Paul Andreu

Paul Andreu (born with Caudéran (the Gironde) the July 10th 1938) is a French architect specialist in airport constructions.

Formation

After secondary studies with the Montaigne College of Bordeaux where his/her father taught mathematics, Paul Andreu follows the preparation to the Universities to the Louis-the-Large Lycée and it is received simultaneously with the National university and the Polytechnic school (promotion 1958).

Then it leads face a course to the École of the Highways Departments, which it will leave engineer in 1963, and of the studies to the 3Ecole Nationale Sup3erieure of the Art schools, in the workshop of architecture of Paul Lamache, school which it will leave graduate in 1968.

Career

At the beginning of its career, it joined the company Aéroports of Paris which entrusts to the post of Chief engineer of the Travaux department then Architecture department to him (1968); he becomes Architecte as a chief and Directeur of the projects (1974) then Directeur of architecture and engineering in 1979.

Among its principal achievements appear the airports of Roissy and its station TGV-RER, the airports of Abu Dhabi, of Jakarta, of Cairo, of Dar Es Salaam, of Bruneï, Kansaï in bay of Ōsaka, of Nice, of Bordeaux, of Point-with-Clown, the Grande Arche of the Defense (which it builds on drawings of Otto von Spreckelsen, prize winner of the contest), as well as the French terminal of the Channel tunnel.

He is elected member of the Académie of the Art schools, on June 19th, 1996, with the armchair of Henry Bernard.

Its responsibility for architect is likely to be advanced before in collapse the May 23rd 2004 of a section of new the air terminal 2nd of the Aéroport Roissy-Charles de Gaulle, inaugurated one year.

He is the architect in load of the realization of new the opera of Beijing.

When it left ADP in 2003, Paul Andreu founded his own agency of architecture in Paris. Eastern Art Center, a cultural complex dedicated to the music, which was inaugurated in Shanghai in December 2004 and the Large National theater from China to Beijing, whose delivery is planned for 2007 are achievements resulting from the collaboration of Paul Andreu with ADPi and from the local Chinese associates. New Technology and Science Enterprising Centers in Chengdu, an administrative center of 500.000 m ², as well as the studies for Oceanus with Macao, a complex of 500.000 m ² including/understanding hotel, shops, casinos and apartments, constitute more recent projects carried out since their origin by PAAP. In 2005, while he undertakes studies of town planning for Brussels, Paul Andreu also widens his field of activity while agreeing in 2005 the proposal of the director Frederick Wiseman to carry out the decoration of Oh the beautiful days! of Samuel Beckett to the Theater of the Old man-Dovecote to the Comédie-Française, spectacle taken again in France and round during the season 2006-2007. In 2006, the Paco Rabanne house entrusts to him the fitting of its new shops in China. Paul Andreu does not cease enriching his relations with China. A promoter of the town of Nanqin wants, in his turn, to offer a partnership with the French architect and requires of him to develop and enrich an urban area. The career of Paul Andreu in China, without any doubt, will be greeted in 2007 when one of its most ambitious works is inaugurated, the Large National theater from China to Beijing, designed like a “town of theaters”, a transparent island in an artificial water level surrounded by a new city park.

December 12th, 2006, the Minister for the Culture Renaud Donnedieu de Vabres gave to Paul Andreu, for the whole of his work, Large the Prix of the Crystal ball, higher distinction triennial of the International Academy of Architecture (it succeeds Oscar Niemeyer).

Achievements

1967-2003 : Airport Charles-of-Gaulle (Roissy-in-France):

Air terminal 1, control tower, telephone center, thermo-refrigerator-electric power station, water tower, road lighting equipment (1967-1974)
Station of the RER (1972-1976)
Air terminal II, modules has and B (1972-1982);
Building of the air operations of Air France (1979-1983);
Air terminal II, module D (1985 - 1989);
Module of exchange of the Station TGV - the RER (1988);
Meridian Hotel (1989);
Extension of air terminal II-F (1989-1997)
Air terminal 2nd (partly ploughed up the May 23rd 2004)

1975. Nuclear plant of Cruas (Ardeche).
1975-1982. New airport of Abu Dhabi (United Arab Emirates).
1976-1979. Airport of Dhâkâ, new air terminal (Bangladesh).
1977-1984. Airport of Dar Es-Salaam, new air terminal and control tower (Tanzania).
1977-1985. New airport Soekarno-Hatta (Djakarta, Indonesia).
1977-1986. Airport of Cairo, air terminal II (Egypt).
1980-1987. Airport Nice Riviera, air terminal II.
1982. Airport of Brunei, extension and reorganization of the air terminal (Indonesia).
1982-1985. Airport of Conakry, new air terminal (Guinea).
1983-1989. Customs house of Saint-Louis (Basle, Switzerland).
1984-1989. Grande Arche of Defense, in partnership with OJ von Spreckelsen.
1986. French terminal of the Channel tunnel.
1987. New airport of Kansaï, design of the air terminal (Ōsaka, Japan).
1987-1989. Airport of Montpellier, extension of the air terminal.
1988. Springboard of the Ski jump for the Olympic Games of 1992 (Courchevel, Savoy).
1989. Airport of Orly-West, extension of the air terminal, hall I.
1989-1995. Study for air terminal II of the airport of Bordeaux-Mérignac.
1990. Airport of Manila, domestic air terminal (Philippines).
1990-1996. Airport of the Guadeloupe, new air terminal (Point-with-Clown).
1991. New air terminal of Santiago of Chile.
1991-1994. Airport of Sanya, new air terminal (China).
1991-1995. City Europe, French terminal of the Channel tunnel (Calais, Pas-de-Calais).
1995. Study for the international airport of Eldoret (Kenya).
1998-2001 Complex of Canton, China.
1999-2007 Large National theater of China - Beijing: Opera and theaters. International contest: prize winner project.
2000-2004 Centers Eastern Arts, Shanghai, China: Theaters
2004 Hotel of the Center of Eastern Arts of Shanghai, China: Prize winner project.
2004-2007 New Technology and Science Entreprising Centers with Chengdu, China: Prize winner project.
2005-2006 Casino of Macau, China. Studies.
2006-2007 Complex of offices with Chengdu. Contest: prize winner project. Studies in progress.
2006 Concept of urban development of the district of the station of the South Brussels, Belgium.
2006 Concept for the urban development of the site Delta Brussels, Belgium.
2006 Concept for the fitting of Paco Rabanne shops in China.
2006-2007 Study of town planning to Nanjing, China.

External bonds

Paul Andreu on ARCHIGUIDE
Structurae: Paul Andreu
ADPi, subsidiary of airports of Paris

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