Public space and visitor's centre of Notre-Dame in Paris by Bureau Bas Smets

Reopening Notre-Dame

The work will start in Autumn of 2025 and will take three years until completion. Currently, the small plaza or ‘le petit parvis’ in front of the entrance to the Cathedral is being built. This first part of the project will be inaugurated at the reopening of Notre-Dame in December.

The project rethinks the emblematic public space around Notre-Dame in Paris as a sequence of climatic atmospheres. Compressed and imbricated around the Cathedral, these spaces frame new views towards Notre-Dame, establish a new relationship with the Seine and offer multiple activities in the centre of Paris.

Design team: Bureau Bas Smets, GRAU, Neufville-Gayet Architectes, Ingérop, Franck Boutté Consultants, Les Eclaireurs, BLD Waterdesign, Cronos Conseil