Discover the design competition which led the Banque de France to choose a winner among some 100 candidate teams. Take a look at the architectural and museographic designs and proposals of the winning team (Ateliers Lion, lead architect, and François Confino, museographer) and those of the five other teams short-listed by the selection board.
Design Competition
The mission was the transformation of a former branch of the Banque de France, a listed historical monument, into a City specifically focused on presenting economic and money-related themes with a highly educational and play-oriented approach. The contractor’s missions include architectural, scenographic and museographic elements with a considerable focus on multimedia technologies.
Winning Project
This remarkable building is the result of four successive architectural entities: the Hôtel Gaillard, the acquisition of the Berger and Thann Hôtels, and the construction of the Defrasse space during the transformation by the Banque de France. Our proposal aims to disclose the architectural (…)