The City of Music

Paris, France

 Inaugurated in 1995, the Cité de la Musique was designed by architect Christian de Portzamparc.He wanted it to take the form of a “dream city”,a space inviti ng movement, open to the city, a meeting place.

The Cité de la Musique was inaugurated in January 1995, born of the desire to bring together the Paris Conservatoire and its instrument museum, which were cramped in their premises on the rue de Madrid, and the concert and rehearsal spaces that would enable public events to be organized under optimal conditions.

The original project was to bring together the teaching and dissemination of music.Architect Christian de Portzamparc was chosen to realize the project.

He was awarded the Pritzker Prize, the equivalent of the Nobel Prize for architects, in 1994, after a decade d in 1994, after a decade devoted to the building.