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designed by Venhoeven CS and Ateliers 2/3/4, and completed over a year ago. It has pools of 50m and 25m, a fitness area, bouldering area, paddle tennis section, and pitches for team sports. With a 5,000m2


roof


covered with photovoltaic panels, it will be one of France’s largest urban solar farms and supply all the energy that the centre needs. Te département was at the heart of the competitions and celebrations of the Games. Alongside swimming, diving, artistic swimming, and water polo, Seine-Saint- Denis was home to most of the Games: athletics and rugby in the Stade de France, boxing, modern pentathlon fencing, plus a host of events in the Paralympics. Te various consortiums tasked with building the Olympic and Paralympic Village submitted their bids to SOLIDEO (the public organisation responsible for delivering the facilities for the Games) during a call for tenders that started in March 2019. Te project selected for the village reflected the


aim to make Paris 2024 a pioneering environmental endeavour while catering for athletes’ requirements during the Games and to local communities’ wants and needs over the long term. It was designed by Dominique Perrault. It was handed over to the Games’ organising committee in March this year. Te temporary facilities, required to address the specific requirements associated with a village’s operations during the Games (logistics and operational capabilities, the athletes’ restaurant, etc.) will complete the facilities left behind as legacy. Tose designs have been shaped and pruned, at times as brutally disciplined as Parisian lime trees. Hard by was the media village in Dugny, designed by Vincent Lavergne, that became 1,300 housing units after the Games. An industrial hub since the 19th century, France 93 lost car and steel factories to cheaper countries, setting off a debilitating downward spiral. Te construction of the Stade de France in 1998 marked a pivotal


point, bringing in new urban transport and luring tourists as well as the headquarters of French blue chip companies. Tesla recently announced that it would move its French headquarters to Saint-Ouen. And the French Interior Ministry will move its 2,500 employees from central Paris to new offices here, together with the future HQ of the DGSI, the domestic intelligence service. New colleges are being built, and funding for a €500m renovation of two run-down housing projects is going ahead. An economic ripple effect will surely follow.


Here, on a 51-hectare former industrial site, the Olympics has been an accelerator, a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to shift the social dynamic for good, by leaving a lasting legacy of urban and economic renewal. A total of €4.5bn is being spent here. Te nearby stock of dilapidated social housing is being revamped. New roads, bridges, cycling paths, parks and schools are being added. Te vast Grand Paris Express transport project


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