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Concorde La Fayette Most recently this has involved extensive restoration costing more than 20 million Euros, which has been carried out under the guidance of the hotel’s general manager, Jean-Marc de Margerie Over 1,200m of suites, 1,390m of bedrooms, 1,800m of corridors and 2,000m of kitchens have been renovated.
Work hotel business district of la defense has also been carried out to the Hall and to the exterior of the building, including the car park. Throughout this activity, which took place between September hotel business district of la defense 2000 and April 2002, the hotel remained opened and maintained its usual high levels of service. For this most recent renovation, the design element was handled hotel business district of la defense by architect Olivier Vidal, who worked closely with Société Bouygues, which was Project Superintendent for the Hall and car park redevelopment. Olivier Vidal hotel business district of la defense has 30 years of experience as an architect and designer. He is the founder of Sopha, a California-based architectural practice established in 1978 that was hotel business district of la defense responsible for the design of the Beverly Hills Rodeo Collection shopping centre. On this, Vidal worked closely with Masters such as Louis Khan, Kenzo Tange, hotel business district of la defense Charles Moore or Harry Cobb. Today, Vidal is a partner at Swanke Hayden Connell Architects in New York and closely associated with the company’s hotel business district of la defense Paris office, from which he is designing projects in Europe, Asia and the United States. Vidal has extensive expertise in the fields of hotel and leisure hotel business district of la defense design, having completed projects such as the MLC Centre (Sydney), Carrousel of the Louvre (Paris), Passage of Havre (Paris), Les 3 Quartiers (Paris), the hotel business district of la defense head office of the CCF (Champs-Elysées in Paris) and Grand Inter-Continental Resort with Goa (India). With a surface area of 1,000m², the car park at the hotel business district of la defense Concorde La Fayette hotel is larger than that of any other Parisian hotel. The car park is divided into three separate areas - the first reserved for cars hotel business district of la defense and the unloading of luggage, the second for parking buses and coaches and the third reserved for taxis, which have a permanent station at the hotel. Doormen hotel business district of la defense and luggage porters are on hand 24 hours a day to help guests arrive and depart from the hotel in a smooth and efficient manner. The car park has 20 parking hotel business district of la defense lots and hotel guests can also use the public Parking Maillot, where there are 1800 spaces. This is located under the Palais des Congrès, 100 meters away. hotel business district of la defense On entering the Concorde La Fayette, one encounters the 1000 m2 Hall that stands as testament to the very best in pure design. White marble reception and hotel business district of la defense concierge desks make an immediate impression and form a welcoming focal point for guests arriving at the hotel.In the middle of the Hall is a life-size reproduction of the famous Victoire de Samothrace statue, which was exquisitely copied by Ateliers of the Louvre. Decorated in blue, the predominant colour at the Concorde La Fayette, this centrepiece acts as a symbol of today’s high technology era by having at its feet a state of the art transparent screen where television and video images are projected. Boutique BACCARAT, housed within the Hall, offers a fine selection of collectable Crystal.
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