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Located in the business district La Défense of Paris, Trinity is<br />
a thirty-two-story office tower, built ex nihilo on a concrete slab<br />
poured above a seven-lane roadway. Designed by Paris-based<br />
Cro&Co Architecture, it provides 3,500 square meters of landscaped<br />
public space and links two previously disconnected<br />
neighborhoods within La Défense, enhancing the quality of life of<br />
its users. Diverging from traditional office building design, Trinity<br />
Tower is a unique high-rise with an offset transparent core,<br />
conceived to facilitate open interaction with its environment, and<br />
to promote new forms of working through its shared spaces,<br />
terraces, and balconies, and an accessible rooftop. It marks a<br />
break with the inward-looking buildings that have predominated<br />
in La Défense so far and that are indifferent to their surroundings.<br />
By creating public and semi-public spaces, Trinity Tower<br />
proposes inhabiting the heights and making use of aspects that<br />
are rarely exploited in high-rise buildings.<br />
This book, published in collaboration with the Paris-based agency<br />
Metropolis, shows through texts by architect and writer Olivier<br />
Namias and images by photographer Luc Boegly how the Trinity<br />
Tower project’s different views were made, the iterations that led<br />
to a system where vision connects, assembles, and brings together.<br />
It reveals the elements involved in making these various<br />
views, destined to disappear as construction advanced.<br />
Inhabiting the vertical: Trinity Tower<br />
in Paris offers unique public and<br />
semi-public spaces from street level<br />
to roof-top viewing platform<br />
Living high, the first book on the work of the acclaimed Paris<br />
based firm Cro&Co Architecture, is a deep dive into a truly unique<br />
structure, making the case for high-rise structures based on the<br />
conviction that height will play a key role in tomorrow’s city.<br />
Paris-based firm Cro&Co Architecture, founded<br />
by Jean-Luc Crochon, has been working on<br />
ambitious projects for more than twenty years,<br />
operating under its current name since 2008.<br />
ISBN 978-3-03860-270-5
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