Parlement européen - Bâtiment Louise Weiss
1 allée du Printemps, 67070 Strasbourg
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
Etiquetas
Patrimoine européen, Lieu de pouvoir, édifice judiciaire, Architecture contemporaine remarquable
Accès
Tram E: stop «European Parliament». Bus lines 6, 30 and 72: stop «Human Rights» (10 minutes walk from the Parliament).
©Frantisek Zvardon / Ville et Eurométropole
