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Christian de Portzamparc - French Architect Prepared By: Impel, Janrey S

Christian de Portzamparc is a French architect and urban planner known for his modern and elegant designs that reflect his understanding of the urban environment. He was the first French architect to win the Pritzker Prize in 1994. Some of his notable projects include a 40-story residential tower in New York with 368 residences stacked vertically, and the LVMH Tower in New York which earlier concepts stacked volumes with different facade treatments. He believes architects can positively construct the world.

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Christian de Portzamparc - French Architect Prepared By: Impel, Janrey S

Christian de Portzamparc is a French architect and urban planner known for his modern and elegant designs that reflect his understanding of the urban environment. He was the first French architect to win the Pritzker Prize in 1994. Some of his notable projects include a 40-story residential tower in New York with 368 residences stacked vertically, and the LVMH Tower in New York which earlier concepts stacked volumes with different facade treatments. He believes architects can positively construct the world.

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Christian de Portzamparc

- French Architect

Prepared by :
Impel, Janrey S.
Awards :
1994 Pritzker Prize,
2004 Grand Prix de l'urbanisme

 Christian de Portzamparc, (born May 5, 1944, Casablanca,


Morocco),
 Columbia University
 French architect and urban planner whose distinctly modern and
elegant designs reflected his sensitivity to and understanding of
the greater urban environment.
 He was the first French architect to win the Pritzker Prize (1994).
 Portzamparc's philosophy is a realistic merging of pragmatism
and politics. "Architects participate in the positive construction of
the world, "
 The design concept was
stack architecture, a
vertical assembly of post-
modernist boxes topped
by an open ‘Magic Room’
 With 40 storeys over
44,130 sq m, it packs in
368 residences as well as a
screening room, fitness
centre and an 18m-long
swimming pool for
residents.
 Located at New York
 Third Manhattan tower
•Architects
Christian de Portzamparc
•Location
464 Apgujeong-ro, Gangnam-gu, Seoul, South Korea
•Category:Store
•Local Architect / Project Manager
DPJ & Partners, Architecture
Christian de Portzamparc •Area
Selected as 2018 Praemium 4408.0 m2
•Project Year
Imperiale Laureate 2015
•Photographs
Nicolás Borel, Christian de Portzamparc
EARLIER CONCEPTS FOR THE LVMH
TOWER WERE FOR STACKED
VOLUMES, EACH WITH DIFFERENT
FACADE TREATMENTS

The LVMH Building


New York

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