Pont Charles-de-Gaulle

  • Country: France
  • Architect:Louis Arretche Roman Karasinski
  • Location: Paris
  • Completion: 1996
  • Client: Ville de Paris

The image of this bridge is conceived like an Architectural ruler, which connects each riverside of the Seine. So the beauty of frank and candid horizontal form of this urban structure is to be emphasized. To obtain a neat finishing in respecting the simple high-tech form of the architecture, light sources (2x58 W linear fluorescent tubes) are integrated in the reservation hollow the hull. For the same goal, the realization was carried out with curved glass by the Cabinet RFR. As for the easy maintenance, to assure consistently good quality of light, access door to the light source is equipped with hydraulic actuating cylinder.