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Monaco’s western access transformed

A new pedestrian pathway, an avant-garde building and new offices visitors arriving in Monaco from
the Moyenne Corniche will soon discover a new entrance to the city.

With a building designed by Rudy Ricciotti, of plants. Finally, facing the metaphysical The public area, delivered in 2023, will also
architect of Marseille’s MuCEM cultural horizon of the Mediterranean, we will build a house a post reception service to process
museum, the western entrance to Monaco is city of light. This monument of greenhouses small parcels at the entrance to the Principality,
undergoing a radical metamorphosis. Delivered all in glass and stone will combine plants and thus avoiding more traffic entering Monaco.
at the end of 2022, the Exotique, conceived by minerals, the living and the eternal.” “As early as 2014, the DPUM carried out a
the 2006 winner of the National Architecture study on the management of goods because
Grand Prix and the Monégasque, Fabrice Notari, The Propylée: access landmark deliveries are increasing exponentially with
does not represent the only change in the A symbol of these changes is the Propylée: “In the development of e-commerce. On a typical
neighbourhood: it is part of a mixed operation addition to its function as a city entrance signal, working day in 2016, there were already some
comprising a large public car park with 1,820 this work of art will allow the population to benefit 16,000 deliveries by light commercial vehicles.”
spaces on 15 levels and connected to the Albert from a pedestrianised square with a view over Perhaps, one day, workers will be able to reach
II tunnel, 5,000 m² of offices and brand new the width of the Monégasque landscape and Fontvieille by cable car but for now, to promote
greenhouses housing the Botanical Centre, connected to the project’s new landscaped areas, walking and inter-district connections, a new
attached to the Exotic Gardens of Monaco. a continuation of the pedestrian walkways of the pedestrian route is under construction. The lifts
“This is a very high-responsibility project,” new glass structures,” explains Sévérine Canis- at the town entrance car park will be connected
says Rudy Ricciotti . “The first step is to give Froidefond, specifying, “The architectural bias is to the future Salines gallery. This will allow you
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a new face to the western entrance to the very Mediterranean with large stones, olive trees to exit avenue Pasteur, take the Wurtemberg
Principality. Then we will create a landscape and so on. By doing this, we have recreated the footbridge and reach the avenue de Fontvieille,
for the extraordinary, world-exclusive collection ancient Roman Via Alpina.” all in 14 minutes!

1. Exterieur Design Magazine – november 2017.

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