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- Reportage sur les derniers concerts / Concerts aux Parc des princes

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- Reportage sur les derniers matchs / Diaporama_Match_Rugby

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History

2007-10-03T12:19:57Z

Inaugurated the 4th of june 1972, the Parc des Princes stadium was endowed with a very avant-garde architecture for this period. Comfort and visibility were the key words of Roger Taillibert, the architect in charge of the project. In june 1974, the Paris Saint Germain became the resident club of this new stadium and decides to associate its image and history to the boundaries of this mythical place.

Inaugurated the 4th of june 1972, the Parc des Princes stadium was endowed with a very avant-garde architecture for this period.comfort and visibility were the key words of roger taillibert, the architect in charge of the project.
In june 1974, the paris saint germain became the resident club of this new stadium and decides to associate its image and history to the boundaries of this mythical place.

In 1990, the Paris city hall, owner of the Parc des Princes, entrust the stadium concession to the societe d'exploitation-sports-evenements (SESE), in 1999 this agreement was extended for a further 15 years.
To establish the stadium durably in its environment, the SESE, the city of paris and the main residents associations have signed a charter looking to improuve the functionning of the Parc des Princes considering its environment.

More than scheduling the PSG matches, which remains the main mission of the SESE, this entity never stops developping new skills, diversifying its know-how: organisation, coproduction, production of concerts and shows as the supercross, snow parc, antiques fairs or companies seminars.

Since the world cup in 1998, the PSG is the only master club of the stadium, with its new headquarters after an important renovation work.

The main dates

January 1897: building of the cycle lane and the unroof tribunes with a capacity of 12000 seats.
April 1932 : inauguration of a velodrome and a all-round sports stadium. Non evolution of the stadium architecture until the building plan of the paris beltways. This working site needs a partial demolition of one tribune.
November 1968: start of the working site of the present stadium,with the velodrome demolition. Events are more focused on the fields, with more football and rugby matches.
June 1972: stadium inaguration by the french president Georges Pompidou, during the 55th final of the french football cup.the stadium is a very "avant-garde" architecture with its 50 prestressed concrete porticos supporting the ring-shaped roof.
June 1973: the PSG football club became the Parc des Princes resident club. Two years later, day by day , after the stadium inaguration , the PSG team joins the first division club, for the very first time in its history, staying forever.
June 1998 : during the football world cup and the six matches taking place at the Parc des Princes, the stadium improuves its comfort and its welcome devices for the audience. The terraces have been closed and a row of seats totally replaced. The press tribune have been enlarged.

The Parc of Princes is also the lodges, its reception or VIP rooms able to welcome all the companies wishing to associate their corporate image to this french sporting monument.

For all that and for many other reasons, the Parc des Princes is a true centre of life for everyday!!!

Architecture

2007-10-03T12:19:54Z

In 1967, General Charles de Gaulle decides that the Parc des Princes stadium should be dedicated to the football and rugby games with a capacity of under 60 000 seats. Another stadium devoted to athletics should be build at the old pershing stadium site located at the city of Vincennes…

Architecture/patrimony

In 1967, General Charles de Gaulle decides that the Parc des Princes stadium should be dedicated to the football and rugby games with a capacity of under 60 000 seats. Another stadium devoted to athletics should be build at the old pershing stadium site located at the city of Vincennes.

Those days, the ancient velodrome stadium should be destroyed because a new beltway road will be build around the city of Paris. The proposal to build this road under the stadium structure was approuved by the city council and by the prefect of Paris, Mr. Doublet.

Because the requirements of the Borotra law, decreeting the non destruction of sports installations, this challenge would appear in the architect researchs.

As the pursuit of the french championships was decided,a plan choosen by the sports city council and the sports ministry, enforce the partial demolition of the stadium while pursuing the matches calendar.

The architect was obliged to conceive a structure able to be only partially builded. the financing was incompatible with the execution procedures for the whole stadium building project.

3 main phases

The plan should be achieved in 3 main phases. The technical and financial challenges cannot be overlooked by the architect.

The building commitment researchs of Roger Taillibert and his team ,was supported by their knowledge in civil engineering and their technical potential to launch a new architectural statement.

The concrete use regulations approuve 20,00 m of overhang and the plans reaches around 50,00 m.

Also, the division by building phases or portions of this contemporary architecture exhibits an "art nouveau" approach to the public, with prefabricated materials as the concrete,very criticized at this time. Finally, a special authorization concents archs for the 50,00 m.overhangs.

The first constraint was to superpose the two constructions works,building the stadium structure over the beltway section.
Researchs have been made by the architect based on a pre-lay out which the contractor should strictly respect and follow until the end of the building site.

The building site of font-romeu, achieved in 9 months, brough out clearly the weakness of the architect involved, pointed out by the contractor and the research unit, which vocation was always to shrink back the architectural progress.

But it was not the case for the Parc des Princes project as the contractor should follow the architect design and plans.

The architectural researchs were very in advance. A major problem should be treated and solved: the rain and snow drainage system. The inverted curved shape of the roof at every angle of the stadium allows to integrate the draining
inside the porticos.

Roger Taillibert
President of the french academy of fine arts /2004
Architecture /3rd department/ iv chair
Elected member of the architecture department/june the 19th, 1983, at the eugene beaudoin chair.
Ecole nationale superieure des beaux arts /french national architecture school d.p.l.g. diploma. Highly qualified/ 1959.
Chief architect french national goverment, building program/ 1967.
Chief architect: civil buildings and national palaces; highly qualified

Honours

Silver medal:national architecture academy research and practices/1971
Gold medal: architectural creativity/1973.
Honour medal: french society for the support of fine arts and industry/1976.
Elected member of the french national institute/fine arts academy/1983.
Grand commander:Legion d'honneur/1983
Ordre national du merite/1983
Arts et lettres/1983
Ordre des palmes academiques/1983
Chevalier: Ordre du merite/ commerce et industrie/2000
Member of:French academy of architecture/2000
Royal society of arts(g.b.)2000
French sports academy/
French arts and streets academy
New thinking group
President of the french academy of fine arts/2003

Awards

Great french sports medal/1972
National award on fine arts and litterature/architecture section/1973
Europe award/1973
Cembureau grand prix/1974-1976
National architecture award/1976
First national architecture award/1977
Fine arts grand prix,canada/1977
Elphege baude award/1977
Medal of the national sports academy, italy/1977
Winner of the europe award of metallic architecture/2000
Honour medal of the city of paris/2000
Sports gold medal/ 2000
Europe timber structures grand prix

Self-table porticos

This device requires to master the self-stable porticos.
Thus, all the vertical elements presents a 7.00 m overhang in their external curve this overhang allows to balance the beams installation.

The keystones were holded by a provisional prestress, then by permanent cables, creating an intersecting prestress at the coving of the porticos' heads.

When launching the beams, a special vault keystone with a masted joint, able to receive the first keystone then the others, with a provisional beam, holding 25 tonnes pieces were installed,while waiting for the permanent cabling.

For the very first time, after many discussions, Roger Taillibert took out the lighting poles, incorporating a technical roof rack integrating the spotslights and the sound system. It was a huge simplification in terms of maintenance, lighting quality and t.v. coverage of the field.

Terraces on two row levels

The terraces were designed in two row levels: a low one with 23000 seats and a high one with 27000 seats and without standing areas to ensure the total security of the public, that by request of the sports council president.this device was helped along thanks to the technical understanding of the sports ministry engineers involved in the process.

The architects and engineers team, with a wealth of experience behind them, proved that the achievement of this constructivist architecture, a stadium structure in concrete, was possible.
The first achieved element of a beam meshing holding this structure was a fact.the building process of the first phase was finish quickly.

It was sure that the beams' meshing was exceptional as each beam consists of 250m3 of concrete and the porticos anchorage includes a spectacular iron framework,requiring more than 250kgs of steel per m3.

At the beginning of the assemblage, an incident related to the inobservance of a bouygues co. worker, caused a great emotion as the claude bernard high school should be evacuated.

> The construction

Since 1968 the execution calculations were computer-aided.on the other hand, all the architectural project was manually designed. The stadium was compounded of 13 different types of porticos.

This period reinforce the civil engineering potential of huge spans and loads introduced in the contemporary architecture in France, Japan and Australia.

Roger Taillibert achieve for the very first time the intersecting prestressed concrete technique, thanks to his thorough knowledge of great construction works, integrating technical equipments (as lighting).

> General remarks

The vaults-keystones have been prefabricated in a special unit located at the present game field, following a very strict schedule at the building site. The stadium was designed over an elliptical outline of 252m x 191m.

The bleachers'structure located very close to the game areas limits (football and rugby) is formed by 52 porticos, holding 2 bleachers of concrete terraces and a metallic lightweight galvanized roofing, prelaquered between the beams.
A technical string links the beams directly above the field limits, incorporating the field spotlights and the rain draining system.

the stadium geometry leads the porticos of varied heights according to the beams'length, which allows –with the inversion of its slope in 4 angles- the rain drainage by stainless steel pipes of 300 cm. in diameter, incorporated in the porticos.

The 2 terraces levels offers to the audience an open view over the whole field, free of all the roofing supports, these ones being located at the external limits of the arena. The terraces are supplied with individual seats.

As the spotslights have been integrated in the technical string, all along the field,it allows to provide an homogeneous lighting, without players shadows effects, ensuring then a high quality TV. broadcasting thanks to the cameras position linked to the TV-studio-vans.

According to an article at time magazine in 1972, for the Parc des Princes inauguration, the stadium was considered then as one of the more remarkable construction works of Paris, mostly because its architectural quality ever achieved
in the city since the last 30 years, with the communist party headquarters by Oscar Niemeyer.

The Parc des Princes represents an spectacular progress among the great french architectural tradition of the reinforced, prefabricated and prestressed concrete applications.

At this time, the Olympic Stadium of Munich, designed by Gunter Behnish, was builded with a totally different technique: a metallic structure with a textile roofing, suspended over the middle of the stadium.
Two different concepts, two new images, two strong architectures: thanks to the Parc des Princes achievement, Roger Taillibert will export a few years later, the concept and know-how of french architecture based on prestressed vaults-keystones for the olympic complex of montreal.

> Calendar

First contact: september,1967.
Inauguration: june the 4th ,1972.
Cost: 90 000 000 f.f. in 1972.
Concrete: 77 000 m3
Steel: 7000 tons
Steel: 600 tons(prestressed)

Join us

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Join our team ! We often reseach cashiers, stewards or hostesses for our sporting events or concerts.are you rigorous ? Do you like meeting people ?
To register and enclose your c.v., fill in this form : - Les contacts

VIP

2007-10-03T11:47:37Z

Discover a real and unexpected movie theater at the depths of the Parc des Princes!

In front of the screen a platform staring your guests, your products, your advertising or communications supports.

Area : 180 sq. Mt.
Capacity : 128 seats
Movie screen : 7.30 x 3.30 mts

Contacts : contact@leparcdesprinces.fr | 0033 (0)1 47 43 71 77 | Fax 0033 (0)1 47 43 72 40

Tournaments

Admin Principal — 2007-10-03T11:36:42Z

The Parc des Princes make your dream come true! Discover the professional players cloakrooms or play with your guests at the official field !
During your private tournament we totally take care of your guests : since their arrival, at the cloakrooms until the cocktail at the end of the match.

The parc des princes make your dream come true! Discover the professional players cloakrooms or play with your guests at the official field !

During your private tournament we totally take care of your guests:since their arrival,at the cloakrooms until the cocktail at the end of the match. Two giant screeens also available at request !

Everything leads to a memorable day !

It's strongly advised to book several months in advance !

Contacts : contact@leparcdesprinces.fr | 0033 (0)1 47 43 71 77 | Fax 0033 (0)1 47 43 72 40

Reception rooms

Admin Principal — 2007-10-03T11:16:02Z

To present your company balance,to launch a new product or service: do it during the match.
To organize your future convention or to motivate your "task force", choose our seminars formulas.

Des prestations sur mesure

To present your company balance, to launch a new product or service: do it during the match.

► Private vip reception rooms with your customized décor
► Special welcome devices : hostesses and cloakroom
► Match booking at the presidential hospitality
► Security agents devices
► Your cocktail before the match
► Your dinner after the match

Rates from 300€ / per guest
Please contact us for further information.

To organize your future convention or to motivate your “task force”, choose our seminars formulas.

► Reception rooms : renting from 8.00 a.m. to 6.00 p.m.
► Rooms setting and logistics included
► Coffee and cocktail included
► Guest lunchs
► Parc des princes privates tours : hospitality romms, cloakrooms, fields.

Rates from 120€ / per guest
With 20 persons minimum
Please contact us for further information

Contacts : contact@leparcdesprinces.fr | 0033 (0)1 47 43 71 77 | Fax 0033 (0)1 47 43 72 40