Arboretum is the most ambitious office real estate project since the construction of the business district of La Défense on the western city limits of Paris in the 1970s. Financed by BNP Paribas Real Estate and Woodeum, imagined by the architecture firms Leclercq Associés, nicolas laisné architectes and DREAM Dimitri Roussel, its construction will begin this September 2020. Located on the old industrial land of the Nanterre paper mill on the Parisian outskirts, Arboretum is a 9-hectare business site geared towards innovation. As François Leclercq explains, “The vertical tower model of business districts has currently become out-dated and must be reimagined. As such, Arboretum is the unique opportunity to invent a new format for the urban planning of workplaces. By its scale and location on the edge of one of the most beautiful parks on the banks of the Seine, it will be a piece of city where people will come to work. Horizontal, full of trees, providing indoor / outdoor workspaces, the site will be organized like a university campus, whose spatial qualities are today’s benchmark in terms of innovation, creativity and well-being “. Lire la suite…
