La Seine Musicale, Performing arts center in Boulogne-Billancourt, France
La Seine Musicale is a concert hall and performing venue on Île Seguin in Boulogne-Billancourt near Paris. The building combines glass, steel, and timber into a multi-story complex with rehearsal rooms, restaurants, and exhibition areas.
The facility rose from 2013 onward on the grounds of a former Renault factory on Île Seguin. The ensemble was inaugurated in 2017 and revived a river island that had lain dormant for years.
The Patrick-Devedjian Auditorium is a vineyard-style hall seating 1,150, built for symphony and contemporary music; it was renamed on 25 September 2020 in honour of the department president who founded the venue. The Grande Seine holds 4,000 seated or 6,800 standing and can be reconfigured for musicals, ballet or conferences. Resident ensembles include Insula Orchestra, the Maîtrise des Hauts-de-Seine and the Académie musicale Philippe Jaroussky.
The complex sits at the downstream tip of Île Seguin, reached from Boulogne-Billancourt; the Grande Seine occupies a lower level than the elevated egg-shaped auditorium. The 7,410 m² Bellini garden on the roof of the large hall is open to the public and looks over the auditorium, the island tip and the Seine banks. From the fourth floor there is an all-round view of the surroundings.
The movable solar array shaped like a sail rotates during the day and generates electricity for the entire complex. Its semicircular construction gives the building a widely recognizable silhouette above the Seine.
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