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NewsNews • 6 Aug 2024

DREAM completes hybrid timber office building with 3x3 basketball courts for Paris 2024 Athletes’ Village

French architectural studio DREAM completed a hybrid timber office building topped with 3x3 basketball courts as part of the Paris 2024 Athletes’ Village. The low-carbon building is providing office space during the Olympics and Paralympics. An adaptable design seeks to ensure use of the building beyond the period of the Games. Cyrille Weiner DREAM The 54-hectare (133.4-acre) Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Village was built across three communes of Seine-Saint-Denis in the northern suburbs of Paris: Saint-Denis, Saint-Ouen-sur-Seine, and L’Île-Saint-Denis. Architect Dominique Perrault was tasked with the design of Sector E — named “Les Belvédères” — for housing at... More