A new concert hall designed by Jean Nouvel has opened in Paris
Paris - Today, after seven years of construction, the new headquarters of the Paris Philharmonic, designed by architect Jean Nouvel, opened in the French capital. The concert hall at the Parc de la Villette hosted its first concert this evening: the piece Requiem by Gabriel Fauré was dedicated to the victims of last week's terrorist attacks.
The audience included French President François Hollande, who stated at the grand opening that the satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo, which was attacked by terrorists last week, resulting in the deaths of some of its staff, "lives on and will live on."
"Charlie Hebdo has been in danger for a long time due to a lack of readers. But today it is being revived," Hollande said. "It is possible to kill men and women, but it is never possible to kill their ideas; on the contrary," the president added, according to whom "the terrorists wanted to harm culture because it is bold, irreverent, free, human—indeed, the exact opposite of obscurantism, fundamentalism, and fanaticism." "Dictatorships have always feared culture," Hollande also noted.
The building was originally planned to be completed by 2012, but its completion was postponed several times. Instead of 200 million, it ultimately cost 380 million euros.
The aluminum-clad building, adorned with embedded silhouettes of birds inside, conceals the main concert hall with a capacity of 2,400 spectators, 15 rehearsal rooms, an educational center, and a restaurant with a café.
The audience included French President François Hollande, who stated at the grand opening that the satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo, which was attacked by terrorists last week, resulting in the deaths of some of its staff, "lives on and will live on."
"Charlie Hebdo has been in danger for a long time due to a lack of readers. But today it is being revived," Hollande said. "It is possible to kill men and women, but it is never possible to kill their ideas; on the contrary," the president added, according to whom "the terrorists wanted to harm culture because it is bold, irreverent, free, human—indeed, the exact opposite of obscurantism, fundamentalism, and fanaticism." "Dictatorships have always feared culture," Hollande also noted.
The building was originally planned to be completed by 2012, but its completion was postponed several times. Instead of 200 million, it ultimately cost 380 million euros.
The aluminum-clad building, adorned with embedded silhouettes of birds inside, conceals the main concert hall with a capacity of 2,400 spectators, 15 rehearsal rooms, an educational center, and a restaurant with a café.
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