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BOULOGNE-SUR-MER (62)

Winner of the competition

Program

European Cultural and Scientific Center of the Sea
Permanent and temporary exhibition rooms, amphitheater, library, educational and scientific laboratory, maritime test basins, restaurants,
1.5 million visitors per year

Client

Conurbation Authority of the Boulonnais

Surface area

80 000 sqm

Cost

85 M€ excl. tax

Immediately identifiable by its bionic architecture borrowing its vocabulary from the marine world, by its unique shapes, its textures, sometimes pearly, sometimes striated, and by its futuristic scenography, the largest aquarium in Europe launches itself towards the open sea and continues the territory’s maritime history.

Like a vessel with curves inspired by those of a manta ray, this emblematic building spreads its “wings” towards the ocean, opening a luminous rift towards the marine horizon to form a single living space, born of the encounter between land and sea.

Its highly symbolic architecture redesigns a new maritime entrance to the city at the heart of Boulogne’s large urban landscape.