia el río Sena. El proyecto contempla nuevos ejes de circulación, en especial uno de 600 m de largo que irá desde el futuro Arena 92 hasta el Arco. “Esto permitirá reducir la noción de obstáculo y ruptura que se produce con la presencia de escaleras y repentinos cambios de nivel; hará que el espacio se sienta más continuo y con una serie de marcos que le darán ritmo a la rampa”, explica una de las socias de AWP, Alessandra Cianchetta. Junto con esta fluidez –y como la propuesta trabaja mucho con el paisajismo duro– se instalarán quioscos, gazebos, zonas de lounge, escaños, y una serie de “follies” o

22-29, ‘à Table Avec Trois Jeunes Urbanistes du Grand Paris’ by Carine Merlino

↘ 8  The New York Times, 31 july 2013, p. 1 & 6, ‘Plan aims to enliven Paris’s Financial District, Long Called Soulless’, by Georgi Kantchev

↘ 9 El Mercurio, nov. 2011, p. 94-95, section Vivienda y Decoracion ‘La Nueva Cara de La Defensa’ by Soledad Salgado S.

↘ 10  Emag EPADESA, n°6, nov. 2011, p. 13-14, ‘Les Jardins de l’Arche’

—>   DailyTonic, 14 nov. 2013, ‘Landscape architecture: Jardins de l’Arche by AWP in Paris’ by Susanne Fritz —>   Metalocus, 1 dec. 2012, ‘Paris La Défense CBD, Jardins de l’Arche’, by Pedro Navarro —>   Tecnici, nov. 2011, ‘Parigi La Defense, una nuova visione urbanistica’ —>   Archdaily, 29 nov. 2011, ‘Jardins de l’Arche/AWP’, by Alison Furuto —>   Le Figaro online, 15 nov. 2011, ‘L’Arena 92 va redessiner l’ouest de La Défense’ by Arnaud Coudry —>   Free Architecture Report 2000, 15 nov. 2011, ‘La Conception AWP à Paris à Proximité de La Defénse Plan de zone de revitalisation’

—>   Archiscene, 7 nov. 2011, ‘Paris La Défense CBD by AWP’ —>   Building Design, 7 nov. 2011, ‘AWP’s Jardins de l’Arche in Paris’ —>   +mood, 5 nov. 2011, ‘Paris La Défense CBD, Jardins de l’Arche/AWP’ by David K. —>   Architetti, nov. 2011, ‘Riqualificazione Urbana e Paesaggistica, il Progetto di AWP a Parigi’ by Federica Maietti —>   Design Boom, nov. 2011, ‘AWP: Jardins de l’Arche’ —>   Le Moniteur, 28 july 2011, ‘L’agence AWP repense les espaces publics des deux côtés de l’Arche de La Défense’, by Eric Leysens

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↘ 3  AnOther Magazine, 10 oct. 2013,

112-118, ‘Mobilier Urbain, Quelle Intelligence?’

‘Alessandra Cianchetta, Architect – Conversations with leading cultural figures’ by John Paul Pryor

↘ 2  Topscape Paysage #12, 2013, p.114-119, ‘Saint-Etienne: Daily Urban Lounge’ by Alessandro Gabbianelli

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↘ 3  Europaconcorsi, 11 nov. 2010, ‘New park for LaM, Museum of Modern, Contemporary and Outsider Art, Lille Métropole’ —>    Le Figaro Culture, 24 sept. 2010, ‘LAM : Parc, bibliothèque, conférences…’, by Claire Bommelaer

—>    +mood, 8 septembre 2010, ‘New park for LAM, Museum of Modern, Contemporary and Outsider Art: AWP’, by David K. —>    Archicool, 13 july 2010, ‘Le LAM de Villeneuve d’Ascq : L’étonnant mariage de Roland Simounet et Manuelle Gautrand, architectes’

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2014 —>    Le projet pour la station d'épuration d'Évry nominé au European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture – Mies van der Rohe Award 2015 —>    Le projet Norwegian Wood Lantern intégré à la collection permanente du Maxxi, Rome

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↘ 2 world-architects, 28 Nov 2014, ‘AWP wins competition in Malmo Quay, Newcastle, UK’

—>    Architizer, Nov 2014, ‘New architectural and urban vision for Malmo Quay’

—>    IdN, Nov 2014, ‘The Ascent of Malmo Quay, Ouseburn Valley, Newcastle-upon-Tyne’

—>    The Journal, 29 Sept. 2014, ‘First look at unusual designs for Malmo Quay site at entrance of Ouseburn’, by Tom Keighley

↘ 3  The Architect’s Journal, 30 july 2014, p. 108, ‘Winners of Newcastle regeneration contest revealed’

2013 —>    LEAF Awards Emirates, Londres - Catégorie 2013 Urbanisme (mention) —>    LEAF Awards Emirates, London - Urban —>    IABR 2014 - Station d’épuration d’Évry (finaliste) Planning category (commended) —>    IABR 2014 - Evry treatment plant project 2011 (shortlisted) —>    Le projet pour le parc de sculptures du Musée d'Art Moderne de Lille Métropole intégré à la 2011 collection permanente de la Cité de l’Architecture —>    AWP’s project LAM has been acquired by the et du Patrimoine City of Architecture and Heritage (the Museum of Architecture in Paris), to form part of their 2010 permanent collection —>    Palmarès des Jeunes Urbanistes (PJU) du Ministère du Développement Durable, de 2010 l’Aménagement et du Logement —>    PJU – Urban planning prize awarded by French —>    Finaliste au prix CCCB European prize for Urban Ministry of Ecology, Transports, Sustainability and Public Space Housing —>    Finalists for the CCCB European prize for Urban 2009 Public Space —>    Le projet Norwegian Wood Lantern nominé au European Union Prize for Contemporary 2009 Architecture – Mies van der Rohe Award 2009 —>    Nominated for the European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture – Mies van der Rohe 2006 Award 2009 —>    Nouveaux Albums des Jeunes Architectes (Naja) 2006/07 du Ministère de la Culture et de la 2006 Communication —>    French Ministry of Culture and Communication Award Best Young Architect NAJA - Nouveaux Albums de la Jeune Architecture

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Selected catalogues —>  Cyrille Poy, Les Nouveaux albums des jeunes architectes 2005/2006, Editions Jean-Michel Place, Paris, 2006

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Schioppa (Editors), Erasmus Effect. Italian Architects Abroad, Quodlibet, Fundazione MAXXI – Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo, 2013

↘ 6 Ramon Parramon (Editor), Arte, Experiencias y territorios en proceso. Espacio Publico/Espacio social, Idensitat, Actar, Barcelona, 2007

↘ 9  Amelie Deuflhard, Sophie Krempl-klieeisen, Sowie Philipp Oswalt, Matthias Lilienthal, Harald Müller, Volkspalast: Zwischen Aktivismus und Kunst, Theater der Zeit, Recherchen 30, Germany, 2006

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Lanternen (ouvrage monographique), Forlag, Oslo, 2013

↘ 2  Marc Armengaud, Matthias Armengaud, Alessandra Cianchetta, Underground: on the Invisible and Architecture, Ashgate Publishing, London, 2015 (à paraître)

↘ 4   Sergio Crippa, ArcVision Prize, Women and Architecture, Italcementi Group, Bergamo, 2014 ↘ 5  Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication (DGPAT-BRAUP), Cité de l’Architecture et du Patrimoine, La

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↘ 6 Auteurs variés, HHF, Archilife Publishers, Seoul 2012 ↘ 7  Ariella Masboungi (dir.), Dessine-moi une ville, Editions Le Moniteur, Paris, 2010 ↘ 8  Philip Jodidio, Public Architecture Now !, Taschen, Köln, 2010

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↘ 2   Defacto, Le nouveau visage de La Défense, 2013

↘ 4  Franco Zagari, Giardini, Manuale di progettazione, Mancosu Editore, Rome, 2009

↘ 5  Kieran Long, Hatch: The New Architectural Generation, Lawrence King Publishing, London, 2008

↘ 7  Cultures France, Scènes d’architectures, Editions du Patrimoine, Paris, 2007 ↘ 8  Christine Desmoulin (dir.), Scénographies d’architectes Architects’ exhibition designs, Editions du Pavillon de l’Arsenal, Paris, 2006

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JPMorgan Looks to Pay to Settle U.S. Inquiries Warrantless By JESSICA SILVER-GREENBERG and BEN PROTESS

JPMorgan Chase is pulling out its checkbook to help mend frayed relationships with the government. But its new and conciliatory approach — a departure for the bank and its leader, Jamie Dimon, who generally has taken a hard line with the authorities — is yielding mixed results. Government officials, stung by the bank’s past displays of hubris, may drive up the price of settlements, or worse, resist the overtures altogether. The hefty payouts started on Tuesday when JPMorgan struck a $410 million settlement with the nation’s top energy regulator, which had accused the bank of devising “manipulative schemes� to transform “money-losing power plants into powerful profit centers.� The agreement was a record fine for the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, whose most recent settlement with a big bank totaled

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Steven Donzinger won an $18 billion judgment against Chevron for fouling the environment in Ecuador.

An Avenger, on the Defensive Lawyer Who Beat Chevron in Ecuador Faces a Trial of His Own By CLIFFORD KRAUSS

Steven R. Donziger — environmental hero or charlatan, depending on whom you talk to — is one of the toughest lawyers around, or slightly crazy. Possibly both. For the last two decades Mr. Donziger has been battling the Chevron Corporation over an environmental disaster that happened in the jungles of Ecuador. Two years ago, he won an $18 billion case against the oil giant, the kind of victory that most lawyers can only dream of. But Chevron has yet to pay a penny of the award, and has turned the tables on him. Now, he is defending himself against a Chevron lawsuit charging that he masterminded a conspiracy to extort and defraud the corporation. The trial is scheduled for October. Across a table in his two-bedroom apartment on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, Mr. Donziger for the first time in recent years spoke publicly about the personal travails that he says have engulfed him. He says shadowy men have trailed him. Watched his family. Sat in cars outside his home. He had his apartment swept for bugs, but found nothing. All of that might sound like the ravings of a Grade A conspiracy theorist. But Mr. Donziger, who played basketball with Barack Obama at Harvard Law School, has a seri-

ous following among environmentalists. He and his supporters say he is being vilified — potentially ruined — for unmasking Chevron’s questionable environmental record. Chevron, which is suing him and his associates for damages that could reach billions of dollars, says he is simply a con artist. It is a remarkable turn of events for Mr. Donziger, who Continued on Page 2

Plan Aims to Enliven Paris’s Financial District, Long Called Soulless By GEORGI KANTCHEV

The Grande Arche in La DĂŠfense, the business hub in Paris, which critics say has become an isolated end of a spoke that is disconnected from the rest of the city.

PARIS — On Bastille Day 1989, when President François Mitterrand inaugurated the Grande Arche, a 40-story postmodern bookend about three miles to the west of the Arc de Triomphe, it seemed its own form of triumph. The ceremony celebrated a decade-long building boom at La DĂŠfense, the sprawling array of office buildings long envisioned as Paris’s answer to Lower Manhattan or the City of London. But La DĂŠfense, begun during the presidency of Charles de Gaulle in the late 1950s and built just west of Paris by bulldozing slums and paving over farmland, has always worked better in architectural theory

than in anthropological practice. Rather than the Parisian business hub its founders described, it often seems more like the isolated end of a spoke that has highlighted a crucial flaw in urban planning — a concern with making architectural statements — rather than an affinity for the people in and around the buildings. When non-French planning experts assess La DÊfense, they say it shares the same problems as the Canary Wharf complex in London, where developers have tried to supplant the City with Big Architecture and whose artificial origins may be hard to overcome. The experts look more favorably on the somewhat organic mix of Continued on Page 6

In a significant victory for law enforcement, a federal appeals court on Tuesday said that government authorities could extract historical location data directly from telecommunications carriers without a search warrant. The closely watched case, in the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, is the first ruling that squarely addresses the constitutionality of warrantless searches of historical location data stored by cellphone service providers. Ruling 2 to 1, the court said a warrantless search was “not per se unconstitutional� because location data was “clearly a business record� and therefore not protected by the Fourth Amendment. The ruling is likely to intensify legislative efforts, already bubbling in Congress and in the states, to consider measures to require warrants based on probable cause to obtain cellphone location data. The appeals court ruling sharply contrasts with a New Jersey State Supreme Court opinion in mid-July that said the police required a warrant to track a suspect’s whereabouts in real time. That decision relied on the New Jersey Constitution, whereas the ruling Tuesday in the Fifth Circuit was made on the basis of the federal Constitution. The Supreme Court has yet to weigh in on whether cellphone location data is protected by the Constitution. The case, which was initially brought in Texas, is not expected to go to the Supreme Court because it is “ex Continued on Page 8

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Trade Fight Over Solar Benefits A Bystander By DIANE CARDWELL

The long-running trade conflicts over solar panels between China and the United States and Europe have sown dissatisfaction all around, leaving many manufacturers of solar materials complaining that the market is still unfair. But one country not involved in the disputes has already benefited from them and, with Saturday’s agreement between China and the European Union, stands to benefit again: Taiwan. Last October, after finding that Chinese companies were receiving unfair government subsidies and selling their merchandise below the cost of production, the United States imposed tariffs of roughly 24 to 36 percent on imported Chinese panels. But the ruling included a major loophole; it applied only to panels made from Chinese solar cells, the final major components that are assembled into finished modules. Many manufacturers were able to skirt the taxes by buying their cells elsewhere, mainly from Taiwan. This month, for instance, the Neo Solar Power Corporation, a leading cell manufacturer based in Taiwan, announced its sixth consecutive month of growth, with a 74 percent increase in revenue in June over the month before, in part because of increased production capacity since its merger with another manufacturer, DelSolar. Taiwanese producers, which have been able to command a 4to 5-cent per watt premium over Chinese-made cells, have been operating at fuller capacity and have sold out inventory faster than the Chinese, said Shayle Kann, vice president of research at GTM Research, which tracks clean-tech industries. And Hareon, a solar cell and module manufacturer in China, recently announced plans to build a large Continued on Page 8

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↘ 3  Le Mook Autrement, Oct. 2013, p. 22-29, â€˜Ă Table Avec Trois Jeunes Urbanistes du Grand Paris’ by Carine Merlino

↘ 6  The New York Times, July 31st 2013, p. 1 and 6, ‘Plan Aims to Enliven Paris’s Financial District, Long Called Soulless’, by Georgi Kantchev

↘ 10 Archithese, may 2012, p.56-59,

d’Architecture en France, December 2013 - January 2014, p. 206, ‘Station d’Epuration AWP’, by Gilles Davoine

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↘ 4  A’A’ L’Architecture d’Aujourd’hui,

↘ 7 LibĂŠration, May 21st 2013, pp.

February 2014, pp. 44-45 and p. 53, ‘Les 30 PersonnalitĂŠs de 2013’, by Delphine DĂŠsveaux, Jean-Louis Violeau, Maryse Quinton, Lionel Blaisse, Claire Guezengar, Emmanuelle Graffin, Laurence Allard, Carol Maillard, Alexandra Fau, StĂŠphanie Dadour

‘La DĂŠfense, le futur des espaces publics’, hors-sĂŠrie, Paris, AoĂťt 2013, by Marc Armengaud, Matthias Armengaud, Alessandra Cianchetta, ClĂŠment Blanchet, Edwin Heathcote, Daniel R. Ringelstein, Paola Viganò

30-31, ‘Toute la Lumière sur ÂŤÂ Paris la nuit â€™, by Sybille Vincendon

↘ 5  International Herald Tribune,

↘ 9  Casabella, #823, March 3rd 2013, p. 53-59, ‘Macchina Riconciliatrice’, by Nicola Braghieri

July 31st 2013, p. 1 and 14, ‘Trying to Draw La DĂŠfense Out of its Shell’, by Georgi Kantchev

↘ 8  EXE, n°13, july-aug-sept. 2013, ‘AWP / Station d’Êpuration, Evry, France’

‘La DĂŠfense ist Frankreich, nicht Paris’, by Hubertus Adam

↘ 11 Le Moniteur n°5495, 20 march 2009, p. 67 & 74, ‘Une marquise gĂŠante en centreville’

↘ 12 A10 #7, January/February 2006, p. 60- 63, ‘A new type of practice The emergence of the network office’, by Jorrin Ten Have

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The New York Times, 31 July 2013, p. 1 & 6, ‘Plan aims to enliven Paris’s Financial District, Long Called Soulless’, by Georgi Kantchev International Herald Tribune, 31 July 2013, p. 14, ‘Trying to draw La Défense out of its shell’, by Georgi Kantchev ‘A’A’, L’Architecture d’Aujourd’hui, hors-série ‘La Défense, le futur des espaces publics’, monographic issue, Sept. 2013, by Marc Armengaud, Matthias Armengaud, Alessandra Cianchetta, Clément Blanchet, Edwin Heathcote, Daniel R. Ringelstein, Paola Viganò AWP: Towards a Climate, Building (with) the Unstable, exhibition catalogue, R. Connah, S. Jacob, R. Moore, Cornell University, Ithaca (Lab Press, Paris, 2013) Casabella #823, March 2013, p. 53-59, ‘Macchina Riconciliatrice’, by Nicola Braghieri AnOther Magazine, 2013, ‘Alessandra Cianchetta, Architect-Conversations with leading cultural figures’, by John-Paul Pryor Buidling Design, ‘Continental Comparison-Alessandra Cianchetta of Paris practice AWP’, 2006 ERASMUS EFFECT. Italian Architects Abroad, by Pippo Ciorra, Caterina Padoa Schioppa (editors), Quodlibet, 2013 Wallpaper*, 2011, p. 57, ‘Poissy Galore’ by John Weich AMC #228 Document, Nov. 2013, p.VI-VIII, ‘Les Jardins de l’Arche & Le Croissant: Prototype de la Ville Durable’ by EPADESA Topos #85, Dec. 2013, p. 52-59, ‘Learning from La Défense’ by Rafaël Magrou

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Inequality In America: The Data Is Sobering The good news is that President Obama appears to have decided to devote the rest of his presidency to trying to tackle the forces behind the yawning inequities that have hamstrung social and economic mobility, eroding the living standards of the middle ECONOMIC class. SCENE The bad news is that he may not be up to the task. Consider the ideas he outlined during his speech at Knox College last week. Some are old. Some are new. Some are good, some less so. But the main problem with the set is that the politically feasible — those that he articulated with the most specificity — are the least likely to change the nation’s economic dynamics. Connecting the nation’s schools to broadband is a good idea. So is tweaking the tax code to help ordinary Americans save for retirement. Measured against what the president called “the forces that have conspired against the middle class for decades,” however, they are less than overwhelming. The president’s most powerful proposals, by contrast — including investment in infrastructure, a higher minimum wage and uni-

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JPMorgan Chase is pulling out its checkbook to help mend frayed relationships with the government. But its new and conciliatory approach — a departure for the bank and its leader, Jamie Dimon, who generally has taken a hard line with the authorities — is yielding mixed results. Government officials, stung by the bank’s past displays of hubris, may drive up the price of settlements, or worse, resist the overtures altogether. The hefty payouts started on Tuesday when JPMorgan struck a $410 million settlement with the nation’s top energy regulator, which had accused the bank of devising “manipulative schemes” to transform “money-losing power plants into powerful profit centers.” The agreement was a record fine for the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, whose most recent settlement with a big bank totaled

only $1.6 million. JPMorgan is bracing for an even larger penalty stemming from shoddy mortgage securities it sold to the government. In a sign that JPMorgan is struggling to placate some authorities, people briefed on the matter said, a housing regulator recently rejected an offer the bank made to settle those claims. The bank is also quietly courting officials from the Securities and Exchange Commission, which is investigating the bank’s multibillion-dollar trading loss in London last year, the people say. It is unclear whether the S.E.C. investigators are receptive to JPMorgan’s advances. The bank’s new approach comes down, at least in part, to dollars and cents. While the settlements are expensive, they pale in comparison to the sort of legal bills that come with long — and embarrassing — legal battles. The conciliatory tack also reflects a Continued on Page 4

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Inequities that demand more than a president’s words. versal preschool for 4-year-olds — remain as unlikely as ever to emerge from the nation’s partisan divide. Many opponents simply reject Mr. Obama’s basic premise. Some researchers on the right of the political spectrum argue that inequality is not, in fact, gaping. Others contend that middle class stagnation is a myth concocted by the left to justify retro government activism à la 1970s. After the president’s speech, the conservative blogger James Pethokoukis of the American Enterprise Institute posted on Twitter: “I feel like I am in Middleearth hearing about return of Sauron.” The problem is that weaving modest policy proposals through the tiny spaces allowed by the nation’s partisan stalemate is unlikely to bear much fruit. A better strategy might be to articulate — forcefully — the nature of the problem and build a political consensus that would ultimately lead to long-delayed changes to American society. It could go something like this: The United States remains among the richest countries in the world. National income per person trails only that of Norway, Luxembourg, Singapore, Switzerland and Hong Kong. Yet despite its riches, in many areas the United States looks surprisingly, depressingly backward. Infant and maternal mortality are the highest among advanced nations. So is the mortality rate of children under the age of 20. Life expectancy — at birth and at age 60 — is among the lowest. Teenage pregnancy rates are not only higher than in other rich Continued on Page 9

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Steven Donzinger won an $18 billion judgment against Chevron for fouling the environment in Ecuador.

An Avenger, on the Defensive Lawyer Who Beat Chevron in Ecuador Faces a Trial of His Own By CLIFFORD KRAUSS

Steven R. Donziger — environmental hero or charlatan, depending on whom you talk to — is one of the toughest lawyers around, or slightly crazy. Possibly both. For the last two decades Mr. Donziger has been battling the Chevron Corporation over an environmental disaster that happened in the jungles of Ecuador. Two years ago, he won an $18 billion case against the oil giant, the kind of victory that most lawyers can only dream of. But Chevron has yet to pay a penny of the award, and has turned the tables on him. Now, he is defending himself against a Chevron lawsuit charging that he masterminded a conspiracy to extort and defraud the corporation. The trial is scheduled for October. Across a table in his two-bedroom apartment on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, Mr. Donziger for the first time in recent years spoke publicly about the personal travails that he says have engulfed him. He says shadowy men have trailed him. Watched his family. Sat in cars outside his home. He had his apartment swept for bugs, but found nothing. All of that might sound like the ravings of a Grade A conspiracy theorist. But Mr. Donziger, who played basketball with Barack Obama at Harvard Law School, has a seri-

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ous following among environmentalists. He and his supporters say he is being vilified — potentially ruined — for unmasking Chevron’s questionable environmental record. Chevron, which is suing him and his associates for damages that could reach billions of dollars, says he is simply a con artist. It is a remarkable turn of events for Mr. Donziger, who Continued on Page 2

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The Grande Arche in La Défense, the business hub in Paris, which critics say has become an isolated end of a spoke that is disconnected from the rest of the city. AGNES DHERBEYS FOR THE INTERNATIONAL HERALD TRIBUNE

PARIS — On Bastille Day 1989, when President François Mitterrand inaugurated the Grande Arche, a 40-story postmodern bookend about three miles to the west of the Arc de Triomphe, it seemed its own form of triumph. The ceremony celebrated a decade-long building boom at La Défense, the sprawling array of office buildings long envisioned as Paris’s answer to Lower Manhattan or the City of London. But La Défense, begun during the presidency of Charles de Gaulle in the late 1950s and built just west of Paris by bulldozing slums and paving over farmland, has always worked better in architectural theory

than in anthropological practice. Rather than the Parisian business hub its founders described, it often seems more like the isolated end of a spoke that has highlighted a crucial flaw in urban planning — a concern with making architectural statements — rather than an affinity for the people in and around the buildings. When non-French planning experts assess La Défense, they say it shares the same problems as the Canary Wharf complex in London, where developers have tried to supplant the City with Big Architecture and whose artificial origins may be hard to overcome. The experts look more favorably on the somewhat organic mix of Continued on Page 6

In a significant victory for law enforcement, a federal appeals court on Tuesday said that government authorities could extract historical location data directly from telecommunications carriers without a search warrant. The closely watched case, in the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, is the first ruling that squarely addresses the constitutionality of warrantless searches of historical location data stored by cellphone service providers. Ruling 2 to 1, the court said a warrantless search was “not per se unconstitutional” because location data was “clearly a business record” and therefore not protected by the Fourth Amendment. The ruling is likely to intensify legislative efforts, already bubbling in Congress and in the states, to consider measures to require warrants based on probable cause to obtain cellphone location data. The appeals court ruling sharply contrasts with a New Jersey State Supreme Court opinion in mid-July that said the police required a warrant to track a suspect’s whereabouts in real time. That decision relied on the New Jersey Constitution, whereas the ruling Tuesday in the Fifth Circuit was made on the basis of the federal Constitution. The Supreme Court has yet to weigh in on whether cellphone location data is protected by the Constitution. The case, which was initially brought in Texas, is not expected to go to the Supreme Court because it is “ex Continued on Page 8

Trade Fight Over Solar Benefits A Bystander By DIANE CARDWELL

The long-running trade conflicts over solar panels between China and the United States and Europe have sown dissatisfaction all around, leaving many manufacturers of solar materials complaining that the market is still unfair. But one country not involved in the disputes has already benefited from them and, with Saturday’s agreement between China and the European Union, stands to benefit again: Taiwan. Last October, after finding that Chinese companies were receiving unfair government subsidies and selling their merchandise below the cost of production, the United States imposed tariffs of roughly 24 to 36 percent on imported Chinese panels. But the ruling included a major loophole; it applied only to panels made from Chinese solar cells, the final major components that are assembled into finished modules. Many manufacturers were able to skirt the taxes by buying their cells elsewhere, mainly from Taiwan. This month, for instance, the Neo Solar Power Corporation, a leading cell manufacturer based in Taiwan, announced its sixth consecutive month of growth, with a 74 percent increase in revenue in June over the month before, in part because of increased production capacity since its merger with another manufacturer, DelSolar. Taiwanese producers, which have been able to command a 4to 5-cent per watt premium over Chinese-made cells, have been operating at fuller capacity and have sold out inventory faster than the Chinese, said Shayle Kann, vice president of research at GTM Research, which tracks clean-tech industries. And Hareon, a solar cell and module manufacturer in China, recently announced plans to build a large Continued on Page 8

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business and residential of Lower Manhattan, which has evolved over the last century. “La Défense has always suffered from a creative hypothermia,” said Wojciech Czaja, an Austrian architecture critic. “It is a sad area because it is atmospherically and emotionally perceived as a business district only.” The public agency that manages the complex has hired an architectural firm to draft a new master plan in hopes of making the grandiose vision for La Défense a livable reality. It is difficult to determine whether the plan can withstand the headwinds of Europe’s continuing financial woes, and France’s lingering recession and an unemployment rate near 11 percent. But it would be wrong to call La Défense a business failure, because it is home to 1,500 head offices, including those of 15 of the world’s 50 largest companies. French corporations with their signature headquarters here include the oil and gas giant Total, the big bank Société Générale and Areva, a leading builder of nuclear power plants. And developers continue to build. Critics have long derided the mixed commercial, residential and retailing complex, which covers 1.6 square kilometers, or 0.62 square miles, as dehumanizing. While about 20,000 mainly low- and middle-income people live here, the vast central plaza can feel like a ghost town after 5 p.m. and on weekends, once most of the district’s 150,000 office workers have left by train, bus or subway to more desirable parts of Paris or its less surreal suburbs. “There is nothing good about living here,” said Carlin Pierre, 54, who works at a waste disposal center in the district and resides in one of the Brutalist communal, rent-subsidized housing blocks tucked amid the high-rise office buildings. “Sure, it’s a nice area to come as a tourist, or even to work,” Mr. Pierre said, “but it’s terrible to live in La Défense.” Alessandra Cianchetta, a partner at AWP, the firm mapping the master plan, acknowledges the enormousness of her task. “La Défense as a concept is a bit obsolete,” Ms. Cianchetta said. “There is no interaction, no hospitality here.” Vacancy rates at La Défense, long an up-and-down indicator of the French economy, are once more on the rise. Next to the Grande Arche is the site of what was to be a 71-story office tower, Tour Signal, commissioned with much fanfare in 2008 to the French architect Jean Nouvel. It has been canceled. Still, three new, architecturally ambitious office towers are under construction at La Défense. And the recently financed Hermitage Plaza project on the Seine River at the easternmost edge of La Défense, if it opens as planned in 2018, will include Europe’s tallest residential building. Some of the continued activity, of course, has to do with the long lag between conceiving a commercial real estate project and getting it built — a speculative roll of the dice that has paid little heed to shorterterm considerations like France and Europe’s current economic travails. “La Défense’s ambitions to create a new kind of urbanism have been disappointing,” said Robert A. M. Stern, the dean of the Yale School of Architecture and principal of his namesake firm. Because “the residential areas are too isolated in their own zones,” Mr. Catherine Chapman contributed reporting.

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La Défense can feel like a ghost town after 5 p.m. and on weekends, once the district’s office workers have left.

A building site near the Grande Arche in La Défense, where three new, architecturally ambitious office towers are under construction. Stern said, it is rare to spot locals buying groceries in one of the complex’s shopping malls or to see families with strollers on the weekends. A confined office area can work in some big American cities, but mostly because they are connected to the surrounding neighborhoods. Lower Manhattan “has residential areas right at its edge with streets threaded through to the city itself,” Mr. Stern said. Despite these misgivings, Mr. Stern’s firm was willing to take the commission to design Tour Carpe Diem, a tower under construction in a dense cluster of high-rises on the northern edge of the district. “Carpe Diem is not just another aloof, objectlike office building sitting on a podium,” Mr. Stern said. “It is a dualoriented piece of connective tissue linking the center of La Defénse with the peripheral roads of Courbevoie,” a middle-class municipality. In any case, there are no tenants yet signed for Carpe Diem, which is to be completed in September. A defining feature of La Défense is

Pentagon Is Buying 71 More F-35 Fighters, And Is Getting Them a Little Bit Cheaper By CHRISTOPHER DREW

The Defense Department on Tuesday announced an agreement in principle to buy 71 more F-35 fighter jets from Lockheed Martin at somewhat lower prices than last year. Pentagon officials said they would pay 4 percent less for 36 of the radar-evading jets under the new orders and 8 percent less than last year’s price for the other 35. People briefed on the latest deal, which includes ancillary equipment, said it was worth more than $7 billion. After years of delays and cost overruns, military officials have been under pressure to reduce the cost of what is by far the Pentagon’s largest program, which could cost $392 billion for more than 2,400 planes. “There is still work to be done, but these agreements are proof the cost arrow is moving in the right direction,” said Lt. Gen. Christopher Bogdan, the program’s executive officer. “We will continue to work with industry to identify areas for savings in future production contracts.” The Defense Department said the lower prices enabled it to buy all the planes it had planned in what will be its sixth and seventh purchase lots. That included several jets that officials had feared might be slashed by automatic budget cuts under the sequestration process. Officials said they would release more detailed cost data once the contracts were complet-

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Three F-35 Joint Strike Fighters (rear to front) AF-2, AF-3 and AF-4, flying over Edwards Air Force Base in California. ed. Lt. Gen. Bogdan sharply criticized Lockheed Martin and his own staff after he took charge of the program last year. The relationship “is the worst I’ve ever seen, and I’ve been in some bad ones,” he said. He was upset that it took more than a year to negotiate the price of the fifth lot of the jets. He sounded much more conciliatory on Tuesday, saying that the two new contracts, which were negotiated together in six months, “represent a fair deal that is beneficial to the government and Lockheed Martin.” He said the company and the government were working together now to lower costs.

The Pentagon is building variants of the plane for the Air Force, the Navy and the Marines. Officials said that the costs had eased for each customer under the new contracts. The new contracts also include the first F-35s for Australia, Italy and Norway, and a fourth F-35 for Britain. Deliveries of jets in the sixth batch will begin by mid-2014, with deliveries in the seventh batch starting by mid-2015. All told, 10 nations have expressed interest in buying an additional 700 planes. Aviation analysts have said that the price of the jets must continue to drop for Lockheed Martin to reach that sales target.

the plaza, a pedestrian slab of some 30 hectares, or 74 acres, that acts as a roof to underground shops, a bus terminal and a hangarlike train and subway depot with none of the charm of most Paris train stations. Those who pass through each day, but live elsewhere, often make their peace with La Défense. The master plan of AWP calls for a complete makeover of the transportation center, adding entertainment sites to the public plaza and building footbridges to connect the now largely isolated slab with the surrounding neighborhoods. There are new business districts on the competitive metropolitan Paris office market that real estate agents say are luring companies with lower prices ONLINE: VIEWS OF LA DÉFENSE

A slide show of the district, which was conceived as an answer to Manhattan’s financial district, but is deserted after business hours. nytimes.com/businessday

— for example, areas in the north along the Seine and in the so-called inner rim of Paris, which includes the district of Saint-Denis, home of France’s national stadium, the Stade de France. Société Générale, which has 20,000 employees at its La Défense headquarters, plans to transfer several thousand people to the eastern Paris suburb Fontenay-sous-Bois, where it is building a new business campus. “A lot of the towers in La Défense are going to empty out as companies look to rationalize their usage of office space,” said Alexis Motte, chief executive of Mobilitis, a real estate advisory agency. “The market in La Défense is clearly oversupplied.” The vacancy rate in La Défense stands at 7.5 percent, compared with 3.3 percent in the second quarter of 2008. The Tour Eqho, a semicylindrical glass tower that formerly housed the French headquarters of I.B.M., is undergoing a top-to-bottom renovation by its developer, Icade. But so far, Icade is struggling to find enough tenants for its reopening later this year, people involved in the market say. Icade declined to comment. But some developers evidently think eventual success is simply a matter of timing. Consider Hermitage Plaza, a project featuring a pair of towers planned for the western bank of the Seine and designed by the British architect Norman Foster. “The idea is to create a Manhattan in the French style in La Défense,” said Emin Iskenderov, a Russian developer who secured a loan this year from Sberbank, which is based in Moscow, to build the towers. The complex will be only a short walk from one of La Défense’s two subway stations. And it is near the Pont de Neuilly, a bridge that pedestrians can cross the river to reach the upscale Paris suburb Neuilly-sur-Seine. It might feel more like part of Paris, in other words, than most of the rest of La Defénse does. “La Défense,” said Ms. Cianchetta, the master planner, “is like an iceberg that is disconnected from the areas around it.”

Home Prices Jumped 12.2% in May WASHINGTON (AP) — Home prices jumped 12.2 percent in May compared with a year earlier, the biggest annual gain since March 2006. The increase shows the housing recovery is strengthening. The Standard & Poor’s/CaseShiller 20-city home price index released on Tuesday also surged 2.4 percent in May from April. The month-over-month gain nearly matched the 2.6 percent increase in April from March — the highest on record. The price increases were widespread. All 20 cities showed gains in May from April and compared with a year earlier. Prices in Dallas and Denver reached the highest level on records dating to 2000. That is the first time since the housing bust that any city has reached a record high. A separate report issued on Tuesday showed that Americans’ confidence in the economy fell only slightly in July but stayed close to a five-and-a-half-year high, a sign that consumers should continue to help drive growth in the coming months. Home values are rising as more people are bidding on a relatively tight supply of houses for sale. One concern is that rising mortgage rates could slow home sales. But many economists say rates remain low by historical standards and would need to rise much faster to halt the momentum. Svenja Gudell, senior economist at Zillow, a home price data provider, said a big reason for the recent price gains was that foreclosed homes made up a smaller

All 20 cities in a closely watched index showed improvement. proportion of overall sales. Foreclosed homes are usually sold by banks at low prices. “Typical home values have appreciated at roughly half this pace for the past several months, which is still very robust,” Ms. Gudell said. Ms. Gudell said higher mortgage rates and a probable increase in the number of homes for sale in the coming months should slow the pace of price gains and stabilize the housing market. The S.& P./Case-Shiller index covers about half of American homes. It measures prices compared with those in January 2000 and creates a three-month moving average. The May figures are the latest available. Despite the recent gains, home prices for much of the country are still about 25 percent below the peaks they reached in July 2006. That is a major reason the supply of homes for sale remains low, as many homeowners are waiting to recoup their losses before putting their houses on the market. Separately, the Conference Board, a private research group based in New York, said on Tuesday that its consumer confidence index dipped to 80.3 in July. That is down from a reading of 82.1 in June, which was revised slightly

higher and was the best reading since January 2008. Despite the slight drop in July, confidence remains well above year-earlier levels. And consumers are more optimistic about the current job market. “Over all, indications are that the economy is strengthening and may even gain some momentum in the months ahead,” said Lynn Franco, an economist for the Conference Board. Amna Asaf, an economist at Capital Economics, attributed the July drop in confidence to rising gasoline prices. But she said the confidence index remained at a level that was consistent with stronger growth in consumer spending in the July-to-September quarter.

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Their U.S. rivals may be rolling in money, but for European banks it is still the season of penitence. Quarterly reports by three of the biggest banks in Europe on Tuesday showed how, five years after the beginning of the financial crisis, they continue

A U.S. military judge on Tuesday found Pfc. Bradley Manning not guilty of aiding the enemy, but convicted him of multiple counts of violating the Espionage Act in the most high-profile legal action to date stemming from recent leaks of U.S. national security files. Private Manning, who had been serving as a American military intelligence analyst in Iraq when he leaked hundreds of thousands of files to the antisecrecy group WikiLeaks three and a half years ago, faces the possibility of decades in prison. But his acquittal on the most serious charge, of aiding the enemy, spared him a potential life sentence. In delivering the mixed verdict, the judge, Col. Denise Lind, pulled back from the government’s effort to create a precedent — aiding the enemy, which by itself could have carried a life sentence, had never before been charged in a leak case — that press freedom specialists had warned could have broad consequences for the future of investigative journalism about national security in the Internet era. Private Manning had already confessed to being WikiLeaks’ source for the files, which included videos of airstrikes in which civilians were killed, hundreds of thousands of front-line incident reports from the Afghanistan and Iraq wars, dossiers on men being held without trial at the Guantánamo Bay prison, and about 250,000 diplomatic cables. But the government decided to press forward with a trial on more serious charges, including ‘‘aiding the enemy’’ and violations of the Espionage Act, which could have resulted in a life sentence. Colonel Lind said she would issue findings later that would explain her ruling. But on Tuesday, she marched through a quick litany of the multiple charges and specifications against Private Manning, who stood quietly as she spoke, without detailing her reasoning. Most reporters watched the proceedings from a closed-circuit feed in a filing center. One who was able to watch from into the small courtroom here said

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to pay for the sins and excesses of the boom years. While the six largest U.S. banks earned a combined $23 billion in the three months through June, Deutsche Bank, Barclays and UBS couldn’t manage profit of $1 billion between them. Their remorse is measured not only in diminished earnings, but also in their continued need to raise money to make themselves less vulnerable to risk, and to set aside funds to pay for any future legal scandals. As the big banks continue to work their way through the rubble of the financial crisis and their own missteps, their focus on rehab — rather than a full resumption of lending to businesses and consumers — continues to delay Europe’s economic rebound. That stands them in contrast to the big American banks, which despite their own legal and financial travails were forced by the government to quickly resolve their problems. That has helped pace the U.S. recovery that is creating a widening growth gap between the two sides of the Atlantic. American banks ‘‘pushed through the pain earlier than the European banks,’’ said James Gellert, the chief executive of Rapid Ratings, an independent analysis firm in New York. Now the European banks are trying to raise capital and revamp their businesses in the midst of a downturn. The multiple challenges ‘‘not only have financial impact,’’ Mr. Gellert said, ‘‘they are seriously distracting to management.’’ Banks around the world face growing momentum from regulations that would curtail their use of leverage, or borBANKS, PAGE 16

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Pfc. Bradley Manning on Tuesday at the courthouse at Fort Meade, Maryland. He faces the possibility of decades in prison, but has been spared a potential life sentence.

‘Local deep-fried artichokes? Follow me’ New type of guide leads visitors to little-known food places and dishes BY JEFF GORDINIER

You know it’s there. You’ve seen it on TV. You’ve devoured a few blog posts about it. Maybe it’s that spot in Rome where clandestine tables are set up in an alleyway and a neighborhood feast comes together beneath the honeyed glow of street lamps. Maybe it’s that tiny shop in a parking lot in Penang that sells the sublime coconut tarts, or the unremarkable strip mall in Los Angeles where Anthony Bourdain once sweated over a

bowl of spicy Thai boat noodles. If there’s one thing you’ve learned from watching all of those shows with Mr. Bourdain, the New York chef turned television star and voracious world traveler, it’s that these out-of-the-way treasures do exist. You, too, can eat there. The only catch? You might need a little help. It’s that line of thinking that explains the rise, over the past few years, of a new kind of travel specialist — so new, in fact, that they haven’t coined a name for the job. For now, let’s call them the food sherpas. Just as a traditional Sherpa helps a mountain climber navigate the stresses and mysteries of a Himalayan peak, a food sherpa is a local expert who brings a hungry traveler to pockets of the

culinary landscape that might otherwise seem out of reach. You’ll find them in Paris and Barcelona, in Malaysia and Mexico, but don’t go looking for a long, tortoisepaced phalanx of tourists in white sneakers trailing behind a guide who’s waving a flag and barking memorized data through a megaphone. Food sherpas pride themselves in offering something different: an experience that gives small groups of visitors an intimate encounter with what’s off the eaten path. ‘‘I usually don’t like tours,’’ said Lisa Rogovin, the entrepreneur behind a company called Edible Excursions, which oversees 25 to 40 deep dives, every month, into the diverse food scene of the San Francisco Bay Area. ‘‘I really need to know that this is going to be real and

authentic. I don’t want to be on a bus. I don’t want to be in a herd of cattle.’’ That has been Rick Gelbard’s goal for decades. ‘‘My wife and I had never actually taken a tour,’’ said Mr. Gelbard, 62, a retired Panavision engineering executive who lives in California. ‘‘We have always preferred to travel independently.’’ But while preparing for a trip to Rome and trying to figure out where to eat, he found the ocean of online data to be overwhelming. Before long, he came across a blog called Elizabeth Minchilli in Rome. He learned that Ms. Minchilli, a food writer and occasional New York Times contributor who has lived in Italy since 1988, could be hired as a private emissary to gastronomic gems around the city.

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A vigorous test for Mugabe in Zimbabwe vote

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With just two days to go before the election, there was still no final list of voters, as required by law. When the president’s main challengers tried to import motorcycles to register voters across vast distances, the government impounded the vehicles, forcing the party to use bicycles instead. Less than a week before the contest, the challengers’ election chief was jailed, and the day before the vote he was denied bail. President Robert G. Mugabe, the man who has ruled Zimbabwe since the end of white domination in 1980, retains his iron grip on the country’s feared security apparatus, which killed more than 200 people in the bloody 2008 presidential election season. Now nearing 90, he is running again on Wednesday, and there are few signs that he or his supporters are ready to give up the reins after more than three decades in power. ‘‘The 89 years don’t mean anything,’’ a confident and defiant Mr. Mugabe said of his age in a rare interview. ‘‘They ZIMBABWE, PAGE 4

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When Pablo Ruz was appointed an interim judge on Spain’s national court three years ago, some questioned whether he had enough experience. After all, he was 34 at the time and a surprise choice to replace Baltasar Gárzon, Spain’s most famous investigative judge, who had been suspended for illegal eavesdropping. But like his predecessor, Judge Ruz quickly made himself a household name. He has been the driving force behind the investigation into alleged slush-fund payments to Popular Party politicians that now threatens Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy, who after rising calls for his resignation from opposition lawmakers was scheduled to appear before Parliament on Thursday to explain the party’s finances. For better or worse, the case has made Judge Ruz the latest ‘‘juez estrella,’’ or star judge, in Spain. But as the case slowly unwinds — and shakes up Spanish politics with a stream of leaks to the news media of evidence and testimony from closed-door hearings — it has also revealed what the judge’s detractors and supporters alike concede are flaws

in the country’s justice system. The one thing upon which the public and politicians of all stripes seem to agree is that the nation’s courts are overwhelmed to the point of being nearly broken, easily politicized, prone to debilitating delays and dependent on the personalities and preferences of vastly overburdened judges. Since the start of the financial crisis in 2008, Spanish courts have been inundated with about 800 corruption cases, some aimed at even once-untouchable institutions of power, including the royal family. The significance and scale of the cases are such that judges — who take the lead in investigations here, rather than prosecutors — now arguably upstage politicians as the country’s most important decision-makers. ‘‘Spain is suffering from a politicization of justice and a judicialization of politics,’’ said Antonio Garrigues, the chairman of Garrigues, one of the largest Spanish law firms. The media, he added, ‘‘brings scandal and the kind of very passionate climate in which it becomes almost impossible to reach fair and correct verdicts.’’ More often, however, it seems that it is impossible to reach verdicts at all. To SPAIN, PAGE 3

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The European Union’s foreign policy chief, Catherine Ashton, said that the ousted Egyptian leader Mohamed Morsi was doing well and that they had discussed the situation in Egypt. PAGE 5

The driver of a train that derailed last week in Spain, killing 79 people, was on the phone and traveling at almost twice the speed limit at the time of the accident, a court said Tuesday. PAGE 3

Any effort to reboot ties with Russia isn’t likely to work. America shouldn’t waste time or political capital to once again try to build a strategic partnership, Job C. Henning writes. PAGE 6

Long odds for a Mideast deal

The odds against success in the Mideast peace talks are very long. Still, it is a bet worth making. Without it, matters will only get worse for everyone concerned, Aaron David Miller writes. PAGE 6

As President Barack Obama barnstorms the United States promoting his health care law, one audience in Washington is growing anxious about its financial implications: members of Congress and their personal staffs. For them, a wrinkle in the law could mean thousands of dollars in extra costs per year. ‘‘They’re thinking about leaving government service,’’ one congressman said of Capitol Hill staff members. global.nytimes.com/politics

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Architects seek new ways to link financial district to the people around it

BP hardens its stance on claims from gulf disaster LONDON

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A field behind the Grande Arche of La Défense. The concept ‘‘is a bit obsolete,’’ a partner at the firm mapping a new master plan said. ‘‘There is no interaction, no hospitality here.’’

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economy, are once more on the rise. And right next to the Grande Arche is the site of what was to be a 71-story office tower, Tour Signal, commissioned with much fanfare in 2008 to the French architect Jean Nouvel. That project has now been canceled. Given the drawbacks, why then are at least three new, architecturally ambitious office towers still under construction at La Défense? And how to account for the recently financed Hermitage Plaza project on the Seine River at the easternmost edge of La Défense, which, if it opens as planned in 2018, will include Europe’s tallest residential building? Some of the continued activity, of course, has to do with the long lag between conceiving a commercial real estate project and getting it built — a speculative roll of the dice that has paid little heed to shorter-term considerations like France and Europe’s current economic travails. In other cases, it might be a perpetual hope that better design can compensate for previous lapses. ‘‘La Défense’s ambitions to create a new kind of urbanism have been disappointing,’’ said Robert A.M. Stern, the dean of the Yale School of Architecture and principal of his namesake firm. Because ‘‘the residential areas are too isolated in their own zones,’’ Mr. Stern said, it is rare to spot locals buying groceries in one of the complex’s shopping malls or to see families with strollers on the weekends. A confined office area can work in some big American cities, but mostly because they are connected to the surrounding neighborhoods. Lower Manhattan ‘‘has residential areas right at its edge with streets threaded through to the city itself,’’ Mr. Stern said. Despite these misgivings, Mr. Stern’s firm was willing to take the commission to design Tour Carpe Diem, a tower now under construction within a dense cluster of high-rises on the northern edge of La Défense. ‘‘Carpe Diem is not just another aloof, object-like office building sitting on a podium,’’ Mr. Stern said. ‘‘It is a dual-oriented piece of connective tissue linking the center of La Defénse with the peripheral roads of Courbevoie,’’ a middleclass municipality. In any case, there are no tenants yet signed for Carpe Diem, which is to be completed in September. A defining feature of La Défense is the vast plaza, a pedestrian slab of some 30 hectares, or 74 acres, which acts as a roof to underground shops, a bus terminal and a hangar-like train and Métro

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er of nuclear power plants. And even now, developers continue to build here. But critics have long derided the mixed commercial, residential and retailing complex, which covers 1.6 square kilometers, or 0.62 square miles, as dehumanizing. While about 20,000 mainly low- and middle-income people live in La Défense, the vast central plaza can feel like a ghost town after 5 p.m. and on weekends, after most of the district’s 150,000 office workers have headed by train, bus or Métro to more desirable parts of Paris or its less surreal suburbs. ‘‘There is nothing good about living here!’’ said Carlin Pierre, 54, who works at a waste disposal center in the district and resides in one of the Brutalist communal, rent-subsidized housing blocks tucked amid the high-rise office buildings. ‘‘Sure, it’s a nice area to come as a tourist, or even to work,’’ Mr. Pierre said, ‘‘but it’s terrible to live in La Défense.’’ Alessandra Cianchetta, a partner at the firm mapping the master plan, AWP, acknowledges the enormousness of her task. ‘‘La Défense as a concept is a bit obsolete,’’ Ms. Cianchetta said. ‘‘There is no interaction, no hospitality here.’’ Vacancy rates at La Défense, long an up-and-down indicator of the French

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On Bastille Day 1989, when President François Mitterrand inaugurated the Grande Arche, a 40-story postmodern bookend five kilometers to the west of the Arc de Triomphe, it seemed its own form of triumph. The ceremony celebrated a decadelong building boom at La Défense, the sprawling array of office buildings long envisioned as Paris’s answer to Lower Manhattan in New York or the City of London. But La Défense, begun during the presidency of Charles de Gaulle in the late 1950s and built just west of Paris by bulldozing slums and paving over farmland, has always worked better in architectural theory than in anthropological practice. Rather than the Parisian business hub its founders described, it often seems more like the isolated end of a spoke that has highlighted a crucial flaw in urban planning — a place that can seem more concerned with architectural statements than an affinity for the people in and around the buildings. When non-French planning experts assess La Défense, they say it shares the same problems as the Canary Wharf complex in London, where developers have tried to supplant the City with Big Architecture and whose artificial origins may ultimately be hard to overcome. The experts look more favorably on the much more successful, organic business-residential mix of Lower Manhattan, which has evolved over the past century. ‘‘La Défense has always suffered from a creative hypothermia,’’ said Wojciech Czaja, an Austrian architecture critic. ‘‘It is a sad area because it is atmospherically and emotionally perceived as a business district only.’’ That is why the public agency that manages the complex has hired an architectural firm to draft a new master plan in hopes of at long last making the grandiose vision for La Défense a livable reality. Whether that plan can withstand the headwinds of Europe’s continuing financial woes, and France’s lingering recession and unemployment near 11 percent, only time will tell. It would be wrong to call La Défense a business failure. The district is home to 1,500 head offices, including those of 15 of the world’s 50 largest companies. French corporations with their signature headquarters buildings here include the oil and gas giant Total, the big bank Société Générale, and Areva, a leading build-

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depot with none of the charm of most Paris train stations. Those who pass through each day, but live elsewhere, often make their peace with La Défense. ‘‘It’s a good place to work, especially for the finance industry,’’ said Juo Marine, 24, a secretary at HSBC. ‘‘La Défense is like the Wall Street of Paris,’’ Ms. Marine said. But that is not necessarily a compliment. ‘‘The problem is that La Défense is not really a French area,’’ said Ms. Marine, herself proudly French. The master plan of AWP calls for a complete makeover of the transporta-

tion center; adding new entertainment venues to the public plaza and building new footbridges to connect the now largely isolated slab with the surrounding neighborhoods. The plan needs to work. There are new business districts on the increasingly competitive metropolitan Paris office market that real estate agents say are luring companies with lower prices — for example, areas in the north along the Seine and in the so-called inner rim of Paris, which includes the district of Saint-Denis, home of France’s national stadium, the Stade de France. Société Générale, which has 20,000

employees at its La Défense headquarters, plans to transfer several thousand people to the eastern Paris suburb of Fontenay-sous-Bois, where it is building a new business campus. ‘‘A lot of the towers in La Défense are going to empty out as companies look to rationalize their usage of office space,’’ said Alexis Motte, chief executive of Mobilitis, a real estate advisory agency. ‘‘The market in La Défense is clearly oversupplied.’’ Vacancy rates in La Défense stand at 7.5 percent, compared with 3.3 percent in the second quarter of 2008. The Tour Eqho, a semicylindrical glass tower that formerly housed the French headquarters of I.B.M., is undergoing a top-to-bottom renovation by its developer, Icade. But so far, Icade is struggling to find enough tenants for its reopening later this year, people involved in the market say. Icade declined to comment. But some developers evidently think eventual success is simply a matter of timing — and a continued refocusing of the La Défense vision. Consider Hermitage Plaza, a ¤2.3 billion project announced in 2009 and designed by the British architect Norman Foster. If completed as planned in 2018, Hermitage Plaza will feature a pair of towers on the western bank of the Seine, one of which — at 320 meters, or 1,050 feet — would be the tallest residential building in Europe and, for humility’s sake, would be only a few meters shorter than the Eiffel Tower. ‘‘The idea is to create a Manhattan in the French style in La Défense,’’ said Emin Iskenderov, a Russian developer who secured a loan this year from Sberbank, which is based in Moscow, to build the towers. The plan of Hermitage Plaza to blend residential, office and retailing space is in keeping with the direction that the critics and master planners say La Défense must take — to connect the development with the city and its people. The complex will be only a short walk from one of La Défense’s two Métro stations. And it is near the Pont de Neuilly, a bridge on which pedestrians can cross the river to reach the upscale westernParis suburb of Neuilly-sur-Seine. It might feel more like part of Paris, in other words, than most of the rest of La Defénse does. ‘‘La Défense,’’ said Ms. Cianchetta, the master planner, ‘‘is like an iceberg that is disconnected from the areas around it.’’ Catherine Chapman contributed reporting.

Trader’s lawyers, appearing confident, call no witnesses NEW YORK

BY SUSANNE CRAIG AND MICHAEL J. DE LA MERCED

Lawyers for Fabrice P. Tourre, the former Goldman Sachs trader accused of defrauding investors in a mortgage deal six years ago, have rested their defense without calling any witnesses, a surprise move that now sets the stage for the closing of one of the most prominent cases from the financial crisis to go to trial. The decision to rest on Monday, after more than two weeks of testimony and 11 witnesses called by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, highlighted the confidence that Mr. Tourre’s lawyers have in their fight against the lawsuit by the government. The case, which will probably go to

the jury Wednesday, now comes down to how the nine jurors view Mr. Tourre, a 34-year-old Frenchman. In his closing argument Monday, Matthew Martens, a lawyer for the S.E.C., said Mr. Tourre used ‘‘lies and trickery’’ to try to deceive investors, and then the jury itself. The defense was to present its closing argument later in the day. Mr. Tourre’s legal team was visibly upbeat on Friday after Mr. Tourre finished testifying. They felt that they had successfully portrayed their client as a junior cog in the Goldman machine, one of several thousand vice presidents at the big Wall Street firm and hardly the villain the S.E.C. has tried to portray him as. Still, Mr. Tourre has to overcome evidence that he sent an e-mail that contained inaccurate information to ACA

Financial, which assembled and invested in the deal at the center of the case. That e-mail left the impression with ACA executives that a client of Goldman, the big hedge fund Paulson & Co., was hoping the trade would rise in value. The fund was, in fact, wagering that it would fall, and it made more than $1 billion on the transaction. ACA executives have testified that had they known that the hedge fund was betting against the trade, they would not have invested in it. ‘‘I wasn’t trying to confuse anybody; it just wasn’t accurate at the time,’’ Mr. Tourre, who was called as a witness for the S.E.C., told jurors during one of the most damaging statements of his testimony. He quickly followed up with documents he felt should have corrected their impression, but jurors heard it did not.

‘‘Fabrice has testified in the S.E.C.’s case, and ending things short allows the defense to underscore to the jury where the burden of proof lies — that is, squarely on the S.E.C.,’’ said Susan Brune, a lawyer who successfully defended Matthew M. Tannin, one of two former Bear Stearns executives acquitted in 2009 on charges that they had misled investors in their mortgagebacked securities hedge funds. The S.E.C. charged Goldman and Mr. Tourre with fraud in 2010. Not long afterward, Goldman settled the charges for $550 million, a record fine at the time. Mr. Tourre has been charged with fraud, and to find him liable, the jury has to find that Mr. Tourre made a material, or important, misstatement and did not correct it. But the S.E.C. does not need to prove intent for all of the charges.

Jurors can find that Mr. Tourre did not intend to deceive investors but was reckless or negligent, and that could bring lesser penalties. If the jury returns an unfavorable verdict, Mr. Tourre faces fines and a possible ban from the securities industry. Mr. Tourre’s troubles began Jan. 4, 2007, when a Goldman saleswoman, Gail Kreitman, sent a note to Laura Schwartz at ACA asking to set up a meeting with a Goldman client. Goldman wanted ACA to both oversee and invest in the trade. That e-mail prompted a phone call between the two women, and the next day Ms. Schwartz sent out a meeting request to various people, including Mr. Tourre. The subject field said ‘‘Meet with Paulson, Potential Equity Investor.’’ For many people on Wall Street, the TRIAL, PAGE 17

The British oil giant BP said it planned to step up its defense against litigation stemming from the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill as it continued to endure the financial fallout from the disaster, reporting weaker-than-expected earnings on Tuesday. BP’s chief executive, Robert W. Dudley, told reporters that the company was determined to fight what he called ‘‘false and fictitious’’ claims under a settlement last year with lawyers for businesses that incurred damage from the spill. The company said that the administrators of the settlement had made excessive payments to businesses, including to some that did not suffer damage. Mr. Dudley said that BP would try to recover payments already made if it considered them unfair. BP originally estimated that the settlement would cost $7.8 billion, but increased that estimate on Tuesday to $9.6 billion, stressing that the final cost would likely be ‘‘significantly higher.’’ While the company still has about $6.9 billion in a fund to pay such damages, it is setting aside more money to cover potential legal costs. The overall charges stemming from the spill rose $200 million, to $42.4 billion, at the end of the quarter. Separately, the first phase of a civil trial in New Orleans to determine the liabilities of BP and other companies finished in April, and the trial is scheduled to resume on Sept. 30. Billions of dollars in damages for BP will be at stake in the court ruling. Mr. Dudley said he thought

Since 2010, BP has sold about $38 billion worth of assets outside Russia to help pay legal costs and settlements. it was ‘‘highly unlikely’’ that BP would enter into detailed settlement discussions in the case. ‘‘As we continue to fight what I think are absurd outcomes,’’ he said, ‘‘we want everyone to know that we are digging in and are well prepared for the long haul on legal matters.’’ BP shares closed 3.4 percent lower in London. The company’s tough stance came as BP reported second-quarter profit of $2.7 billion after certain adjustments, down 25 percent from the previous year and substantially below analysts’ consensus. The company said lower oil prices, as well as unfavorable tax rates, in Russia and elsewhere, weighed on its results. The company continues to wrestle with the gulf disaster, which left 11 people dead and spilled millions of barrels of oil. BP’s output in the United States, a crucial region for the company, dropped 4.4 percent from the previous year, reflecting asset sales and a postspill moratorium on drilling. BP said that overall production in the third quarter was expected to be lower because of maintenance and disposals. Since 2010, the company has sold about $38 billion worth of assets outside Russia, mostly oil and gas fields that it deemed nonessential, to help pay for its legal issues. It completed a sale earlier this year of its 50 percent stake in its Russian affiliate TNK-BP to Rosneft for $12 billion in cash and shares in the company. These divestments have left BP a considerably smaller company but one that Mr. Dudley said would be more focused, safer, and, eventually, more profitable. Peter Hutton, an analyst at RBC Capital Markets in London, wrote in a research note on Tuesday that given the lower production and maintenance issues, ‘‘signals of operating momentum remain difficult to show.’’ A central reason for BP’s disappointing performance was the low contribution from BP’s nearly 20 percent shareholding in Rosneft, the Russian statecontrolled oil giant. Mr. Hutton said that BP’s share of Rosneft’s net income, which came to $218 million, amount to roughly one-third of expectations. While BP and Rosneft are still in the early days of their partnership, the earnings of the venture, which accounts for 30 percent of BP’s output, may be difficult to forecast. BP said that Rosneft’s profit was hit by the weakness of the Russian ruble against the U.S. dollar as well as export duty policies. BP did have pockets of strength. The company said that it had bought back $2.4 billion worth of shares as of July 26 in what is expected to be an $8 billion program. It also announced that it would pay a dividend of 9 cents per share for the quarter, up from 8 cents the previous year though unchanged from the first quarter. ‘‘As of two or three years ago we were a weaker company,’’ Mr. Dudley said. ‘‘Now our balance sheet is strong again.’’

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FOREWORD, AWP

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Nuance Galore: And Not Only At Night! Roger Connah

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we live half at night Sam Jacob

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Impermanence Rowan Moore

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FOREWORD

AWP / Marc armengaud, Matthias armengaud, alessandra cianchetta

This book has been realized on the occasion of our first solo show in the US, at Cornell University. This exhibition features a series of realized projects and an extensive research focusing on the theme of the urban night. Much of our work has been devoted to developing a practice on the intangible dimensions of architecture, including atmosphere and perception. Part of the challenge has been, through the guise of architecture, to translate into built form, recurrent themes of impermanence, evolution, and the uncontrollable, at all times encountering unstable elements. Hence, a recurrent interest in evolving environments: from landscapes to cityscapes. How can such qualities be transposed into built form or a master plan? We have spent several years looking at the ways in which climate, time, light and atmospheric blur influence architectural design. The exhibition at Cornell is the culmination of a show at the Pavillon d’Arsenal (Paris La Nuit, Nocturnal Chronicles 23/5-6/10 2013) and our book (Nightscapes, nocturnal landscapes, 2009) which both illustrate the nocturnal face of architecture, proving that buildings, like light, have the capacity to evolve, change, fluctuate and perform as active participants in cities.

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Each of the works featured here can be understood through the lens of an experiential quality: atmospheric blur, the effects of light, multiple-layers of meaning and interaction, illusory perspectives depths, and framing of views which create a surprising sequence of experiences. This soft performance of architecture also refers to the process of smoothing physical reality with other subtle aspects of culture such as art, cinema, philosophy, and landscape. We have invited three kaleidoscopic writers to explore, in unexpected ways, these issues and engage in discussion about our practice and architecture as an experience - spatial, emotional, sensual - rather than as a direct functional answer to a situation or even an image.

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Roger Connah lives in the Hotel Architecture, Ruthin, North Wales. He has travelled and taught globally for over 4 decades. Winner (with John Maruszczak): Revenge of the Lawn, White House Redux, Storefront, New York 2008; Associate Professor and currently Associate Director of Graduate Studies, Azrieli School of Architecture & Urbanism, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada. His last work is the 10 volume Deschooling Architecture - The Anti-Library (FadDesign House, Montreal 2014) including: 1 Architecture Degree Zero (2008) 2 Pulp Architecture (2009) 3 A House for de Kooning’s Friend (2009) 4 AaltoEgo (2011) 5 The Irresponsible Self (2011) 6 The Brautigan (2012) 7 Life After Architecture (2012) 8 Deschooling Architecture (2013) 9 Headless (2013)10 iDeath (2013). Other publications include: We Let the Goldfish Go (2014); Being:An Architect (with Ian Ritchie, RA 2013); The Rest is Silence (2011),The Piglet Years (2007); I am Architecture (ed. 2006); Finland (2005); 40 Young Architects from Finland (ed. 2002); Aaltomania (2000); How Architecture Got its Hump (2001); Grace and Architecture (1998); Welcome to the Hotel Architecture (1998); The End of Finnish Architecture (1994) Writing Architecture (1989).

Nuance Galore: And Not Only At Night! by Roger Connah

part 1 Familiarisation “Tell the story all the same,” said Adamsberg, looking affectionately at his deputy, and sensing fear in his reluctance. In Danglard’s mind, for all he was an authentic atheist, not inclined to mysticism, superstition could still find a clear way in, by taking the broad pathways of his perpetiual anxiety. Fred Vargas The Ghost Riders of Ordebec (2013)

This refusal to compete with slogans goes on. If I had to hazard a guess for an innovative and challenging architectural practice in the 21st century it might well take the shape and dynamics of the Parisian practice AWP (Agence de Reconfiguration Territoriale). Even the datached language is precise but hardly pretentious, refusing to compete with the slogans a professional architecture would ordinarily imply. Instead: this refusal implies re-framing. It recalls the wish for clear intrigue in a discipline like architecture that, perhaps, the original Modernism let slip. Where and when did we lose the somewhat delicate and desired world of dreaming, that clarity of the blurred condition? Reconfiguration implies new identities and atmospheres of space and place, an attempt - as noted - to maintain after realisation the dynamism with a potential to evolve thorugh time and change of use. Ecologies may be fragile and more so because of global and political misdemeanour but they can be strengthened and architecture has its role; infrastructure is hard, it is the glue, memory and sensations are soft but by no means secondary to the architectural intelligence which softens the voyage out. Let us be clear: this is a new narrative, but how?

For some years now I have been following the work of Fred Vargas, the French historian and archeologist who writes captivating novels about a cloudshovelling French Commissaire of Police called Jean-Baptiste Adamsberg and his somewhat brilliant, all-knowing but rigid Commandant Danglard. It was inevitable that this reading would collide with my understanding and appreciation of this innovative and challengingly precise Parisian practice. Just as Vargas’s novels are about naunced detection and very carefully dreamed solutions, the Office for Territorial Reconfiguration is about architecture of course, but holds much more than that. Direct experience not only seeks the phenomenological situation for each project but dislodges the process with sequences of perpetual stumulation. In all sense cinema, at all scales architecture, where architecture can intervene kaleidoscopically and atmospherically. Until, in city and chapel, community or garden, like a detective with a strong, often unstable hunch, this is the imaginary geography that articulates our approach and invites us in. And if we think Vargas might offer us the eccentric edge of this century, it should come as no surprise to think the novelist Virgina Woolf would take us back to the pivotal years of the 20th Century. It is impossible not to bring them together. Let us not lose sight of the last century and the alchemy that many professionals and critics wished to make of it as we re-think an engaged and committed practice for this century. It may appear odd, even untimely, to introduce such a practice by referring to Vargas at the same time as mentioning Virginia Woolf.

Often it appears our language and our common reference worlds have become disguised in the stable spectacle of contemporary architecture. Opting for a realm of possibility and performance, the artist or cineaste framing action, we are challenged today to travel but not arrive. We are invited to leave issues and construction unresolved but in no negligent manner. Instead any adopted materiality must dare to be something else; this is a drama – the word is precise - that respects impermanence, not in terms of whether architecture itself can still emerge triumphant but in terms of knowing just what can remain unrevealed and what vocabulary is in need of rescue. Consider temporality, performance, perspectives, illusions, curiosity, ambience, flux, redistribution and promenade and we are already invited into the cine-narrative of this inventive practice. But put these alongside the cloud shovelling words that we are often advised as critics and commentators to stay away from; hospitality, sensuality, sensoriality, generosity, and openness. There is little doubt that – over the last two or three decades - the tectonic games of digital imaging practices have offered architecture of the contemporary spectacle a wayward set of signs; the iconic has been dislocated. Space, the unfurling of the in-between, the crossover from territory to landscaspe, when put through the exercises and experiments AWP carry out turns this back on itself. Replace iconic with dramatic; let’s not pull back from taking our own critical risks. Architecture: the voyage out, night or day, a room of one’s own. In a recent song from The National (2013) called

Graceless, there is an irresistable line that pulls us up short: “there’s a science to walking through windows.” The sweep and curve of much contemporary architecture takes no real eimence when it comes to the iconic. Dialogue goes further, the tectonic drama is not our only refuge. There is indeed a science to walking through windows and we need to find it. Our critical challenge is clear: we are invited to reconsider the ‘remarkable’. When we hear the words ephemeral, unfinished, partial, or even zero energy, we are actually being invited to learn how to live, or live again, in both the hard and the soft, in infrastructure and script. Space itself can be iconic; weightless and dramatic, kaleidoscopic, atmospheric! We are offered this; then it is up to us. Traces are accessible and interactive; new interpretations, with phenomenological cunning, invite new sitings. Stylistic elegance is not forbidden but it is interrogated too, nowhere better than in Norwegian Wood, the urban lantern in Stavanger. Lennon and Murakami; you have to smile if not laugh outright. The atmosphere is infectious, on the ground or in the air. It is too easy to describe the approach as a diagram for diversity. Interdisciplinary is itself a hospitable process; it can caress symbol into new use, and confrontation into creative encounters between sign and narrative. We once had a dream or shoud we say, it once had us. Critical atmospheres might be a useful invention. Reflection not reflex, this is a particular relation between thought and action. It works so well in architecture at all scale because it, rightly, seduces

us to think we can go beyond residual activity, but at the same time it knows architecture needs all the residual and the unstable it can accept to remain open, evolving and remarkable. This is what is implied when we see the reworkings become form; when romance is re-activated. As Cianchetta writes, “we are constantly moving from natural scale ‘teasers’ to long term larger scale projects, matching experimental tools with anlayticals ones of architecture and master planning, aiming to reveal new possible territories and to re-activate the idea of ‘desire in them, bringing a state of enchantment back to the cities.” Adaptive re-use: let’s not remain so quotidian. From deep teasers to long-term larger scale projects, this bird has flown! What are we doing here? We are putting thought in relation to its own inevitability. The 20th century may not be far behind us, but the re-composition strategies are ours, with a responsibility that belongs to such practices. If AWP move from exercising precise territorial games in a water plant, an urban park or a hight street, or then suggesting new cartographies of the night, it is not so much the projects, themes, scales and experiments are energetically innovative, they are of course. It is the process they measure to remain open and the communication they take on. Language again is our key; this is deeply trollish in its adventure and crossed with the research that each member of the practice brings, the results are always unusually workable. We are not speaking only of transformation here, which pits the predictable codes of an expected architecture against unfamiliarity. Here AWP play deeper game

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with symbol and space, icon and drama, research and redux, a deeper seriousness with openness and atmosphere. Frame and re-framing, it is cinema itself that AWP use to their advantage. Devices cunningly and critically layered one across the other are mapped and then insinuated into architecture producing an atmosphere we have lost, even in recent cinema. Cinema, when re-framed, when accepting the accidental narrative, is precise enough to hold the hospitality and generosity this practice seeks in all its legibility and flexibility. And cinema when atmospherically unfastened, as in Antonioni, is fleeting enough to hold all the architecture and concepts attempted - the legibility of the host, and the liberation of the hosted. Always a potential alternative in any scenario that can dare to remain in flow, but not unhinged. Where are our new critical adventures to validate the water plant as script and scenario, not of urban crime but intrigue? This is not the gossip of being, it is careful re-framing, where thinking and action belong as much to the planner as they do the cineaste. Brittle as Antonioni, these are atmospheres that leave us breathing more easily without letting go of the anxiety necessary to remain alert. It is less known that we breathe differently in different spaces, yet we are re-informed through desire. This function is high on AWP’s index of interfering with the familiar. Dwelling and architecture are here being only gently tamed (but not too much!) into a serious of under-written works. This is an architecture life shared, as much as it is the undoing of labels, exposing the familiar and falsity involved in easy definitions and solutions.

AWP is a practice that collaborates, that consults, that colludes. It is a contemporary 21st century practice whether working with the usual suspects: Arup, Foster, Rogers, Perrault, Zagari or HHF. This is, in official terms ‘a landscape and public space consultancy’ – in unofficial terms, these atmospheres created are essentially critical fictions that we need to bring back into architecture. If I had to echo a community amongst which I see these partners operating, it would suggest a gentle leap back to the work of Oulipo (Ouvroir de Littérature Potentielle/Workshop for Potential Literature): the supple and juxtaposed inventive scripts and atmospheres of Calvino, Matthews, Queneau and Perec. AWP in a short period of 10 years have set up a compelling Workshop for Potential Architecture. And for that greater community, a critical indulgence that we should embrace I would include the following for starters: Antonioni, Godard, Allen and Almodovar, Cortazar and Gombrowicz, Ashbery and Adonis, Viola, Baldessari and Elliason; Vargas and Woolf (of course!). Stable and unstable elements, the rhythm of the hard and the soft and experiences and feelings all have a habit of returning to architecture and space. In a way they return to where they originally belong. If this is a critical fiction, then let’s have more of them. If architects and the loose phrases we use for this still confused discipline and profession are to be listened to, to be commissioned for issues we think unresolvable and difficult, it will be because of the work of a practice like AWP. This is cutting agency; it resonates with Virginia Woolf in such that it allows the unresolved and the unclear to remain precisely unresolved,

an unmeant world, unrevealed even at times, but nevertheless experienced. Nuance galore: and not only at night!

Part 2 De-familiarisation A very thin line of shadow tapered on the horizon, scarcely thick enough to stand the burden of Paris, which nevertheless rested upon it. They were free of roads, free of mankind, and the same exhalation at their freedom ran through them all. Virginia Woolf The Voyage Out 1915

Whatever city I visit, whatever capacity we take on in a life of architecture, the solitude in contemporary architecture can so easily turn into a new loneliness. In conversation, in discourses that come and go, all is concealed. The camera crew enter and set up jib and dolly, take haunting images sequences; the buildings materialize in the relentless sun and then de-materialize in the night when nuances take a walk on the wild side and details change place with structure. We used to know ourselves, and what sort of architects, or professors or critics we were. Was it the one who still visits cities like Murcia in Southern Spain, tracing the Moorish influence, and writes papers about lost narratives? Or then the one attending the obligatory but stunning museum (The Salzillo Museum) and stopping for a cañas and tapas at the height of the sun. The architect is interviewed, in the kitchen, in the hammock, in the pool. The lights come on. New lives are illuminated, dreamed up; we don’t so much start again as space is reconfigured, territory sensualised, and the terraces merge with the city’s slopes,

and the trees hold new constructions from where we take new vantage points. And the recipes for olives continue to develop. The other professor, the one who returns to nothingness, reads Virginia Woolf’s first novel The Voyage Out. Intense, relentless self-analysis spreads out before us a new compendium for this century; where the people we meet, the conversations we have, the places we visit, the familiarities we relied on, are re-written, de-familiarised. In the voids, in the constructed dreams we inhabit it is impossible not to be dismembered yet re-configured. In the haunting analysis of the unresolved, we - and this includes architects - disappear into early Camus and Sartre. It is not so much James Joyce we return to any longer but the narrative that can no longer offer narratives for the future. This is not apocalyptic; walls are stripped back in the Arab district of this imagination; buildings treated with henna celebrating the impermanence of new histories appearing before us. Rivers not so much dried out as controlled at source, never to reach the sea. How can this be the professor invited to prepare a small document about a practice he considers offers a new intelligence for architecture? What codes must he use to convince anyone of this and what currency to dream and perform differently can be allowed into the constructed world? By all means put infinity on trail, invent environmental and metaphorical filters, but with what success? To judge by the complimentary alchemy of the three members of this practice, Matthias and Marc Amengaud and Alessandra Cianchetta, we

are being tempted into a way of writing about architecture and architects that has no model, has not so far been followed or established. We are invited into the contract that they themselves take. Are we to punish the pretence of scholars for extending their imaginations to others who cannot quite achieve it in the same way? What then does this practice mean to me? In a bar called Gran Rhin on Piazza San Pedro in Murcia I pause after the Salzillo Museum for a beer. Two small but no less weighty pieces of octopus are served as tapas, cut from the dish lying under the counter where the octopus is soaking in beer. These two pieces are served with a lemon drizzle. Of course we must remind ourselves. We have tasted so much of our lives before yet we must still allow ourselves repetitions which can and must extend the nuance of nothingness that we fight. This can hardly be the text required and yet, it is significant. The materiality of the octopus, soaked first in beer, cooked slowly then slightly roasted in the oven has the spendour of impermanence. Someone, somewhere, knows, where the resolved becomes the unresolved to be desired. I imagine the work of this practice not so much explained by this as resembling this intelligence they bring to architecture. The special alchemy can be read from page to project, from ‘patronym’ to ‘paysage’. Different skills must question the intelligence of what we still address as the architectural program. Cross-platforming is embraced. Philosophy tests the mapped world, as the mapped world questions the potential of the constructed world. It proceeds like this text.

I begin with no intention of calling in a bar in central Murcia and conclude with observations about an architectural intelligence. Without knowing it we have gone through Vargas, Woolf, Joyce, T S Eliot, Camus and Sartre. We may even now have met the cloud shovellers from Vargas’ idiosyncratic commissaire, JeanBaptiste Adamsbert. I end with a plea not just for this trio, for the materiality and dramas of the impermanence they offer, even their own impermanence, but a suggestion how it is they bring this currency, what we can call a constructed ambience or any other phrases we invent to remember them by. The obvious: it is not the language which will offer the merit, or the significance, but the intelligence that this practice so consistently cross-platform in ways the 21st century now begins to understand as its own difference from the 20th century. “Silence fell upon one,” Woolf writes in The Voyage Out, “and then another, until they were all silent, their minds spilling out into the deep blue air. The way seemed shorter in the dark than in the day; and soon the lights of the town were seen on the flat far beneath them.” Night and Day: which way is shorter for architecture? Neither. Inseparable! Roger Connah Murcia, Spain/ Ruthin, UK. July 2013.

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we live half at night BY SAM JACOB

Because the night belongs to lovers Because the night belongs to lust

If we learn anything from pop music it’s that the night is much more than the time between the sun setting and rising. As the sun falls below Earth’s horizon, the planet turns its face to the darkness of space. It’s own shadow chases across its surface, fringed on either side by twilight and dawn. But the space in between these solar terminators - the space we call night - may as well be another world.

Sam Jacob is a director of award-winning London based architecture practice FAT, whose clients include Selfridges, BBC and Living Architecture. His work has been exhibited at the Venice Biennale, MAK Center, and the Victoria and Albert Museum. Jacob is design critic for Art Review, contributing editor for Icon, and columnist for Dezeen; he is also a professor of architecture at UIC and director of Night School at the Architectural Association. He edits Strangeharvest.com.

Pop music talks of night as a human rather than cosmoligical subject. Through it’s forever-adolescent intensity it describes night not as a function of orbits and axial spin but as a psychological state, a condition that falls upon us. Seen through pop’s lens, night is a synthetic thing. Not just a duration of time but also a space. It’s a place we occupy: the synthetic night of the city street, the neon glow of a nightclub, the shadows in which we explore desire and longing.

As dusk falls on this charming scene, we can watch the full deployment of high technology unfurl across the ancient stones of history. As the daylight fades, our view of the city changes. The background town fades to a shadowy supporting role as the city’s stars begin to shine. Some people call it a one night stand But we can call it paradise

Because the night belongs to lovers Because the night belongs to lust

As electricity crackles through wires that snake invisibly around listed monuments, filaments and diodes begin to glow. Beams, points, and washes of light are cast over the city in a shock and awe charm offensive.

The tyranny of day holds our identity fixed. We traipse to work, fulfill familial duty, perform as citizens. But undercover of the night we can escape from the responsibilities and roles that the day enforces upon us. We can become other kinds of creature. All those sublimated psychological sensations, of identity, fear, possibility buried during daylight hours rise to the surface.

These lights aren’t simply street lights, there to help us see. They are more like those purple lights in McDonald’s toilets that make it impossible for junkies to pick out a vein. These are lights that both show and hide, there to make us see differently, to see, in some cases, something that might not even be there.

Think of that feeling at the end of a long night when the sun rises and suddenly a realisation as well as a day dawns upon you. As that giant yellow orb breaks above the line of the horizon the world becomes visible again. Form, mass, space, colour, texture all return in the shared space of daylight. And that intimate, private world of possibility evaporates under the glare of the sun.

Out to the electric night Where the bass line jumps in the backstreet lights

These lights wring every nuance out of a structure. Buildings, bridges, monuments become exaggerations of themselves, dragged up versions verging on parody and caricature.

Night is the site of existential angst and fleeting pleasures. But night is also something we make. It’s the place where we construct scenarios like romance and plots. It’s a space of possibility where we can rewrite the certainties of day. We can re-invent ourselves and we can reinvent the world. At this point it becomes not only a phenomenon but an architectural project.

Every surface modulation, every crag and protrusion is exaggerated, set in hotspot highlight or deep shadow. They are flushed with camply theatrical techniques. Underlit, for example like an expressionist horror film, the capitals and monuments of Europe gurn like B movie hams.

The architecture of nighttime colonises the darkness. It transforms the planet’s shadow into sites of culture, work, politics and leisure. And as it does, it writes a hyper synthetic version of itself into the gloom. Just as the night allows us to become versions of ourselves, to explore psychological fantasy so with architecture. Strangers, waiting, up and down the boulevard Their shadows searching in the night

As you walk through a European city, you’ll often find yourself entering a strange zone, a place where time seems to both fast forward and rewind and the same time. You can feel it underfoot as tarmac and concrete slabs give way to cobbled granite. Maybe you’ll pass through a set of bollards that pedestrianise streets with a tourist-permeable barricade erected against the raging torrents of contemporary life. The features of contemporary city are all there, only somehow different. Shop signs, for example, are captive behind plate glass windows, their neon-lit graphics peering out at the heritage zone they have been banished from. In those Dorian Grey enclaves designated as heritage ghettos the fabric of cities has seemingly cheated the passing of time.

Others seem to spontaneously phosphoress, made luminous by unseen sources. It’s as though someone has pulled the focus or changed the depth of field and set the city in a high definition ultra 3D version of itself.

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The effect can be a totalising transformation of the city from physical stuff to a ghostly

image, re-editing the city’s fabric into an imaginary state. The material bulk and weight of history alchemises into a holographic mist of photons, into a haze so immaterial that you feel like your hand could pass through it. Tonight the light of love is in your eyes Will you love me tomorrow?

The irony is that these historic scenes are rendered in a way that makes them entirely contemporary. They are visions that their authors, say Christopher Wren or Peter the Great could hardly recognise. Europe’s historic fabric, reconstructed after Blitz, polished and bleached to pristine newness, is where we imagine we can viscerally experience history. But it is only the sensation of history, the contemporary idea of what history might look and feel like. Instead of connecting us to the past, we find ourselves in futuristic fictions of the past. This sensation of civic heritage is nothing like real heritage at all. It’s a barrage of effects calibrated to make you feel the sensation of heritage. Heritage is manufactured out of the combination of technology and night. The conceptual space that night offers is the space to re-invent our cities with narratives impossible during the day, when their true state is revealed. Then I get night fever, night fever. We know how to do it.

Yet the image of the city at night remains with us like a dream that we can’t shake. The fantasies of the architectural night don’t vanish when the sun rises. Rather, they ghost themselves into our total conception of architecture, into our expectation and understanding of the city. Even under the noonday sun, for example, night’s mirage of heritage remains a filter through which we imagine the stones of the city. The architecture of the night is of extreme fantasy, a neon hallucination. But it’s precisely in its synthetic nature that it fulfills architectures potential to write cultural fictions into the world. Despite (or perhaps because of) its flicker and glow, this is where architecture manufactures its double image, an equally real twin of the daytime re-written through psychologies of love, fear and desire. We’re up all night ‘til the sun We’re up all night to get some We’re up all night for good fun We’re up all night to get lucky

Sam Jacob. London, UK. July 2013.

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Impermanence BY ROWAN MOORE

All buildings are temporary, said Cedric Price, but some are more temporary than others. He was right – for all that architecture seems to be about completion, certainty, fixity and permanence, buildings are subject to physical and perceptual change and eventual disappearance. In saying this Price articulated a central theme of the reaction to classical modernism which, from Archigram to Parametricism, has been going on now for more than a half-century. What these movements have in common is a desire to animate the infuriating massiveness of built form, to design for dynamism and change.

Rowan Moore is architecture critic of The Observer. He was formerly director of the Architecture Foundation, London, architecture critic of the Evening Standard, and editor of Blueprint. He was a founding partner of ZMMA architects. His book Why We Build, about the interaction of architecture and human desires, was published by Picador in September 2012.

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AWP also talk about impermanence and instability, but in different ways. They give priority to the idea of “climate”, of sensory and perceptual experiences that are fundamental to the inhabitation of the built environment, but often overlooked. AWP’s materials include, without privileging one over another, vegetation, light (artificial and natural), water, sound, temperature, the space between objects, and composition, as well as the more usual concrete, steel and timber. They are not afraid to create fixed structures, but always as means to an end, as instruments for enabling certain kinds of inhabitation or atmosphere. They work with instability that is both actual – the fact that a space might be occupied and altered in unforeseen ways – and perceptual, the creation of buildings that look as if they might fall over or evanesce, but don’t. AWP’s masterplan for La Defense raises the radical prospect that these concepts can be applied to a project costing over 300 million euros, and to a huge and apparently intractable megastructure. The subtle substances with which AWP work might seem delicate for such a situation but, in a place where rigidity is the problem, they are essential. Nor should an appearance of fragility obscure the fact that there is an underlying toughness in the architects’ approach. The work at La Defense was to some degree anticipated by two previous projects, the renovated park for the Lille Metropole Modern Art Museum, and the series of pavilions designed (with the Swiss practice HHF) for the Parc des Bords de Seine in Poissy. The two have a similar purpose, to create within a given territory a range of atmospheres, a climate, but they use opposite means. Whereas, in Poissy, a series of distinctive pavilions are to be constructed, the architects’ involvement in Lille is, at a casual glance, close to invisible – it is a matter of editing and re-orienting, of eliminating as much as adding, of disposition, planting and lighting rather than building new structures. In Poissy “follies” will be disposed across the landscape, some of them serving purposes such as restaurants and a visitor centre, some of them with no more function than to be places from which to look at the view, or to be explored in their own right. With their pitched roofs, they refer to some kind of domestic normality, almost-gemutlich, but they also have an uncanny hollowness. They are made to look as if their structure “doesn’t really work,” as Alessandra Cianchetta says, “as if they might fall”. They are ambiguous too, part suburban house, part tower, partly referring to the barges and aquatic structures in the nearby river Seine. This is instability in its perceptual form.

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Through repetition of their quasi-generic look, and through their spacing, the follies create frames for their environment. Like framing and composition in art, they provoke interaction. Or, better, and to use a comparison liked by AWP, they resemble framing in movies, in that they encourage particular ways of seeing and moving through a place. Cianchetta cites cinematic framing as an inspiration for the Lille park, in particular by Antonioni in Blow Up, and in his long slow tracking shot in The Passenger, which moves from inside to out to in. At Lille the role of the park is to be an outdoor gallery for artworks, that extends and complements the museum’s indoor collection, and so the vegetation is seen as a green/grey, “monochrome” equivalent of the white walls of galleries, “neutral enough to make the sculpture stand out, but also vibrate”. It was a matter of “redefining the topography”, of eliminating distractions, and choosing new plants for their textures, their qualities of light, and the sounds they make in the wind. Together the aim is to make a “hyper nature” or a “more intense nature”. “Plants are just another material,” says Cianchetta, “like concrete, leather, or cashmere.” Decisions you might not notice have a profound effect: the sculptures, for example, are not lit directly, which gives them a ghostly presence at night. Architecture here is something that overlaps with other disciplines, with film, art, landscape design, and couture. It is something that can be experienced obliquely, without knowing it is there, even as the option is also used, as with the Poissy structures, of making it visible. And then there is their fascination with night, manifest in a book, in an exhibition and in their concern with nocturnal environments in the Lille park and other projects. At La Defense they promise to make out of artificial light “a structure in its own right”, “an architectural and urbanistic gesture”, “a luminous environment”. Where classical and modernist architectural discourse habitually favours sunlight, AWP are fascinated by the creation, through artificial light, “of a temporary city, a temporary space, and a particular form of nature, at a particular time.” The La Defense masterplan combines concrete and pragmatic proposals, such as the recovery of tens of thousands of square metres of forgotten space, with techniques for structuring the intangible, such as lighting and the particular atmosphere of the place (“ a lot of air, wind, minerality; not welcoming but not suffocating.”) Impermanence is embraced, but not in the Archigram way of making buildings walk. Rather it is understood both that some parts of habitable space are more slow-moving than others, and how much of architecture exists in addition to the fixed and solid. The important question is how these elements – slow, fast, hard, soft, intangible, solid – interact.

Rowan Moore. London, UK. July 2013.

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AWP agence de reconfiguration territoriale / OFFICE FOR TERRITORIAL RECONFIGURATION Marc Armengaud, Matthias Armengaud, Alessandra Cianchetta 25 rue Henry Monnier 75009 Paris, France T +33 1 53 20 92 15 awp@awp.fr www.awp.fr

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EXHIBITIONS

AWP (Marc Armengaud, Matthias Armengaud, Alessandra Cianchetta)

2013 MAXXI, Museo Nazionale delle Arti del XXI secolo, Rome, Italy

AWP is an award winning interdisciplinary office for territorial reconfiguration and design. It is based in Paris and develops projects internationally working on a wide variety of programs: architecture, strategic planning, urbanism and landscape ranging from major large scale public projects to temporary installations both in France and internationally. The practice was awarded the French Ministry of Culture’s Prize for Best Young Architects in 2006, was nominated for the Mies Van der Rohe award in 2009, and given the French Ministry of Transport, Housing and Ecology’s PJU urban planning award 2010. Their work is regularly presented at many architectural venues worldwide such as Cité de l’Architecture et du Patrimoine in Paris, MoMA, the Museum of Modern Art, New York and Maxxi, Rome. The three partners teach respectively at ENSA Paris-Malaquais, ENSA-Versailles and Cornell and Columbia Universities.

2013 Vers un Climat, Building (with) the Unstable, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA 2013 Cut ‘n’ Paste: From Architectural Assemblage to Collage City, MoMa, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA 2013 Paris La Nuit, Pavillon de l’Arsenal (Paris Urban and Design Center ), Paris, France 2013 OIN Saclay, Pavillon de l’Arsenal (Paris Urban and Design Center ), Paris, France 2012 EPFL Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland 2012 New York University, Gallatin Institute of individualized studies – GDNYU Exhibition, London, UK

selected PUBLICATIOns

2011 DAM Deutsches Architekturmuseum, Frankfurt, Germany

Marc Armengaud, AWP. Paris la nuit, chroniques nocturnes. Editions du Pavillon de l’Arsenal 2013.

2011 Biennale on Public Space, (Biennale Spazio Pubblico), Rome, Italy

Marc Armengaud, Matthias Armengaud, Alessandra Cianchetta. Nightscapes - Nocturnal Landscapes. Gustavo Gili 2009.

2011 Scandinavia House, New York, USA 2011 Pont de la Machine, Espace SIG, Geneva, Switzerland

Marc Armengaud, AWP. Voies Publiques - Histoires et pratiques de l’espace public à Paris. Editions du Pavillon de l’Arsenal 2006. Alessandra Cianchetta with Enrico Molteni. Alvaro Siza: Private Houses. Skira 2004. Alessandra Cianchetta, with J. Antonio Martínez Lapeña, Fructuoso Maña and Elías Torres. Park Güell. Gustavo Gili 2002.

2008 Nasjonalmuseet for Kunst, Arkitektur og Design, Oslo, Norway From left to right Matthias Armengaud Alessandra Cianchetta Marc Armengaud

2007 Cité de l’Architecture et du Patrimoine, Palais de Chaillot, Paris, France 2007 Castel dell’Ovo, Naples, Italy 2007 Pristina Architecture and Engineering Faculty, Pristina, Kosovo

AWARDS AND DISTINCTIONS

2005 Mercer Union, Toronto, Canada

2014 IABR International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam (nomination) 2013 LEAF Awards Emirates, London - Urban Planning category (shortlisted)

2005 Palazzo della Signoria, Florence, Italy 2005 COAC Association of Catalonian Architects, Barcelona, Spain

2011 AWP’s projects have been acquired by the City of Architecture and Heritage (the Museum of Architecture in Paris), to form part of their permanent collection

2005 The Architecture Foundation, London, UK

2010 Finalists for the CCCB European prize for Urban Public Space

2004 Fondazione Adriano Olivetti, Rome, Italy

2010 PJU – Urban planning prize awarded by French Ministry of Ecology, Transports, Sustainability and Housing

2003 Association of portuguese architects and landscape architects, Lisbon, Portugal

2009 Nominated for the Mies van der Rohe Award

2003 Architecture Biennale Moblab, Archipelago, Rotterdam, the Netherlands 2003 Pavillon de l’Arsenal (Paris Urban and Design Center), Paris, France

2006 French Ministry of Culture and Communication Award Best Young Architect NAJA - Nouveaux Albums de la Jeune Architecture

2003 Forum d’architectures, Lausanne, Switzerland 2002 Castello e Cassero dell’Imperatore, Prato, Italy

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vers un climat building (with) the unstable www.awp.fr

COPYRIGHT

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Concept & production

AWP (Marc Armengaud, Matthias Armengaud, Alessandra Cianchetta) Publication printed on the occasion of the exhibition ‘VERS UN CLIMAT, BUILDING (WITH) THE UNSTABLE’ At John Hartell Gallery, Sibley Dome, Cornell University - August 26, 2013 - September 20, 2013 College of Architecture, Art, and Planning - 129 Sibley Dome, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853

texts

Roger Connah, Sam Jacob, Rowan Moore AWP / Marc Armengaud, Matthias Armengaud, Alessandra Cianchetta

PROJECTS

The Lantern - Norwegian Wood Designers: AWP (Marc Armengaud, Matthias Armengaud, Alessandra Cianchetta) project lead, with Atelier Oslo (Nils Ole Bae Brandtzaeg, Thomas Liu, Marius Mowe, Jonas Norsted) ; Collaborators: Arnaud Hirschauer, Sébastien Demont, Aurélien Masurel (AWP project team); Engineers: Dr. techn. Kristoffer Apeland AS ; Client: City of Sandnes ; Location: Sandnes, Norway ; Area: 140 sq m/900 cb m of built area, 2500 sqm of public space ; Design: 2006-2008 ; Status: Built 2009-2010. LAM - Sculpture park for the Museum of Modern, Contemporary and Outsider Art Designers: AWP (Marc Armengaud, Matthias Armengaud, Alessandra Cianchetta) ; Collaborators: Alessandra Abbruzzese, Elena Fontal, Francesca Frigau, Ana Rosa Garcia, Nieves Gonzales, David Perez (AWP project team) ; Engineers: Ginger (Engineering, QS), Observatoire 1 (Lighting) ; Client: LMCU Lille Métropole Communauté Urbaine + Association des Amis du Musée ; Location: Villeneuve d’Ascq, Lille, France ; Area: 4,2 ha ; Design: 2006-2010 ; Status: Built 2010. PARIS’ CBD LA défense strategic masterplan Designers: AWP (Marc Armengaud, Matthias Armengaud, Alessandra Cianchetta) project lead, with HHF (Tilo Herlach, Simon Hartmann, Simon Frommenwiler) ; Collaborators: Laureline Guilpain, Charles Bouscasse, Denis Brochard, Bérénice Gentil, Amine Ibnolmobarak, Joseph Jabbour, Clara Lamerre, Miguel La Parra Knapman, Noel Manzano, Maya Nemeta, David Perez, Chloé Raillard (AWP project team), Pierre Escobar (HHF project team) ; Engineers: Les éclairagistes Associés (Lighting), Ginger (Engineering, QS), Jonction (Logistic engineering), AFP Conseil (Security) ; Client: DEFACTO établissement Public de gestion du quartier d’affaires de La Défense ; Location: La Défense, Paris, France ; Area: 161 ha ; Design: 2011-2014 ; Status: In progress. POISSY GALORE - 3 buildings and 10 follies in a park along the river seine Designers: AWP (Marc Armengaud, Matthias Armengaud, Alessandra Cianchetta) project lead, with HHF (Tilo Herlach, Simon Hartmann, Simon Frommenwiler) ; Collaborators: Umberto Barbiero, Helena Frigola, JuanManuel Garrido, Gemma Guinovart, Miguel La Parra Knapman, David Perez, Giuseppe Stella (AWP project team), David Gregori y Ribes, Aleris Rodgers (HHF project team) ; Engineers: EVP (Structural engineering), Ginger (Engineering, QS) ; Client: Communauté d’agglomération des Deux Rives de la Seine ; Location: Carrières-sous-Poissy, Paris, France ; Area: 1900 sqm ; Design: 2011-2015; Status: In progress.

DRAWINGS

All drawings are by AWP and collaborators

Photography

Bosheng Gan (8, 10-11, 12, 13) Marchand & Meffre (16-17, 21) Anna Positano (18, 22, 23, 24-25, 27, 28, 30, 31, 32-33) Gregori Civera (35)

graphic design

AWP (Marc Armengaud, Matthias Armengaud, Alessandra Cianchetta), Maya Nemeta

EDITor

Lab Press

Printing

C.A. Grafica (Pontevedra, Spain)

acknowledgments

Thanks to Jean-Louis Cohen, Mark Cruvellier, Beth Kunz, Chus Martinez, Inderbir Riar and Theresa Simon

vers un climat building (with) the unstable roger connah, sam jacob, rowan moore awp / marc armengaud, matthias armengaud, alessandra cianchetta

9€ ISBN 978-2-7466-6408-1 publication PRINTED ON THE OCCASION Of the exhibition «vers un climat, building (with) the unstable» by awp at john hartell gallery, sibley dome, cornell university college of architecture, art, and planning - 129 sibley dome, cornell university, ithaca, ny 14853 august 26, 2013 - september 20, 2013

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Alessandra Cianchetta, Architect - Culture Talks | AnOther

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Urban Lounge Courtesy of AWP Paris

The celebrated architect and founder of AW P Pari s on redefi ni ng t h e l a n d sca p e o f Pa r i s a n d t h e et ernal beaut y of i mp er m an e n ce An “urban living room” – a room for dancing, a room for playing, a room for resting. A depuration plant on the Seine river front. A giant wooden canopy in Norway. Alessandra Cianchetta is an award-winning architect and a founding partner of the celebrated AWP Paris (http://www.awp.fr), a collective devoted to exploring new and challenging discourses between design and the natural environment. She is currently working on two projects staggering in ambition and scope – one is an 85,000 square-metre housing and mixed-use sector project in Lausanne, which will eventually transform the cityscape (the project will take several years until completion) and a public space in Paris (taking into its sway 70,000 square metre) for the Jardins de l'Arche below the Grande Arche de la Défense, which will include a unique series of cultural and leisure buildings, and a number of public buildings and follies set in a park in Poissy.

Tr e n d i n g

Harbouring a desire as a young creative to work in the fashion sphere, Cianchetta has a unique approach to her discipline and an enduring obsession with what she describes as “impermanence” and the intangible forces of the natural world. Suffice it to say, her work has been presented all over the world at the likes of Cité de l'Architecture, Paris, the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and Maxxi, Rome. Here, the creative mastermind awarded the French Ministry of Culture Prize

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Alessandra Cianchetta, Architect - Culture Talks | AnOther

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for Best Young Architect, who has published a number of books on our relationship to architecture and landscape, talks exclusively to AnOther about what drives her passion for transformation, and tells us why destruction is sexy. What first drew you to architecture and design? I came to architecture by chance. I initially wanted to work in fashion, and I have lots of friends in that world, but I was at a fashion design function when I was younger and Emilio Pucci persuaded me to become an architect – he said it was a less superficial industry. I [followed his advice and] went into architecture with very big frustrations about fashion, because, to be honest, I didn’t know exactly what I wanted to be. I first became very interested in landscaping because in landscaping there is something that is impermanent and ever changing and I am fascinated with impermanence, with unstable, uncontrollable environments, with the idea of space as a scene. I started out doing things that were kind of between art, installation, and proper architecture – from that point we started winning competitions for more permanent buildings and master plans. However, I never considered fashion as superficial as it so strongly modifies our perception and experience of the world. In a similar way buildings, as a background to all human action, also have a huge influence. In a way, these are very related – they both mediate and influence our relationship to the world.

"I am fascinated with impermanence, with unstable, uncontrollable environments,

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Alessandra Cianchetta, Architect - Culture Talks | AnOther

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with the idea of space as a scene" — Alessandra Cianchetta

Tell us about the projects you are currently working on… Well, I’ve become very interested in big scale projects, with a recurrent interest in evolving environments: from landscapes to cityscapes and, more recently, also buildings, because buildings seem more constant and do not appear to change so much, though they also have a capacity to evolve, change, fluctuate… I am fascinated when buildings age, become ruins, or are destroyed, because some of them get so much sexier. I am interested in the soft performance of architecture – in smoothing physical reality with other subtler aspects of culture such as art, cinema or fashion, and, in the experiential, atmospheric qualities of a space at large. I am currently working on both buildings and strategies, articulating many scales, which is challenging, but rather fascinating – one is the strategic planning for all the public spaces in Paris’ CBD, which will take about 20 years, and is more of a strategic vision at the moment. The other project is one big, multi-layered public space of about 70,000 square metres – on one side it looks to the Seine and the historic core of the city and on the other it looks to metropolitan Paris. Since the Renaissance, all the kings and emperors of France and later, its presidents, have put landmarks in this same (historic) axis – the idea of the project is to link the two disjointed parts of Paris in a sort of urban couture. Both projects address physically and intellectually the question of the underground strata of the city, of what you do not normally see but is there.

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Alessandra Cianchetta, Architect - Culture Talks | AnOther

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How does it make you feel to work on such a huge project? Doing something like this, designing at the scale of a city, gives you a sense of omnipotence; it is very exciting but at the same time it can change and become very political. On one hand, you have this sense of omnipotence and control – something architects generally like to toy with - but on the other hand nothing is really controlled because there are so many parameters. Unlike with a collection in fashion, it can take 10 years to have a fixed plan in place and all the permissions, but there’s an evolution in the process that I enjoy. Do the disciplines of fashion and architecture overlap for you? Themes from fashion, such as impermanence, only apply to some architecture, but most don’t – at least directly – because it tends to be so fixed and controlled and mostly because production times and paces are very different. I know and admire lots of fashion designers but my architecture is not directly influenced by fashion – at the office we have creative workshops and in these there are links to fashion, and I’d love to have some stimulating collaborations, but apart from that I wouldn’t say there are any obvious links, except the ambition to create extraordinary environments. Text by John Paul Pryor John-Paul Pryor (http://johnpaulpryor.tumblr.com) is European Editor at Flaunt Magazine, Editor-at-large at Port Magazine and Editor, Contributing Art Editor to AnOther Magazine and Art Director at Topman Generation. He writes for Flaunt, Dazed & Confused, Port,Tank, AnOther, Nowness and directs fashion shoots for Topman Generation. His debut novel Spectacles is out now

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List of Publications

The listed publications comprise the writings of AWP, including all monographic publications, all essays as well as published interviews and talks, and academic treatises.

Books, Monographs, Magazines and Exhibition catalogues written by AWP (Marc Armengaud, Matthias Armengaud, Alessandra Cianchetta) Marc Armengaud, Matthias Armengaud, Alessandra Cianchetta, Clément Blanchet, Edwin Heathcote, Daniel R. Ringelstein, Paola Viganò, ‘A’A’, L’Architecture d’Aujourd’hui, ‘La Défense, le futur des espaces publics’, monographic issue, Paris, August 2013 AWP/Alessandra Cianchetta, Roger Connah, Sam Jacob, Rowan Moore, Towards a Climate, Building (with) the Unstable, published on the occasion of AWP’s solo exhibition at Cornell University, august-september 2013, Ithaca, United States, Lab Press publishing, Paris, 2013 AWP/Marc Armengaud, Paris la nuit : chroniques nocturnes, Pavillon de l’Arsenal + Editions A. & J. Picard, Paris, 2013 Marc Armengaud, Carine Merlino, La ville créatrice de ressources, Collection Mook, Editions Autrement, Paris, 2011 Marc Armengaud, Matthias Armengaud, Alessandra Cianchetta, Nightscapes : Nocturnal Landscapes, Editorial GG Gustavo Gili, Barcelona, 2009 (bilingual english-spanish) Marc Armengaud and Alice Schÿler Mallet, Le Temps d’une marée 2 - Migrations (bilingual catalogue for the Art, Landscape and Architecture Biennale of Dieppe harbour), Editions Cybèle, Paris, 2007 Marc Armengaud and Alice Schÿler Mallet, Le Temps d’une marée - Tide Is High (catalogue for contemporary art exhibition / landscape atlas of Dieppe harbour), Editions Cybèle, Paris, 2005 Alessandra Cianchetta with Enrico Molteni, Alvaro Siza: Private Houses 1954-2004, Skira, Milan, 2004 (bilingual english-italian) Alessandra Cianchetta with Enrico Molteni, Alvaro Siza: Casas 1954-2004, Editorial GG Gustavo Gili, Barcelona, 2004 (spanish edition) Alessandra Cianchetta, José Antonio Martínez Lapeña, Fructuoso Maña and Elías Torres, Park Güell, Editorial GG Gustavo Gili, Barcelona, 2002 (bilingual english-spanish), with an article on historical context by Alessandra Cianchetta

Selected Essays and Articles Marc Armengaud, ‘Aux fondements, le moment du vide’, essay as part of the debate ‘Est-ce bien fondamental ? Fundamentals, 14e biennale internationale d’architecture de Venise’ in D’Architectures #228, pages 45-48, Paris, July-August 2014 Marc Armengaud, ‘Tous les temps sont dans l’estuaire’, in Revue 303 « arts, recherches, créations » (catalogue for La Biennale de l’Estuaire 2011), Editions 303, 2011 Marc Armengaud, ‘Représentations transform-actrices’, in Dessine-moi une ville, Edited by Ariella Masboungi, Editions Le Moniteur, Paris, 2010 Marc Armengaud, ‘Culture et Grand Paris, la pompe funèbre ?’, in D’Architectures #188, pages 14-17, February 2010 Alessandra Cianchetta, ‘Building The Night Landscape’, in PAISEA #13, page 110 and following, June 2010 Marc Armengaud, ‘Les Restes de «J’Y Suis»’, in S AM- Schweizerisches Architekturmuseum #8, pages 28-29, 2009 Marc Armengaud, ‘L’Estuaire est une région bien intéressante’, in Revue 303 « arts, recherches, créations »(catalogue for La Biennale de l’Estuaire), Editions 303, 2009 Marc Armengaud, ‘Corps à corps de la perception et du territoire’, ENSAPM, Paris, 2009 Marc Armengaud, ‘Pirandello, le théâtre de la prospective’, in D’Architectures #179, pages 17-21, February 2009 Marc Armengaud, Matthias Armengaud, Alessandra Cianchetta: ‘Densité furtive, Night Mobility’, in Arte, Experiencias y territorios en proceso, Edited by Ramon Parramon, Idensitat, Actar, Barcelona, 2007 Marc Armengaud and AWP, ‘Espaces invisibles (publics)’ - introduction of the exhibition catalogue ‘Voies publiques - Histoires et pratiques de l’espace public à Paris’ Pavillon de l’Arsenal), Editions du Pavillon de l’Arsenal - A. & J. Picard, Paris, 2006 Marc Armengaud, ‘Drawing movements in the dark’, in Drawing Indeterminate Architecture, Intermediate Drawings of Architecture, by Nat Chard, Springer Verlag, Vienna, 2005 Alessandra Cianchetta, ‘Régénération urbaine à Barcelone : Comment reconvertir les ‘poubelles de la ville’ en une aire de centralité ?’, in D’Architectures #139, pages 60-67, August 2004 Marc Armengaud, ‘La lutte passe par mon jardin’, in Les Carnets du Paysage #9 & 10, Edited by Jean-Luc Brisson, Actes Sud et l’Ecole Nationale Supérieure du Paysage, Arles, 2003 AWP / Marc Armengaud, Matthias Armengaud and Alessandra Cianchetta, ‘Transfert Radial’, in Territoires partagés - L’archipel métropolitain (exhibition catalogue), Edited by Jean-Pierre Pranlas Descours, Editions du Pavillon de l’Arsenal - A. & J. Picard, Paris, 2003 Marc Armengaud, ‘Des pieds à la tête’, in Le Visiteur #8, Les Editions de l’Imprimeur, Paris, 2002 Matthias Armengaud, Sébastien Demont, Arnaud Hirschauer, ‘Bilbao, faire rimer mobilité et hospitalité’, in Sciences Humaines #117, pages 60-61, dossier ‘Les mobilités urbaines’, June 2002 Marc Armengaud, Matthias Armengaud, ‘La Limite passe dans mon jardin’, in Le Visiteur #6, Les Editions de l’Imprimeur, Paris, 2000

Books featuring AWP’s work Sergio Crippa (Editor), ArcVision Prize, Women and Architecture, Italcementi Group, Bergamo, 2014 Børre Skodvin, As Built #08 : Lanternen (monographic book), Forlag, Oslo, 2013 AWP/Alessandra Cianchetta, Roger Connah, Sam Jacob, Rowan Moore, Towards a Climate, Building (with) the Unstable, published on the occasion of AWP’s solo exhibition at Cornell University, august-september 2013, Ithaca, United States, Lab Press publishing, Paris, 2013 Matthieu Gauvin (Editor), Temps Libre & Dynamique Urbaine, Club Construction durable de Bouygues Construction, 2013 Sun Xu Yang, Liu Kun, Top One Landscape, Pace Books Limited, China, 2012 Various authors, HHF, Archilife Publishers, Seoul 2012 Various authors, Urban Landscape Furniture, Hi-Design Publishing, Hong Kong, 2012 Ariella Masboungi (Editor), Dessine-moi une ville, Editions Le Moniteur, Paris, 2010 Philip Jodidio, Public Architecture Now !, Taschen, Köln, 2010 Collective « French Touch », Architecture Optimiste Yearbook 2009, Pyramyd Editions, Paris, 2010 Avgui Calantidou, Jean-François Capeille, Pierre-Henri Montel, AAE – Architectes Associés pour l’Environnement: Construire l’Environnement? (Creating the Environment ?), Editions Archibooks, Paris, 2009 Franco Zagari, Giardini, Manuale di progettazione, Mancosu Editore, Rome, 2009 Kieran Long, Hatch: The New Architectural Generation, Lawrence King Publishing, London, 2008 Ramon Parramon (Editor), Arte, Experiencias y territorios en proceso. Espacio Publico/Espacio social, Idensitat, Actar, Barcelona, 2007 Amelie Deuflhard, Sophie Krempl-klieeisen, Sowie Philipp Oswalt, Matthias Lilienthal, Harald Müller, Volkspalast: Zwischen Aktivismus und Kunst, Theater der Zeit, Recherchen 30, Germany, 2006 Catologue of Exhibitions featuring AWP’s work Pippo Ciorra, Caterina Padoa Schioppa (Editors), Erasmus Effect. Italian Architects Abroad, Quodlibet, Fundazione MAXXI – Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo, 2013 Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication (DGPAT-BRAUP), Cité de l’Architecture et du Patrimoine, La Grande Ville 24h Chrono, Experimental research-action programme 2012-2013, Paris, 2012 Ariella Masboungi and Raphaël Crestin (Editors), Impulser la Ville : Palmarès des Jeunes Urbanistes, Paranthèses, Paris, 2012 Ana Jankovic-Corbic (Editor), What’s New... in Housing ?, 5th Belgrade International Architecture Week, Association of Belgrade Architects, Cultural Centre of Belgrade, Belgrade, 2010 Christine Desmoulin (Editor), Scénographies d’architectes - Architects’ exhibition designs, Editions du Pavillon de l’Arsenal, Paris, 2006 Cyrille Poy, Les Nouveaux albums des jeunes architectes 2005/2006, Editions Jean-Michel Place, Paris, 2006 Kester Rattenbury, The Architecture Foundation, A New Centre for Architecture, Architecture Foundation, London, 2006 Martin Aurell, Aliénor d’Aquitaine-Guide de l’Exposition, Centre Culturel de l’Ouest, Angers, 2004

Magazines and Newspapers featuring AWP’s work Archistorm #64, January-February 2014, pp. 44-45 and p. 53, ‘Les 30 Personnalités de 2013’, by Delphine Désveaux, Jean-Louis Violeau, Maryse Quinton, Lionel Blaisse, Claire Guezengar, Emmanuelle Graffin, Laurence Allard, Carol Maillard, Alexandra Fau, Stéphanie Dadour AMC #229, Une Année d’Architecture en France, December 2013 - January 2014, p. 206, ‘Station d’Epuration AWP’, by Gilles Davoine Topos #85, Open Space, December 2013, p. 52-59, ‘Learning from La Défense’, by Rafaël Magrou AMC #228, November 2013, pp. 6-8, ‘Les Jardins de l’Arche & Le Croissant: Prototype de la Ville Durable’, by Epadesa Le guide des projets urbains, November 2013, pp. 146-149, ‘Plan-guide des espaces publics de La Défense’ and p. 150-153, ‘De La Défense à la ville’, by AWP Objectif Grand Paris, October 2013, p. 23, ‘Dans l’attente de l’Arena’, by David Lortholary Le Mook, Autrement, October 2013, pp. 22-29, ‘A Table Avec Trois Jeunes Urbanistes du Grand Paris,’ by Carine Merlino Cree Architecture, October 2013, pp. 112-118, ‘Mobilier Urbain, Quelle Intelligence?’, by Sophie Roulet Archistorm #62, September-October 2013, pp. 31-35 ‘L’eau que tu bois a connu la mer’, by Julie Weber-Thiaville ‘A’A’, L’Architecture d’Aujourd’hui, hors-série, September 2013, ‘La Défense, le futur des espaces publics’, Monographic issue a+t, Architektur + Technik, September 2013, pp. 22-25, ‘Kläranlage in FR-Evry, Filternde Hüllen’, by Christina Horisberger AMC #226, September 2013, pp. 21-22, ‘La Défense en quête d’une seconde modernité’, by Françoise Moiroux AMC #226, September 2013, p. 128, ‘Insomnie Capitale’, by Margaux Darrieus EXE #13, July-August-September 2013, pp. 146-157, ‘AWP / Station d’épuration, Evry, France’, by Nadège Mevel The New York Times, July 31st 2013, p. 1 and 6, ‘Plan Aims to Enliven Paris’s Financial District, Long Called Soulless’, by Georgi Kantchev International Herald Tribune, July 31st2013, p. 1 and 14, ‘Trying to Draw La Défense Out of its Shell’, by Georgi Kantchev Traits Urbains #62, July 2013, pp. 22-24, ‘La Défense, un plan-guide dessus-dessous’, by Marie-Christine Vatov Le Monde, June 29th 2013, ‘La part d’ombre de la capitale mise en lumière par la fée électricité’, by Frédéric Edelmann Libération, May 21st 2013, pp. 30-31, ‘Toute la Lumière sur « Paris la nuit »’, by Sybille Vincendon Urbanista, March 2013, ‘AWP win competition for Orée de Crissier post-industrial urban scheme, Lausanne’, by Lucy Bullivant Arquitectura Viva, Proyectos #56, March-April 2013, p. 25 and 30-33, ‘Ecole Centrale de Paris, Paris-Saclay’, by Maite Baguena 24 Heures, March 25th 2013, p. 3, ‘Réhabiliter les Friches, le Formidable Projet de l’Ouest’, by Cindy Mendicino Le Temps de Genève (Swiss National Press), March 19th2013, p. 9, ‘Friches Urbaines: Crissier Prend de l’Avance’, by Yelmarc Roulet Casabella, #823, March 3rd , p. 53-59, ‘Macchina Riconciliatrice’, by Nicola Braghieri Ley Outre, Crissier, Ouest Lausannois – L’Orée de Crissier, Mandat d’études parallèles, February 2013, Rapport du collège d’experts, Lausanne

Mark Magazine, January 2013, pp. 12-19, ‘Notice Board’, by Nick Compton, Ellie Stathaki Topscape Paysage #12, 2013, pp.114-119, ‘Saint-Etienne: Daily Urban Lounge’, by Alessandro Gabbianelli 20 Minutes, December 18th , p. 4, in Defacto Les Infos, ‘Un Plan Guide pour un espace public réé’,by Defacto Defacto, Les Infos # 2, October 2012, p. 5, ‘Le plan-guide s’expose’, by Defacto Archithese, May 2012, pp. 56-59, ‘La Défense ist Frankreich, nicht Paris’, by Hubertus Adam Wallpaper*, 2011, p. 57, ‘Poissy Galore,’ by John Weich A+A (Architecture & Art) #192, 2011, pp. 36-43 ‘When architecture encounter with...’ Architecture & Detail (China) #4, 2011, pp. 33-35, ‘The Lantern Pavilion’ Architetti, November 2011, ‘Riqualificazione Urbana e Paesaggistica, il Progetto di AWP a Parigi,’ by Federica Maietti Perspective, November 2011, p. 108, ‘Childlike inspiration’ El Mercurio, November 2011, pp. 94-95, section Vivienda y Decoracion, ‘La Nueva Cara de La Defensa’, by Soledad Salgado Emag Epadesa #6, November 2011, pp. 13-14, ‘Les Jardins de l’Arche’ Garten + Landschaft, October 2011, p. 38, ‘Dem Niemandsland Seele Einhauchen’, by Thomas Armonat Le Moniteur, September 30th2011, p. 72, ‘A Carrières-sous-Poissy, le parc paysager se logera dans une boucle de la Seine’, by Hervé Guénot D’Architectures #202, September 10th 2011 p. 50-52, ‘La Défense est-elle le nouveau laboratoire de l’espace public ?’, by Françoise Moiroux Architetti, August-September 2011, pp. 14-15 , ‘Lantern Pavilion, Sandnes’, by Federica Maietti The Architectural Review , August 18th 2011, ‘Follies in a park by AWP + HHF Architects, Carrières-sous-Poissy, Paris, France’, by Catherine Slessor Architektura & Biznes, May 2011, pp. 66-67, ‘Drewniany Parasol’, by Marta Karpinska Séquences Bois #85, May 2011, pp. 20-23, ‘La Lanterne, un pavillon urbain en Norvège’ Architetti #38, May 2011, pp. 32-40 , ‘Norwegian Wood. The Lantern Pavilion’, by Federica Maietti Frame , February 2011, ‘The Lantern, Pavilion by AWP & Atelier Oslo’, by Lydia Parafianowicz Architecture Today, February 2011, ‘Atelier Oslo/AWP: The Lantern Sandnes, Norway’ Revue Urbanisme #376, January-February 2011, p. 17, ‘L’urbanisme de projet, priorité ministérielle en 2011,’ by Antoine Loubière Traits Urbains #44, January-February 2011, p. 16, ‘Pour être urbanistes, ils n’en sont pas moins jeunes’ Urban Press Information #1726, December 22nd2010, p. 12, ‘Palmarès des Jeunes Urbanistes 2010’, by Marina Caetano Viellard Le Moniteur #5586, December 17th 2010, p. 33, ‘Palmarès des Jeunes Urbanistes 2010’

Décideurs d’Ile de France #1030, December 2010, p. 3 AMC #192, November 2009, pp. 143-145, ‘Sandnes –aménagement’, by Maryse Quinton Archistorm #44, September-October 2010, pp. 28-35, ‘La French Touch’, by Michèle Leloup Le Figaro Culture, September 24th2010, ‘LAM : Parc, bibliothèque, conférences…’, by Claire Bommelaer Building Design, September 2010, pp. 14-15, ‘Solutions: Roofing- Santa Maria del Pianto Metro Station,’ by Amanda Birch Beaux-Arts #315, August 2010, p. 2, ‘LAM’ Building Design, April 9th 2010, ‘Solutions: Roofing-Santa Maria del Pianto Metro Station’, by Amanda Birch AMC hors-série bois, June 2009, pp. 101-103, ‘Kiosk-Lantern’ Air France Madame #129, April-May 2009, pp. 185-187, ‘Dans de beaux bois’, by Marie Le Fort Mark Another Architecture #19, April-May 2009, pp. 30-31, ‘AWP & Atelier Oslo, Fused Gothic and Wooden Architecture in Norway,’ by Nils Groot Le Moniteur #5495, March 20th 2009, pp. 67 & 74, ‘Une marquise géante en centre-ville’, by Jacques-Franck Degioanni RUM - Arkitektur Inredning Design #3, March 2009, pp. 84-85, ‘Isn’t it good, Norwegian Wood’, and pp. 42-43, ‘Lanternen, Sandnes,’ by Niklas Singstedt Stavanger Aftenblad, September 26th 2008, ‘Det var en gang et eventyr’, by Knut Gjerseth Olsen Cocinas + Baños Casaviva #48, 2008, pp. 56-63, ‘Acero y Gris,’ by Claire Davies Arkitektur #7, July-August 2008, pp. 42-43, ‘Lanternen, Sandnes’ Libération, September 19th 2007, p. 26, ‘Vagues Humaines à Bon Port,’ by Natalie Castetz The Architects’ Journal, June 21st 2007, pp. 14-15, ‘Rogers brings cemetery to life’, by Max Thompson D’Architectures #157, August-September 2006, pp. 9-14, ‘AWP - De détours en contours…’, by Françoise Moiroux Building Design, August 11th 2006, ‘Continental Comparisons: Alessandra Cianchetta of Paris practice AWP gave this year’s first Architecture Foundation Summer Nights talk’, by Ellie Duffy Le Monde, April 27th 2006, ‘Les clairs-obscurs de l’espace public parisien’, by Frédéric Edelmann Le Moniteur #HS Aménagement, April 2006, pp. 76-78, ‘Saint Denis - Le plateau piétonnier régénère le centre’, by Cyrille Véran A10 New European Architecture #7, January-February 2006, p. 61, ‘A new type of practice - The emergence of the network office’, by Jorrin Ten Have Le Moniteur #532, November 2005, p.69, ‘Saint-Denis, Piétonnisation du Centre-Ville’ Wettbewerbe Aktuell, May 2005, pp. 35-37, ‘Neues architekturzentrum London’ Landscape Review, April 2005, pp. 18-19, column Practice Profile, ‘a-Graft : Raw Talent and Truly International’, by Jezz Abbott

Blueprint, April 2005, p. 82, ‘Intimate details - Alvaro Siza, Private houses’, by Vicky Richardson Domus #880, April 2005, pp. 135-136 ‘Piccoli Paradisi - Alvaro Siza. Cases 1954-2004’, by Fabrizio Zanni Interni #550, April 2005, p. 210, ‘Alvaro Siza - Cases 1954-2004’ AMC #150, March 2005, pp. 23-28, ‘Concours - Fondation pour l’architecture - Londres’, by Dominique Boudet Inde BCN, March 2005, pp. 32-34, ‘Aproximations singulars - Cicle arquitectura catalana volum 3’, by Albert Ferré International Herald Tribune, January 2005, ‘British architect gets her due’, by Alan Riding Jornal Arquitectos #220-221, 2005, pp. 102-105, ‘Sede da Architectural Foundation - Isto Nao é um edificio’, by José Adriao

Online publications featuring AWP’s work The Architects’ Journal, October 1st 2014, ‘First images of contest-winning Malmo Quay scheme revealed’, by Laura Mark Bdaily, September 30th 2014, ‘Architectural triumvirate partner to develop Newcastle’s Malmo Quay’, by Jamie Hardesty Insider Media Limited, September 30th 2014, ‘Malmo Quay developers chosen’, by Matthew Ord Chronicle Live, September 29th 2014, ‘First look at unusual designs for Malmo Quay site at entrance of Ouseburn’, by Tom Keighley The Architects’ Journal, July 30th 2014, ‘Winners of Newcastle regeneration contest revealed’, by Merlin Fulcher DailyTonic, November 14th 2013, ‘Landscape architecture: Jardins de l’Arche by AWP in Paris,’ by Susanne Fritz AnOther Magazine, October 10th 2013, ‘Alessandra Cianchetta, Architect – Conversations with leading cultural figures’ by John Paul Pryor 5 Ans D’Actions pour un Territoire, October 2013, p. 8, ‘Projets Structurants’, by Epadesa Rapport D’Activité 2012, September 2013, p. 5 and 10, ‘Le projet urbain en un coup d’œil’ and ‘L’avancée des opérations en 2012,’ by Epadesa La Défense Seine Arche, September 2013, pp. 18-23 and pp. 30-31, ‘Les nouveaux défis de La Défense Seine Arche à l’horizon 2030’ and ‘Jardins de l’Arche: Activités de Loisirs Night and Day,’ by Epadesa Le Temps, September 4th 2013, ‘Les Gratte-Ciel à l’Epreuve du Vote,’ by Marco Danesi Le Parisien, May 24th 2013, ‘La Ville Lumière vit la nuit depuis deux siècles’ and ‘Une invitation aux explorations nocturnes’ Libération, May 21st 2013, ‘Toute la Lumière sur « Paris la nuit »’, by Sybille Vincendon Dezeen, May 16th 2013, ‘Water-treatment plant by AWP’, by Amy Frearson Urbanista, March 2013, ‘AWP win competition for Orée de Crissier post-industrial urban scheme, Lausanne,’ by Lucy Bullivant La Défense Seine Arche, R.evolution, Think Further, March 2013, pp. 12-13 and pp. 14-15, ‘Les jardins de l’Arche : un quartier night and day’ and ‘Des Espaces Publics de Qualité’, by Epadesa ArchDaily, January 23rd 2013, ‘AWP to announce masterplan for La Défense’, by Lisa Wronski Les études : réflexions pour un territoire, Vers un projet stratégique et opérationnel, December 2012, pp. 6-7, ‘Déclencheurs Urbains & Stratégie d’Aménagement,’ by Epadesa Metalocus, December 1st 2012, ‘Paris La Défense CBD, Jardins de l’Arche’, by Pedro Navarro Les Jardins de l’Arche, March 2012, by Epadesa Rapport d’Activités 2011, 2011, p. 28, ‘Avancement des Opérations,’ by Epadesa AECCafé, December 6th 2011, ‘Jardins de l’Arche in Paris, France by AWP,’ by Sumit Singha Tecnici, November 2011, ‘Parigi La Defense, una nuova visione urbanistica’ Archdaily, November 29th 2011, ‘Jardins de l’Arche/AWP’, by Alison Furuto

Le Figaro, November 15th 2011, ‘L’Arena 92 va redessiner l’ouest de La Défense,’ by Arnaud Coudry Free Architecture Report, November 15th 2011, ‘La Conception AWP à Paris à Proximité de La Défense - Plan de zone de revitalisation’ e-architect, November 8th 2011, ‘Paris La Défense CBD’ Archiscene, November 7th 2011, ‘Paris La Défense CBD by AWP’ Building Design, November 7th 2011, ‘AWP’s Jardins de l’Arche in Paris’ +mood, November 5th 2011, ‘Paris La Défense CBD, Jardins de l’Arche/AWP’, by David K. Channel Beta, November 2011, ‘Paris La Défense renews the Jardins de l’Arche’ Design Boom, November 2011, ‘AWP: Jardins de l’Arche’ Co.Design, November 2011, ‘A très-modern park nods to the silly gardens of rich people’, by Susanne Labarre Inhabitat, October 28th 2011, ‘Dreamy timber pavilions stack’ Daily Wired, October 3rd 2011, ‘Come rinasce un parco’, by Niccolo Capitani Design Buzz, September 30th 2011, ‘Seven Sustainable Pavilion Designs to Protect the Environment’, by Babita Sajnani Archdaily, September 20th 2011, ‘Parc paysager des bords de Seine proposal / AWP & HHF’, by Allison Furuto DETAIL Daily, Der Architektur- und Design-Blog, September 20th 2011, ‘AWP + HHF: Pavillons für Paris Größten Park’ Décotidien, September 17th 2011, ‘Nouveau parc des bords de Seine – HHF et AWP’ Dezeen, September 16th 2011, ‘Parc des Bords de Seine by HHF and AWP’ DesignBoom, September 16th 2011, ‘AWP + HHF: pavilions and follies for Parc des Bords de Seine’ Archiscene, September 16th 2011, ‘Park in Carrières-sous-Poissy by AWP & HHF’ Arquitectura Viva, September 15th 2011, AWP + HHF: arquitecturas en el Parc des Bords de Seine’ ArcoWeb, September 15th 2011, ‘Rio Sena tera parque de 113 hectares ao lado da Villa Savoye, de Le Corbusier’ Building Design, September 14th 2011, ‘AWP (Paris) reveal Seine pavilions’ Europaconcorsi, September 14th 2011, ‘Pavilions and follies of the Parc des Bords de Seine’ e-architect, September 13th 2011, ‘Follies Poissy, AWP + HHF’ Architectenweb, September 6th 2011, ‘Tien follies voor buitenwijk Parijs’ Neuilly Journal, August 1st 2011, ‘Defacto retient l’agence AWP pour le Plan Guide de La Défense’ France BTP, July 28th 2011, ‘Defacto choisit AWP pour le Plan Guide de La Défense’ Le Moniteur, July 28th 2011, ‘L’agence AWP repense les espaces publics des deux côtés de l’Arche de La Défense’, by Eric Leysens AECCafé, July 19th 2011, ‘Park in Carriéres Sous Poissy, France by HHF Architects’, by Sumit Singha

Arthitectural, May 4th 2011, ‘Atelier Oslo and AWP/Lanternen’ AECCafé, April 22nd 2011, ‘Lanternen in Langgata, Sandnes, Norway by Atelier Oslo/AWP’, by Sumit Singha Headlines, March 14th 2011, ‘Pavilion, Sandnes’, by Dutton R. Hauhart Batiactu, February 22nd 2011, ‘Une Canopée en Bois Se Dresse en Norvège’ ArchDaily, February 21st 2011, ‘AD Recommends: Best of the Week,’ by Sebastian Jordana Architecture Lab, February 21st 2011, ‘Norwegian Wood/ The Lantern Pavilion, Norway by AWP & Atelier Oslo’ Ymag, February 18th 2011, ‘Sandnes/Lantern by AWP + Atelier Oslo’ Metalocus, February 17th 2011, ‘Lantern Pavilion’ Archello, February 16th 2011, ‘Sandnes/Lantern’ Designboom, February 16th 2011, ‘AWP + Atelier Oslo: Lantern’ Detail daily, February 15th 2011, ‘AWP + Atelier Oslo, Lantern-ein Haus fur Alle’ Europaconcorsi, February 14th 2011, ‘The Lantern – Norwegian Wood’ Trend Hunter, February 10th 2011, ‘Illuminating Eco Architecture,’ by Jordan Markowski Inhabitat, February 9th 2011, ‘The Lantern Pavilion: Glowing Contemporary Architecture Made of Sustainable Timber,’ by Bridgette Meinhold e-architect, February 9th 2011, ‘The Lantern, Sandnes, Norway’ World Architecture News, February 8th 2011, ‘A Guiding Light’ Europaconcorsi, February 2011, ‘New park fo LaM, Museum of Modern, Contemporary and Outsider Art, Lille Métropole’ Architecture Lab, 2011, ‘Architectures of the « Parc des bords de Seine », Carrières-sous-Poissy/France, by AWP & HHF’ +mood, September 8th 2010, ‘Sandnes/Lantern, AWP + Atelier Oslo’, by David K. +mood, September 8th 2010, ‘New Park for LaM, Museum of Modern, Contemporary and Outsider Art: AWP’, by David K. Archicool, July 13th 2010, ‘Le LAM de Villeneuve d’Ascq : L’étonnant mariage de Roland Simounet et Manuelle Gautrand, architectes’ Building Design, April 9th 2010, ‘Solutions: Roofing-Santa Maria del Pianto Metro Station’, by Amanda Birch The Guardian, April 8th 2010, ‘Public Architecture Now! A New Book Hails Our Boldest Buildings’ AR+ The Architectural Review, March 24th 2010, ‘Lanternen Sandnes, Ragna Stakland, Norway, AWP Architects + Atelier Oslo’ Wallpaper*, January 29th 2010, ‘Architecture news : Letter from Norway’ Building Design, January 22nd 2010, ‘Back to the land’, by James Payne

Television and radio medias featuring AWP’s works Pierrick Allain, Lorraine Rossignol, ‘Nuit Blanche 2013, Entretien avec Marc Armengaud. Comme dans un nuage, Place de la République’, Télérama, October 5th 2013, URL: <http://www.telerama.fr/scenes/video-comme-dans-un-nuage-place-de-la-republique,103256.php> Pierrick Allain, Lorraine Rossignol, ‘Visite guidée : l’expo « Paris la nuit » explore La Défense. Que devient le quartier d’affaires après la sortie des bureaux ? Visite en compagnie de Marc Armengaud, commissaire de l’exposition « Paris la Nuit » au Pavillon de l’Arsenal’, Télérama, October 3rd 2013, URL: <http://www.telerama.fr/scenes/visite-guidee-l-expo-paris-la-nuit-explore-la-defense,103213.php> Karine Vergniol, ‘La tendance du moment: Paris, reine de la nuit ?’, BFM Business, September 24th 2013, URL: <http://www.dailymotion. com/video/x153nit_la-tendance-du-moment-paris-reine-de-la-nuit-dans-paris-est-a-vous-24-09_news> Pierrick Allain, Lorraine Rossignol, ‘Visite guidée : l’expo « Paris la nuit » explore le marché de Rungis. Visite en compagnie de Marc Armengaud, commissaire de l’exposition « Paris la Nuit » au Pavillon de l’Arsenal’, Télérama, June 29th 2013, URL: <http://www.telerama. fr/scenes/visite-guidee-l-expo-paris-la-nuit-explore-le-marche-de-rungis,99630.php> Laurence Garcia, ‘Entre chien et loup : chroniques nocturnes’, with Alain Serres and Marc Armengaud, June 22nd 2013, France Inter, URL: <http://www.franceinter.fr/emission-le-57-du-week-end-entre-chien-et-loup-chroniques-noctures> D8 le JT, ‘Fête de la musique 2013, Interview de Marc Armengaud’, D8, June 21st 2013 Karine Vergniol, ‘Les sorties du jour: Marc Armengaud de l’exposition « Paris la nuit »’, BFM Business, June 5th 2013, URL: <http://www. wat.tv/video/sorties-jour-marc-armengaud-6arnh_5gkv9_.html> Pavillon de l’Arsenal / Cyrille Poy, ‘Comment mieux se déplacer demain ? Interview de Marc Armengaud’, Pavillon de l’Arsenal with Le Journal du Dimanche, 2008, URL: <http://www.pavillon-arsenal.com/videosenligne/collection-22-184.php>

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The New York Times, 31 July 2013, p. 1 & 6, ‘Plan aims to enliven Paris’s Financial District, Long Called Soulless’, by Georgi Kantchev International Herald Tribune, 31 July 2013, p. 14, ‘Trying to draw La Défense out of its shell’, by Georgi Kantchev ‘A’A’, L’Architecture d’Aujourd’hui, hors-série ‘La Défense, le futur des espaces publics’, monographic issue, Sept. 2013, by Marc Armengaud, Matthias Armengaud, Alessandra Cianchetta, Clément Blanchet, Edwin Heathcote, Daniel R. Ringelstein, Paola Viganò AWP: Towards a Climate, Building (with) the Unstable, exhibition catalogue, R. Connah, S. Jacob, R. Moore, Cornell University, Ithaca (Lab Press, Paris, 2013) Casabella #823, March 2013, p. 53-59, ‘Macchina Riconciliatrice’, by Nicola Braghieri AnOther Magazine, 2013, ‘Alessandra Cianchetta, Architect-Conversations with leading cultural figures’, by John-Paul Pryor Buidling Design, ‘Continental Comparison-Alessandra Cianchetta of Paris practice AWP’, 2006 ERASMUS EFFECT. Italian Architects Abroad, by Pippo Ciorra, Caterina Padoa Schioppa (editors), Quodlibet, 2013 Wallpaper*, 2011, p. 57, ‘Poissy Galore’ by John Weich AMC #228 Document, Nov. 2013, p.VI-VIII, ‘Les Jardins de l’Arche & Le Croissant: Prototype de la Ville Durable’ by EPADESA Topos #85, Dec. 2013, p. 52-59, ‘Learning from La Défense’ by Rafaël Magrou

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JPMorgan Chase is pulling out its checkbook to help mend frayed relationships with the government. But its new and conciliatory approach — a departure for the bank and its leader, Jamie Dimon, who generally has taken a hard line with the authorities — is yielding mixed results. Government officials, stung by the bank’s past displays of hubris, may drive up the price of settlements, or worse, resist the overtures altogether. The hefty payouts started on Tuesday when JPMorgan struck a $410 million settlement with the nation’s top energy regulator, which had accused the bank of devising “manipulative schemes” to transform “money-losing power plants into powerful profit centers.” The agreement was a record fine for the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, whose most recent settlement with a big bank totaled

only $1.6 million. JPMorgan is bracing for an even larger penalty stemming from shoddy mortgage securities it sold to the government. In a sign that JPMorgan is struggling to placate some authorities, people briefed on the matter said, a housing regulator recently rejected an offer the bank made to settle those claims. The bank is also quietly courting officials from the Securities and Exchange Commission, which is investigating the bank’s multibillion-dollar trading loss in London last year, the people say. It is unclear whether the S.E.C. investigators are receptive to JPMorgan’s advances. The bank’s new approach comes down, at least in part, to dollars and cents. While the settlements are expensive, they pale in comparison to the sort of legal bills that come with long — and embarrassing — legal battles. The conciliatory tack also reflects a Continued on Page 4

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Inequities that demand more than a president’s words. versal preschool for 4-year-olds — remain as unlikely as ever to emerge from the nation’s partisan divide. Many opponents simply reject Mr. Obama’s basic premise. Some researchers on the right of the political spectrum argue that inequality is not, in fact, gaping. Others contend that middle class stagnation is a myth concocted by the left to justify retro government activism à la 1970s. After the president’s speech, the conservative blogger James Pethokoukis of the American Enterprise Institute posted on Twitter: “I feel like I am in Middleearth hearing about return of Sauron.” The problem is that weaving modest policy proposals through the tiny spaces allowed by the nation’s partisan stalemate is unlikely to bear much fruit. A better strategy might be to articulate — forcefully — the nature of the problem and build a political consensus that would ultimately lead to long-delayed changes to American society. It could go something like this: The United States remains among the richest countries in the world. National income per person trails only that of Norway, Luxembourg, Singapore, Switzerland and Hong Kong. Yet despite its riches, in many areas the United States looks surprisingly, depressingly backward. Infant and maternal mortality are the highest among advanced nations. So is the mortality rate of children under the age of 20. Life expectancy — at birth and at age 60 — is among the lowest. Teenage pregnancy rates are not only higher than in other rich Continued on Page 9

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An Avenger, on the Defensive Lawyer Who Beat Chevron in Ecuador Faces a Trial of His Own By CLIFFORD KRAUSS

Steven R. Donziger — environmental hero or charlatan, depending on whom you talk to — is one of the toughest lawyers around, or slightly crazy. Possibly both. For the last two decades Mr. Donziger has been battling the Chevron Corporation over an environmental disaster that happened in the jungles of Ecuador. Two years ago, he won an $18 billion case against the oil giant, the kind of victory that most lawyers can only dream of. But Chevron has yet to pay a penny of the award, and has turned the tables on him. Now, he is defending himself against a Chevron lawsuit charging that he masterminded a conspiracy to extort and defraud the corporation. The trial is scheduled for October. Across a table in his two-bedroom apartment on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, Mr. Donziger for the first time in recent years spoke publicly about the personal travails that he says have engulfed him. He says shadowy men have trailed him. Watched his family. Sat in cars outside his home. He had his apartment swept for bugs, but found nothing. All of that might sound like the ravings of a Grade A conspiracy theorist. But Mr. Donziger, who played basketball with Barack Obama at Harvard Law School, has a seri-

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ous following among environmentalists. He and his supporters say he is being vilified — potentially ruined — for unmasking Chevron’s questionable environmental record. Chevron, which is suing him and his associates for damages that could reach billions of dollars, says he is simply a con artist. It is a remarkable turn of events for Mr. Donziger, who Continued on Page 2

Plan Aims to Enliven Paris’s Financial District, Long Called Soulless By GEORGI KANTCHEV

The Grande Arche in La Défense, the business hub in Paris, which critics say has become an isolated end of a spoke that is disconnected from the rest of the city. AGNES DHERBEYS FOR THE INTERNATIONAL HERALD TRIBUNE

PARIS — On Bastille Day 1989, when President François Mitterrand inaugurated the Grande Arche, a 40-story postmodern bookend about three miles to the west of the Arc de Triomphe, it seemed its own form of triumph. The ceremony celebrated a decade-long building boom at La Défense, the sprawling array of office buildings long envisioned as Paris’s answer to Lower Manhattan or the City of London. But La Défense, begun during the presidency of Charles de Gaulle in the late 1950s and built just west of Paris by bulldozing slums and paving over farmland, has always worked better in architectural theory

than in anthropological practice. Rather than the Parisian business hub its founders described, it often seems more like the isolated end of a spoke that has highlighted a crucial flaw in urban planning — a concern with making architectural statements — rather than an affinity for the people in and around the buildings. When non-French planning experts assess La Défense, they say it shares the same problems as the Canary Wharf complex in London, where developers have tried to supplant the City with Big Architecture and whose artificial origins may be hard to overcome. The experts look more favorably on the somewhat organic mix of Continued on Page 6

In a significant victory for law enforcement, a federal appeals court on Tuesday said that government authorities could extract historical location data directly from telecommunications carriers without a search warrant. The closely watched case, in the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, is the first ruling that squarely addresses the constitutionality of warrantless searches of historical location data stored by cellphone service providers. Ruling 2 to 1, the court said a warrantless search was “not per se unconstitutional” because location data was “clearly a business record” and therefore not protected by the Fourth Amendment. The ruling is likely to intensify legislative efforts, already bubbling in Congress and in the states, to consider measures to require warrants based on probable cause to obtain cellphone location data. The appeals court ruling sharply contrasts with a New Jersey State Supreme Court opinion in mid-July that said the police required a warrant to track a suspect’s whereabouts in real time. That decision relied on the New Jersey Constitution, whereas the ruling Tuesday in the Fifth Circuit was made on the basis of the federal Constitution. The Supreme Court has yet to weigh in on whether cellphone location data is protected by the Constitution. The case, which was initially brought in Texas, is not expected to go to the Supreme Court because it is “ex Continued on Page 8

Trade Fight Over Solar Benefits A Bystander By DIANE CARDWELL

The long-running trade conflicts over solar panels between China and the United States and Europe have sown dissatisfaction all around, leaving many manufacturers of solar materials complaining that the market is still unfair. But one country not involved in the disputes has already benefited from them and, with Saturday’s agreement between China and the European Union, stands to benefit again: Taiwan. Last October, after finding that Chinese companies were receiving unfair government subsidies and selling their merchandise below the cost of production, the United States imposed tariffs of roughly 24 to 36 percent on imported Chinese panels. But the ruling included a major loophole; it applied only to panels made from Chinese solar cells, the final major components that are assembled into finished modules. Many manufacturers were able to skirt the taxes by buying their cells elsewhere, mainly from Taiwan. This month, for instance, the Neo Solar Power Corporation, a leading cell manufacturer based in Taiwan, announced its sixth consecutive month of growth, with a 74 percent increase in revenue in June over the month before, in part because of increased production capacity since its merger with another manufacturer, DelSolar. Taiwanese producers, which have been able to command a 4to 5-cent per watt premium over Chinese-made cells, have been operating at fuller capacity and have sold out inventory faster than the Chinese, said Shayle Kann, vice president of research at GTM Research, which tracks clean-tech industries. And Hareon, a solar cell and module manufacturer in China, recently announced plans to build a large Continued on Page 8

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business and residential of Lower Manhattan, which has evolved over the last century. “La Défense has always suffered from a creative hypothermia,” said Wojciech Czaja, an Austrian architecture critic. “It is a sad area because it is atmospherically and emotionally perceived as a business district only.” The public agency that manages the complex has hired an architectural firm to draft a new master plan in hopes of making the grandiose vision for La Défense a livable reality. It is difficult to determine whether the plan can withstand the headwinds of Europe’s continuing financial woes, and France’s lingering recession and an unemployment rate near 11 percent. But it would be wrong to call La Défense a business failure, because it is home to 1,500 head offices, including those of 15 of the world’s 50 largest companies. French corporations with their signature headquarters here include the oil and gas giant Total, the big bank Société Générale and Areva, a leading builder of nuclear power plants. And developers continue to build. Critics have long derided the mixed commercial, residential and retailing complex, which covers 1.6 square kilometers, or 0.62 square miles, as dehumanizing. While about 20,000 mainly low- and middle-income people live here, the vast central plaza can feel like a ghost town after 5 p.m. and on weekends, once most of the district’s 150,000 office workers have left by train, bus or subway to more desirable parts of Paris or its less surreal suburbs. “There is nothing good about living here,” said Carlin Pierre, 54, who works at a waste disposal center in the district and resides in one of the Brutalist communal, rent-subsidized housing blocks tucked amid the high-rise office buildings. “Sure, it’s a nice area to come as a tourist, or even to work,” Mr. Pierre said, “but it’s terrible to live in La Défense.” Alessandra Cianchetta, a partner at AWP, the firm mapping the master plan, acknowledges the enormousness of her task. “La Défense as a concept is a bit obsolete,” Ms. Cianchetta said. “There is no interaction, no hospitality here.” Vacancy rates at La Défense, long an up-and-down indicator of the French economy, are once more on the rise. Next to the Grande Arche is the site of what was to be a 71-story office tower, Tour Signal, commissioned with much fanfare in 2008 to the French architect Jean Nouvel. It has been canceled. Still, three new, architecturally ambitious office towers are under construction at La Défense. And the recently financed Hermitage Plaza project on the Seine River at the easternmost edge of La Défense, if it opens as planned in 2018, will include Europe’s tallest residential building. Some of the continued activity, of course, has to do with the long lag between conceiving a commercial real estate project and getting it built — a speculative roll of the dice that has paid little heed to shorterterm considerations like France and Europe’s current economic travails. “La Défense’s ambitions to create a new kind of urbanism have been disappointing,” said Robert A. M. Stern, the dean of the Yale School of Architecture and principal of his namesake firm. Because “the residential areas are too isolated in their own zones,” Mr. Catherine Chapman contributed reporting.

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La Défense can feel like a ghost town after 5 p.m. and on weekends, once the district’s office workers have left.

A building site near the Grande Arche in La Défense, where three new, architecturally ambitious office towers are under construction. Stern said, it is rare to spot locals buying groceries in one of the complex’s shopping malls or to see families with strollers on the weekends. A confined office area can work in some big American cities, but mostly because they are connected to the surrounding neighborhoods. Lower Manhattan “has residential areas right at its edge with streets threaded through to the city itself,” Mr. Stern said. Despite these misgivings, Mr. Stern’s firm was willing to take the commission to design Tour Carpe Diem, a tower under construction in a dense cluster of high-rises on the northern edge of the district. “Carpe Diem is not just another aloof, objectlike office building sitting on a podium,” Mr. Stern said. “It is a dualoriented piece of connective tissue linking the center of La Defénse with the peripheral roads of Courbevoie,” a middle-class municipality. In any case, there are no tenants yet signed for Carpe Diem, which is to be completed in September. A defining feature of La Défense is

Pentagon Is Buying 71 More F-35 Fighters, And Is Getting Them a Little Bit Cheaper By CHRISTOPHER DREW

The Defense Department on Tuesday announced an agreement in principle to buy 71 more F-35 fighter jets from Lockheed Martin at somewhat lower prices than last year. Pentagon officials said they would pay 4 percent less for 36 of the radar-evading jets under the new orders and 8 percent less than last year’s price for the other 35. People briefed on the latest deal, which includes ancillary equipment, said it was worth more than $7 billion. After years of delays and cost overruns, military officials have been under pressure to reduce the cost of what is by far the Pentagon’s largest program, which could cost $392 billion for more than 2,400 planes. “There is still work to be done, but these agreements are proof the cost arrow is moving in the right direction,” said Lt. Gen. Christopher Bogdan, the program’s executive officer. “We will continue to work with industry to identify areas for savings in future production contracts.” The Defense Department said the lower prices enabled it to buy all the planes it had planned in what will be its sixth and seventh purchase lots. That included several jets that officials had feared might be slashed by automatic budget cuts under the sequestration process. Officials said they would release more detailed cost data once the contracts were complet-

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Three F-35 Joint Strike Fighters (rear to front) AF-2, AF-3 and AF-4, flying over Edwards Air Force Base in California. ed. Lt. Gen. Bogdan sharply criticized Lockheed Martin and his own staff after he took charge of the program last year. The relationship “is the worst I’ve ever seen, and I’ve been in some bad ones,” he said. He was upset that it took more than a year to negotiate the price of the fifth lot of the jets. He sounded much more conciliatory on Tuesday, saying that the two new contracts, which were negotiated together in six months, “represent a fair deal that is beneficial to the government and Lockheed Martin.” He said the company and the government were working together now to lower costs.

The Pentagon is building variants of the plane for the Air Force, the Navy and the Marines. Officials said that the costs had eased for each customer under the new contracts. The new contracts also include the first F-35s for Australia, Italy and Norway, and a fourth F-35 for Britain. Deliveries of jets in the sixth batch will begin by mid-2014, with deliveries in the seventh batch starting by mid-2015. All told, 10 nations have expressed interest in buying an additional 700 planes. Aviation analysts have said that the price of the jets must continue to drop for Lockheed Martin to reach that sales target.

the plaza, a pedestrian slab of some 30 hectares, or 74 acres, that acts as a roof to underground shops, a bus terminal and a hangarlike train and subway depot with none of the charm of most Paris train stations. Those who pass through each day, but live elsewhere, often make their peace with La Défense. The master plan of AWP calls for a complete makeover of the transportation center, adding entertainment sites to the public plaza and building footbridges to connect the now largely isolated slab with the surrounding neighborhoods. There are new business districts on the competitive metropolitan Paris office market that real estate agents say are luring companies with lower prices ONLINE: VIEWS OF LA DÉFENSE

A slide show of the district, which was conceived as an answer to Manhattan’s financial district, but is deserted after business hours. nytimes.com/businessday

— for example, areas in the north along the Seine and in the so-called inner rim of Paris, which includes the district of Saint-Denis, home of France’s national stadium, the Stade de France. Société Générale, which has 20,000 employees at its La Défense headquarters, plans to transfer several thousand people to the eastern Paris suburb Fontenay-sous-Bois, where it is building a new business campus. “A lot of the towers in La Défense are going to empty out as companies look to rationalize their usage of office space,” said Alexis Motte, chief executive of Mobilitis, a real estate advisory agency. “The market in La Défense is clearly oversupplied.” The vacancy rate in La Défense stands at 7.5 percent, compared with 3.3 percent in the second quarter of 2008. The Tour Eqho, a semicylindrical glass tower that formerly housed the French headquarters of I.B.M., is undergoing a top-to-bottom renovation by its developer, Icade. But so far, Icade is struggling to find enough tenants for its reopening later this year, people involved in the market say. Icade declined to comment. But some developers evidently think eventual success is simply a matter of timing. Consider Hermitage Plaza, a project featuring a pair of towers planned for the western bank of the Seine and designed by the British architect Norman Foster. “The idea is to create a Manhattan in the French style in La Défense,” said Emin Iskenderov, a Russian developer who secured a loan this year from Sberbank, which is based in Moscow, to build the towers. The complex will be only a short walk from one of La Défense’s two subway stations. And it is near the Pont de Neuilly, a bridge that pedestrians can cross the river to reach the upscale Paris suburb Neuilly-sur-Seine. It might feel more like part of Paris, in other words, than most of the rest of La Defénse does. “La Défense,” said Ms. Cianchetta, the master planner, “is like an iceberg that is disconnected from the areas around it.”

Home Prices Jumped 12.2% in May WASHINGTON (AP) — Home prices jumped 12.2 percent in May compared with a year earlier, the biggest annual gain since March 2006. The increase shows the housing recovery is strengthening. The Standard & Poor’s/CaseShiller 20-city home price index released on Tuesday also surged 2.4 percent in May from April. The month-over-month gain nearly matched the 2.6 percent increase in April from March — the highest on record. The price increases were widespread. All 20 cities showed gains in May from April and compared with a year earlier. Prices in Dallas and Denver reached the highest level on records dating to 2000. That is the first time since the housing bust that any city has reached a record high. A separate report issued on Tuesday showed that Americans’ confidence in the economy fell only slightly in July but stayed close to a five-and-a-half-year high, a sign that consumers should continue to help drive growth in the coming months. Home values are rising as more people are bidding on a relatively tight supply of houses for sale. One concern is that rising mortgage rates could slow home sales. But many economists say rates remain low by historical standards and would need to rise much faster to halt the momentum. Svenja Gudell, senior economist at Zillow, a home price data provider, said a big reason for the recent price gains was that foreclosed homes made up a smaller

All 20 cities in a closely watched index showed improvement. proportion of overall sales. Foreclosed homes are usually sold by banks at low prices. “Typical home values have appreciated at roughly half this pace for the past several months, which is still very robust,” Ms. Gudell said. Ms. Gudell said higher mortgage rates and a probable increase in the number of homes for sale in the coming months should slow the pace of price gains and stabilize the housing market. The S.& P./Case-Shiller index covers about half of American homes. It measures prices compared with those in January 2000 and creates a three-month moving average. The May figures are the latest available. Despite the recent gains, home prices for much of the country are still about 25 percent below the peaks they reached in July 2006. That is a major reason the supply of homes for sale remains low, as many homeowners are waiting to recoup their losses before putting their houses on the market. Separately, the Conference Board, a private research group based in New York, said on Tuesday that its consumer confidence index dipped to 80.3 in July. That is down from a reading of 82.1 in June, which was revised slightly

higher and was the best reading since January 2008. Despite the slight drop in July, confidence remains well above year-earlier levels. And consumers are more optimistic about the current job market. “Over all, indications are that the economy is strengthening and may even gain some momentum in the months ahead,” said Lynn Franco, an economist for the Conference Board. Amna Asaf, an economist at Capital Economics, attributed the July drop in confidence to rising gasoline prices. But she said the confidence index remained at a level that was consistent with stronger growth in consumer spending in the July-to-September quarter.

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Their U.S. rivals may be rolling in money, but for European banks it is still the season of penitence. Quarterly reports by three of the biggest banks in Europe on Tuesday showed how, five years after the beginning of the financial crisis, they continue

A U.S. military judge on Tuesday found Pfc. Bradley Manning not guilty of aiding the enemy, but convicted him of multiple counts of violating the Espionage Act in the most high-profile legal action to date stemming from recent leaks of U.S. national security files. Private Manning, who had been serving as a American military intelligence analyst in Iraq when he leaked hundreds of thousands of files to the antisecrecy group WikiLeaks three and a half years ago, faces the possibility of decades in prison. But his acquittal on the most serious charge, of aiding the enemy, spared him a potential life sentence. In delivering the mixed verdict, the judge, Col. Denise Lind, pulled back from the government’s effort to create a precedent — aiding the enemy, which by itself could have carried a life sentence, had never before been charged in a leak case — that press freedom specialists had warned could have broad consequences for the future of investigative journalism about national security in the Internet era. Private Manning had already confessed to being WikiLeaks’ source for the files, which included videos of airstrikes in which civilians were killed, hundreds of thousands of front-line incident reports from the Afghanistan and Iraq wars, dossiers on men being held without trial at the Guantánamo Bay prison, and about 250,000 diplomatic cables. But the government decided to press forward with a trial on more serious charges, including ‘‘aiding the enemy’’ and violations of the Espionage Act, which could have resulted in a life sentence. Colonel Lind said she would issue findings later that would explain her ruling. But on Tuesday, she marched through a quick litany of the multiple charges and specifications against Private Manning, who stood quietly as she spoke, without detailing her reasoning. Most reporters watched the proceedings from a closed-circuit feed in a filing center. One who was able to watch from into the small courtroom here said

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to pay for the sins and excesses of the boom years. While the six largest U.S. banks earned a combined $23 billion in the three months through June, Deutsche Bank, Barclays and UBS couldn’t manage profit of $1 billion between them. Their remorse is measured not only in diminished earnings, but also in their continued need to raise money to make themselves less vulnerable to risk, and to set aside funds to pay for any future legal scandals. As the big banks continue to work their way through the rubble of the financial crisis and their own missteps, their focus on rehab — rather than a full resumption of lending to businesses and consumers — continues to delay Europe’s economic rebound. That stands them in contrast to the big American banks, which despite their own legal and financial travails were forced by the government to quickly resolve their problems. That has helped pace the U.S. recovery that is creating a widening growth gap between the two sides of the Atlantic. American banks ‘‘pushed through the pain earlier than the European banks,’’ said James Gellert, the chief executive of Rapid Ratings, an independent analysis firm in New York. Now the European banks are trying to raise capital and revamp their businesses in the midst of a downturn. The multiple challenges ‘‘not only have financial impact,’’ Mr. Gellert said, ‘‘they are seriously distracting to management.’’ Banks around the world face growing momentum from regulations that would curtail their use of leverage, or borBANKS, PAGE 16

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Pfc. Bradley Manning on Tuesday at the courthouse at Fort Meade, Maryland. He faces the possibility of decades in prison, but has been spared a potential life sentence.

‘Local deep-fried artichokes? Follow me’ New type of guide leads visitors to little-known food places and dishes BY JEFF GORDINIER

You know it’s there. You’ve seen it on TV. You’ve devoured a few blog posts about it. Maybe it’s that spot in Rome where clandestine tables are set up in an alleyway and a neighborhood feast comes together beneath the honeyed glow of street lamps. Maybe it’s that tiny shop in a parking lot in Penang that sells the sublime coconut tarts, or the unremarkable strip mall in Los Angeles where Anthony Bourdain once sweated over a

bowl of spicy Thai boat noodles. If there’s one thing you’ve learned from watching all of those shows with Mr. Bourdain, the New York chef turned television star and voracious world traveler, it’s that these out-of-the-way treasures do exist. You, too, can eat there. The only catch? You might need a little help. It’s that line of thinking that explains the rise, over the past few years, of a new kind of travel specialist — so new, in fact, that they haven’t coined a name for the job. For now, let’s call them the food sherpas. Just as a traditional Sherpa helps a mountain climber navigate the stresses and mysteries of a Himalayan peak, a food sherpa is a local expert who brings a hungry traveler to pockets of the

culinary landscape that might otherwise seem out of reach. You’ll find them in Paris and Barcelona, in Malaysia and Mexico, but don’t go looking for a long, tortoisepaced phalanx of tourists in white sneakers trailing behind a guide who’s waving a flag and barking memorized data through a megaphone. Food sherpas pride themselves in offering something different: an experience that gives small groups of visitors an intimate encounter with what’s off the eaten path. ‘‘I usually don’t like tours,’’ said Lisa Rogovin, the entrepreneur behind a company called Edible Excursions, which oversees 25 to 40 deep dives, every month, into the diverse food scene of the San Francisco Bay Area. ‘‘I really need to know that this is going to be real and

authentic. I don’t want to be on a bus. I don’t want to be in a herd of cattle.’’ That has been Rick Gelbard’s goal for decades. ‘‘My wife and I had never actually taken a tour,’’ said Mr. Gelbard, 62, a retired Panavision engineering executive who lives in California. ‘‘We have always preferred to travel independently.’’ But while preparing for a trip to Rome and trying to figure out where to eat, he found the ocean of online data to be overwhelming. Before long, he came across a blog called Elizabeth Minchilli in Rome. He learned that Ms. Minchilli, a food writer and occasional New York Times contributor who has lived in Italy since 1988, could be hired as a private emissary to gastronomic gems around the city.

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With just two days to go before the election, there was still no final list of voters, as required by law. When the president’s main challengers tried to import motorcycles to register voters across vast distances, the government impounded the vehicles, forcing the party to use bicycles instead. Less than a week before the contest, the challengers’ election chief was jailed, and the day before the vote he was denied bail. President Robert G. Mugabe, the man who has ruled Zimbabwe since the end of white domination in 1980, retains his iron grip on the country’s feared security apparatus, which killed more than 200 people in the bloody 2008 presidential election season. Now nearing 90, he is running again on Wednesday, and there are few signs that he or his supporters are ready to give up the reins after more than three decades in power. ‘‘The 89 years don’t mean anything,’’ a confident and defiant Mr. Mugabe said of his age in a rare interview. ‘‘They ZIMBABWE, PAGE 4

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When Pablo Ruz was appointed an interim judge on Spain’s national court three years ago, some questioned whether he had enough experience. After all, he was 34 at the time and a surprise choice to replace Baltasar Gárzon, Spain’s most famous investigative judge, who had been suspended for illegal eavesdropping. But like his predecessor, Judge Ruz quickly made himself a household name. He has been the driving force behind the investigation into alleged slush-fund payments to Popular Party politicians that now threatens Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy, who after rising calls for his resignation from opposition lawmakers was scheduled to appear before Parliament on Thursday to explain the party’s finances. For better or worse, the case has made Judge Ruz the latest ‘‘juez estrella,’’ or star judge, in Spain. But as the case slowly unwinds — and shakes up Spanish politics with a stream of leaks to the news media of evidence and testimony from closed-door hearings — it has also revealed what the judge’s detractors and supporters alike concede are flaws

in the country’s justice system. The one thing upon which the public and politicians of all stripes seem to agree is that the nation’s courts are overwhelmed to the point of being nearly broken, easily politicized, prone to debilitating delays and dependent on the personalities and preferences of vastly overburdened judges. Since the start of the financial crisis in 2008, Spanish courts have been inundated with about 800 corruption cases, some aimed at even once-untouchable institutions of power, including the royal family. The significance and scale of the cases are such that judges — who take the lead in investigations here, rather than prosecutors — now arguably upstage politicians as the country’s most important decision-makers. ‘‘Spain is suffering from a politicization of justice and a judicialization of politics,’’ said Antonio Garrigues, the chairman of Garrigues, one of the largest Spanish law firms. The media, he added, ‘‘brings scandal and the kind of very passionate climate in which it becomes almost impossible to reach fair and correct verdicts.’’ More often, however, it seems that it is impossible to reach verdicts at all. To SPAIN, PAGE 3

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The European Union’s foreign policy chief, Catherine Ashton, said that the ousted Egyptian leader Mohamed Morsi was doing well and that they had discussed the situation in Egypt. PAGE 5

The driver of a train that derailed last week in Spain, killing 79 people, was on the phone and traveling at almost twice the speed limit at the time of the accident, a court said Tuesday. PAGE 3

Any effort to reboot ties with Russia isn’t likely to work. America shouldn’t waste time or political capital to once again try to build a strategic partnership, Job C. Henning writes. PAGE 6

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The odds against success in the Mideast peace talks are very long. Still, it is a bet worth making. Without it, matters will only get worse for everyone concerned, Aaron David Miller writes. PAGE 6

As President Barack Obama barnstorms the United States promoting his health care law, one audience in Washington is growing anxious about its financial implications: members of Congress and their personal staffs. For them, a wrinkle in the law could mean thousands of dollars in extra costs per year. ‘‘They’re thinking about leaving government service,’’ one congressman said of Capitol Hill staff members. global.nytimes.com/politics

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Architects seek new ways to link financial district to the people around it

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A field behind the Grande Arche of La Défense. The concept ‘‘is a bit obsolete,’’ a partner at the firm mapping a new master plan said. ‘‘There is no interaction, no hospitality here.’’

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economy, are once more on the rise. And right next to the Grande Arche is the site of what was to be a 71-story office tower, Tour Signal, commissioned with much fanfare in 2008 to the French architect Jean Nouvel. That project has now been canceled. Given the drawbacks, why then are at least three new, architecturally ambitious office towers still under construction at La Défense? And how to account for the recently financed Hermitage Plaza project on the Seine River at the easternmost edge of La Défense, which, if it opens as planned in 2018, will include Europe’s tallest residential building? Some of the continued activity, of course, has to do with the long lag between conceiving a commercial real estate project and getting it built — a speculative roll of the dice that has paid little heed to shorter-term considerations like France and Europe’s current economic travails. In other cases, it might be a perpetual hope that better design can compensate for previous lapses. ‘‘La Défense’s ambitions to create a new kind of urbanism have been disappointing,’’ said Robert A.M. Stern, the dean of the Yale School of Architecture and principal of his namesake firm. Because ‘‘the residential areas are too isolated in their own zones,’’ Mr. Stern said, it is rare to spot locals buying groceries in one of the complex’s shopping malls or to see families with strollers on the weekends. A confined office area can work in some big American cities, but mostly because they are connected to the surrounding neighborhoods. Lower Manhattan ‘‘has residential areas right at its edge with streets threaded through to the city itself,’’ Mr. Stern said. Despite these misgivings, Mr. Stern’s firm was willing to take the commission to design Tour Carpe Diem, a tower now under construction within a dense cluster of high-rises on the northern edge of La Défense. ‘‘Carpe Diem is not just another aloof, object-like office building sitting on a podium,’’ Mr. Stern said. ‘‘It is a dual-oriented piece of connective tissue linking the center of La Defénse with the peripheral roads of Courbevoie,’’ a middleclass municipality. In any case, there are no tenants yet signed for Carpe Diem, which is to be completed in September. A defining feature of La Défense is the vast plaza, a pedestrian slab of some 30 hectares, or 74 acres, which acts as a roof to underground shops, a bus terminal and a hangar-like train and Métro

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er of nuclear power plants. And even now, developers continue to build here. But critics have long derided the mixed commercial, residential and retailing complex, which covers 1.6 square kilometers, or 0.62 square miles, as dehumanizing. While about 20,000 mainly low- and middle-income people live in La Défense, the vast central plaza can feel like a ghost town after 5 p.m. and on weekends, after most of the district’s 150,000 office workers have headed by train, bus or Métro to more desirable parts of Paris or its less surreal suburbs. ‘‘There is nothing good about living here!’’ said Carlin Pierre, 54, who works at a waste disposal center in the district and resides in one of the Brutalist communal, rent-subsidized housing blocks tucked amid the high-rise office buildings. ‘‘Sure, it’s a nice area to come as a tourist, or even to work,’’ Mr. Pierre said, ‘‘but it’s terrible to live in La Défense.’’ Alessandra Cianchetta, a partner at the firm mapping the master plan, AWP, acknowledges the enormousness of her task. ‘‘La Défense as a concept is a bit obsolete,’’ Ms. Cianchetta said. ‘‘There is no interaction, no hospitality here.’’ Vacancy rates at La Défense, long an up-and-down indicator of the French

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On Bastille Day 1989, when President François Mitterrand inaugurated the Grande Arche, a 40-story postmodern bookend five kilometers to the west of the Arc de Triomphe, it seemed its own form of triumph. The ceremony celebrated a decadelong building boom at La Défense, the sprawling array of office buildings long envisioned as Paris’s answer to Lower Manhattan in New York or the City of London. But La Défense, begun during the presidency of Charles de Gaulle in the late 1950s and built just west of Paris by bulldozing slums and paving over farmland, has always worked better in architectural theory than in anthropological practice. Rather than the Parisian business hub its founders described, it often seems more like the isolated end of a spoke that has highlighted a crucial flaw in urban planning — a place that can seem more concerned with architectural statements than an affinity for the people in and around the buildings. When non-French planning experts assess La Défense, they say it shares the same problems as the Canary Wharf complex in London, where developers have tried to supplant the City with Big Architecture and whose artificial origins may ultimately be hard to overcome. The experts look more favorably on the much more successful, organic business-residential mix of Lower Manhattan, which has evolved over the past century. ‘‘La Défense has always suffered from a creative hypothermia,’’ said Wojciech Czaja, an Austrian architecture critic. ‘‘It is a sad area because it is atmospherically and emotionally perceived as a business district only.’’ That is why the public agency that manages the complex has hired an architectural firm to draft a new master plan in hopes of at long last making the grandiose vision for La Défense a livable reality. Whether that plan can withstand the headwinds of Europe’s continuing financial woes, and France’s lingering recession and unemployment near 11 percent, only time will tell. It would be wrong to call La Défense a business failure. The district is home to 1,500 head offices, including those of 15 of the world’s 50 largest companies. French corporations with their signature headquarters buildings here include the oil and gas giant Total, the big bank Société Générale, and Areva, a leading build-

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depot with none of the charm of most Paris train stations. Those who pass through each day, but live elsewhere, often make their peace with La Défense. ‘‘It’s a good place to work, especially for the finance industry,’’ said Juo Marine, 24, a secretary at HSBC. ‘‘La Défense is like the Wall Street of Paris,’’ Ms. Marine said. But that is not necessarily a compliment. ‘‘The problem is that La Défense is not really a French area,’’ said Ms. Marine, herself proudly French. The master plan of AWP calls for a complete makeover of the transporta-

tion center; adding new entertainment venues to the public plaza and building new footbridges to connect the now largely isolated slab with the surrounding neighborhoods. The plan needs to work. There are new business districts on the increasingly competitive metropolitan Paris office market that real estate agents say are luring companies with lower prices — for example, areas in the north along the Seine and in the so-called inner rim of Paris, which includes the district of Saint-Denis, home of France’s national stadium, the Stade de France. Société Générale, which has 20,000

employees at its La Défense headquarters, plans to transfer several thousand people to the eastern Paris suburb of Fontenay-sous-Bois, where it is building a new business campus. ‘‘A lot of the towers in La Défense are going to empty out as companies look to rationalize their usage of office space,’’ said Alexis Motte, chief executive of Mobilitis, a real estate advisory agency. ‘‘The market in La Défense is clearly oversupplied.’’ Vacancy rates in La Défense stand at 7.5 percent, compared with 3.3 percent in the second quarter of 2008. The Tour Eqho, a semicylindrical glass tower that formerly housed the French headquarters of I.B.M., is undergoing a top-to-bottom renovation by its developer, Icade. But so far, Icade is struggling to find enough tenants for its reopening later this year, people involved in the market say. Icade declined to comment. But some developers evidently think eventual success is simply a matter of timing — and a continued refocusing of the La Défense vision. Consider Hermitage Plaza, a ¤2.3 billion project announced in 2009 and designed by the British architect Norman Foster. If completed as planned in 2018, Hermitage Plaza will feature a pair of towers on the western bank of the Seine, one of which — at 320 meters, or 1,050 feet — would be the tallest residential building in Europe and, for humility’s sake, would be only a few meters shorter than the Eiffel Tower. ‘‘The idea is to create a Manhattan in the French style in La Défense,’’ said Emin Iskenderov, a Russian developer who secured a loan this year from Sberbank, which is based in Moscow, to build the towers. The plan of Hermitage Plaza to blend residential, office and retailing space is in keeping with the direction that the critics and master planners say La Défense must take — to connect the development with the city and its people. The complex will be only a short walk from one of La Défense’s two Métro stations. And it is near the Pont de Neuilly, a bridge on which pedestrians can cross the river to reach the upscale westernParis suburb of Neuilly-sur-Seine. It might feel more like part of Paris, in other words, than most of the rest of La Defénse does. ‘‘La Défense,’’ said Ms. Cianchetta, the master planner, ‘‘is like an iceberg that is disconnected from the areas around it.’’ Catherine Chapman contributed reporting.

Trader’s lawyers, appearing confident, call no witnesses NEW YORK

BY SUSANNE CRAIG AND MICHAEL J. DE LA MERCED

Lawyers for Fabrice P. Tourre, the former Goldman Sachs trader accused of defrauding investors in a mortgage deal six years ago, have rested their defense without calling any witnesses, a surprise move that now sets the stage for the closing of one of the most prominent cases from the financial crisis to go to trial. The decision to rest on Monday, after more than two weeks of testimony and 11 witnesses called by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, highlighted the confidence that Mr. Tourre’s lawyers have in their fight against the lawsuit by the government. The case, which will probably go to

the jury Wednesday, now comes down to how the nine jurors view Mr. Tourre, a 34-year-old Frenchman. In his closing argument Monday, Matthew Martens, a lawyer for the S.E.C., said Mr. Tourre used ‘‘lies and trickery’’ to try to deceive investors, and then the jury itself. The defense was to present its closing argument later in the day. Mr. Tourre’s legal team was visibly upbeat on Friday after Mr. Tourre finished testifying. They felt that they had successfully portrayed their client as a junior cog in the Goldman machine, one of several thousand vice presidents at the big Wall Street firm and hardly the villain the S.E.C. has tried to portray him as. Still, Mr. Tourre has to overcome evidence that he sent an e-mail that contained inaccurate information to ACA

Financial, which assembled and invested in the deal at the center of the case. That e-mail left the impression with ACA executives that a client of Goldman, the big hedge fund Paulson & Co., was hoping the trade would rise in value. The fund was, in fact, wagering that it would fall, and it made more than $1 billion on the transaction. ACA executives have testified that had they known that the hedge fund was betting against the trade, they would not have invested in it. ‘‘I wasn’t trying to confuse anybody; it just wasn’t accurate at the time,’’ Mr. Tourre, who was called as a witness for the S.E.C., told jurors during one of the most damaging statements of his testimony. He quickly followed up with documents he felt should have corrected their impression, but jurors heard it did not.

‘‘Fabrice has testified in the S.E.C.’s case, and ending things short allows the defense to underscore to the jury where the burden of proof lies — that is, squarely on the S.E.C.,’’ said Susan Brune, a lawyer who successfully defended Matthew M. Tannin, one of two former Bear Stearns executives acquitted in 2009 on charges that they had misled investors in their mortgagebacked securities hedge funds. The S.E.C. charged Goldman and Mr. Tourre with fraud in 2010. Not long afterward, Goldman settled the charges for $550 million, a record fine at the time. Mr. Tourre has been charged with fraud, and to find him liable, the jury has to find that Mr. Tourre made a material, or important, misstatement and did not correct it. But the S.E.C. does not need to prove intent for all of the charges.

Jurors can find that Mr. Tourre did not intend to deceive investors but was reckless or negligent, and that could bring lesser penalties. If the jury returns an unfavorable verdict, Mr. Tourre faces fines and a possible ban from the securities industry. Mr. Tourre’s troubles began Jan. 4, 2007, when a Goldman saleswoman, Gail Kreitman, sent a note to Laura Schwartz at ACA asking to set up a meeting with a Goldman client. Goldman wanted ACA to both oversee and invest in the trade. That e-mail prompted a phone call between the two women, and the next day Ms. Schwartz sent out a meeting request to various people, including Mr. Tourre. The subject field said ‘‘Meet with Paulson, Potential Equity Investor.’’ For many people on Wall Street, the TRIAL, PAGE 17

The British oil giant BP said it planned to step up its defense against litigation stemming from the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill as it continued to endure the financial fallout from the disaster, reporting weaker-than-expected earnings on Tuesday. BP’s chief executive, Robert W. Dudley, told reporters that the company was determined to fight what he called ‘‘false and fictitious’’ claims under a settlement last year with lawyers for businesses that incurred damage from the spill. The company said that the administrators of the settlement had made excessive payments to businesses, including to some that did not suffer damage. Mr. Dudley said that BP would try to recover payments already made if it considered them unfair. BP originally estimated that the settlement would cost $7.8 billion, but increased that estimate on Tuesday to $9.6 billion, stressing that the final cost would likely be ‘‘significantly higher.’’ While the company still has about $6.9 billion in a fund to pay such damages, it is setting aside more money to cover potential legal costs. The overall charges stemming from the spill rose $200 million, to $42.4 billion, at the end of the quarter. Separately, the first phase of a civil trial in New Orleans to determine the liabilities of BP and other companies finished in April, and the trial is scheduled to resume on Sept. 30. Billions of dollars in damages for BP will be at stake in the court ruling. Mr. Dudley said he thought

Since 2010, BP has sold about $38 billion worth of assets outside Russia to help pay legal costs and settlements. it was ‘‘highly unlikely’’ that BP would enter into detailed settlement discussions in the case. ‘‘As we continue to fight what I think are absurd outcomes,’’ he said, ‘‘we want everyone to know that we are digging in and are well prepared for the long haul on legal matters.’’ BP shares closed 3.4 percent lower in London. The company’s tough stance came as BP reported second-quarter profit of $2.7 billion after certain adjustments, down 25 percent from the previous year and substantially below analysts’ consensus. The company said lower oil prices, as well as unfavorable tax rates, in Russia and elsewhere, weighed on its results. The company continues to wrestle with the gulf disaster, which left 11 people dead and spilled millions of barrels of oil. BP’s output in the United States, a crucial region for the company, dropped 4.4 percent from the previous year, reflecting asset sales and a postspill moratorium on drilling. BP said that overall production in the third quarter was expected to be lower because of maintenance and disposals. Since 2010, the company has sold about $38 billion worth of assets outside Russia, mostly oil and gas fields that it deemed nonessential, to help pay for its legal issues. It completed a sale earlier this year of its 50 percent stake in its Russian affiliate TNK-BP to Rosneft for $12 billion in cash and shares in the company. These divestments have left BP a considerably smaller company but one that Mr. Dudley said would be more focused, safer, and, eventually, more profitable. Peter Hutton, an analyst at RBC Capital Markets in London, wrote in a research note on Tuesday that given the lower production and maintenance issues, ‘‘signals of operating momentum remain difficult to show.’’ A central reason for BP’s disappointing performance was the low contribution from BP’s nearly 20 percent shareholding in Rosneft, the Russian statecontrolled oil giant. Mr. Hutton said that BP’s share of Rosneft’s net income, which came to $218 million, amount to roughly one-third of expectations. While BP and Rosneft are still in the early days of their partnership, the earnings of the venture, which accounts for 30 percent of BP’s output, may be difficult to forecast. BP said that Rosneft’s profit was hit by the weakness of the Russian ruble against the U.S. dollar as well as export duty policies. BP did have pockets of strength. The company said that it had bought back $2.4 billion worth of shares as of July 26 in what is expected to be an $8 billion program. It also announced that it would pay a dividend of 9 cents per share for the quarter, up from 8 cents the previous year though unchanged from the first quarter. ‘‘As of two or three years ago we were a weaker company,’’ Mr. Dudley said. ‘‘Now our balance sheet is strong again.’’

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Alessandra Cianchetta, Architect Conversat i ons w i t h l ea d i n g c u l t u r al f i g u r e s — October 10, 2013 — Tweet

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Alessandra Cianchetta, Architect - Culture Talks | AnOther

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The celebrated architect and founder of AW P Pari s on redefi ni ng t h e l a n d sca p e o f Pa r i s a n d t h e et ernal beaut y of i mp er m an e n ce An “urban living room” – a room for dancing, a room for playing, a room for resting. A depuration plant on the Seine river front. A giant wooden canopy in Norway. Alessandra Cianchetta is an award-winning architect and a founding partner of the celebrated AWP Paris (http://www.awp.fr), a collective devoted to exploring new and challenging discourses between design and the natural environment. She is currently working on two projects staggering in ambition and scope – one is an 85,000 square-metre housing and mixed-use sector project in Lausanne, which will eventually transform the cityscape (the project will take several years until completion) and a public space in Paris (taking into its sway 70,000 square metre) for the Jardins de l'Arche below the Grande Arche de la Défense, which will include a unique series of cultural and leisure buildings, and a number of public buildings and follies set in a park in Poissy.

Tr e n d i n g

Harbouring a desire as a young creative to work in the fashion sphere, Cianchetta has a unique approach to her discipline and an enduring obsession with what she describes as “impermanence” and the intangible forces of the natural world. Suffice it to say, her work has been presented all over the world at the likes of Cité de l'Architecture, Paris, the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and Maxxi, Rome. Here, the creative mastermind awarded the French Ministry of Culture Prize

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for Best Young Architect, who has published a number of books on our relationship to architecture and landscape, talks exclusively to AnOther about what drives her passion for transformation, and tells us why destruction is sexy. What first drew you to architecture and design? I came to architecture by chance. I initially wanted to work in fashion, and I have lots of friends in that world, but I was at a fashion design function when I was younger and Emilio Pucci persuaded me to become an architect – he said it was a less superficial industry. I [followed his advice and] went into architecture with very big frustrations about fashion, because, to be honest, I didn’t know exactly what I wanted to be. I first became very interested in landscaping because in landscaping there is something that is impermanent and ever changing and I am fascinated with impermanence, with unstable, uncontrollable environments, with the idea of space as a scene. I started out doing things that were kind of between art, installation, and proper architecture – from that point we started winning competitions for more permanent buildings and master plans. However, I never considered fashion as superficial as it so strongly modifies our perception and experience of the world. In a similar way buildings, as a background to all human action, also have a huge influence. In a way, these are very related – they both mediate and influence our relationship to the world.

"I am fascinated with impermanence, with unstable, uncontrollable environments,

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with the idea of space as a scene" — Alessandra Cianchetta

Tell us about the projects you are currently working on… Well, I’ve become very interested in big scale projects, with a recurrent interest in evolving environments: from landscapes to cityscapes and, more recently, also buildings, because buildings seem more constant and do not appear to change so much, though they also have a capacity to evolve, change, fluctuate… I am fascinated when buildings age, become ruins, or are destroyed, because some of them get so much sexier. I am interested in the soft performance of architecture – in smoothing physical reality with other subtler aspects of culture such as art, cinema or fashion, and, in the experiential, atmospheric qualities of a space at large. I am currently working on both buildings and strategies, articulating many scales, which is challenging, but rather fascinating – one is the strategic planning for all the public spaces in Paris’ CBD, which will take about 20 years, and is more of a strategic vision at the moment. The other project is one big, multi-layered public space of about 70,000 square metres – on one side it looks to the Seine and the historic core of the city and on the other it looks to metropolitan Paris. Since the Renaissance, all the kings and emperors of France and later, its presidents, have put landmarks in this same (historic) axis – the idea of the project is to link the two disjointed parts of Paris in a sort of urban couture. Both projects address physically and intellectually the question of the underground strata of the city, of what you do not normally see but is there.

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How does it make you feel to work on such a huge project? Doing something like this, designing at the scale of a city, gives you a sense of omnipotence; it is very exciting but at the same time it can change and become very political. On one hand, you have this sense of omnipotence and control – something architects generally like to toy with - but on the other hand nothing is really controlled because there are so many parameters. Unlike with a collection in fashion, it can take 10 years to have a fixed plan in place and all the permissions, but there’s an evolution in the process that I enjoy. Do the disciplines of fashion and architecture overlap for you? Themes from fashion, such as impermanence, only apply to some architecture, but most don’t – at least directly – because it tends to be so fixed and controlled and mostly because production times and paces are very different. I know and admire lots of fashion designers but my architecture is not directly influenced by fashion – at the office we have creative workshops and in these there are links to fashion, and I’d love to have some stimulating collaborations, but apart from that I wouldn’t say there are any obvious links, except the ambition to create extraordinary environments. Text by John Paul Pryor John-Paul Pryor (http://johnpaulpryor.tumblr.com) is European Editor at Flaunt Magazine, Editor-at-large at Port Magazine and Editor, Contributing Art Editor to AnOther Magazine and Art Director at Topman Generation. He writes for Flaunt, Dazed & Confused, Port,Tank, AnOther, Nowness and directs fashion shoots for Topman Generation. His debut novel Spectacles is out now

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List of Publications

The listed publications comprise the writings of AWP, including all monographic publications, all essays as well as published interviews and talks, and academic treatises.

Books, Monographs, Magazines and Exhibition catalogues written by AWP (Marc Armengaud, Matthias Armengaud, Alessandra Cianchetta) Marc Armengaud, Matthias Armengaud, Alessandra Cianchetta, Clément Blanchet, Edwin Heathcote, Daniel R. Ringelstein, Paola Viganò, ‘A’A’, L’Architecture d’Aujourd’hui, ‘La Défense, le futur des espaces publics’, monographic issue, Paris, August 2013 AWP/Alessandra Cianchetta, Roger Connah, Sam Jacob, Rowan Moore, Towards a Climate, Building (with) the Unstable, published on the occasion of AWP’s solo exhibition at Cornell University, august-september 2013, Ithaca, United States, Lab Press publishing, Paris, 2013 AWP/Marc Armengaud, Paris la nuit : chroniques nocturnes, Pavillon de l’Arsenal + Editions A. & J. Picard, Paris, 2013 Marc Armengaud, Carine Merlino, La ville créatrice de ressources, Collection Mook, Editions Autrement, Paris, 2011 Marc Armengaud, Matthias Armengaud, Alessandra Cianchetta, Nightscapes : Nocturnal Landscapes, Editorial GG Gustavo Gili, Barcelona, 2009 (bilingual english-spanish) Marc Armengaud and Alice Schÿler Mallet, Le Temps d’une marée 2 - Migrations (bilingual catalogue for the Art, Landscape and Architecture Biennale of Dieppe harbour), Editions Cybèle, Paris, 2007 Marc Armengaud and Alice Schÿler Mallet, Le Temps d’une marée - Tide Is High (catalogue for contemporary art exhibition / landscape atlas of Dieppe harbour), Editions Cybèle, Paris, 2005 Alessandra Cianchetta with Enrico Molteni, Alvaro Siza: Private Houses 1954-2004, Skira, Milan, 2004 (bilingual english-italian) Alessandra Cianchetta with Enrico Molteni, Alvaro Siza: Casas 1954-2004, Editorial GG Gustavo Gili, Barcelona, 2004 (spanish edition) Alessandra Cianchetta, José Antonio Martínez Lapeña, Fructuoso Maña and Elías Torres, Park Güell, Editorial GG Gustavo Gili, Barcelona, 2002 (bilingual english-spanish), with an article on historical context by Alessandra Cianchetta

Selected Essays and Articles Marc Armengaud, ‘Aux fondements, le moment du vide’, essay as part of the debate ‘Est-ce bien fondamental ? Fundamentals, 14e biennale internationale d’architecture de Venise’ in D’Architectures #228, pages 45-48, Paris, July-August 2014 Marc Armengaud, ‘Tous les temps sont dans l’estuaire’, in Revue 303 « arts, recherches, créations » (catalogue for La Biennale de l’Estuaire 2011), Editions 303, 2011 Marc Armengaud, ‘Représentations transform-actrices’, in Dessine-moi une ville, Edited by Ariella Masboungi, Editions Le Moniteur, Paris, 2010 Marc Armengaud, ‘Culture et Grand Paris, la pompe funèbre ?’, in D’Architectures #188, pages 14-17, February 2010 Alessandra Cianchetta, ‘Building The Night Landscape’, in PAISEA #13, page 110 and following, June 2010 Marc Armengaud, ‘Les Restes de «J’Y Suis»’, in S AM- Schweizerisches Architekturmuseum #8, pages 28-29, 2009 Marc Armengaud, ‘L’Estuaire est une région bien intéressante’, in Revue 303 « arts, recherches, créations »(catalogue for La Biennale de l’Estuaire), Editions 303, 2009 Marc Armengaud, ‘Corps à corps de la perception et du territoire’, ENSAPM, Paris, 2009 Marc Armengaud, ‘Pirandello, le théâtre de la prospective’, in D’Architectures #179, pages 17-21, February 2009 Marc Armengaud, Matthias Armengaud, Alessandra Cianchetta: ‘Densité furtive, Night Mobility’, in Arte, Experiencias y territorios en proceso, Edited by Ramon Parramon, Idensitat, Actar, Barcelona, 2007 Marc Armengaud and AWP, ‘Espaces invisibles (publics)’ - introduction of the exhibition catalogue ‘Voies publiques - Histoires et pratiques de l’espace public à Paris’ Pavillon de l’Arsenal), Editions du Pavillon de l’Arsenal - A. & J. Picard, Paris, 2006 Marc Armengaud, ‘Drawing movements in the dark’, in Drawing Indeterminate Architecture, Intermediate Drawings of Architecture, by Nat Chard, Springer Verlag, Vienna, 2005 Alessandra Cianchetta, ‘Régénération urbaine à Barcelone : Comment reconvertir les ‘poubelles de la ville’ en une aire de centralité ?’, in D’Architectures #139, pages 60-67, August 2004 Marc Armengaud, ‘La lutte passe par mon jardin’, in Les Carnets du Paysage #9 & 10, Edited by Jean-Luc Brisson, Actes Sud et l’Ecole Nationale Supérieure du Paysage, Arles, 2003 AWP / Marc Armengaud, Matthias Armengaud and Alessandra Cianchetta, ‘Transfert Radial’, in Territoires partagés - L’archipel métropolitain (exhibition catalogue), Edited by Jean-Pierre Pranlas Descours, Editions du Pavillon de l’Arsenal - A. & J. Picard, Paris, 2003 Marc Armengaud, ‘Des pieds à la tête’, in Le Visiteur #8, Les Editions de l’Imprimeur, Paris, 2002 Matthias Armengaud, Sébastien Demont, Arnaud Hirschauer, ‘Bilbao, faire rimer mobilité et hospitalité’, in Sciences Humaines #117, pages 60-61, dossier ‘Les mobilités urbaines’, June 2002 Marc Armengaud, Matthias Armengaud, ‘La Limite passe dans mon jardin’, in Le Visiteur #6, Les Editions de l’Imprimeur, Paris, 2000

Books featuring AWP’s work Sergio Crippa (Editor), ArcVision Prize, Women and Architecture, Italcementi Group, Bergamo, 2014 Børre Skodvin, As Built #08 : Lanternen (monographic book), Forlag, Oslo, 2013 AWP/Alessandra Cianchetta, Roger Connah, Sam Jacob, Rowan Moore, Towards a Climate, Building (with) the Unstable, published on the occasion of AWP’s solo exhibition at Cornell University, august-september 2013, Ithaca, United States, Lab Press publishing, Paris, 2013 Matthieu Gauvin (Editor), Temps Libre & Dynamique Urbaine, Club Construction durable de Bouygues Construction, 2013 Sun Xu Yang, Liu Kun, Top One Landscape, Pace Books Limited, China, 2012 Various authors, HHF, Archilife Publishers, Seoul 2012 Various authors, Urban Landscape Furniture, Hi-Design Publishing, Hong Kong, 2012 Ariella Masboungi (Editor), Dessine-moi une ville, Editions Le Moniteur, Paris, 2010 Philip Jodidio, Public Architecture Now !, Taschen, Köln, 2010 Collective « French Touch », Architecture Optimiste Yearbook 2009, Pyramyd Editions, Paris, 2010 Avgui Calantidou, Jean-François Capeille, Pierre-Henri Montel, AAE – Architectes Associés pour l’Environnement: Construire l’Environnement? (Creating the Environment ?), Editions Archibooks, Paris, 2009 Franco Zagari, Giardini, Manuale di progettazione, Mancosu Editore, Rome, 2009 Kieran Long, Hatch: The New Architectural Generation, Lawrence King Publishing, London, 2008 Ramon Parramon (Editor), Arte, Experiencias y territorios en proceso. Espacio Publico/Espacio social, Idensitat, Actar, Barcelona, 2007 Amelie Deuflhard, Sophie Krempl-klieeisen, Sowie Philipp Oswalt, Matthias Lilienthal, Harald Müller, Volkspalast: Zwischen Aktivismus und Kunst, Theater der Zeit, Recherchen 30, Germany, 2006 Catologue of Exhibitions featuring AWP’s work Pippo Ciorra, Caterina Padoa Schioppa (Editors), Erasmus Effect. Italian Architects Abroad, Quodlibet, Fundazione MAXXI – Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo, 2013 Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication (DGPAT-BRAUP), Cité de l’Architecture et du Patrimoine, La Grande Ville 24h Chrono, Experimental research-action programme 2012-2013, Paris, 2012 Ariella Masboungi and Raphaël Crestin (Editors), Impulser la Ville : Palmarès des Jeunes Urbanistes, Paranthèses, Paris, 2012 Ana Jankovic-Corbic (Editor), What’s New... in Housing ?, 5th Belgrade International Architecture Week, Association of Belgrade Architects, Cultural Centre of Belgrade, Belgrade, 2010 Christine Desmoulin (Editor), Scénographies d’architectes - Architects’ exhibition designs, Editions du Pavillon de l’Arsenal, Paris, 2006 Cyrille Poy, Les Nouveaux albums des jeunes architectes 2005/2006, Editions Jean-Michel Place, Paris, 2006 Kester Rattenbury, The Architecture Foundation, A New Centre for Architecture, Architecture Foundation, London, 2006 Martin Aurell, Aliénor d’Aquitaine-Guide de l’Exposition, Centre Culturel de l’Ouest, Angers, 2004

Magazines and Newspapers featuring AWP’s work Archistorm #64, January-February 2014, pp. 44-45 and p. 53, ‘Les 30 Personnalités de 2013’, by Delphine Désveaux, Jean-Louis Violeau, Maryse Quinton, Lionel Blaisse, Claire Guezengar, Emmanuelle Graffin, Laurence Allard, Carol Maillard, Alexandra Fau, Stéphanie Dadour AMC #229, Une Année d’Architecture en France, December 2013 - January 2014, p. 206, ‘Station d’Epuration AWP’, by Gilles Davoine Topos #85, Open Space, December 2013, p. 52-59, ‘Learning from La Défense’, by Rafaël Magrou AMC #228, November 2013, pp. 6-8, ‘Les Jardins de l’Arche & Le Croissant: Prototype de la Ville Durable’, by Epadesa Le guide des projets urbains, November 2013, pp. 146-149, ‘Plan-guide des espaces publics de La Défense’ and p. 150-153, ‘De La Défense à la ville’, by AWP Objectif Grand Paris, October 2013, p. 23, ‘Dans l’attente de l’Arena’, by David Lortholary Le Mook, Autrement, October 2013, pp. 22-29, ‘A Table Avec Trois Jeunes Urbanistes du Grand Paris,’ by Carine Merlino Cree Architecture, October 2013, pp. 112-118, ‘Mobilier Urbain, Quelle Intelligence?’, by Sophie Roulet Archistorm #62, September-October 2013, pp. 31-35 ‘L’eau que tu bois a connu la mer’, by Julie Weber-Thiaville ‘A’A’, L’Architecture d’Aujourd’hui, hors-série, September 2013, ‘La Défense, le futur des espaces publics’, Monographic issue a+t, Architektur + Technik, September 2013, pp. 22-25, ‘Kläranlage in FR-Evry, Filternde Hüllen’, by Christina Horisberger AMC #226, September 2013, pp. 21-22, ‘La Défense en quête d’une seconde modernité’, by Françoise Moiroux AMC #226, September 2013, p. 128, ‘Insomnie Capitale’, by Margaux Darrieus EXE #13, July-August-September 2013, pp. 146-157, ‘AWP / Station d’épuration, Evry, France’, by Nadège Mevel The New York Times, July 31st 2013, p. 1 and 6, ‘Plan Aims to Enliven Paris’s Financial District, Long Called Soulless’, by Georgi Kantchev International Herald Tribune, July 31st2013, p. 1 and 14, ‘Trying to Draw La Défense Out of its Shell’, by Georgi Kantchev Traits Urbains #62, July 2013, pp. 22-24, ‘La Défense, un plan-guide dessus-dessous’, by Marie-Christine Vatov Le Monde, June 29th 2013, ‘La part d’ombre de la capitale mise en lumière par la fée électricité’, by Frédéric Edelmann Libération, May 21st 2013, pp. 30-31, ‘Toute la Lumière sur « Paris la nuit »’, by Sybille Vincendon Urbanista, March 2013, ‘AWP win competition for Orée de Crissier post-industrial urban scheme, Lausanne’, by Lucy Bullivant Arquitectura Viva, Proyectos #56, March-April 2013, p. 25 and 30-33, ‘Ecole Centrale de Paris, Paris-Saclay’, by Maite Baguena 24 Heures, March 25th 2013, p. 3, ‘Réhabiliter les Friches, le Formidable Projet de l’Ouest’, by Cindy Mendicino Le Temps de Genève (Swiss National Press), March 19th2013, p. 9, ‘Friches Urbaines: Crissier Prend de l’Avance’, by Yelmarc Roulet Casabella, #823, March 3rd , p. 53-59, ‘Macchina Riconciliatrice’, by Nicola Braghieri Ley Outre, Crissier, Ouest Lausannois – L’Orée de Crissier, Mandat d’études parallèles, February 2013, Rapport du collège d’experts, Lausanne

Mark Magazine, January 2013, pp. 12-19, ‘Notice Board’, by Nick Compton, Ellie Stathaki Topscape Paysage #12, 2013, pp.114-119, ‘Saint-Etienne: Daily Urban Lounge’, by Alessandro Gabbianelli 20 Minutes, December 18th , p. 4, in Defacto Les Infos, ‘Un Plan Guide pour un espace public réé’,by Defacto Defacto, Les Infos # 2, October 2012, p. 5, ‘Le plan-guide s’expose’, by Defacto Archithese, May 2012, pp. 56-59, ‘La Défense ist Frankreich, nicht Paris’, by Hubertus Adam Wallpaper*, 2011, p. 57, ‘Poissy Galore,’ by John Weich A+A (Architecture & Art) #192, 2011, pp. 36-43 ‘When architecture encounter with...’ Architecture & Detail (China) #4, 2011, pp. 33-35, ‘The Lantern Pavilion’ Architetti, November 2011, ‘Riqualificazione Urbana e Paesaggistica, il Progetto di AWP a Parigi,’ by Federica Maietti Perspective, November 2011, p. 108, ‘Childlike inspiration’ El Mercurio, November 2011, pp. 94-95, section Vivienda y Decoracion, ‘La Nueva Cara de La Defensa’, by Soledad Salgado Emag Epadesa #6, November 2011, pp. 13-14, ‘Les Jardins de l’Arche’ Garten + Landschaft, October 2011, p. 38, ‘Dem Niemandsland Seele Einhauchen’, by Thomas Armonat Le Moniteur, September 30th2011, p. 72, ‘A Carrières-sous-Poissy, le parc paysager se logera dans une boucle de la Seine’, by Hervé Guénot D’Architectures #202, September 10th 2011 p. 50-52, ‘La Défense est-elle le nouveau laboratoire de l’espace public ?’, by Françoise Moiroux Architetti, August-September 2011, pp. 14-15 , ‘Lantern Pavilion, Sandnes’, by Federica Maietti The Architectural Review , August 18th 2011, ‘Follies in a park by AWP + HHF Architects, Carrières-sous-Poissy, Paris, France’, by Catherine Slessor Architektura & Biznes, May 2011, pp. 66-67, ‘Drewniany Parasol’, by Marta Karpinska Séquences Bois #85, May 2011, pp. 20-23, ‘La Lanterne, un pavillon urbain en Norvège’ Architetti #38, May 2011, pp. 32-40 , ‘Norwegian Wood. The Lantern Pavilion’, by Federica Maietti Frame , February 2011, ‘The Lantern, Pavilion by AWP & Atelier Oslo’, by Lydia Parafianowicz Architecture Today, February 2011, ‘Atelier Oslo/AWP: The Lantern Sandnes, Norway’ Revue Urbanisme #376, January-February 2011, p. 17, ‘L’urbanisme de projet, priorité ministérielle en 2011,’ by Antoine Loubière Traits Urbains #44, January-February 2011, p. 16, ‘Pour être urbanistes, ils n’en sont pas moins jeunes’ Urban Press Information #1726, December 22nd2010, p. 12, ‘Palmarès des Jeunes Urbanistes 2010’, by Marina Caetano Viellard Le Moniteur #5586, December 17th 2010, p. 33, ‘Palmarès des Jeunes Urbanistes 2010’

Décideurs d’Ile de France #1030, December 2010, p. 3 AMC #192, November 2009, pp. 143-145, ‘Sandnes –aménagement’, by Maryse Quinton Archistorm #44, September-October 2010, pp. 28-35, ‘La French Touch’, by Michèle Leloup Le Figaro Culture, September 24th2010, ‘LAM : Parc, bibliothèque, conférences…’, by Claire Bommelaer Building Design, September 2010, pp. 14-15, ‘Solutions: Roofing- Santa Maria del Pianto Metro Station,’ by Amanda Birch Beaux-Arts #315, August 2010, p. 2, ‘LAM’ Building Design, April 9th 2010, ‘Solutions: Roofing-Santa Maria del Pianto Metro Station’, by Amanda Birch AMC hors-série bois, June 2009, pp. 101-103, ‘Kiosk-Lantern’ Air France Madame #129, April-May 2009, pp. 185-187, ‘Dans de beaux bois’, by Marie Le Fort Mark Another Architecture #19, April-May 2009, pp. 30-31, ‘AWP & Atelier Oslo, Fused Gothic and Wooden Architecture in Norway,’ by Nils Groot Le Moniteur #5495, March 20th 2009, pp. 67 & 74, ‘Une marquise géante en centre-ville’, by Jacques-Franck Degioanni RUM - Arkitektur Inredning Design #3, March 2009, pp. 84-85, ‘Isn’t it good, Norwegian Wood’, and pp. 42-43, ‘Lanternen, Sandnes,’ by Niklas Singstedt Stavanger Aftenblad, September 26th 2008, ‘Det var en gang et eventyr’, by Knut Gjerseth Olsen Cocinas + Baños Casaviva #48, 2008, pp. 56-63, ‘Acero y Gris,’ by Claire Davies Arkitektur #7, July-August 2008, pp. 42-43, ‘Lanternen, Sandnes’ Libération, September 19th 2007, p. 26, ‘Vagues Humaines à Bon Port,’ by Natalie Castetz The Architects’ Journal, June 21st 2007, pp. 14-15, ‘Rogers brings cemetery to life’, by Max Thompson D’Architectures #157, August-September 2006, pp. 9-14, ‘AWP - De détours en contours…’, by Françoise Moiroux Building Design, August 11th 2006, ‘Continental Comparisons: Alessandra Cianchetta of Paris practice AWP gave this year’s first Architecture Foundation Summer Nights talk’, by Ellie Duffy Le Monde, April 27th 2006, ‘Les clairs-obscurs de l’espace public parisien’, by Frédéric Edelmann Le Moniteur #HS Aménagement, April 2006, pp. 76-78, ‘Saint Denis - Le plateau piétonnier régénère le centre’, by Cyrille Véran A10 New European Architecture #7, January-February 2006, p. 61, ‘A new type of practice - The emergence of the network office’, by Jorrin Ten Have Le Moniteur #532, November 2005, p.69, ‘Saint-Denis, Piétonnisation du Centre-Ville’ Wettbewerbe Aktuell, May 2005, pp. 35-37, ‘Neues architekturzentrum London’ Landscape Review, April 2005, pp. 18-19, column Practice Profile, ‘a-Graft : Raw Talent and Truly International’, by Jezz Abbott

Blueprint, April 2005, p. 82, ‘Intimate details - Alvaro Siza, Private houses’, by Vicky Richardson Domus #880, April 2005, pp. 135-136 ‘Piccoli Paradisi - Alvaro Siza. Cases 1954-2004’, by Fabrizio Zanni Interni #550, April 2005, p. 210, ‘Alvaro Siza - Cases 1954-2004’ AMC #150, March 2005, pp. 23-28, ‘Concours - Fondation pour l’architecture - Londres’, by Dominique Boudet Inde BCN, March 2005, pp. 32-34, ‘Aproximations singulars - Cicle arquitectura catalana volum 3’, by Albert Ferré International Herald Tribune, January 2005, ‘British architect gets her due’, by Alan Riding Jornal Arquitectos #220-221, 2005, pp. 102-105, ‘Sede da Architectural Foundation - Isto Nao é um edificio’, by José Adriao

Online publications featuring AWP’s work The Architects’ Journal, October 1st 2014, ‘First images of contest-winning Malmo Quay scheme revealed’, by Laura Mark Bdaily, September 30th 2014, ‘Architectural triumvirate partner to develop Newcastle’s Malmo Quay’, by Jamie Hardesty Insider Media Limited, September 30th 2014, ‘Malmo Quay developers chosen’, by Matthew Ord Chronicle Live, September 29th 2014, ‘First look at unusual designs for Malmo Quay site at entrance of Ouseburn’, by Tom Keighley The Architects’ Journal, July 30th 2014, ‘Winners of Newcastle regeneration contest revealed’, by Merlin Fulcher DailyTonic, November 14th 2013, ‘Landscape architecture: Jardins de l’Arche by AWP in Paris,’ by Susanne Fritz AnOther Magazine, October 10th 2013, ‘Alessandra Cianchetta, Architect – Conversations with leading cultural figures’ by John Paul Pryor 5 Ans D’Actions pour un Territoire, October 2013, p. 8, ‘Projets Structurants’, by Epadesa Rapport D’Activité 2012, September 2013, p. 5 and 10, ‘Le projet urbain en un coup d’œil’ and ‘L’avancée des opérations en 2012,’ by Epadesa La Défense Seine Arche, September 2013, pp. 18-23 and pp. 30-31, ‘Les nouveaux défis de La Défense Seine Arche à l’horizon 2030’ and ‘Jardins de l’Arche: Activités de Loisirs Night and Day,’ by Epadesa Le Temps, September 4th 2013, ‘Les Gratte-Ciel à l’Epreuve du Vote,’ by Marco Danesi Le Parisien, May 24th 2013, ‘La Ville Lumière vit la nuit depuis deux siècles’ and ‘Une invitation aux explorations nocturnes’ Libération, May 21st 2013, ‘Toute la Lumière sur « Paris la nuit »’, by Sybille Vincendon Dezeen, May 16th 2013, ‘Water-treatment plant by AWP’, by Amy Frearson Urbanista, March 2013, ‘AWP win competition for Orée de Crissier post-industrial urban scheme, Lausanne,’ by Lucy Bullivant La Défense Seine Arche, R.evolution, Think Further, March 2013, pp. 12-13 and pp. 14-15, ‘Les jardins de l’Arche : un quartier night and day’ and ‘Des Espaces Publics de Qualité’, by Epadesa ArchDaily, January 23rd 2013, ‘AWP to announce masterplan for La Défense’, by Lisa Wronski Les études : réflexions pour un territoire, Vers un projet stratégique et opérationnel, December 2012, pp. 6-7, ‘Déclencheurs Urbains & Stratégie d’Aménagement,’ by Epadesa Metalocus, December 1st 2012, ‘Paris La Défense CBD, Jardins de l’Arche’, by Pedro Navarro Les Jardins de l’Arche, March 2012, by Epadesa Rapport d’Activités 2011, 2011, p. 28, ‘Avancement des Opérations,’ by Epadesa AECCafé, December 6th 2011, ‘Jardins de l’Arche in Paris, France by AWP,’ by Sumit Singha Tecnici, November 2011, ‘Parigi La Defense, una nuova visione urbanistica’ Archdaily, November 29th 2011, ‘Jardins de l’Arche/AWP’, by Alison Furuto

Le Figaro, November 15th 2011, ‘L’Arena 92 va redessiner l’ouest de La Défense,’ by Arnaud Coudry Free Architecture Report, November 15th 2011, ‘La Conception AWP à Paris à Proximité de La Défense - Plan de zone de revitalisation’ e-architect, November 8th 2011, ‘Paris La Défense CBD’ Archiscene, November 7th 2011, ‘Paris La Défense CBD by AWP’ Building Design, November 7th 2011, ‘AWP’s Jardins de l’Arche in Paris’ +mood, November 5th 2011, ‘Paris La Défense CBD, Jardins de l’Arche/AWP’, by David K. Channel Beta, November 2011, ‘Paris La Défense renews the Jardins de l’Arche’ Design Boom, November 2011, ‘AWP: Jardins de l’Arche’ Co.Design, November 2011, ‘A très-modern park nods to the silly gardens of rich people’, by Susanne Labarre Inhabitat, October 28th 2011, ‘Dreamy timber pavilions stack’ Daily Wired, October 3rd 2011, ‘Come rinasce un parco’, by Niccolo Capitani Design Buzz, September 30th 2011, ‘Seven Sustainable Pavilion Designs to Protect the Environment’, by Babita Sajnani Archdaily, September 20th 2011, ‘Parc paysager des bords de Seine proposal / AWP & HHF’, by Allison Furuto DETAIL Daily, Der Architektur- und Design-Blog, September 20th 2011, ‘AWP + HHF: Pavillons für Paris Größten Park’ Décotidien, September 17th 2011, ‘Nouveau parc des bords de Seine – HHF et AWP’ Dezeen, September 16th 2011, ‘Parc des Bords de Seine by HHF and AWP’ DesignBoom, September 16th 2011, ‘AWP + HHF: pavilions and follies for Parc des Bords de Seine’ Archiscene, September 16th 2011, ‘Park in Carrières-sous-Poissy by AWP & HHF’ Arquitectura Viva, September 15th 2011, AWP + HHF: arquitecturas en el Parc des Bords de Seine’ ArcoWeb, September 15th 2011, ‘Rio Sena tera parque de 113 hectares ao lado da Villa Savoye, de Le Corbusier’ Building Design, September 14th 2011, ‘AWP (Paris) reveal Seine pavilions’ Europaconcorsi, September 14th 2011, ‘Pavilions and follies of the Parc des Bords de Seine’ e-architect, September 13th 2011, ‘Follies Poissy, AWP + HHF’ Architectenweb, September 6th 2011, ‘Tien follies voor buitenwijk Parijs’ Neuilly Journal, August 1st 2011, ‘Defacto retient l’agence AWP pour le Plan Guide de La Défense’ France BTP, July 28th 2011, ‘Defacto choisit AWP pour le Plan Guide de La Défense’ Le Moniteur, July 28th 2011, ‘L’agence AWP repense les espaces publics des deux côtés de l’Arche de La Défense’, by Eric Leysens AECCafé, July 19th 2011, ‘Park in Carriéres Sous Poissy, France by HHF Architects’, by Sumit Singha

Arthitectural, May 4th 2011, ‘Atelier Oslo and AWP/Lanternen’ AECCafé, April 22nd 2011, ‘Lanternen in Langgata, Sandnes, Norway by Atelier Oslo/AWP’, by Sumit Singha Headlines, March 14th 2011, ‘Pavilion, Sandnes’, by Dutton R. Hauhart Batiactu, February 22nd 2011, ‘Une Canopée en Bois Se Dresse en Norvège’ ArchDaily, February 21st 2011, ‘AD Recommends: Best of the Week,’ by Sebastian Jordana Architecture Lab, February 21st 2011, ‘Norwegian Wood/ The Lantern Pavilion, Norway by AWP & Atelier Oslo’ Ymag, February 18th 2011, ‘Sandnes/Lantern by AWP + Atelier Oslo’ Metalocus, February 17th 2011, ‘Lantern Pavilion’ Archello, February 16th 2011, ‘Sandnes/Lantern’ Designboom, February 16th 2011, ‘AWP + Atelier Oslo: Lantern’ Detail daily, February 15th 2011, ‘AWP + Atelier Oslo, Lantern-ein Haus fur Alle’ Europaconcorsi, February 14th 2011, ‘The Lantern – Norwegian Wood’ Trend Hunter, February 10th 2011, ‘Illuminating Eco Architecture,’ by Jordan Markowski Inhabitat, February 9th 2011, ‘The Lantern Pavilion: Glowing Contemporary Architecture Made of Sustainable Timber,’ by Bridgette Meinhold e-architect, February 9th 2011, ‘The Lantern, Sandnes, Norway’ World Architecture News, February 8th 2011, ‘A Guiding Light’ Europaconcorsi, February 2011, ‘New park fo LaM, Museum of Modern, Contemporary and Outsider Art, Lille Métropole’ Architecture Lab, 2011, ‘Architectures of the « Parc des bords de Seine », Carrières-sous-Poissy/France, by AWP & HHF’ +mood, September 8th 2010, ‘Sandnes/Lantern, AWP + Atelier Oslo’, by David K. +mood, September 8th 2010, ‘New Park for LaM, Museum of Modern, Contemporary and Outsider Art: AWP’, by David K. Archicool, July 13th 2010, ‘Le LAM de Villeneuve d’Ascq : L’étonnant mariage de Roland Simounet et Manuelle Gautrand, architectes’ Building Design, April 9th 2010, ‘Solutions: Roofing-Santa Maria del Pianto Metro Station’, by Amanda Birch The Guardian, April 8th 2010, ‘Public Architecture Now! A New Book Hails Our Boldest Buildings’ AR+ The Architectural Review, March 24th 2010, ‘Lanternen Sandnes, Ragna Stakland, Norway, AWP Architects + Atelier Oslo’ Wallpaper*, January 29th 2010, ‘Architecture news : Letter from Norway’ Building Design, January 22nd 2010, ‘Back to the land’, by James Payne

Television and radio medias featuring AWP’s works Pierrick Allain, Lorraine Rossignol, ‘Nuit Blanche 2013, Entretien avec Marc Armengaud. Comme dans un nuage, Place de la République’, Télérama, October 5th 2013, URL: <http://www.telerama.fr/scenes/video-comme-dans-un-nuage-place-de-la-republique,103256.php> Pierrick Allain, Lorraine Rossignol, ‘Visite guidée : l’expo « Paris la nuit » explore La Défense. Que devient le quartier d’affaires après la sortie des bureaux ? Visite en compagnie de Marc Armengaud, commissaire de l’exposition « Paris la Nuit » au Pavillon de l’Arsenal’, Télérama, October 3rd 2013, URL: <http://www.telerama.fr/scenes/visite-guidee-l-expo-paris-la-nuit-explore-la-defense,103213.php> Karine Vergniol, ‘La tendance du moment: Paris, reine de la nuit ?’, BFM Business, September 24th 2013, URL: <http://www.dailymotion. com/video/x153nit_la-tendance-du-moment-paris-reine-de-la-nuit-dans-paris-est-a-vous-24-09_news> Pierrick Allain, Lorraine Rossignol, ‘Visite guidée : l’expo « Paris la nuit » explore le marché de Rungis. Visite en compagnie de Marc Armengaud, commissaire de l’exposition « Paris la Nuit » au Pavillon de l’Arsenal’, Télérama, June 29th 2013, URL: <http://www.telerama. fr/scenes/visite-guidee-l-expo-paris-la-nuit-explore-le-marche-de-rungis,99630.php> Laurence Garcia, ‘Entre chien et loup : chroniques nocturnes’, with Alain Serres and Marc Armengaud, June 22nd 2013, France Inter, URL: <http://www.franceinter.fr/emission-le-57-du-week-end-entre-chien-et-loup-chroniques-noctures> D8 le JT, ‘Fête de la musique 2013, Interview de Marc Armengaud’, D8, June 21st 2013 Karine Vergniol, ‘Les sorties du jour: Marc Armengaud de l’exposition « Paris la nuit »’, BFM Business, June 5th 2013, URL: <http://www. wat.tv/video/sorties-jour-marc-armengaud-6arnh_5gkv9_.html> Pavillon de l’Arsenal / Cyrille Poy, ‘Comment mieux se déplacer demain ? Interview de Marc Armengaud’, Pavillon de l’Arsenal with Le Journal du Dimanche, 2008, URL: <http://www.pavillon-arsenal.com/videosenligne/collection-22-184.php>

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