Seine-Arch is the name of an operation of town planning of scale which has the aim of arranging a long zone crossing the town of Nanterre (France, Hauts-de-Seine), since Defense until the the Seine.

The project

Seine-arch is a Opération of national interest managed by EPA Seine-Arch, created the December 20th 2000. It draws its name from the Grande Arche and the Seine, which mark the two ends of its perimeter. The zone concerned raised before of the operation of Defense, managed by another public corporation: EPAD.

The project must make it possible to join together the two parts of the town of Nanterre, currently separated by an important public grid system.

A jury selected in November 2002 an overall project worked out by the cabinet of Treuttel-Garcias-Treuttel town planning: “terraces of Nanterre”. The ground should be arranged in seventeen successive terraces unifying the zone from the Grande Arche to the Seine and forming a released central prospect.

The Seine-Arch project produced for the moment of the buildings of low offices, in the prolongation of the historical Axe. The Tour Granite is also in construction, with the limit of the perimeter and vis-a-vis the Tours General society of Defense.

See too

Similar project of installation but in the commune of Courbevoie: the Suburb of the Arch.

External bond

• Official site of the EPA Seine-Arch.

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