Sviolas, double saltos, twists… Facing the Stade de France, the diving events of the Paris Olympics will leap under the wave-shaped wooded roof of the Olympic Aquatic Center (CAO) in Saint-Denis, hanging in the sky 30 m from height and covered with photovoltaic panels.
With its 106 m by 114 m, this sporting colossus signed by Ateliers 2/3/4, the VenhœvenCS agency and Bouygues Bâtiment, will host synchronized swimming competitions in its main 50 m pool and then, in 2026, the synchronized swimming championships. Swimming Europe.
Behind its glass facades lined with wooden sunshades for better thermal comfort, its modular stands with 5,000 seats will be reduced by half at the end of the Olympics, integrating a multi-sports complex (fitness, climbing, tennis-paddle) still covered of the largest concave wooden frame in the world.
The underside of architecture explained to children
Who designs a city, lays out squares, streets, gardens, schoolyards, organizes transport, installs solar panels and rainwater collectors? Are all metropolises the same? Will we be able to live in a wooden house and be cooler in summer? So many questions answered by these two new game books, expanding a fun-educational collection intended for young audiences (puzzles, coloring, etc.). Architectural walks that feature Basile, a little boy accompanied by the cat Archi, whose mischief leads the reader to discover urban spaces and their manufacturing secrets.
“Archi and Basil. City walk”; “Tomorrow, when I am an architect”, by Sophie Bordet-Petillon and Rémi Saillard (Ed. du Patrimoine, 52 p., €14.90).
