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Star Architecture and the Boundaries of Tourism: The Case of Paris

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In recent years, contemporary spectacular architecture has been identified by tourism and urban stakeholders as a means to diversify the Parisian tourism offer. New star architectural projects are developed at the outskirts of Paris where constraints are less important than in more central historical areas.

This chapter discusses to what extent emblematic architecture can be considered a “spatial event”, able to modify tourism patterns in Paris. Can contemporary architecture and, a fortiori, star architecture encourage visitors to go beyond the usual central tourist boundaries? Can it encourage tourists to head “off-the-beaten paths”?

The cases of the Fondation Louis Vuitton designed by Frank Gehry (2014), the Philharmonic designed by Jean Nouvel (2015) and Seine Aval designed by Shigeru Ban and Jean de Gastines may illustrate an important turn in the development of the planning and transformation of tourism via star architecture.

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    The Paris Tourism Office, the three surrounding inner suburban departments, the public transportation organisation of the Île-de-France region, the Welcome City Lab tourism start-ups incubator and the IREST (Institut de Recherche et d’Etudes Supérieures du Tourisme), University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne.

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    EPEES (Espaces Post-Euclidiens et Événements Spatiaux), research group on non-linearity in geography.

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    Including Vittorio Gregotti, Jean Nouvel, Steven Holl, Souto de Moura, Rota e Nicolin, Kazuyo Sejima and Rem Koolhaas (Renard-Delautre 2016)

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    Tate Modern does indeed constitute a key element in the regeneration of the “South Central” district of London (Travers 2005), the most central element of an area regrouping several other tourist attractions (Elephant and Castle, the Imperial War Museum, the Southbank Centre, the Royal Festival Hall, the Old Vic, Battersea Power Station and Southwark Cathedral).

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    Docks en Seine project in 2008, ZAC Rive gauche, 13th arrondissement of Paris.

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Gravari-Barbas, M. (2020). Star Architecture and the Boundaries of Tourism: The Case of Paris. In: Alaily-Mattar, N., Ponzini, D., Thierstein, A. (eds) About Star Architecture. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-23925-1_13

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