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Foster + Partners has unveiled renderings of Hermitage Plaza, a mixed-use community in Paris that will include a hotel, spa, apartments, offices, serviced apartments and retail shops. Work on the two-tower complex is slated to start in 2010 and be completed by 2014.
Forming two interlocking triangles on plan, the buildings face one another at ground level. As they rise, the towers turn. As a result, their glazed façade panels will catch the light, with the sun animating different facets of the buildings during the course of the day.
"Hermitage Plaza will create a 24-hour community that will regenerate the [Seine] riverfront and inject new life into a predominantly commercial part of the city," Foster + Partners chairman Norman Foster said in a statement. "A light-catching addition to the Paris skyline, the development will also provide a public piazza that leads down to the river's edge to create a new destination for the city."
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