巴黎东部地区近年来发展快速，全新的城市格局正在逐渐形成，可以说东部地区正在改变巴黎的环境，对于巴黎市民来说，东区是一个承诺，一个全新的黎明，是巴黎的未来。本项目旨在使该建筑成为东区发展趋势的巅峰，以雄伟的姿态立于本世纪的顶点。设计旨在使该建筑成为当地独一无二的地标，根据场地的实际情况打造出其独特的美，并以此创造并增强该地区的吸引力。

The East side of Paris is the future, a new dawn, a promise… Eastern Paris is slowly coming into focus, building up and taking form, completing and modifying an unfinished context. This project is about building its summit, its culminating point for the beginning of the century. It is also about creating a character, a singularity that is in relation with the reality of the site, that reveals its particular beauty, that relies on it to invent and strengthen the attractiveness of the place.

▼由城际铁路看双子塔，viewing the Tours Duo from the rails

设计方向以三个并行的影响因素为依据：-从法兰西大道看向建筑的视角-项目毗邻通往市中心的轻轨轨道-场地紧邻巴黎环城大道，因此应成为巴黎的门户与鲜明地标

Among others, three parameters must be taken into account to orient the project:– The perspective of the Avenue de France

– The location adjacent to the river of rails that lead into the heart of the city

– The location adjacent to the Paris ring boulevard, from which it the project be seen as an identifying landmark

▼由塞纳河看双子塔,viewing the Tours Duo from the Seine

从法兰西大道的角度看，该场地并不具有地标性地位。从法国国家图书馆的人行道上也并不能看到双子塔的身影，然而当人们微微侧身、变换一个角度时，双子塔蓦然进入人们的眼帘，南向的玻璃立面反射着铁路景观的倒影，如同一场有趣的视觉游戏。当人们从环城大道与Général Jean Simon大道看向建筑时，这种视觉效果则更加清晰明显。

The site does not have landmark status in the perspective the Avenue de France. It is not visible from the sidewalk of the Bibliothèque nationale de France. A slight inclination could easily make the towers come into view while enabling us to play a game with the reflections of the railway landscape in the south façade, which would be very visible from the ring boulevard and the boulevard du Général Jean Simon.

▼由法国国家图书馆看双子塔,viewing the Tours Duo from the Bibliothèque nationale de France