Visit of the building(ship) Louise Weiss

Name: Visita del edificio Louise Weiss
Start: 2019-09-21T10:00:00+02:00
End: 2019-09-21T18:00:00+02:00
Location: Parlement européen - Bâtiment Louise Weiss

Visit of the building(ship) and of Parlamentarium

Sábado 21 septiembre 2019, 10:00Passed

Parlement européen

to Discover the main spaces of the European Parliament, such the semicircle(French National Assembly) (place of parliamentary sessions) and the different meeting rooms, as well as Parlamentarium. State employees of the Parliament will inform the public who better wishes to understand the role of the European Parliament.

About the location

Parlement européen - Bâtiment Louise Weiss

1 allée du Printemps, 67070 Strasbourg

Bas-Rhin
Grand Est

Built in 1999 and designed by the Architecture-Studio agency, the Louise Weiss building was completed in anticipation of the 1995 and 2004 enlargements of the European Union and can accommodate up to 1,000 European parliamentarians. The Plenary Room is the venue for the main monthly sessions of Members of the European Parliament. Previously, the European Parliament shared the facilities of the Council of Europe and used the plenary room of the Palais de l'Europe, inaugurated in 1977.
The building’s architects based the structure on key shapes: an arch, dome and tower surrounding an elliptical agora. For its designers, this architecture formalizes “systems of open relations [...] in the image of democracy as unity and composed, today and tomorrow.”
The tower, made of glass and sandstone, measures 60m high. The summit seems unfinished and symbolizes the European project under construction. The long arch of the building follows the banks of the Ill and the Marne canal to the Rhine. It hou