Previous pages : The glass-clad Auditorium is the crowning glory on the top of La Seine Musicale .
Below : A giant LED screen on the façade facing the Parvis , or enclosed area , of La Seine Musicale allows concerts to be viewed outside for free . Behind is Grande Seine – the larger of the two halls at La Seine Musicale , with seating for 4000-6000 .
La Seine Musicale is a multi-purpose musical facility on Seguin Island , in Boulogne-Billancourt in the western suburbs of Paris .
Previously , the island was home to the old Renault manufacturing plant , which closed in 1992 . After an interceding plan to build a museum there was cancelled , the city officials of Boulogne- Billancourt were inspired afresh by the Nomadic Museum , which I had constructed in New York in 2005 . They asked me to design a temporary art museum using shipping containers and paper tubes for the island while waiting further redevelopment . However , this plan was also cancelled .
In 2010 , the department of Hauts-de-Seine , to which Boulogne-Billancourt belongs , bought the island for one euro . Subsequently , architect Jean Nouvel designed the masterplan for the island and two years later , in 2012 , a competition was held for the building of a multi-purpose musical facility on the island .
We prepared many drawings , perspectives and models for the venue and were one of only three teams selected to continue after the first round . Then , we made more detailed plans and image videos and finally our team won the competition in 2013 . This process had run for one and half years .
The available site was 330m long , running along a narrowing edge of the Seguin Island . The Eiffel