What`s new today in Paris from 2014 to 2015

What’s new today in Paris
from 2014 to 2015
New in the city – Town planning:
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Redesign of the Seine riverbanks
République-Pantin: urban redevelopment around La Villette canal basin
Construction of several towers (at la Défense: Majunga and D2 in 2014,
2 Hermitage towers in 2018, Phare tower 2011-2018)
Triangle tower at Porte de Versailles (2017)
Les Halles project (shopping centre, gardens, canopy, etc. 2016)
Reorganization of railway stations (St-Lazare railway station, Lyon, Austerlitz)
Batignolles district (2016)
Work on the Ile Seguin and Vallée de la culture project
Building of a new Russian orthodox church (2016)
New for the destination:
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Transport
Airship tour of the Paris region
Batostar, solar electricity boat for a Seine river cruise
Other means of transport: cyclo-bulle, tuk-tuk, Segway, 2 CV, Another Paris,
Renault Twizy…
Places to go
Reopening of Musée Galliera after 4 years renovation work
Reopening of Musée Gustave Moreau
Reopening of Musée Picasso (end of 2014)
Opening of the Art Ludique – entertainment art museum
Montparnasse Tower rooftop redesigned with champagne bar
Monnaie de Paris with a new Guy Savoy restaurant (2014)
Opening of Fondation Louis Vuitton pour l’Art contemporain (Franck Gehry – close
to Jardin d’acclimatation – Autumn 2014)
Opening of Fondation Jérôme Seydoux – Pathé pour le cinéma (Autumn 2014)
Creation of Philharmonie de Paris (Jean Nouvel 2015/January)
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Accommodation
Opening of new properties: innovative, concept & designer hotels (123Sébastopol
hotel****/cinema theme, Félicien hotel****/designed by Olivier Lapidus, Eugène en
ville****/with an oyster bar)
Closure for full renovation of the Lutetia**** (until 2017)
2014-16: Peninsula (1st August), Plaza Athénée (August), Ritz (early 2015), Hotel de
Crillon (2015), Cheval-Blanc (2017), etc.
Second St Christopher’s Inn in Paris, a youth hostel facing Gare du Nord
Eco-friendly Pajol youth hostel
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Opening of the giant Generator youth hostel (2015)
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Change of the name of Hôtel Hilton Arc de Triomphe, now Hôtel du Collectionneur
Change of the name of Radisson Blu Ambassador Paris Opéra, now Paris Marriott
Ambassador Opéra
Change of the name of Hôtel Concorde Opéra Saint-Lazare, Hilton in 2014
Auberge du Jeu de Paume 5* in Chantilly
Hilton Opéra & Chantilly (2014), Radisson Blu la Défense, Renaissance République &
Malmaison (May 2014), Marriott Le Bourget
Molitor Paris Hotel by MGallery (May 2014) with swimming pool
Opening of AC Hotel by Marriott Paris Porte Maillot 4*
GASTRONOMY
Ciel de Paris redesigned/Montparnasse Tower
Arrival of the chef Alain Ducasse at Le Meurice
Opening of a new restaurant, Monsieur Bleu, at Palais de Tokyo, with a view on the
Eiffel Tower
Opening of the 1st restaurant by a chef in a railway station in Europe, ‘Lazare’ by
Eric Fréchon at Saint-Lazare
Opening of Terroir Parisien, 2 restaurants by Yannick Alleno
Opening of the patisserie Gâteau by Jean-François Piège
Opening of the restaurant Le Faust underneath the Pont Alexandre III, on the Left
Bank (2014)
Bustronome : lunch-dinner tour bus
Café Kousmichoff, tea-house, on the Champs-Elysées
Opening of another Café Pouchkine, Bd St-Germain (2014)
SHOPPING
Opening of Bucherer, luxury watch brands boutique in the Opéra district
Opening of a new shop Alaïa rue Marignan in the 8th arrondissement
Opening of Aéroville, shopping centre near the Roissy Charles-de-Gaulle airport
(200 shops, 30 restaurants, 1 multiplex cinema)
Opening of the Beaugrenelle shopping centre with Marks and Spencer
Full renovation of the Trois Quartiers shopping centre by the designer Ora Ïto. The
new centre called Le Madeleine
Extension of the Guerlain boutique on the Champs-Elysées with Guy Martin
restaurant
Opening of a Tiffany’s boutique on the Champs-Elysées
Opening of a Printemps department store in the Carrousel du Louvre (open 7 days a
week)
BHV Marais
Opening of One Nation Paris, luxury outlet shopping centre to the West of Paris,
near Versailles (open 7 days a week)
ENTERTAINMENT
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New show by Manfred Mugler ‘Mugler Follies’ at the Comédia theater (10th
disctrict). The dinner by Fouquets’
Reopening of the Paris zoo at Bois de Vincennes (April 2014)
End of the renovation of the 1st floor of the Eiffel Tower with creation of a glass
floor (autumn 2014)
New Paris Story film about the secrets of Paris (September 2014)
3 new floating restaurant by the Seine riverbanks: a Rosa Bonheur guinguette caférestaurant (outdoor café in June 2014), a concert hall Le Flow and a gastronomic
restaurant by Jean-François Piège (2015)
Events for the 70th Anniversary of the Liberation of Paris in 2014 (25 August)
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