La Cité du Cinéma

Reconversion de l’ancienne centrale EDF de Saint-Denis

Cultural institutionsEducational institutions
Saint-Denis
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Conversion of EDF’s former Saint-Denis power station into the Cité du Cinéma, comprising 9 film studios, business premises, offices, projection room, restaurant, the ENS Louis-Lumière (National Film, Photography & Sound Engineering School) and a 477-space car park.

The Grande Nef of the former power plant at La Plaine Saint Denis has been transformed into a vast gallery opening onto film studios, offices, the restaurant, classrooms of the Ecole Louis Lumière and rooms and amphitheatres with a wide range of capacities. Reichen et Robert & Associés have restored the glory of a unique place, an ambitious industrial architecture and a programme that is a priori introverted. The handling of the techniques, equipment, film production spaces, décors and the management of logistics are totally integrated with the image of the place: vast, free, flexible and the vehicle of an imagination that is totally open. 


Delivery : 2012

Conversion of the former EDF power plant in Saint-Denis
Special Jury Prize, Pyramides d’Or awards 2012 for the corporate buildings
Awarded the Label Grand Paris, 2012

Project Owner
EuropaCorp Studios

Developer
Vinci Immobilier d’Entreprise

Project Supervision
Reichen et Robert & Associés

Supervising contractor: S.C.O.
Structural Technical Design Office: KEPHREN Ingénierie
Technical Design Office, Fluids and Economics: EUROTEC
Acoustic Technical Design Office: AVEL
Landscaping: Sol Paysage

Area
61,690 m² net floor area
22,452 m² restructured area
39,238 m² area created
22,500 m² offices
10,557 m² workshops / storage / dressing-rooms
3,000 m² restaurant
4,000 + 1,000 m² Nef + cafeteria
700 m², 500 seat Europacorp cinema 10,570 m² Studios
7,984 m² École Nationale Supérieure Louis Lumière

Project value
€103 M tax excluded

Photographers
EuropaCorp Studios - Reichen et Robert & Associés architects © Laurent Desmoulins photographer
EuropaCorp Studios - Reichen et Robert & Associés architects © Caroline Sattler photographer

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