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Visit
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On 26 June 2006, the employees of
Bouygues SA, the parent company of the Bouygues group, moved
to a new headquarters at 32 Avenue
Hoche in Paris.
Design
Eight renowned architects were invited to participate in an
international call for tenders in April 2002. Bouygues chose
the project submitted by Kevin Roche, the same architect who
designed Challenger in the 1980s. Works started in October
2003 and the building was delivered in May 2006. Jean-Michel
Wilmotte was the interior architect.
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The facade of 32 Hoche
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Modernity and elegance
Boasting a total floor area of 7,600 sq. metres, the headquarters
is a seven-storey building that gives onto both Avenue Hoche
and an inside garden.
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The resolutely
modern architecture draws on the transparency of materials
and space. To avoid disrupting the vertical succession of
narrow facades along the avenue, the building's broad front
is divided into three parts.
The central section contains a 20-metre-high glass "spinnaker"
whose protruding "ribs" echo the cornices of the
neighbouring Haussmann-era buildings, while the flanking sections
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First HQE-compliant office building
in Paris
Bouygues implemented the HQE procedure at its new headquarters
building, from design through to handover. This involved aspects
such as regulation of olfactory, visual, acoustic, temperature
and humidity factors together with control of the environmental
impact of construction and maintenance.
In October 2006, 32 Hoche received "NF Bâtiments
tertiaires - Démarche HQE®
(Haute Qualité Environnementale)" certification
for high environmental quality in office buildings, as recognised
by the French standards organisation. Thirteen criteria were
ranked high or very high in the appraisal, while only seven
are required for certification.
It was the third private-sector building in France to be certified,
and Paris' first in any category (see
press release of 8 November 2006).
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