Place de la Défense: from work by phase until 2023
The work of the Place de la Défense, a major project in Paris La Défense, a public developer establishment and manager of the business district began in March 2021. Many work phases were scheduled until the spring of 2023 to be able to renovateThe place while leaving residents, employees, students and tourists enjoy this historic space located between the Grande Arche and the Agam basin and the works there.
"The first works will be carried out by phases and sectors starting with the peripheral areas of the place to end with the central part," sums up Paris La Défense on its website of the work of the Place de la Défense, builtIn the 1970s and representing nearly 20,000 m² of the neighborhood.The work that started last March is currently focusing on "the recomposition of the northern space, on the side of the Maison de la Défense and the Red Spider of Calder, as well as a zone around the canopyRATP ".
Work around access to the RER, Paris La Défense reassures users.These works are carried out at night and "the area close to RER access will be repaired during the day".Each work zone will benefit from three major steps: "the demolition of existing coatings and underlaying […], the establishment of waterproofing, the on-site realization of new cast concrete slabs".
In the spring of 2023, Place de la Défense should therefore have a new face, but also to offer new developments for regulars in the neighborhood with for example "the demarcher of the emmerges, the creation of two elevators to the center parking" or even an improvementpublic lighting.
On its website, Paris La Défense sums up the project as a whole: “In addition to absorbing important technical points (waterproofing and floor coverings in particular), Paris La Défense reaffirms with this project the identity of the place by endowing it'A more vegetable, more wooded and more fluid dimension, while maintaining its friendly and attractive appearance ”.
Photo credit: La Gazette de la Defense
